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Find And Run Robot / Re: Windows 11, FARR takes minutes to load

« Last post by Ath on September 09, 2026, 01:40 AM »

Most likely you have also got your Home directory stored in OneDrive, as companies often do, to ease 'backup' of users' files. That tends to be quite slow, especially on startup.
Maybe moving the software and configuration to an explicitly local folder on your PC solves this.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Open Source?

« Last post by AJolly on September 07, 2026, 02:51 PM »

Checking in @mouser? FARR still has a few bugs I'd love to patch out, and I'd rather not move away from FARR.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Windows 11, FARR takes minutes to load

« Last post by AJolly on September 07, 2026, 02:48 PM »

I use it a lot on win 11 and have never had such an issue - if you want to debug you could run procmon and trace to see whats going on.

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N.A.N.Y. 2026 / Re: N.A.N.Y. 2026 submission -- Sticky Notes

« Last post by kunkel321 on September 07, 2026, 11:38 AM »

I just added support for hyperlinks and images in notes.  Since they have to be encoded using plain text it's a bit clunky (like a mashup of markdown and forum posting).  The notes are nice, though, IMO.  It also supports integration with my (somewhat new) ScreenSnip app. 
https://github.com/kunkel321/ScreenSnip
You can snip a screenshot, then send it to a sticky note. 


fyi in the repo, "Sticky Notes" has been replaced with "StickyNotes" to avoid name overlap with the Microsoft app.  Hopefully the name change won't mess people up. 

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Screenshot Captor / Quick capture bar deactivates

« Last post by GillMcC on September 03, 2026, 06:08 AM »

I have used SC for years and still love it.  One thing has been a niggling issue of late.
I mainly use the Quick Capture Bar - and have it set to the top of my screen to autohide when not in use, and pop-down when I hover over the region.

I find that frequently it completely de-activates, and I have to go back to the program, and re-select VIEW Quick Capture Bar.  Any idea why this might be happening, I haven't worked out anything that might be triggering its disappearance, and have not made any recent changes to settings

I am running Windows 11, and V4.36.2 of Screenshot Captor

I see from this message on the Licence Page that Mouser is no longer supporting software - As of April 2026, after over 20 years in operation, it's come to the end of life for DonationCoder. - but wonder if anyone here can help?

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Official Announcements / Re: Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by KynloStephen66515 on August 29, 2026, 05:21 PM »

Hello Mouser.

Couldn't help but think of Donationcoder today. Then I saw the invite link to the Donationcoder Discord server. Is that invitation still open?

-Shades (August 26, 2026, 06:01 PM)

https://discord.gg/GmtpKNNaA4

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Official Announcements / Re: Winding down DonationCoder after 20 years

« Last post by Shades on August 26, 2026, 06:01 PM »

Hello Mouser.

Couldn't help but think of Donationcoder today. Then I saw the invite link to the Donationcoder Discord server. Is that invitation still open?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Cannot capture region using Surface Pro4, dual monitor - extra zooming

« Last post by wraith808 on August 24, 2026, 10:32 PM »

Did we ever figure out what the problem was here? I'm asking because I have it with my laptop docked - I don't use the laptop monitor but keep it open and just don't show anything on it. The other two external monitors are set to 100% magnification. And it zooms just like in this post.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Clipboard Help & Spell cannot open its database. Throws several DBISAM erros

« Last post by jcraig2003 on August 24, 2026, 02:27 PM »

20260824 my Clipboard Help+Spell is crashing.

Error DBG109: DBISAM Engine Error # 11949 SQL parsing error Expected expression but instead found) in SELECT SQL statement at line 1. column 167
Error EX11: TableClips: Cannot perform this operation on a closed dataset

Windows 11 Pro  25H2
Installed on   ‎5/‎25/‎2026
OS build           26200.8894

Device name   B550M DS3H
Processor          AMD Ryzen 5 4600G with Radeon Graphics (3.70 GHz)
Installed RAM   32.0 GB (31.4 GB usable)
Graphics card   AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (496 MB)
Storage          144 GB of 466 GB used

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General Software Discussion / What software has genuinely improved your daily workflow?

« Last post by alexiaamber on August 23, 2026, 05:14 AM »

Hi,

I’ve been trying to simplify the number of programs I use and avoid installing several tools that basically do the same thing. It made me wonder: what’s one piece of software you personally rely on so much that you’d really miss it if it disappeared tomorrow?

It doesn’t have to be anything fancy or expensive. I’d be especially interested in hearing about those small utilities or older programs that you’ve kept using for years because they simply work.

What’s your pick, and what makes it so useful to you?