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This is part of a project that is gradually getting done that to the help for several nice DC Posters.  Due to problems that came up on during the project, I need to locate a method of recusively searching files for a specific property.  At first, I had thought the file length could be used and to that end came up with a simple one-liner which can scan for and make a list  of all zero length files.  Unfortunately, not all of them are zero length.  
The problem is (was) "Windows encryption" which had been used apparently at some point on many of the files which makes them impervious to overwriting by non encrypted versions of the same file whether it is newer or not.  
I have decided my only choice is to locate them all in advance, copy the encrypted versions to a new sub-folder which will then allow me to copy the unencrypted version into the vacated sub-folder.  This is important because the location of these files has to remain as it is but the encrypted ones have no keys (or if they do I doubt anyone would know where they are) which effectively makes them worthless.  I need to find them and move them out of the way to make room for copies of the same files and folders which are also on other disks in their unencrypted format.  
Some of these files showed zero length and I had hoped they would all be such.  Unfortunately this was not the case.
If it is of any use to someone here is my version for finding Zero length files and copying the names to a list.  I am not sure how to edit this to scan for windows encryption though.

Code: Text [Select]
  1. @echo off
  2.    for /r %%F in (*) do if %%~zF==0 echo “%%F” >> zerobytefiles.txt
This was written for use in a batch file and could be modified for direct entry by removing the extra %'s.
4WD  I expect you will knock this one out of the ballpark?

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Living Room / Microsoft Surface Pro 3 8GB I7 256GB SSD
« on: May 20, 2015, 12:39 PM »
Has anyone used one of these for any length of time?  I am looking for honest opinions and not marketing glib. 

Already had to get them like it or not but wondered if I should expect any issues with overheating due to size and such.  I was kind of surprised to see that they come with tiny cooling fans (of some kind) in a true tablet form factor.  Don't know why MS didn't bother to make the keyboard (Type-cover) out of a Lithium Polymer so it could serve as an additional battery source.
As a side question, I need  to locate two fire-engine red "sleeves".  I searched Amazon and found quite a few but can't "road test" them all.  In this case, the users want light-weight more than "protection" from damage as the are "upper management" and live out of airports (more or less) spending more time in the air than on the ground.

The red color to match the Type-cover is probably just as important, it has to be a close match.  And needs to be more of a velvet pouch from what I can get out of the people they were purchased for.  Sad   :'(  This is the where the world of tech has gone..   Fashion sense matters most now  8)  :tellme:

Opinions of what to expect would be appreciated as I will be the one who has to keep them running with remote support if they choke-up 1000 miles from home.   I just hope someone here has had one for a while.

Mfr websites to this day still post intelligent things like "In case of system lock-up to first remove the battery ..." :huh:!!  I have seen this advice posted on almost every site from HP to Toshiba even though they know the battery in those ultra-books can't be accessed without  a can-opener!


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Best Program or method to:
Copy all files from a location on drive D: to a location on drive E: with the following conditions:
If the file already exists on E:   AND   is newer   OR       larger   than the one on D:     Then the copy on E: is left in place left in place and copy on D: is deleted.
Otherwise the copy on D: is Moved to E: and overwrites without asking.
 
Sounds simple but I cannot find the right combination of switches to do the either or part
This should end up merging the two locations onto the E: drive location keeping the copies that are either newest or largest regardless of where they are.
The reason for this is that there are some newer copies of the same files that are from zero to 5 bytes or so in size created in error.  Need to keep the larger copy in that case even if it is older

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This is a little difficult to explain and currently i get it done through the use of several different programs. 
One a number of old backup drives, i have multiple daily backups of entire directories of program files and folders along with the data used by them. 
What i need is a way to extract all of the files of certain types and of those files, remove all but one (the newest).  Everything else can be deleted leaving me with a folder full of nothing but a single copy of any specific file and it being the newest version.

the drives are all full (smallest is 500GB largest 1TB). 

The files to be kept are specific extensions like .doc  .docx  .pdf  etc.    At this point, all of them will be document types, though the use of audio files is in the works.   I have been doing this in steps using one extension at a time to find all .doc for example and move them  move them all out to another folder. 
The second step is removing the duplicates created when i do this as each file was backed up once each day sometimes for months making 60 copies of that file.  Because the backups were done on each directory at different times i have to deal with each drive as a whole and cannot just find the newest copy of a single directory.  Even if i could , i still need to be sure i only keep the last version of each file and this could end up being on a different drive.

