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General Software Discussion / Re: Anger Management: living with Windows XP + lot of software

« Last post by justice on August 29, 2007, 05:49 AM »

I have definately done away with registry cleanners, I was still using Crap cleaner to clean temporary files etc but I guess that will have to stop. I thought i could trust windows build in tools but I guess not as they will restore from my Windows XP SP2 cd so the files would be out of date and cause conflicts?

Anyway I heard some good things about AVS, so I will give that a try, and also try Acronis Trueimage, maybe split up my os drive in two partition as it is the biggest. That way I could reinstall windows without affecting the data on the other partition.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Check&Get support blows chunks

« Last post by justice on August 29, 2007, 03:54 AM »

It's summer-time, maybe the developer is on holiday at the moment?

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Living Room / Re: How do you organise your 'My Documents' folder

« Last post by justice on August 29, 2007, 03:24 AM »

I've mapped that folder to a drive letter, so I don't have to dig through folders to find my docs.

-stylecrime (August 28, 2007, 08:15 PM)

Ahh that's a good tip, never considered that. There are benefits with My documents, but mostly for me they come down to explorer integration. Assigning a drive letter and maybe editing the places bar with Tweak UI should sort that out.

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General Software Discussion / Anger Management: living with Windows XP + lot of software

« Last post by justice on August 29, 2007, 03:17 AM »

For some reason I always manage to cause problems in my windows xp installation. Last night i noticed msconfig couldn't be run and the Help and Support service wasn't running and not in the services list. I suspect an third party installation utility to have removed too mayn things.

Short story:
with all the different software out & the underlying OS not protecting itself properly, how can I use all my software and software installs conveniently without problems appearing.

Long story:
So as a precaution I ran the system file checker (sfc /scannow). Afterwards, I recommend never to do this! It replaced a series of files - After a reboot I got a blue stop error. Booting into last known good mode turned out to boot into the middle of a daemon tools install and therefore broke a system level device driver Daemon Tools installs (sptd.sys).
I couldn't boot into normal mode, and as system restore was off (can't remember doing that) I couldn't fix it. Now see short story.

Options I've thought of:

• Buy a big additional /external harddisk + Acronis Trueimage and make weekly images.
  Problem with this is that when I find out that there's problems it will be a pain to revert to  an identical installation without problems.
• Bare XP install + Using a virtual PC to use most of my software with.
  It's an inconvenience, and it wn't work for games + movies due to no video accelleration (and more). Booting up two oses is a defeatist attitude.
• Bare XP + Altitis AVS virtualising all apps.
  Still makes installs inconvenient, but should theoretically keep XP clean, and enable software packages on demand. Unknown how this works with software updates such as Adobe's updater, and startup items.. Also I don't know if this works with games? (does it affect performance). No experience.
• Don't install as much software.
  I'm too curious - and what use is an OS that you shouldn't use software with?
• Move to different OS(x)/Linux --
  Either too expensive at this time or will cause just as much time fiddling to get thigs set up + vmware to run certain programs.
• Some magic idea you know of that I have not come across.
  Please tell.

So sorry for this long post but this issue has been annoying me since 2001. Any tips on living with Windows XP + a lot of software would be appreciated!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Appget - user-run software update program

« Last post by justice on August 28, 2007, 10:35 AM »

I agree and uninstalled that too but they're looking for feedback so it might be worth sending feedback.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Turning Windows 2003 Server into a workstation?

« Last post by justice on August 28, 2007, 10:34 AM »

I agree with your sentiments lol there's not enough alternatives on the desktop, I don't think MS wants to compete even more with itself.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Turning Windows 2003 Server into a workstation?

« Last post by justice on August 28, 2007, 06:49 AM »

win2k3 is also optimized for server scenarios (see codinghorror's 64-bit desktop vs 64-bit server). If you have already made the decision however, it's just an interested article and I can't help you further lol

Not sure if it would support DirectX either in case you play movies / play games. and the driver issues you mentioned.

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Living Room / Re: I wanna hurt this guy!

« Last post by justice on August 28, 2007, 06:09 AM »

SpamBayes (already mentioned) or Robin Keir's excellent K9 would mark the mail as spam because of the content not because of its receipient.

To avoid any infection you can run Outlook Express as a regular user even though you're administrator. See http://Dropmyrights

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Older Newsletters / Re: Newsletter for August 27 - Codename "Mouser reinvents the wheel"

« Last post by justice on August 28, 2007, 04:19 AM »

Great job once again! regarding encouragements:
Maybe they're interested in your program but are not specific software affenuendo's..
Or try and make another point of saying that developmetns are userdriven with a link to suggestion threads?

