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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Upload tool for Jotti Virus/Malware Scan similar to VirusTotal's Uploader

« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:38 PM »

It sounded to me like you were using VirusTotal's Uploader, and closing the dialog box was an annoyance you wanted to avoid.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Warfare $3.99 @ Dirvect2Drive (80% off) Worth Buying

« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:33 PM »

Inflammation....the tanks turn into hemorrhoid guns.

-Innuendo (June 05, 2010, 12:58 PM)

I was going to say that makes the game sound a real PITA, but thought I'd better not in case cranioscopical turned up and out-punned everybody.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend deleter for files/directories with corrupted names?

« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:18 PM »

Tip for running console apps admin: open the start menu, type "cmd" into the search bar. Hit ctrl+shift+enter, instead of just enter, to launch cmd.exe elevated. From then on, any apps you start from the console will run elevated. FARR can do the same, btw

-f0dder (June 04, 2010, 05:16 PM)

Thanks!  That could be a really useful tip 

I only just realised how to make things run as Admin under Windows Explorer    Don't double-click the file, right-click it and choose from the context menu.  When you're in a near-panic it's easy to overlook the obvious.

Anyway, I guess you're using FAT filesystem on the USB drive, since it got that corrupted? If you mainly use the drive on a single machine, consider converting to NTFS.

I was going to say I use it on other machines as well.  Then I remembered it's my back-up HD that really only runs on my own machine, whereas I do occasionally use my USB sticks on others.  So I'll have to look into converting to NTFS next time I mount it.

Thanks again 

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Upload tool for Jotti Virus/Malware Scan similar to VirusTotal's Uploader

« Last post by rjbull on June 05, 2010, 03:06 PM »

If automatically clicking the close button on a dialog box is all you need, there are various tools to deal with it, e.g. ClickOff (freeware) and PTFB Pro.  The latter is payware, but you can find the last free version on 321download.com's Page 29.  If you're using a user account with UAC On, you may not get all features in the free ones, but PTFB Pro certainly works.  Other programs can do this too, e.g. PowerPro - PowerPro is free, but it's a whole way of life - or (I think) Macro Express which is an excellent payware macro program.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - ScreenshotCaptor -2.82.01 - June 1st, 2010

« Last post by rjbull on June 04, 2010, 03:23 PM »

mouser,

Can anybody replicate this?

I'm using Screenshot Captor v2.82.01 - June 1st, 2010 on Vista Home Premium with a user account, UAC On.  I've hit what seems to be a weird bug.  SSC locks up when I use Shift-PrtScr = Grab selected Region.  I make a screenshot, SSC makes its capture sound, and the New Screenshot window (at least I think that's its title - the buttons on the title bar obscure it) pops up.  At that point, SSC locks up and I have to forcibly terminate it.  I didn't try scrolling region or repeat last, but all the other methods seem OK.  This behaviour mostly happens if Shift-PrtScr is the FIRST capture.  That is, if I tried other methods first, it usually, but not always, works as expected; sometimes it locks up even if I have tried another capture method first.  I think Red Box mode may have a problem?  Something like this happened with the beta, but I think earlier versions were OK.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Per application keyboard remapper?

« Last post by rjbull on June 04, 2010, 02:01 PM »

I looked in AHK's Help for scan code, and found this in the Send / Send Raw (etc.) page:

{vkXX}
{scYYY}
{vkXXscYYY}
 Sends a keystroke that has virtual key XX and scan code YYY. For example: Send {vkFFsc159}. If the sc or vk portion is omitted, the most appropriate value is sent in its place.

The values for XX and YYY are hexadecimal and can usually be determined from the main window's View->Key history menu item.
 

Would this work better than the other method, assuming you know the scan codes you want?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Per application keyboard remapper?

« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2010, 04:17 PM »

I don't know for certain that this will work, only briefly tried it, but you could try HotKeyz remapper feature.  It would be a bit tedious to set it up, but...  As far as I can see, when you limit it to which windows to work with, it will only accept single items, i.e. recognises "TED" but not "TED Notepad."

You could also look at Comfort Keys.  I don't know if you can make it program-specific but you can load alternate key maps with a hotkey, which should be smooth enough.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Recommend deleter for files/directories with corrupted names?

« Last post by rjbull on June 03, 2010, 03:47 PM »

I briefly tried deleting from the command line, can't remember if I tried wildcards, and got a message about file name being too long.  But...  kudos to f0dder!     chkdsk did the job - eventually.  Basic "chkdsk" works, but as soon as I added a switch, "/f", it complained that I didn't have rights and it needed to be elevated.  I'm using Vista Home Premium from a user account with UAC On...  So I logged off, logged back on as administrator, tried again - only to find the same thing.     I can't remember exactly what I did then, but I copied chkdsk.exe to the root of the USB drive, fiddled about with its Properties to make it "Run as admin," and somewhere along the way it ran "chkdsk /f".  There's a thread similar to this elsewhere on DC, where Carol Haynes notes (from memory) that "chkdsk /x" would be more appropriate in these cases.  In fact my "chkdsk /f" instantly turned itself into "/x" because it said the drive had to be dismounted.  At last it ran, I accepted the defaults about changing to a file etc., and was able to delete the mess.  Windows didn't try very hard to make it easy, though.   

