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General Software Discussion / Re: Data Disk recovery software

« Last post by Contro on October 11, 2016, 08:24 AM »

If the disk is not working well though, what you want is to be able to copy the contents as quickly as possible.
I'm not sure that these recovery programmes are a good idea if the disk is in poor condition:

would creating a sector by sector image of the whole drive be a good idea first ?
Then you can mess around all you like with different recovery programmes, if the HD dies, you have a copy.

Disclaimer: I have not made a sector by sector image of a drive. I think it should have everything on it though (see if other people confirm that).

-tomos (October 11, 2016, 05:14 AM)

Recuva Pro does
I think the disk is in good health. Is under guarantee too. I don't know what happen.
I have lost two hard disk by little moves during work and now I fear everything.
It's time to think about a NAS....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Data Disk recovery software

« Last post by Contro on October 11, 2016, 04:52 AM »

Recuva is good in my experience for image/video files:
haven't tried it with other file formats.

-tomos (October 11, 2016, 04:11 AM)

I tried photorec for images too.
The disk to recover is a data disk.
Most of the content are multimedia files. But include some pdf, docx, etc.
 

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General Software Discussion / Data Disk recovery software

« Last post by Contro on October 11, 2016, 03:04 AM »

I have an external seagate hard disk of  2 TB

Some days ago the unit don't go well and was not possible to read data.
I have used several utilities to check the disk with no errors and considerable usage of time.

I decided to format the unit and recover data after that

Now I can access the unit.

What are the best tools for this purpose ?

I remember testdisk and photorec to recover photos or images from flash drives.


Best Regards

Please only tested programs you have use in the past with good results.
I need the program to run under windows 8.1 or windows 7

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General Software Discussion / Re: ResizeEnable for windows 8.1

« Last post by Contro on October 11, 2016, 02:59 AM »

they can resize windows, but they have no window resizer.

The Resize state is turned on as soon as you start resizing a window with the mouse pointer opposing arrows cursor; i.e., hover the pointer over the border of the window until it turns into opposing arrows, then left-click on the window's border and (keeping the mouse button depressed) drag the border to its new size. Another way to resize a window is to activate its system menu and select there the Size command, then use the arrow keys to resize the window - finally pressing <Enter> to keep the selected size or <Esc> to cancel the changes. When you release the left mouse button or press one of the above-mentioned keys, Resize state is turned off. Actual Tools programs can automatically execute the following actions while resizing a window:

    Aero Snap - toggle the Aero Snap sizing effects.
    Make Transparent - set the specified transparency level. The previous transparency level will be restored when the Resize operation is completed.
    Restrict Placement - deny resizing a window so it goes beyond the defined limits.
    Snap - place the dragged window's border with no gaps to desktop borders and other windows.

$$ http://www.actualtools.com/products/comparison/

As a not so funny fact, my task manager has a window resizer included. But it's a $50 task manager, not a window resizer...

-Curt (October 10, 2016, 04:00 PM)

I'll take a good look Curt.
Best Regards

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General Software Discussion / Re: ResizeEnable for windows 8.1

« Last post by Contro on October 10, 2016, 02:20 PM »

Presume you mean this one:
http://www.digitalli...izeEnable/index.html

-tomos (October 10, 2016, 08:12 AM)

With the name of the program you can't lose your way and can see another interesting program in that page : SplashKiller.

 

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General Software Discussion / ResizeEnable for windows 8.1

« Last post by Contro on October 10, 2016, 02:23 AM »

this little application
http://www.digitallis.co.uk/

help me to see in a comfortable way almost any window. But in the windows 8.1 environment seems not go well.

Any alternative ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: An utility to kill certain processes when reinitiating or turning off the pc

« Last post by Contro on October 10, 2016, 12:14 AM »

Perhaps. I have the killprocesses.exe AHK script with an ini in this format :
[settings]
  NumberOfProcesses=2
  process1=winamp.exe
  process2=iexplore.exe

  SecondsBeforeKilling = 5

But then I will have to make another script to close the system...