In theory, for the reason they are kept, I do not need to keep the actual "path to the file"  as: C:\a\b\c\d\filename.  This same path including the filename exists once in every backup
But having that information could be of some use one day as it is possible that a given file could have been used in one project and then restarted in another.  The project names and other information is in the path.  But i was only asked to worry about the files themselves.
I have tried various duplicate removers with each offering some advantage but nothing i have found can do the whole thing in one step.
To make it even harder, each path would have probably 15 or more files in it and keeping the full path name attached to all the files would also be wasteful and cumbersome.
the ideal would be to end up with the latest versions of every file that exist in each path kept and all others discarded.

C:\a\b\c\d would end up with 1.doc, 2.pdf, 4.txt. 5.docx (example only most of the files are pdf's)  That would preserver the path to give the logic of why the file was there to start with.
As it is, that same path including all those files exists multiple times and in most cases the files don't even change but in some cases they do or i would sort the whole mess by "date of path", keep the newest version of the data directory and be done with it.
However, doing it that way would also end up omitting a lot of documents that were deleted during the term of the project and they want to keep all that were ever in each one even if it as deleted during the term of the project.

As I said, the path is something i think will one day be an item they will wish they had kept but all i was asked to do it keep all the documents, just one big pile of them.

Thanks for any ideas.  There are at least 20 more of these drives i have to reduce to the newest single copies of stored documents only. The rest all gets deleted and the drives reused.  I am probably approaching this with tunnel vision and there must be an easier way.

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Living Room / New Virus or ??
« on: May 05, 2015, 05:46 PM »
I thought  I would post this to see if anyone has run across anything similar.  One of the people here started getting odd emails a few days ago that were of a type she would never expect.  The wording was pretty "graphic" and appeared to be requesting a reply.  All of our systems have up to date AVAST as well as Malwarebytes.  These emails had no attachments and my advice was to "delete with SHIFT+" for a Permanent removal.

This began 2 or 3 days ago.  Today, her system restarted itself and came up with a new "Theme" called Creepy Cobwebs with a Spider in the middle of the page,  Odd to say the least and not what she had by any means.   Worst of all though was that as soon as that happened a "Progression Bar" appeared on the screen saying the % of files deleted and it was steadily moving across the screen.  By the time she got it to me (only a few minutes) the bar was moving at a very fast pace and all of her desktop icons had already been deleted. I immediately pressed the power and rebooted.

The bar came back up pretty quick and continued to delete files (or so it said).  Whatever it is, it apparently did delete quite a lot.  It also deleted "Some"  but not ALL of her software.  I am not sure why some were spared and others were not.  AVAST still scans but says the system is clean.

Malwarebytes is complete Gone from the system now.  No folder or any trace it has ever been there.

I have seen many Viruses in my day, some worse than others.  But this was pretty absolute in its destruction as everything is gone.  Not encrypted and locked up but completely gone.  The system is almost down to "Bare Bones Start".  Several other programs which were installed and in use are also completely gone with no trace.  This happened with no warning and the display of the progress bar as files and folders are being deleted certainly enhanced the Fear Factor. 

If this sounds even a little familiar it would be nice to know where to start looking before it hits someone else here.  There are a few others who have gotten similar emails but who have not yet been affected to this extent.

I figured someone here may have seen or heard of something like it.  I was only able to  find references to a virus called "Goner" and "Goner-A" but some of this was years old.  Some was from news articles published today.  At this point, I do not even have a clue if this is the same or similar.

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This is an embarrassing question to ask as I am very sure the answer is right in front of me somewhere but I never seem to either have time or look in the right place.  I did find a utility to backup and restore the desktop icons but that won't quite get me what I am after.

Windows Desktop normal "Default" sort order arranges the Desktop Icons Alphabetic descending at the start but allows things to be added helter-skelter everywhere afterward.

Some users like to store a 100 icons on their desktop and when they ask me for help it takes forever to locate the ones i need.  Sorting back to alphabetic>descending takes two clicks on sort by name  instead of one.  If I could, I would lock there system icons (the ones supplied by windows) to always be where they start out.  Top Left.
 