Along the way I learnt a few things.  I didn't know that USB devices have serial numbers, and can also have labels, and that SyncBack Pro can recognise either or both as a way of uniquely identifying a particular USB device, so you only run the right profile against it.  USB Safely Remove, which is on Bits du Jour again on Wednesday 9th June, can conveniently give USB devices permanent letters, i.e., as I understand it, a particular USB device is always recognised as "g:\" or whatever.  Presumably it too understands serial numbers.

I didn't try Unlocker because I thought that was mainly for deleting files that Windows thought were still in use, even where they weren't.  It's very useful for that situation, but this situation seemed different.

Thanks, folks!   

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General Software Discussion / Recommend deleter for files/directories with corrupted names?

« Last post by rjbull on June 01, 2010, 04:28 PM »

I have some files and directories/folders with badly corrupted names on my USB HD.  None of my three file managers can delete them.  Please can you recommend a tool that will?

Thanks...

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General Software Discussion / Re: print to PDF stationery / merge files?

« Last post by rjbull on May 30, 2010, 02:58 PM »

mouser's probably thinking of this feature of FinePrint:

Print electronic letterhead

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Developer's Corner / Re: wanted: windows command line executable to convert EOL CR<->CRLF

« Last post by rjbull on May 30, 2010, 02:50 PM »

CRLF from Horst Schaeffer's freeware collection PBATS - a 16-bit DOS program, but worked well for me on XP.  A quick check shows it appears to work well under Vista Home Premium as well.

CRLF 1.3 (c) Horst Schaeffer
Filter, makes CR+LF for lines terminated by CR or LF only
Options:
 /C     lines to be terminated by CR only
 /L     ... by LF only
 /T     cut trailing blanks
 /E[n]  remove empty lines [if more than n]

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Hotkey Organizer $13.33

« Last post by rjbull on May 28, 2010, 04:45 PM »

Curt,

Have you looked at any of these freeware/donationware hotkey programs?

• Clavier
• HoeKey
• HotKeyP
• HotKeyz

I only use a few hotkeys, but I've used HoeKey for years to supply them.  All of the above have GUI windows to show you the hotkey lists, including HoeKey, and all except HoeKey have GUI configurations.  The last two are probably the most powerful.  HotKeyP packs a lot of power into its small size, about 165K download.  HotKeyz is much bigger, but has the slickest interface.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to use Google to collect specific text snippets?

« Last post by rjbull on May 28, 2010, 04:07 PM »

I haven't tried it, but there are a few mentions on DC of Yahoo! Pipes, which might do what you want.  See, e.g., How to automatically collect posts from a forum (that match a criteria)?

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Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Clipboard Help+Spell finally gets hotkeys for groups and formatting presets

« Last post by rjbull on May 28, 2010, 04:02 PM »

do people feel like they need hotkeys for individual clips?

-mouser (May 28, 2010, 02:04 PM)

I doubt it's necessary, as presumably you could put "hot clips" into a special group, use a hotkey to pop up the group, and select from what would then be a shorter menu.

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Living Room / Re: What happened to my DC forum avatar?

« Last post by rjbull on May 26, 2010, 02:59 PM »

It reminded me of this incident, with the spellchecker in wBloggar. 

-app103 (May 26, 2010, 09:11 AM)

Years ago I went on a photographic holiday, and in the group was someone whose day job was air traffic control.  In a later e-mail I wrote to him, I wanted to write "copilot."  The spell checker suggested "copulate."  Later I wanted to refer to the slide transparency film "Velvia."  It offered "vulva."  At that point I hastily closed the application.  I've never seen a dumb object with such a one-track mind.

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Living Room / Re: What happened to my DC forum avatar?

« Last post by rjbull on May 26, 2010, 02:46 PM »

Oh, I don't know.  Aren't degrees of affection, as tested by a snogometer, measured in hertz?

-rjbull (May 24, 2010, 04:48 PM)

There's  some question about that, especially if the degree is only a third.

-cranioscopical (May 24, 2010, 06:57 PM)

Clearly, those would be the black hertz.

-rjbull (May 25, 2010, 04:22 PM)

Very good, can I buy you a bier?

-cranioscopical (May 25, 2010, 04:37 PM)

Thank you kindly, that would be Ales from the Crypt?

