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General Software Discussion / Re: Replace Windows XP's Icons
« Last post by Nighted on October 10, 2007, 03:40 AM »
tomos, no....the Tango patcher is made using the XPize installer.

You don't need the XPize software unless you plan on creating your own package.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Replace Windows XP's Icons
« Last post by Nighted on October 10, 2007, 02:56 AM »
Or you could just create a patcher and replace every icon.

XPize Installer System

Here's an example using Tango.
128
Living Room / Re: Nasa to build gigantic roller coaster for astronauts
« Last post by Nighted on October 10, 2007, 02:47 AM »
Lucky bastards.  ;D
129
General Software Discussion / Re: kmplayer, whoa!!!
« Last post by Nighted on October 10, 2007, 02:43 AM »
Darwin, K-Lite doesn't include the QuickTime components anymore. But they are available as a separate download. I'm using QT Lite now and it's better than having the official QuickTime garbage bunging up the innards of your machine.
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General Software Discussion / Re: kmplayer, whoa!!!
« Last post by Nighted on October 09, 2007, 04:36 AM »
Old news for some folks, but worth repeating if you're having codec difficulties:

http://www.free-code..._Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

K-Lite is free, installs a fresh copy of MPC, and plays *everything* I've thrown at it, including QuickTime and Real media.  Once I found K-Lite I uninstalled Apple's QuickTime (who needs iTune support anyway?) and waved fond farewell to RealPlayer, middle finger firmly erect.
-Ralf Maximus (October 07, 2007, 01:08 PM)

heheh
131
General Software Discussion / Re: MP3Toys
« Last post by Nighted on October 09, 2007, 04:31 AM »
What's with the album covers all over the place? If I wanna see that I'll just spread my cd's all over the floor.
132
Post New Requests Here / Re: Create New (Customized) Folder Wanted
« Last post by Nighted on October 08, 2007, 07:28 PM »
Well, you only need two types of INI I suppose, one for portable folders, and another for those wanting to keep everything in a local cache.

Size shouldn't really be relevant. Anyone who'd want to use this can probably make their own icons and decide what resolutions they want to include, or download packages made by others.

If you really wanted to be finicky and go for the most efficient way to produce results without bloat, then storing the folder images in PNG format would be the way to go. Finding a small PNG to ICO converter is simple. But this now you would have to build the icon and create the folder first before moving it to the new location.

I added up 50 folders, with background images and a max icon resolution of 64x64px and it was only about 3MB. 3MB is nothing today and most XP users would be happy with this anyway. I think speed and simplicity is the most important factor.
133
Best Dialog Extender / Re: Enhanced File Dialog
« Last post by Nighted on October 07, 2007, 04:22 PM »
Direct Folders...Nooo.gif

Has anyone tried FlashFolder Tool? It's actually not bad.

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134
Living Room / Re: Do you archive/store your downloads (mainly install files)?
« Last post by Nighted on October 07, 2007, 12:40 PM »
x-rated...it means that they are naughty...bewbs etc...
135
Living Room / Re: Do you archive/store your downloads (mainly install files)?
« Last post by Nighted on October 07, 2007, 11:21 AM »
I picture is worth a thousand words....

Anyway, I don't leave raw executables sitting around on my drive. They are always archived. This give much more protection against damage in the event of a malicious virus.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Create New (Customized) Folder Wanted
« Last post by Nighted on October 07, 2007, 05:30 AM »
Excellent! I'm interested to see how you would implement this.
137
General Software Discussion / Re: kmplayer, whoa!!!
« Last post by Nighted on October 07, 2007, 05:25 AM »
Strange. I find MPC plays video flawlessly in comparison to KMPlayer.

Of course, that's in combination with ffdshow and the proper codecs.

KMPlayer is very nice though and has features I wish MPC had.... :-\
138
Post New Requests Here / Re: Create New (Customized) Folder Wanted
« Last post by Nighted on October 06, 2007, 10:10 PM »
Not really. If I wanted that, I'd use this.

I just want to create a new folder and have a default template instantly applied. This could be done be creating the folder and then applying the template, or by copying a folder already completed to the new location (much better).
139
General Software Discussion / Re: looking for hide show GROUPS of desktop icons app
« Last post by Nighted on October 04, 2007, 09:50 PM »
Hmmm...I'm not exactly sure what you are looking for exactly.

Iconoid is a program that can auto hide, sort and save positions of desktop icons.
140
Living Room / Re: Whats on your desktop?
« Last post by Nighted on October 04, 2007, 09:30 AM »
EHEHEHEHEHEHE
141
Post New Requests Here / Create New (Customized) Folder Wanted
« Last post by Nighted on October 03, 2007, 10:39 PM »
There are many programs out there that will let you colour a folder or apply a custom icon/background to it AFTER the folder has been created.

I'm looking for something that can do this on the fly, both from a right click context menu and a hotkey (like mdAxelerator for example).

So you could have it set to use a certain icon, background image, and comment and every new folder you create could look something like this:

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If would have to:
 1.) put a desktop.ini file in the newly created folder along with the icon and background image in a hidden folder. (This is useful when browsing such a folder holding images with a viewer that can't be set to avoid hidden files.)
 2.) be able to use any combination of background image, icon, or comment as the template.

If you could add other templates and be able to select from them, that would be even better!
142
General Software Discussion / Re: great resource to get 600x600 album art
« Last post by Nighted on October 03, 2007, 11:25 AM »
http://www.freecovers.net/
143
General Software Discussion / Re: Shareware that don't have freeware replacements
« Last post by Nighted on October 02, 2007, 04:07 AM »
Personally, I couldn't find a freeware replacement for SpinRite.
-[deXter] (October 02, 2007, 12:54 AM)
Snake Oil works just as well.
-f0dder (October 02, 2007, 03:38 AM)

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144
General Software Discussion / Re: Software for Starving Students
« Last post by Nighted on October 02, 2007, 02:50 AM »
IceBreaker is a pretty "cool" and addicting game! :P
 
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145
Living Room / Re: Bored to death and amusing myself with stupid program :)
« Last post by Nighted on October 01, 2007, 04:47 PM »
Well, no one got it...

The answer is "Computer"

:D
146
General Software Discussion / Re: How Can I Globally Rename the File Types in WinXP Pro (SP2)?
« Last post by Nighted on September 30, 2007, 09:03 PM »
tomos, this is probably what you are thinking of.

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147
General Software Discussion / Re: CDBurnerXP 4 released
« Last post by Nighted on September 28, 2007, 10:06 PM »
If you have no need for multi-session discs, then it's probably better to stick with ImgBurn...it's extremely reliable.
148
Living Room / Re: Bored to death and amusing myself with stupid program :)
« Last post by Nighted on September 28, 2007, 02:07 AM »
heheh, sweet!
149
General Software Discussion / Re: In need of "desktop icon folders"
« Last post by Nighted on September 27, 2007, 09:32 PM »
Well, that's all I could think of....unless you want to use a dock with somethink like KkMenu....

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General Software Discussion / Re: In need of "desktop icon folders"
« Last post by Nighted on September 27, 2007, 09:01 PM »
Closest thing I can think of that does this is QT TabBar.

AveDesk has some interesting features too....there may be some addon that can do this, but I'm not sure.

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Another View:

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