So this ends up being two requests.  One for a way to lock the 5 default system icons to always be first starting at top left and second a way to make the sort by name always default to alphabetic descending on first click. 
Both of the answers are most likely out there and easy to find but they are never where i look . :(

PS:  An additional nice touch would be a way to lock any specific icon to a specific location on the desktop one by one.  Not in groups like "Stardock" does.  Just a simple "Lock it here" with right click option would be Great!

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This may be answered somewhere but everything I have tried fails at the point of use.
I have a batch file that performs various functions and i the final steps creates a link to a page on a website that is output as a text file along with a image file named "invitation.png".
Once completed, I have to open Outlook, start a new email, paste in the 'invitation.png', right click it, choose add hyper-link, then paste in the hyper-link from the text file.
This works perfectly ... but is tedious when done often per day.
 
Being a big fan of automation and having a working batch file that already creates all the necessary parts, I am looking for a way to combine the final "done by hand" part.
But apparently automating the insertion of a hyper-link into an image file which is then sent via an email is beyond anything I can follow. I tried most methods I could come up with but  did not get any that worked.

Given that I have the necessary parts, is there a scripting maneuver to get this hyper-link embedded into the png file and put the whole thing into the body of an email ready to send? 

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General Software Discussion / Best VM Creation Solution
« on: April 04, 2015, 01:24 PM »
I am thinking about creating a VM soluton for a small SQL Express server.  The system is small, runs a 3GB SQL-Express DB that accesses a 20GB data-pool.    A crop of recent issues with regard to access time and a few others have left me trying to find a way to watch every step to see where the problem is occurring.  Thinking it through, I thought of the possibility of using a VM as the primary engine to do the job to start with. 
I would need to be able to mirror the actual DB as often as possible to a physical disk for insurance against data loss but having never tried this on anything I thought i would see if anyone else had.
Our last email provider was using VM's to emulate each mail-server they handled but I have no idea what they were using to host everything on.

This is such a small DB on a system that does nothing else i just wondered if it would even be possible and if so what it would take to run it.  Current Host OS is Server 2008R2 X64 on a system with 16GB RAM Dual-core processor

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Just wondering if anyone has had positive results from any of the many possibilities for getting a SQL Express DB backup

I have a need to temporarily use something other than the DB's internal backup of a SQL Express DB.  It normally runs its own backup  every night and i keep copies of what it backs up.   Unfortunately, it is having issues of some kind and until they can resolve them I would like to be able to keep some kind of backup even if it isn't the one they normally keep.
Hopefully, this will be resolved by Monday or Tuesday but until then it has already been several days of me making copies of their backups  but the event logs say those may not be good.



Thanks

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I have   a huge list of email addresses that are all part of  system used to maintain contact with people we have worked with in the past.

Since some of these names are pretty old, their contact info is out of date.  When we send out an group of updates to them several always get returned for bad addresses but they are scattered and make it difficult for anyone to stop what they are doing, hunt down the bounced ones and see if we need to try contacting them a different way or if maybe someone entered the name wrong to start with.

I can pull every email address in the database into a single list and I know of several services I can use to singly enter each email to check them one at a time and make note of those that are incorrect.  This would be an extremely long task.  I have seen on line services that offer to do it for you with lists of up to 100 names but I am not sure this would be a good idea to hand off these lists to an on line service I do not know personally.

I am looking for a program that would allow me to do the same thing on our own system or at worst, a way to automate the single-file one at a time method.  AHK maybe but I am not that familiar with it.  I don't mind buying a program that would include other nice features such a separating the lists by alphabetic or other and into working and non working address lists.

Does anyone know of anything specific that might be able to do this?  The input list could be in Excel or text or whatever is needed.   Same for the output.

Thanks

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Please consider that there is no such thing as a stupid question because this sounds like it qualifies as one . :-[

If someone has ever managed to get something like this to work, I would appreciate just knowing it is possible.  Or Not.  But please, no need to tell me this is not a normal setup as I knew that when I first saw it.  But I am told it has worked like it is since before I got here and I would like to keep it working for as long as I can.

Trying to convince them to do the right thing is not an option.  They don't have the funds for a Dell PowerEdge Server.  I only mention this because I know this is not the way it was meant to be, but this is a small 'Mom & Pop" setup.   They only want to keep what they have working but I do not want to shop on Ebay for used components.

It is running a Server OS only because of a single SQL program that was custom written for them originally on Server 2000.    The OS was upgraded once to 2008-R2 before the company that wrote the software was no longer around
The system has no other roles, does not use AD nor a Domain.