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: An utility to kill certain processes when reinitiating or turning off the pc

« Last post by Contro on October 09, 2016, 05:57 PM »

Closing an application / a program on a smartphone:

How to close an app in Windows 8

Closing Windows:

I have found nothing for windows 8.1 safe.

-Contro (October 08, 2016, 11:34 AM)

By default, Windows 8.1 should be configured to start up and shutdown fast (you can confirm Fast Startup\Shutdown is enabled by scrolling down the System Settings box) but if it’s still not shutting down to your standards you can do a few things:

The fastest way to shutdown your computer, without pulling the plug, is to press the Windows Key + r and type: shutdown /s /t 0

- it's easy to make such a hotkey combination part of a shortcut:

Right click the desktop and go to New and choose Shortcut.

Enter this: C:\Windows\System32\shutdown.exe /s /t 0

The “/s” thing tells Windows to shutdown and the “/t” says wait 0 seconds in time to do it. In other words, do it now!

https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=10467.0

Just create a shortcut to force shutdown and your problem should be solved.

-Nighted (October 20, 2007, 08:15 AM)

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Modified:
Sorry, Contro, Now I have tried it myself on Win_10: The method will of course close Windows all right, but it didn't work with my Firefox, so there may easily be others it doesn't work with. :-(

-Curt (October 08, 2016, 12:10 PM)

I know this method.

But it's safe ?

Some programs is better wait certain time.

So I would like to control the process more accurately.

 

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General Software Discussion / An utility to kill certain processes when reinitiating or turning off the pc

« Last post by Contro on October 08, 2016, 11:34 AM »

I am with windows 8.1
I remember certain utilities or modifications in the windows registry to accelerate the time of closing the windows system.
I have found nothing for windows 8.1 safe.
I would like an utility to be executed automatically when reiniating or turning off the system to close apps of my election.

Do you know anyone ?

Best Regards

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:52 PM »

GridMove don't scale the window when move. So this is not confortable at all. Even because if you maximize you lose the grid.

I don't see the advantage.
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:43 PM »

Some programs like Goldmine have alarm windows that are not moved to the selected grid.....

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:36 PM »

I was searching my database to find the program I used to create sceneries : yLaunch2

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:33 PM »

Perhaps an answer may be :
Launch the scenery or bunch (group) of programs, files and folders associated to the work.
Then launch GridMove.
And like the program Fences have rules to assign a fence to a condition. With GridMove something of the sort. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:29 PM »

By example.
The script open the projects folder. And the folder opens in a predefined grid.
When I open the word file associated does in a predefined grid.
If we open autocad does in a grid predefined too.
With a little imagination you can mount sceneries to your needs.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:26 PM »

Some time ago I get scripts to launch a "program scenery" . Launch several files o folders with predefined programs.
So was I am expecting of GridMove is something like that.
Launch automatically several programs, files and folders and distribute in the grids.
In a few seconds I can have all the necessary tools for a work.

Another feature may be to open a program in a predefined grid.

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:19 PM »

In my case the Key "N" seems not work in any way. If I insist write the letter N in the active window

How do you get that feature.

The interesting thing with three monitors may be to have different patterns in each one.
By example :
one grid in the smaller one,
two grid in the middle one,
and four grid in the largest one.

 
Any experienced user to give a good advice ?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:14 PM »

Seems the more simple program.

-Contro (October 04, 2016, 06:22 AM)

I'd say GridMove is a not very simple application, so it might take some more time to get used to, and get the configuration just right.

-Ath (October 04, 2016, 07:25 AM)

I am trapped in configuring. Just after window+G hotkey.
I don't understand the instructions or help.

-Contro (October 04, 2016, 09:12 PM)

the way I use it is:

Win+G
=> you should see a grid with numbers overlaid on the screen
=> pressing a number will move the active window to that position
If you dont want the layout shown. pressing the 'N' key will move onto the next layout, press again for the next, and so on

If you want a layout that is not included, have a look at the gridmove section in the forum, you can add new layouts, or make your own.

Disclaimer, I've never used gridmove with multiple monitors

EDIT// this on Win.7 (see Ath's post below)

-tomos (October 05, 2016, 04:47 AM)

Owww I see your post now !!!!!!!!

