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General Software Discussion / Re: Revert Back to windows 7 or 8

« Last post by Ath on February 01, 2016, 12:54 PM »

You can only revert to a previous Windows version after upgrading to Windows 10, within the first 30 days after the upgrade is completed. After that only a full re-install of the original OS is possible. That's excluding any possible legal issues, I didn't investigate that.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Ath on January 29, 2016, 09:45 AM »

Open a CLI and type winver.exe, or do it from Start->Run

-4wd (January 29, 2016, 05:47 AM)

Thnx! (now I feel really silly, never used winver much, but it finally proves to be useful for something)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Ath on January 29, 2016, 01:49 AM »

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-Arizona Hot (January 28, 2016, 12:47 AM)

I may be a bit slow today, but can anybody explain me where I can find this info screen in Windows 10? I've been unable to find it since I started using Windows 10

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Living Room / Re: What other forums do you participate in?

« Last post by Ath on January 24, 2016, 11:56 AM »

Only the (Dutch language) machine embroidery forum my wife had me start for her when her then-most-visited msn group on the subject ceased to exist, 7 years ago.
I'm the technical admin, and the (mostly) ladies frequenting the forum keep stuff alive there, posting new made work, and appraising the work of others

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshots are delayed upon pressing 'Print Screen'

« Last post by Ath on January 24, 2016, 04:26 AM »

I was trying to suggest testing with something else than F5, as that may cause a delay itself, because it is probably in use by the majority of applications Adding at least a ctrl/alt/shift modifier could help, but I'd still avoid F5 with any of these, Shift-PrtScr would be my first choice.

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Living Room / Re: Windows Logger and Hung Process Monitoring

« Last post by Ath on January 24, 2016, 04:15 AM »

You might want to rename your Process Monitor tool, as there is already for many years a Sysinternals tool by that same name.
I'd be interested to try these tools, just to see if I have a use for them. Though I don't have any processes 'hanging' on my systems, afaics. Maybe these tools tell me otherwise

What development environment (language, ide, etc.) are they developed in?

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by Ath on January 23, 2016, 07:37 AM »

currently it's python code using opencv machine vision library, both known to run well on raspberry pi.
pure cross-platform commandline tool, no gui.

-mouser (January 23, 2016, 05:07 AM)

Great, I love cross-platform solutions

some unknowns:
issues regarding using a cheap raspberry pi camera.

-mouser (January 23, 2016, 05:07 AM)

I don't have one of those, but have not heard bad things about the 'original' RPi camera, it seems to be quite reliable as there are several projects using them, even for recognizing the surroundings in semi-autonomous robots.

coding eventual GUI interface using touchscreen raspberry pi touchscreen.

-mouser (January 23, 2016, 05:07 AM)

I have that touchscreen, but I still have issues with typing on it, even using the recommended on-screen-keyboard drivers, and also the screen-space is quite limited at 1280x800 800x480 pixels, even using a webbrowser is a chore
The touch-input for moving the mouse is comparable to a 7" tablet, but Raspbian Jessie is not yet very optimized for touch interaction

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Developer's Corner / Re: Dice analyzer machine project

« Last post by Ath on January 23, 2016, 03:25 AM »

My rotation and scale invariant recognizer code is working quite well (if the extraction of foreground is successful).

-mouser (January 22, 2016, 04:09 PM)

I assume you developed this on Windows, using C/C++, but will it run on a Raspberry Pi? Or does it require specific libraries or a specific amount of CPU power?

Don't expect it to run on Windows 10 IoT Core for RPi 2, as that darned 'thing' takes around 5 minutes just for booting into the 'desktop', and you'd have to rewrite your code into .net universal code (C#), and not much of a GUI. I've given up trying for this IoT incarnation, just using Raspbian (Wheezy/Jessie) for my RPi-IoT projects

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshots are delayed upon pressing 'Print Screen'

« Last post by Ath on January 23, 2016, 03:06 AM »

Changing the hotkey to F5 will prove to be very uncomfortable, as many applications use that for the Refresh/Reload hotkey..., a Windows standard

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Latest version freezes in Scanner Options

« Last post by Ath on January 22, 2016, 07:22 AM »

... If you disconnect them does it ...

-mouser (January 22, 2016, 07:04 AM)

Maybe it should be approached the other way around: When connecting all scanners, does it open quickly? If so, disconnect 'm one by one, and see which one causes the slowdown

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshots are delayed upon pressing 'Print Screen'

« Last post by Ath on January 17, 2016, 04:09 AM »

Are the screenshots stored on your local disk, or on a network location?
Does it come up quick(er) if your AV is disabled?

