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General Software Discussion / Re: The art of finding

« Last post by Ath on July 12, 2014, 04:59 AM »

How about http://www.google.com/advanced_search ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reindexing in the background software for databases

« Last post by Ath on July 11, 2014, 11:29 AM »

I download the dbu.exe utility, but goes well under xp 32 bit, but not in w7 64 bits. What am i doing bad ?

-Contro (June 15, 1974, 01:26 AM)

16 bit executables can't run on 64 bit Windows, because MS didn't that feature in Win x64.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reindexing in the background software for databases

« Last post by Ath on July 09, 2014, 02:00 PM »

There are, obviously, 2 types of indexing discussed in this thread: database indexes, and application independent textsearch indexes. The OP is imho meant to point at the latter, so for this request, dtsearch could be a viable solution. It supports a whole bunch of file-types, including dbf files, and can be found at http://dtsearch.com (payware, no affiliation, found using a google search)

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General Software Discussion / Re: record screen

« Last post by Ath on July 08, 2014, 02:54 PM »

Have you tried mouser's Easy Screencast Recorder yet?

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General Software Discussion / Re: which forums you use for PC troubleshooting?

« Last post by Ath on July 08, 2014, 02:43 PM »

How about the DC forum (as in: Right here, where you are looking at) ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: which forums you use for PC troubleshooting?

« Last post by Ath on July 08, 2014, 02:42 PM »

 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: free galileo board from MS

« Last post by Ath on July 08, 2014, 01:37 AM »

They might start twisting my arm once I receive the board, but until now there's no persuasion in any direction other than to start develop anything with it

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Ath on July 05, 2014, 11:57 AM »

Hm, tested here on W7/x64 with Aero theme, and it updates the numbers in the tray every time I change in my list of ~6 locations. Can this be related to having just 2 locations in the list ? (the off-by-1 anomaly)

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Developer's Corner / Re: searching the web (in particular, Amazon.com) from c# program

« Last post by Ath on July 04, 2014, 12:19 PM »

Isn't that wat mouser designed and made Web Link Captor for?

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Developer's Corner / Re: friend can't run progs made with .net 4.5 on his XP machine

« Last post by Ath on July 04, 2014, 01:24 AM »

.Net 2.0, 3.x (avoid using that version btw) and 4.x can happily coexist on a single system. When installing 4.5 on a system where 4.0 already exists, it will be upgraded to 4.5. (Win Vista and later, as said above)
.Net 4.5 is fully backward compatible down to 2.0, except for the new/improved features and, hopefully, for all the bugs in these previous versions

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General Software Discussion / Re: Reindexing in the background software for databases

« Last post by Ath on July 02, 2014, 10:59 AM »

I would like an application to reindex continually in the background even when these databases are in use

-Contro (July 02, 2014, 09:33 AM)

2 remarks:
- Properly programmed applications (using .dbf files) don't need that
- Most applications don't allow their active (database) files to be changed, during normal operation

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Skwire Empire / Re: Release: sWeather (tray-based weather app)

« Last post by Ath on July 02, 2014, 02:41 AM »

    ! Fixed missing "na.ico" file in the Fat Cow tray condition theme.
      (Thanks, Brothbeard)

-skwire (July 02, 2014, 01:43 AM)

I recall to have seen other themes with missing .ico files in the past (add-on I can't recall where I got them from, presumably this or another sWeather thread) and I just stopped using them .
Could adding idiot-proof errorhandling to the routine that shows the icons be helpful as being a more generic solution?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on June 30, 2014, 01:29 AM »

Ha, caught that one too, but didn't get to posting it yet.
 

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Software that captures every single keystroke and sends it to a specific window.

« Last post by Ath on June 28, 2014, 06:12 AM »

That kind of tool is called a keylogger, and it is usually found to be harmful by most antivirus scanners, and undesired by most computer users.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Product Key finder needed

« Last post by Ath on June 28, 2014, 06:05 AM »

Or Nir Sofer's MS Productkey viewer: http://www.nirsoft.n...t_cd_key_viewer.html but I'm not sure it supports Office 2013.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help confirming IE bug

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2014, 02:58 PM »

other lowercase letters i tested,

-mouser (June 16, 2014, 02:54 PM)

Maybe you would need to switch to that IE install...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Need help confirming IE bug

« Last post by Ath on June 16, 2014, 01:25 PM »

Tried with IE 10.0.16 (10.0.9200.16899) on Windows 7 x64 (I try to avoid using IE), and have not seen what you report even once. Used with compatibility mode enabled and disabled. It just was copied correctly without any modification for all ~50 times I tried.

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Non-Windows Software / Re: uninstall seems deletion in Android

« Last post by Ath on June 15, 2014, 04:17 PM »

In that case I'd question the quality (or in fact the lack of quality) of the alternative app: If it won't cooperate with one of the standard Android/Google apps, it's not designed or developed correctly, and should not be used. If it makes your phone/tablet unstable or unreliable that app is buggy and should be removed asap!

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Non-Windows Software / Re: uninstall seems deletion in Android

« Last post by Ath on June 15, 2014, 01:54 PM »

Please explain 'conflictive version', what conflict or what version?

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by Ath on June 15, 2014, 06:47 AM »

Someone or something gave me an innuendo that we have another winner here:



Innuendo at 1900

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Finished Programs / Re: [SOLVED] Ctrl+Alt+Del

« Last post by Ath on June 10, 2014, 02:32 PM »

The Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination is caught at a very low level of Windows, and can't be caught without installing a specialized keyboard handler/driver, AFAIK.
Ctrl-Esc is a feature of Explorer.exe (AFAIR), and is also quite hard to intercept. Dunno about any AHK code for that, but I'm no AHK coder

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Living Room / Re: WinXP is officially dead!

« Last post by Ath on June 10, 2014, 12:16 PM »

From some point of time in the month of July  Java will no longer support XP.

-Curt (June 10, 2014, 11:43 AM)

Got any documentation on that? Java 8 already doesn't support XP, I know that, but I haven't seen any annoucement about older versions, other than Java 7 going EOL from July 15th.  (Yeah, I've been watching Oracle quite closely for Java releases)

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Image Append - Batch

« Last post by Ath on June 02, 2014, 10:29 AM »

I know that RealWorld Paint, by DC member Vlastmil, has batch/scripting options, (though I never used them), you could have a look at this free proggy 

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Screenshot Captor / Re: PrtSc key does not work on Lenovo W530 laptop

« Last post by Ath on May 26, 2014, 03:35 PM »

Let's first ask a silly question:
Is the ScreenShot Captor icon (white letters sc on a blue computer-monitor) visible in the system-tray? And can you right-click it to execute a capture option like 'Grab entire Workspace' or 'Grab entire Screen (PrtScr)' ?

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Living Room / Re: Programmers: What size monitors do you guys prefer?

« Last post by Ath on May 23, 2014, 06:03 AM »

I tried to find a 4K 'rated' TV/Monitor like this one, locally, but the 'smallest' I found so far are 55". And Amazon doesn't ship this cutie to EU

@Deozaan:
I am a bit worried about the refresh/flickering at 30 Hz; is that in any way noticeable? I can be quite tiring if the screen is flickering, even when hardly noticeable.
Though technically our 50 Hz AC frequency shouldn't interfere in any way with the 30 Hz of the screen, I'm not convinced until it's actually tested and proven