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Find And Run Robot / Re: Skinning?
« on: April 15, 2005, 05:51 AM »
thanks coolcatbad,

yeah the name is a bit lame.

i'm not a really big fan of skinning so that's probably not in the cards, though i'm certainly willing to entertain suggestions about how to make it look better.

i've got some new features that i need to add as well, as suggested by users of this forum, so please suggest away :)

i should note, that f&r does not actually search in the CONTENTS of files, just their names, so its not going to compete with the desktop search engines that can search insider the contents of files..

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ProcessTamer / ProcessTamer 2.00.14
« on: April 15, 2005, 05:14 AM »
sometime between 2.00.11  and 2.00.13 i set the update speed to once every 5 seconds as a test and forgot to set it back to once per second, which was basically causing it to take a loooooooooooooong time to detect hogging cpu processes.  sorry!

please upgrade to 2.00.14 (full change list on process tamer page)

url in members only section.


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ProcessTamer / Re: ForegroundLockTimeout Value
« on: April 15, 2005, 01:01 AM »
well in the current version it sets it when (every time) the process tamer tray starts up.
maybe i'll just remove this setting completely from the program and include in the next release 2 little .reg files for people who want to experiment with forcing this value between default value and 0.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ForegroundLockTimeout Value
« on: April 14, 2005, 11:09 PM »
yes well,
MS says to set it to 0 to fix problems.
which is what i did.
and it seemed to help.

of course we shouldn't be surprised that given its from MS, it has some side effects.
i guess you were experiencing one of the side effects..
regardless, it's not needed any more by process tamer so i'm removing it.


new version is up on members page.
this version forces the value back to its default of 200000; in a couple more versions i will remove this forcing.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ForegroundLockTimeout Value
« on: April 14, 2005, 10:53 PM »
scott -

i was just about to tell you that there is no code in process tamer that sets this, until i rechecked and discovered that indeed there is.

here is the code:
   // F*CKING MICROSOFT SHOULD BURN IN HELL
   // this code is nesc. to allow pop up to get foreground focus
   #ifndef SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT
      #define SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT 0x2001
   #endif
   SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, 0, (LPVOID)0,SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE | SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE);

evidently i added it at some point in a pique of anger because a popup message from the tray tool was showing up behind other windows; the new process tamer doesnt use popups though, and uses tray balloons, so i am going to remove this code.

see:
http://support.micro...oft.com/?kbid=886217


now, the question is, should new versions of process tamer now revert this back to 200000 for users of prior versions?  im thinking yes.

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ProcessTamer / Anyone else with this issue?
« on: April 14, 2005, 09:06 PM »
got a report that the open file dialog that pops up when you click the "Open File" button, on very top right (to right of "Tool Menu Caption") of configuration tab on Process Tamer 2 options form, dissapears or never shows up at all.

anyone else find that pushing this button has no effect or somehow shows the open file dialog off screen or something?

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ProcessTamer / Re: perl.exe
« on: April 14, 2005, 12:44 PM »
ben,

im having no trouble changing the process of my perl.exe on winXpPro.

so i'm not sure if its a win 2k3 issue or something else.
i was running perl through commandline, maybe you are running it as a service of some sort?

anyone else have any ideas?

if you try changing the priority from the process tamer 2 gui, what happens?

37583
DesktopCoral / Re: Question about feature....
« on: April 14, 2005, 08:10 AM »
one thing it will do is, if the opacity is <5 it will bump it to 5 when opening options dialog, just so you can see it.
i could get rid of this if people think it is confusing.

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DesktopCoral / Re: DesktopCoral Download
« on: April 14, 2005, 06:40 AM »
i should probably make it a public download before it's mentioned, otherwise they will be frustrated not being able to try it.

so i'm going to just make desktop coral downloadable by public now.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..
« on: April 14, 2005, 04:55 AM »
this is a good question.

when writing browser tray switch i discovered that there are a very annoyingly large set of different settings that effect the default browser, and different browsers seem to use different tricks to make themselves the current browser.

for example there are different settings that effect which browser gets launched if you double click a .htm vs which browser gets launched if you click on a .url shortcut or when a program launches a url.

i dont know exactly how to set it up so that different users would have dif browsers but it might be possible.

but i guess you are talking about email clients.. this is a nice idea for me to make an emailtrayswitch util which works the same as browsertrayswitch but for email clients.. i will look into it..  very good idea.

i will add in next version the ability to specify the browser to change to on the commandline  so that you could put it in a batch file to be run when switching users to make it even easier.

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DesktopCoral / Re: DesktopCoral Download
« on: April 14, 2005, 03:33 AM »
im hoping that ozzy, who requested this app,  will test it and if he finds it does what he wanted may explain to other samurize users what it does and why it works well with samurize.  i've learned the hard way that going to someone else's forum and trying to say how you made a good program is often considered spam advertising and does not go over well, even if you mean it to.

btw desktopcoral now has its own mini section like all the other apps, so we should probably move this discussion over to there.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ideas for process tamer
« on: April 14, 2005, 12:46 AM »

i have been thinking about restoring stopped processes; if this is something people want i will add it.

i could also add the possibilty of doing certain things when processes die or have their priorities changed (like sending an email, etc), if this was something that people really wanted, though this would involve more work (not so much work in implementation of core functionality but in adding such options to the process tamer 2 configuration gui).