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Living Room / Re: What happened to my DC forum avatar?

« Last post by rjbull on May 25, 2010, 04:22 PM »

Oh, I don't know.  Aren't degrees of affection, as tested by a snogometer, measured in hertz?

-rjbull (May 24, 2010, 04:48 PM)

There's  some question about that, especially if the degree is only a third.

-cranioscopical (May 24, 2010, 06:57 PM)

Clearly, those would be the black hertz.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Address Book/Reminder program

« Last post by rjbull on May 24, 2010, 05:20 PM »

Maybe Notefrog?  But you need the latest 1.6, and the download only seems to be 1.5.3 at present.

[Edit] 2010-05-25: May have just been me, or maybe the installer isn't perfect.  I uninstalled completely, using Total Uninstall, started over, and now I have 1.6 working.[/Edit]

It's $19.95, including all version 1 upgrades.

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Living Room / Re: What happened to my DC forum avatar?

« Last post by rjbull on May 24, 2010, 04:48 PM »

Another cutting remark!

-cranioscopical (May 24, 2010, 10:09 AM)

Oh, I don't know.  Aren't degrees of affection, as tested by a snogometer, measured in hertz?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows shortcut hotkeys broken?

« Last post by rjbull on May 24, 2010, 08:45 AM »

Well, I'm glad it's not just me!    Thanks for the moral support 

@lanux128:  I think I've seen that behaviour, but even with a shortcut to something on the desktop, it seemed slow, so I abandoned native Windows hotkeys in favour of Hoekey.

@sajman99:  I'm using O-A 4.0.0.15.  Both Hoekey and PopSel were Allowed under Configuration > Programs.  You mean, put them in tab Options > Exclusions?  I'll try that; thanks, sounds like it should help.

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Living Room / Re: What happened to my DC forum avatar?

« Last post by rjbull on May 23, 2010, 04:26 PM »

Aren't you both going off at a tangent?

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General Software Discussion / Windows shortcut hotkeys broken?

« Last post by rjbull on May 23, 2010, 04:22 PM »

If you make a shortcut, then click on Properties, you get a window with several tabs.  The Shortcut tab lets you set a "Shortcut key" hotkey to activate the program.

These hotkeys don't work for me.

I checked with Nir Sofer's ShortcutsMan shortcuts manager, which reported the hotkey set, but pressing the hotkey didn't activate the program.  Nothing happened, though sometimes the foreground application would lose focus.

Do other people have problems with this, and is there a cure?  I'm running Vista Home Premium with UAC On, and routinely a User Account rather than an Admin one.

This problem has got worse recently.  Because I couldn't get hotkeys to work natively I use Hoekey to supply them instead.  This works.  However, I also run Online Armor Firewall.  Until recently I ran with HIPS Off, and things were as acceptable as they ever are with Windows.  I just turned HIPS On, and now it takes ages for the hotkey to operate.  This is particularly important because I mostly use Horst Schaeffer's PopSel to launch programs and use a Hoekey hotkey to pop up the menu, so loading programs is currently maddeningly slow.

I just posted a query about HIPS slowing things down in the Online Armor forum, but can anyone shed any light on the non-performance of the native WIndows hotkey feature?

Thanks...

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Macro Express - MiniReview

« Last post by rjbull on May 23, 2010, 12:06 PM »

I just re-read this thread, following cranioscopical's post here: Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

Just wanted to add: last August (2009) I asked Insight Software if they had plans to make a portable USB version of Macro Express.  They replied they had a portable version under active consideration, but were short of time, and couldn't give a definite time frame for when it would be available.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: "PazzPort Helper"

« Last post by rjbull on May 23, 2010, 11:43 AM »

Any other important/common ones to consider?

-Onesimus Prime (May 23, 2010, 10:31 AM)

F10 usually activates the menus.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ATNSOFT Key Manager, Key Remapper, Text Paster - 30% Discount Coupon Code

« Last post by rjbull on May 20, 2010, 03:19 PM »

I find that Macro Express makes creating hot keys simple.

-cranioscopical (May 19, 2010, 03:34 PM)

I have a license for Macro Express, and used it a bit at work.  It seems a good program, but often seemed too heavy-duty, somehow.  There's clearly a lot of complexity, which can be intimidating, even if you don't intend to use much of it.  Nudone's first post in this thread (the OP was about ATNSOFT) seemed to call for a lighter-weight and perhaps more focussed application.  Also, Macro Express is payware - I'm not saying it isn't worth the price, I think it is, but free is a particularly good price.

For free, there's still Anthony Mathews' Macro Maker, but I think it can only store its macros in the Registry.  Also, the author notes that there's a problem setting system hooks to create macro recordings under Vista, just as there is with HotKeyz, so it looks like Microsoft's security model has well and truly screwed up convenience and productivity.