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1976

General Software Discussion / HomeFolder2

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 10, 2015, 05:12 PM »

Due to a new feature of the AHK WinGet function that returns the path of the program that owns a window I have released a different take on my HomeFolder utility called HomeFolder2.

Note: Because it is HomeFolder2 I set the version info at 2.0.0.0.
I don't expect it to need any updates.  


Aside from the about box, donate etc.. the main function amounts to this

[Select]

$+NumpadSub::
  WinGet,pPath,ProcessPath,A
    If (pPath)
    {
      n := InStr(pPath,"\",,0)
      StringLeft,sl,pPath,n
      Run %sl%
    }
  return

http://milesaheadsoftware.org

Compiled as 32 bit it seems to work well with windows owned by both 32 and 64 bit exes.  Lexicos does some magic inside ahk.  

Edit: for those not familiar with the first implementation of HomeFolder, the idea is if you want to go to the install folder of a program, activate its main window by clicking on it if it is not on top already, and hit the Shift Number Pad Minus key.  An Explorer window should open to that folder.  If the folder is already open in Explorer it may seem that nothing has happened.  It may depend if you have Folder settings to open Explorer folders in a separate process.  I use the same process so it only opens if it is not already up.

1977

Found Deals and Discounts / Process Lasso 8.1 Pro for Free

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 09, 2015, 02:53 PM »

GOTD Process Lasso 8.1 Pro for free.

I installed this one instead of just downloading since it was necessary for registration.  Looks like it has an interesting new memory optimization feature.

Edit: As of this post 11 hrs 11 min left to install it.

1978

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 09, 2015, 09:27 AM »

What would be worse is having W10 on the brain and only being able to turn off auto-updates by opening up your skull.  Maybe there will be a little door with a hinge.  The question then is do you use a key or a combination lock? 

-MilesAhead (June 09, 2015, 09:20 AM)

Both: Microsoft would have one and the government the other. You don't need to access your brain yourself.

-ayryq (June 09, 2015, 09:24 AM)

It may not be necessary but I do find it amusing quite often. 

1979

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 09, 2015, 09:20 AM »

Wouldn't it be terribly insulting if you had a brain implant that connected it to the internet and your brain didn't meet the requirements to update to Win 10.

-Arizona Hot (June 08, 2015, 10:12 PM)

What would be worse is having W10 on the brain and only being able to turn off auto-updates by opening up your skull.  Maybe there will be a little door with a hinge.  The question then is do you use a key or a combination lock? 

1980

General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 09, 2015, 05:42 AM »

ffacspy isn't an addon, but a stand-alone
to be used once, or at least seldom
- and it doesn't change your settings

-Curt (June 08, 2015, 05:50 PM)

Wise Disk Cleaner has similar features included.

1981

Living Room / Re: End of a good thing

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 08, 2015, 08:14 AM »

That's quite a dilemma! If purchase volume is limited by carrying capacity, the cost of the journey could cancel out potential savings.

-cranioscopical (June 07, 2015, 01:11 PM)

It is more costly in time and effort than cash.  I usually have a monthly pass for the Metro anyway.  But I do tend to go only when I need clothes I cannot get locally.  Walmart always has a pretty good selection of cargo shorts.  They are a must have in Miami.  You can buy them at local stores but most of them have the sewn on button.  Walmart has a good selection of those with a rivet as the main button.  No hassle with a button popping off after a few weeks.  Also cheap Levis.  Cheap T-shirts.

Also I get my luggage there.  Most of the downtown stores will net let you return defective luggage.  Walmart is very good about exchanging a bag if the handle or a wheel breaks etc..  With heavy daily use that saves me a lot of cash.  It's just the haul down there and swapping all my junk to the other bag etc..

I will be glad when the new store opens.  The train ride I estimate at 20 minutes.  I will not know how long the walk takes until I do it the first time.  Distance is deceptive when looking down from a train platform to an unfinished lot.  But at least it cuts out the bus ride.  I hate taking the bus big time. 

1982

Living Room / Re: End of a good thing

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 07, 2015, 10:14 AM »

You must live in one of the Vaults from the Fallout games. I thought everybody lived 20 minutes away from at least 2 Wal-Mart stores.

-Innuendo (June 07, 2015, 09:48 AM)

When I lived in the burbs that was the case.  Three within a 20 minute drive.  The one right in town they closed down.  But the next closest they expanded.  Especially the supermarket side was enlarged.  The same cart full of groceries that cost me $150 to $200 in Publix was $100 to $150 or so at Walmart.  I remember often one loaf of Arnold Farm House Bread was nearly $2 cheaper in Walmart.  Hamburg and that type of stuff I stayed with Publix.  But the name brand packaged food was fine.  Or they put their own label on it.  Breakstone Temptee Cream Cheese that was about $2.50 in Publix was Great Value Cream Cheese for $1.57 in Walmart.

They are nearly finished with a new one in the Miami area.  It is still quite a distance.  But it near a Metro Rail station.  It is the bus ride that is the killer.  I think the first avenue the bus route crosses is 77th Ave.  Walmart is on 154th Ave.  Quite a lot of "Stop requested.  For your safety do not cross in front of the bus." 