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ProcessTamer / Some other apps related to process tamer
« on: April 13, 2005, 11:42 PM »
in my help files i always try to list similar apps to mine.
here are some programs similar in approach to my process tamer app, for those who are curious.  these can also be found in process tamer help file or online help:

http://www.bitsum.com/ProSuper.asp - similar application, works on networked installations (shareware)
http://www.prioritymaster.com/ - similar program (seems a bit hyped shareware)
http://ivagos.com/index.php?lnk=6 - manually set process priorities (shareware)
http://www.pgware.com/products/pcboost - boosts priority of currently used app [works on win9X?]  (shareware)

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DesktopCoral / Re: Question about feature....
« on: April 13, 2005, 09:41 AM »
DesktopCoral will be of interest to very few people.
Unless you have a real purpose for this program it's not likely to be useful.

ozzy requested it, maybe he will tell us a little bit about why its useful in his case (assuming of course that this does what he wanted).


ps. kifitting - i think it's time you chose an avatar for your forum profile.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Question about feature....
« on: April 13, 2005, 06:55 AM »
i know exactly what you mean -
unforuntately DesktopCoral cannot do this.

the desktop area not used by DesktopCoral will behave like your normal desktop, ie you can expand stuff inside it.
but within DesktopCoral region, if you moved an app there and maximized it, it would jump out of the coral and into the main desktop region.

it's probably possible to do what you want by writing using some low-level virtual monitor driver, which would be a very fun idea, but outside of scope of this small project for me.

may i suggest you look into buying a dual monitor setup for your computer.  I use one and it does exactly what you are describing, but with two desktops side by side, one on each monitor, and i could never go back to a single monitor.  it truely is the only way to live.

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DesktopCoral / Re: DesktopCoral Download
« on: April 13, 2005, 02:34 AM »
i meant to mention this:
if you set opacity to 0, so that its completely invisible,
then you dont see that "barred" sign
and you can treat it like a purely reserved area of normal desktop.

i will look into making multiple areas without having to run sep copy.

i may make a application launch-like tool at some point so those ideas about drag and drop  could be useful for that.

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DesktopCoral / DesktopCoral Download
« on: April 13, 2005, 01:05 AM »
New util: DesktopCoral
For more info see the page on it ( https://www.donation...ktopcoral/index.html )

https://www.donation...esktopCoralSetup.exe

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug or feature?
« on: April 12, 2005, 10:33 PM »
this is a bug; i will try to fix in next version.
The way it works now is it tries to check your start menu "Startup" group.
If it finds itself there, it checks the box, if not the box is unchecked.
When you check the box it adds itself to start menu "Startup" group.

SO, if your seeing the box checked each time you start it, it means its somehow not removing itself from your start menu "Startup" group the way it should be.  for now you can just delete the shortcut manually fromt he startup group in start menu.

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Mouser's Zone / Re: Any new ideas for small utilities?
« on: April 12, 2005, 08:29 PM »
ozzy (and anyone else),

i've got a working proof of concept of a util that lets you "reserve" space on a site of the screen.
anyone care to test it?

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UrlSnooper / Re: Help with launch
« on: April 12, 2005, 04:05 PM »
there are some tricks to making url snooper work with dialup; search that http://p084.ezboard....m/fstreemeboxvcrfrm4 forum or winpcap site.
and let us know if you get it to work.

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General Software Discussion / Re: DirMS and Buzzsaw
« on: April 12, 2005, 10:31 AM »
buzzsaw sounds interesting..

37597
UrlSnooper / Re: Cant use URL snooper
« on: April 12, 2005, 06:38 AM »
the part about  "mms (http format)" refers to an option in streambox vcr.
normally when you paste a url in streambox vcr you tell it that the protocol is "auto" and let it guess it,
but with some you need to manually tell it.  in this case i had to manually specify "mms (http format)",
and i also had to use streambox vcr 1.30 which is better at mms files than the more recent streambox vcr 1.31.
other windows media download tools may be able to download it also.

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UrlSnooper / Re: Cant use URL snooper
« on: April 12, 2005, 04:58 AM »
i'm generally really bad at finding the addresses, and the forum address posted in one of the top posts in the forum is the best place to get help for such things, but i found this one using url snooper while playing the video from ifilm site in Windows Media highest quality setting. note that the only way to get this is to run url snooper while the video actually downloads and plays through your browser.  if url snooper wont sniff your network traffic on dialup you'll have to either try the tricks to get dialup to work with url snooper as discussed in the streaming media recording forum or else ask for help on that streaming media recording forum.

mms://ifilm.wmod.llnwd.net/a65/o1/portal/2656367_200.asf
mms (http format)
streambox vcr 1.30 (non turbo)
7.1mb

note that i used streambox vcr 1.30 and had to specify mms (http format) instead of auto.
if you don't know what im talking about, then check the other posts in this section and go visit the streaming media recording forum.


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ProcessTamer / Re: perl.exe
« on: April 11, 2005, 01:25 PM »
i'll try to look into this and report back.

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ProcessTamer / Re: perl.exe
« on: April 11, 2005, 06:04 AM »
its possible that the process automatically resets its priority so that it can't be changed; i dont think there's anything that can be done about it in this case.

can you change priorities of other processes?
are you logged in as an administrator account?
you're using win2k or winxp?

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