Lately the old system is producing too many hardware faults and I would like to migrate the whole setup to a more "modern" hardware configuration, but this "server" was originally built on what I would consider a normal Desktop computer with a dual core AMD processor, not a real 'Server' system.   But it only has to run that one SQL program and no other server roles.

If it keeps doing the only task it has done reliably and is never used for anything else,  that is all it has to do.  If I could "move"  this whole configuration onto a new Intel I7 with 32GB of RAM it would solve any hardware glitches and probably last longer than the need for it.  They cannot afford to replace it with a "Real Server"  need but I can get a new I-7 System for not much money.   I can also clone the working setup on another drive but I have never done such  with a Server OS and transitioning from an AMD based system to an Intel architecture may not be possible using a cloned installation.

Before I waste a lot of time trying to do the impossible and was wondering if anyone had ever done so successfully.
 
 

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https://www.donation....msg376459#msg376459.
Using a list of filenames to find those exact files in a folder of thousands.

4WD has offered various options and i have been through a multitude of other boards.  In most case they all use a variant of robocopy or xcopy but for reasons I cannot explain, i am not having much luck.  So far, I have not managed to get anything to find and copy even 1 file.  Yet I can manually find each with no problem using windows Search by pasting the filename into the search box.  The directory being searched contains over 60,000 files and i have to find 1300 specific PDF files.  The match must be "exact" because there are often variation of the same name that may only be off by one letter or a single "."  
The Best search would probably be a hash tag for the searched item to match the hash of the filename found but that wold start getting into some serious programming.

Of these 1300 files, most will be in a single directory of the 60,000 "file-mix" but the rest will be in older backups of that same "pile of files" so I will need to use the same setup more than once.

Oddly, my "memory" seems to recall that I have had to do this before and at the time did finally find a working solution but it must have been long ago or I am even imagining it.  :(              (wishful thinking?  or a desire to feel "senile" I guess)

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I have the list of names of missing pdf files that are all mixed up in a folder of other files.

I need a way to :
Search through the entire directory recursively looking for a match to each name in the list
if it finds one, make a copy of it and put it in a folder on c:
I can put them where they belong by copying that folder to a different system

I tried Robocopy as this>      "for /f %%f in (list.txt) do robocopy c:\source d:\dest %%f  "

But it dies so fast i barely see a flash.

I could have sworn i already had a program or script to do this but can't find it.

Thanks for help.

Thanks "4wd"
Problem solved :)

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Looking for opinions on which application is best at keeping the traffic down somewhat.  MBAM has begun reminding me that there are bad placs out there.  Tghis is a small website that is only up for the people who work here to use.  If i blocked every IP not in the USA it would nto hurt anything.  May not help in the event anyone was intent on access anyway but beter to put my finger in the dike if it slows down the water even a little.   :)

We used to have a program called IP Block that we ran back when we hosted our on email server  but not sure it it would be appropriate for an apache web-server.

Thanks

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This is a question that was brought up and i am no longer sure of what to reply with.   I have a user at the office who wants to "rename" their laptop.  This the the "Name" that shows up under advanced system properties <Computer Name>.   This name is not used anywhere that I know of in our Network in a specific manner and I would have no problem telling them to go ahead.

But I am no longer certain that there might be some link to this arbitrary name in a way that it "COULD"  create issues with their Microsoft Licenses and Office 365 setup in some manner   I told them to wait until I could post this message to get more input.  Better safe than sorry.

Can anyone tell me if there is any reason why this one place should remain exactly as it was when the laptop was first turned on and that name was entered?  As I said, it has no direct meaning to me, the local network,  or anyone else here but I am not so sure that it is not already in some way linked to their Windows 8.1 licensing and Office 365 licensing.  The local network is only a Work-group, not a Domain.  But I have seen people do this before and have "glitches" afterward that would make me stop and think before just outright changing that name which is actually irrelevant other than personal preference to me.

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Those are the specs I have to work with and so far I can't seem to find a way to make this reliable without going to third party software such as Open VPN.  Not even sure about that 
The intent is to manage to host the internal company files in the internal company network (which is not a problem at all) and provide a way to access those same files to the same3 people when they are not in the office.  As from home or a Hotel Wi-Fi.