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop

« Last post by Ath on January 14, 2016, 01:35 AM »

My AV (Symantec) just gave a warning about it containing OpenCandy, but that's relatively harmless. I tried the ImgBurn provided mirror, btw, maybe other mirrors trigger the warning based on their hostname?

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Screenshots are delayed upon pressing 'Print Screen'

« Last post by Ath on January 13, 2016, 01:32 AM »

Or has Dropbox stolen the PrintScreen hotkey?

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: SysTrayIconsManage

« Last post by Ath on January 12, 2016, 08:04 AM »

Silent - shortens the message when a tray-application is un-hidden from default 15 to 3 seconds
Show last message - repeats the last message that was shown, when starting up or hiding tray-applications

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop

« Last post by Ath on January 12, 2016, 01:29 AM »

Well, as usual when the price is too good to be true: it probably is

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Coding Snacks / Re: 30SecondSilencer - add silence every 30 seconds to an mp3 file

« Last post by Ath on January 10, 2016, 04:00 AM »

Nice job!
I saw it grow in the other thread, and it's spot-on.

Too bad NANY is already finished, it would have been a great entry

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Ath on January 08, 2016, 09:11 AM »

The waiting frustrated me too much , I'd advice to use the MCT, get it from here

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: SysTrayIconsManage

« Last post by Ath on January 07, 2016, 01:18 PM »

This request was sent to me by pm.

Would you entertain a request for an enhancement to SysTrayIconsManager?

On my system there always have been some icons that reset themselves to hidden. Needless to say, I can't recall specific culprits right now but I do recall the irritation that it causes.

Now that I've seen SysTrayIconsManager at work, I wonder if it would be possible for it to maintain a list of user-specified icons that should always be forced back into being shown?

I think that's a really good idea/feature, and I'll start work on it asap. It'll require a UI to be added beyond the trayicon context menu, so it will take a little more time then the last updates

(thanks Chris!)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Ath on January 07, 2016, 02:56 AM »

Any tips for upgrading to Windows 10 now?
=> upgrading from 8.1, I'm going try keeping programmes unless advised otherwise.

-tomos (January 06, 2016, 02:19 PM)

Yes: Check with the manufacturer of the computer if an upgrade to Windows 10 is supported.
In hindsight I found out why my upgrade adventures failed for my Lenovo Y580 laptop: Lenovo states that it is not possible to upgrade that specific model (and a few others) to Windows 10. At least not without doing a full re-install, after either removing the 32 GB mSata SSD 'disk-enhancer' add-on for the 1 TB HDD (based on specific Intel mainboard technology) or replacing the disk-combo with something else (I replaced it with a ~500 GB SSD).

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: SysTrayIconsManage

« Last post by Ath on January 06, 2016, 03:16 PM »

I've updated SysTrayIconsManage to v0.7.0.0, removing the Settings menu, now a Double-Click toggles the Enabled setting, and replaced the tray icon with a more contrasting one (white with a round, blueish background).

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: SysTrayIconsManage

« Last post by Ath on January 06, 2016, 01:40 AM »

Just a note that the "settings" submenu explanation i find confusing. and the idea of a double-click EXITING the application is doubly confusing.

-mouser (January 05, 2016, 06:33 PM)

I fully agree. I tried to come up with an appropriate wording for the setting, but obviously failed .
The original double-click action was Close, but I'll remove that option entirely, and go for just the 'toggle Enabled' action. Will be in the next update

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General Software Discussion / Re: gateway ta6 laptop

« Last post by Ath on January 05, 2016, 03:30 PM »

Can someone please tell me where I can download a safe copy of Nero 7 Ultra?

-holt (January 05, 2016, 01:42 PM)

Buy the latest at http://www.nero.com or an outdated stock-item on www.ebay.com etc.
When in need of a free CD/DVD burning suite: use google to find any of the gazillion suites available.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: SysTrayIconsManage

« Last post by Ath on January 05, 2016, 03:21 PM »

Updated SysTrayIconsManage to 0.6.0.0, fixing some textual issues, and added a Settings menu to allow switching the double-click action between Close and toggle Enabled.

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N.A.N.Y. 2016 / Re: NANY 2016 Release: SysTrayIconsManage

« Last post by Ath on January 05, 2016, 03:17 PM »

maybe it's there but because it's white, it can't be seen against the white background

-dr_andus (January 03, 2016, 03:22 PM)

Hm, I've developed and tested it on Windows 10, using the default black system-tray, so I'll put that on the TODO list.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Pasting enlarges image. Is there a fix?

« Last post by Ath on January 05, 2016, 09:03 AM »

Welcome to the site.

You should start by upgrading to the latest ScreenShotCaptor version (4.15.2) and see if your issue persists.