In windows 8.1 i can mantain the hotkey win+g
In multiple monitors goes well.
If with the standard grid you see three portions, with three monitors you see the same rule repeated into the three monitors and subsequently nine portions or grids.
I have tried the way you tell and works fine for me too and so I don't need to put the cursor in the little window with two "-"
I have to put 04 because the program reserved a number to undo in each of the monitors.

So I have 1-Undo, 2,3,4,5-Undo, 6,7,8,9-Undo,10-11-12

I am beginning to feel more confortable with this....

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:06 PM »

I obtain the same grids in the three monitors i have.
In one of them  to the last right appear a little window with two -
Something like this :    - -
When I select that window and put by example 04 the active windows move to that grid.
In the rest of the method i am lost.
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 05, 2016, 09:03 PM »

GridMove's default hotkey Win-G isn't going to work on Windows 10 (and probably Win 8.x) as it has a different function predefined. (I tried that already and changed it to Win-W)

-Ath (October 05, 2016, 06:23 AM)

In windows 8.1 I think we can mantain the combination win+G with no problem.
It goes well in my case.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 04, 2016, 09:23 PM »

So I think i need software to divide the 52" monitor in four independant displays and make a lot of operations with this option.

-Contro (October 03, 2016, 08:43 PM)

can you describe in more detail what you mean by "a lot of operations" ?

And how independent do you want the displays to be ?

-tomos (October 04, 2016, 10:50 AM)

a lot of operations - configurable . Able to change windows, size. Able to configure one program or another to appear in that window.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 04, 2016, 09:13 PM »

So I think i need software to divide the 52" monitor in four independant displays and make a lot of operations with this option.

-Contro (October 03, 2016, 08:43 PM)

can you describe in more detail what you mean by "a lot of operations" ?

And how independent do you want the displays to be ?

-tomos (October 04, 2016, 10:50 AM)

Nothing special. Configurable. Better if easy to configurate. GridMove may be the answer, but I have problems with it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 04, 2016, 09:12 PM »

Seems the more simple program.

-Contro (October 04, 2016, 06:22 AM)

I'd say GridMove is a not very simple application, so it might take some more time to get used to, and get the configuration just right.

-Ath (October 04, 2016, 07:25 AM)

I am trapped in configuring. Just after window+G hotkey.
I don't understand the instructions or help.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 04, 2016, 06:22 AM »

I have problems with GridMove. Don't feel comfortable. I don't know why. Seems the more simple program. Any other alternative ?

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 04, 2016, 06:14 AM »

im a big fan of multiple monitors (2-4), but not huge monitors like you are talking.  27" is about as large as i would want, and i think there are diminishing returns after 3 or 4 monitors.

-mouser (October 04, 2016, 01:39 AM)

Yeap. That's because you don't have a huge monitor without use. I have now three extended monitors
http://www.acer.com/...t/model/UM.VG6AA.B02
is a 23"
second hand
http://www.lg.com/ca...g-L1718S-lcd-monitor
is a 17"
second hand
http://www.lg.com/es...lg-W2453V-PF-monitor
is a 24"
second hand
http://www.lg.com/uk...s/lg-42SL8000-lcd-tv
is a 42" (not connected)
second hand
I have another smaller than the LG Flatron L1918S. But sure goes well. Only VGA interface.

If I buy the graphic card VisionTek Radeon 7750 2GB GDDR5 6M (6x MiniDP) - 900614 perhaps I complicate my life.

With three monitors i am "almost" happy. Much better than one.

I agree with you than a 42" break the equilibrium....

I am trying to find an answer and perhaps the best I can do is a gift of that TV/monitor.

And even a gift of a Laser because i prefer to print in the copier service. Times are changing so fast....

 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Number of monitors (or virtual monitors) and productivity

« Last post by Contro on October 04, 2016, 02:56 AM »

You surely would need JGPaiva's GridMove to manage all the windows nicely on your large monitor.

You failed to mention what OS is on your system.
Seeing the specs it is a rather modern, top of the line, powerful PC, even though you stated it isn't .

-Ath (October 04, 2016, 01:35 AM)

Yes I fail. It's windows 8.1
Running to try JGPaiva