Before Windows 8.1, this was a fairly simple task to provide a reliable VPN connection.  Since 8.1 it seems to have been relegated to the pages of history in favor of cloud storage for to provide the same access.
Unfortunately, this is not yet a reliable resource due to constraints on the speed of transfer of the internet. 
When OneDrive first began offering the 1TB of storage per user, I had high hopes for it but it seems they are less likely to be a reality in the near future every day.  The space is there but access to it is nowhere near what we need.  "
Back in the day" this was a simple thing on Server 2003 and Windows XP.  Each new progression by Windows has made that same access slower and more difficult as it went forward
Any advice on the best way to accomplish this on a small scale would be appreciated.  This is not a "Domain" network, simply a need to share file access by about 30 people regardless of whether they are on-site or working from home or on the road.

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This is or should be a simple task and maybe Nitro or even Adobe reader could do it.  Once upon a time, I ran across a very neat program that could take a folder full of pdfs and in short order create a "Flah" type "Flipping Book".  Nothin gto fancy but it was impressive at the time. 
The actual NEED is to simply have a way to maintain the directory structure the files are stored in. This is the correct order for what is needed and preorganized to present an electronic version o9f the files in a directory organized like the printed notebook would have been.  The "Flipping book" would have been a nifty addition that the user could copy to a few flash drives to hand out at a meeting if necessary to allow each person to "flip" though their copy at the pace they wanted to. 
The need for this though is to allow the Users here to have a way to actually print out a pre-organized "notebook" of sorts to carry with them on a business trip .
There have been enough times when the lack of an internet connection or failure of their laptop of some other reason left them high and dry when their only copy to present is on their website if it cannot be accessed.

To resolve this, i only needed tobe able to print out the pre-organized folder and sub folders that contain the files in the order in which they are stored.  It sounded easy enough until tried it.
I may be trying too hard but I have access to the actual web-server so the files do not require downloading for me to do something like this.  While I would like to offer the electronic version of "the book" the programs i tested for doing this took an extremely long time and so far i have not gotten any output that i could use, although i admit i have not tried that many nor for that long.

I thought i would get some opinions if anyone else has ever tried to print out a "booklet" or "notebook" in the same format as the files are stored on the harddrive.  They are all just PDF files in organized sub folders.  It seems ther should be a simple enough utility that could be set to print all pdf's in the folder and sub folders while putting in a separator sheet labelled with the name of the sub folders as they change.
If anyone knows of one that would do this I would be more than happy to purchase it.  The one very high-tech version i was hopeful for had just about every feature in the world and would probably need me to run every print job.  The program was full of features but required tech support from China and their time is a bit off from the time i normally work.
This is something i need to keep simple enough to allow the Users who own the files to connect through the server to print them out in the office.  The Old Flash/Html-pdf  Flipping book program i don't remember as being that hard but so far I cannot find the one from 3 years back.

For most of these people i need something not much more complicated than "Print"  :)  All ideas appreciate.  I have a copy of Nitro pdf and one of Adobe Pdf from about a year back (ver 12 maybe) if there is a procedure in either to handle things like this.

Thanks

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I have a problem that just started today where it seems that everyone who uploads files or creates a folder on a website gets the time changed by 12 hours which results in the DATE being off for anything done in the afternoon showing the date as being the following date. Files loaded at 11 am on the 21st show a date of the 22nd.  

Changing the system date on the server only results in the same "effect", with the date being changed by 12 hours regardless.

SYSTEM INFO:
Windows 7
Apachi Server
MySQL
All updates for Windows are current
Avast!
Malwarebytes

Does anybody have any idea what might cause this?

Let me add to this that even accessing this site, I am getting scripting errors, and wonder if java could be involved.

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Is there a script of utility to do this easily?
I have a text list of 100 directories I need to alphabetically sort them all by the value in the 3rd level subfolder only

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This is a question which involves a problem that to me is something I would never do anyway.  But I need to find documentation that says why even though I am pretty sure I know why it should NOT be done.
In cases where people are getting emails containing files that ware sometimes WORD docs sent through Word but sometimes Docs sent as ZIP files or PDF sent as Zip files.  There are a few people here who insist that they should be able to simply drag these out and drop them directly to a mapped CLOUD storage. folder
with No local copy, no saved to local drive.  This includes the possibility of it being a Zipped file that they open the zip while it is still in the email and then copy the contents to the cloud drive.

To my way of thinking, the problem is that sometimes it DOES work!