You'd think they'd be interested in the program they're using. Can you check how many people have logged into the forum during the last 6 months for example? It might show how many active members you have which might be a better stat.

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Living Room / Site mirroring

« Last post by justice on August 26, 2007, 12:30 PM »

Am looking for a free site mirror tool because there are some wikis such as lslwiki.net that are not always available and if they are they're slow

So i thought a local copy would be a lot better idea. I've used HTTrack in the past and there's too many options: i can never get it to work what i want to do: just download the site without any files from other domains.

It doesn't need to do it quick, just simple and that it works. Any suggestions?

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General Software Discussion / Re: [IDEA] recode intellicomplete, make it publicly available

« Last post by justice on August 25, 2007, 01:38 PM »

I found an autocomplete script on the AHK forums that can be adapted to save a lot of work:
link here
and another one.

I couldn't get the second one to work, it suggested words but couldn't get it to complete. It wouldn't take much work to record all words after a space is pressed and /or add ignored words.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [IDEA] recode intellicomplete, make it publicly available

« Last post by justice on August 25, 2007, 01:17 PM »

I have suggested to Direct Access to watch and suggest keywords for phrases often types by users.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [IDEA] recode intellicomplete, make it publicly available

« Last post by justice on August 25, 2007, 10:14 AM »

I'd be interested in that as well..

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General Software Discussion / Re: Sumo: Software to Detect Updates to Your Installed Programs

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 03:44 PM »

Oh my, that's a direct competitor to Appget.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Problem with coding on site

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 10:45 AM »

on line 35 of said page, you are using a function that's meant for arrays. array("a","b","c"); Either you're passing that function a string, or you're not passing anything at all because the array is empty.

If its not your code then the person who made it has not put in enough error checking. You should get support from that person.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BufferZone and other virtual machine like safe program executors

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 10:08 AM »

You should try some of the tools listed at http://nonadmin.editme.com/UsefulTools
for example DropMyRights can run applications as Limited User.
Not the same as sandbox, but using limited and restricted windows account spyware can't infect either.

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Living Room / Re: Anywhere.FM: Upload your entire music collection - play it anywhere

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 08:40 AM »

I mean recommendations for music I don't have yet.
release notes are in the forums

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General Software Discussion / Re: IBM Lenovo T61 Thinkpad - a standard SATA harddisk cannot be used ? Is this true

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 06:10 AM »

Thanks Justice for the heads up on DriveImage XML. I will also check it out.

If you have Acronis you probably don't need DriveImage. Good luck.

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General Software Discussion / Re: IBM Lenovo T61 Thinkpad - a standard SATA harddisk cannot be used ? Is this true

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 05:18 AM »

Because I don't know about Lenovo harddisks, but in case you need a plan b: DriveImage Xml, create a full image of the vista system, back it up somewhere, then put xp on it.

DriveImage XML is free and should allow you to restore it on the drive.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Some HomeSite Replacement Help?

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 03:11 AM »

Topstyle 5.3 beta 3 is available using google.

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Living Room / Re: "Content-Aware Image Resizing!! OMG!!!!!!!".. Calm down: it's useless

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 03:01 AM »

I think they should focus on auto-crop video if that isn't what they're doing. By comparing multiple frames you can keep focus on a subject. But I'm sure that's already done by speed camera software.

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Living Room / Re: Anywhere.FM: Upload your entire music collection - play it anywhere

« Last post by justice on August 24, 2007, 03:00 AM »

The fact that musicip comes up seems to suggest we'd like to see recommendation facilities for MusicIP.

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General Software Discussion / Re: musicIP (as a player): wow

« Last post by justice on August 23, 2007, 04:33 PM »

http://www.musicip.com/mixer/index.jsp version 1.8 is available.

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Living Room / Re: Anywhere.FM: Upload your entire music collection - play it anywhere

« Last post by justice on August 23, 2007, 04:32 PM »

http://www.musicip.com/mixer/index.jsp version 1.8 is available.

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Living Room / Anywhere.FM: Upload your entire music collection - play it anywhere

« Last post by justice on August 23, 2007, 10:11 AM »

Found this site via stumbleupon..

Right can someone explain how it's allowed to make something like this and have it funded? I can't find anything on the website about the legality of the project, but its creators seem to be ex Amazon and Microsoft. It doesn't look bad, although I don't need it - maybe you do:

Anywhere.FM is a powerful music player that makes it easy to:
  ·  Upload your entire music collection
  ·  Play it anywhere on the best web music player
  ·  Discover new music through Friend Radio

Is there a limit to how many songs I can upload?

Currently in beta we do not enforce a limit to how many songs you can upload. So knock yourselves out In the future, we may institute a storage limit or charge for premium storage.

http://www.anywhere.fm/player/