I have always been told that anything you are storing on a cloud storage, especially one that is a shared resource for others, anything you put there should be something you first saved to your own local system.  For one thing there is a better chance that any Viruses or malware packed into the attachment would be caught before they end up in a folder on a Cloud shared by many people who are trusting that anything put there is "clean".

But for another, since saving files to a Cloud drive requires time to upload, if you drag and drop something then close the email (or even save to: Cloud drive then close the email) I can see a lot of places where that file may not ever get uploaded and this is the situation I am trying to explain.  But I must be asking Googgle the wrong question because I cannot get a clear set of replies.

Can anyone here offer anything to this?

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Another day, another Wild Goose Chase. 

Today I was asked to create the above from a folder containing about 50,000 files.  Many of those files are probably duplicates but I cannot just delete them even when I find them as they are the resource pool for a DB.  I just need to find out how many of them are actually in there twice or even three or four times and create a list showing the paths to all of them.

Someone else (TG!)  not me .. is going to have to figure out which ones to keep and which not.

But I have to create this list showing the full path to all the files that exist in more than one location but are really duplicates.
In the Best of Worlds, this would be done using a hash of the document and not just the filename because it is entirely possible, even likely, that the same file was entered by two different people at different places.  Yet that file would still be a duplicate meaning that the BB links should show a single location for both entries instead of having the file in there twice.

I have been testing a few duplicate finders but most of them are a bit over zealous and want to help get rid of the problem.  In this one case, I only need to create a file showing the path listings to all the duplicates but Do Nothing.  Just make the list. 
I wondered if anyone had any suggestions of a particular tool to use for that.  Hopefully something you have used before for a similar task?

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If this utility does not exists it should.  I have searched through google for the pst hour or so asking the question every way I could think of an keep batt8ing zero.
I would like a way to create the exact same temporary popup with sound and everything exactly like the one used by outlook for incoming emails and be able to position it where I want on the screen with whatever sound and color and message is appropriate. Then use it to notify me of any number of important occurrences which are currently only displayed by tiny changes in taskbar icons.
Some utilities I know do come with their own.  Those for temperature warnings and such IF you have the software that uses it.
Isn't there some generic utility or at least a way to control the one used by Outlook to make similar notifications based on a wider ranges of subjects?
If Program X is in condition Y then display notice Z on screen:for n number of seconds.  That kind of thing.
The outlook utility itself, if it could be modifies would be a perfect example of How To proceed.  But it seems to be Only For Outlook.

I decided to "cast a wider net" as someone here always has the answers to anything  :)

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If an email contains an embedded graphic, I can right click it but "edit picture" is grayed out.  I would like that to be associated with Paint.exe.  This is not an attached graphic but is embedded in the email itself.  I can copy it and paste into paint but one click to edit in paint would be the right way.  Is there any way to get that edit button to work?  If not, is there a way to add my own?  In trying a few suggestions of changes to the registry, I did end up making changes to the right click menu but it was not what I wanted and still does not give any way to link Open with Paint.exe to the menu.
Further reading shows a lot of ways to do a lot of things but I cannot find one that will simply enable the button that is already there.

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Short of loading up on GNU commands is there an easy way to do this?   MS completely left out all ability to specify any boundaries on the "dir" or "search" or any other windows/dos commands.  I need a list of all the paths to subfolders named "cache" underneath a parent folder.  Most are at the 2nd level and none are more then 3 or 4.  I had thought maybe Dos "find" might do it but they have no recursive abilities or if they do they won't for me.  I end up being the one doing al the "curs" ing  :) instead.  I also tried to preload the Utility "everything" to just look for every occurrence of that name using the Parent folder as a starting point but for some reason even that doesn't want to cooperate.
If I run the search inside the parent, there will be many of these subfolders named "cache".  While the cache subfolder may contain other subfolders I only need to get a list of paths to the top level "cache" subfolder.  A simple text file would be nice showing the full path all the3 way back to c:\.

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I wondered if anyone has made the transition from that far back and if so whether it would be easier to rewrite a SQL template using current MySQL  than t would be to modify an existing template created for use with 5.3 especially in light of the MyISAM table structure being demoted in favor of InnoDB?
After making a few changes such as:  'TYPE' now = 'ENGINE' and such I am still not able to get a working script made for 5.3 converted to load the tables structures under ver 5.6 without errors of one kind or another. 

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