Plus one is limited how much one can purchase by what one can drag.  No storage kills off a lot of bargains. 

1983

Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 06, 2015, 02:53 PM »

I just started using chrome x64.  I found it is honoring the command line switch I used in chromium years ago.
 --renderer-process-limit=n   I have been playing around with the setting.  On my Laptop n=6 seems like the sweet spot.  But I found setting Fast Dial to never refresh the dial thumbnails seems to eliminate the lag I noticed.  With a setting of 6 as max renderers and 6 or 7 tabs open it seems to hover around 8 or 9 exe instances running.  With no switch it was around 11 or 12.

-MilesAhead (June 06, 2015, 01:56 PM)

hmm. I have 18 tabs open in Iron portable, and there are 24 instances shown in the taskmanager. Maybe I should give your suggestion a go and see what happens if I limit it *and* open lots of tabs :-)

-tomos (June 06, 2015, 02:41 PM)

It may be worth a stab.  If it doesn't support the switch it should just ignore it.  Or quit with an error thinking it is a typo. 

1984

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PowerISO 6.0 (100% Discount) - CD/DVD image file processing tool

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 06, 2015, 02:37 PM »

What manner of sorcery is this? Does this mean you have to buy it before you can get an installer not infested with malware & PUPS?

-Innuendo (June 06, 2015, 02:11 PM)

I would do a right click scan on the installer file with MBAM to be sure.  It showed pups on the download I had.  I had not encountered ones as nasty as conduit before or I would not have gone ahead with the install.

Then again even safer would be install with ToolWiz TimeFreeze activated.  It used to be possible to turn off TimeFreeze and keep the changes if you wanted.  I guess they ran into too many bugs doing it that way.  Now you have to reboot to turn it off meaning you have to install all over again.  Still you get an idea if the install and run is smooth before committing to the permanent variety.  Especially for free I find it a valuable tool.

1985

Living Room / End of a good thing

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 06, 2015, 02:06 PM »

I've come to the end of a good deal.  On some items Walmart would let you select the local FedEx Office Store as a Store Pickup with no shipping charges.  There is one about a mile from my "headquarters" if you want to call it that. 

It was great for getting small electronics stuff like mouse pads, optical mice, usb drives etc..

Now they have discontinued the policy.  I suppose there were too many people like me buying small items for it to be profitable.  It's a shame.  To get to a Walmart from here is about a 2 hour journey by train then bus.  That's to get to the bus stop.  It's another 10 minutes or so just to walk across the parking lot into the store.

Plus the bus stop benches are not covered.  It is definitely a fair weather only activity. 

It was fun while it lasted. 

1986

Living Room / Re: Interesting "stuff"

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 06, 2015, 01:56 PM »

I just started using chrome x64.  I found it is honoring the command line switch I used in chromium years ago.
 --renderer-process-limit=n   I have been playing around with the setting.  On my Laptop n=6 seems like the sweet spot.  But I found setting Fast Dial to never refresh the dial thumbnails seems to eliminate the lag I noticed.  With a setting of 6 as max renderers and 6 or 7 tabs open it seems to hover around 8 or 9 exe instances running.  With no switch it was around 11 or 12.

1987

General Software Discussion / Re: chrome browser exception list erratic

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 06, 2015, 09:24 AM »

It looks like vanilla cookies extension will do the trick.

btw it seems this build of chrome.exe is honoring the --renderer-process-limit command line switch.  I have --renderer-process-limit=4 at the end of the target line in the shortcut.  It seems to run 6 or 7 instances with 7 tabs open instead of 11 or 12.

1988

General Software Discussion / chrome browser exception list erratic

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 06, 2015, 07:51 AM »

I am trying to block tracking cookies in Chrome browser.  The suggested technique is to block all 3rd party cookies then add individual sites(as in where you have a logon account) to the exception list.  Unfortunately I can type in domains with no typo.  This time it will add it to the list, that time it won't.  It could take a really long time to do it this way.

Does anyone have a better approach?  There has got to be a way to avoid that broken edit box.

1989

General Software Discussion / Re: Vivaldi, the new Web browser for power users

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 05, 2015, 02:08 PM »

Speaking of Chrome.. I'm trying out the 64 bit version now.  Loading FastDial etc..

So far it seems fairly spiffy.

1990

General Software Discussion / Re: Anyone Using SlimBrowser?

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 05, 2015, 05:39 AM »

See my adventures with Request Policy.

So separate from active x, for me add-ons are the Thing for me on browsers. How would you deal without some brand of ad blockers?

-TaoPhoenix (June 04, 2015, 05:49 PM)

It has a bunch of plugins installed by default.  The list has check boxes to enable each item.
Of course if I have ToolWiz TimeFreeze enabled that takes the snap out of snappy response.  It may be fine for a desktop with a quad core.  But diverting everything to the shadow cache file bogs it on the Lappy.  It is fine for testing though.

1991

General Software Discussion / Anyone Using SlimBrowser?

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 04, 2015, 03:30 PM »

Anyone using SlimBrowser ?

I tried a few browsers today with ToolWiz TimeFreeze enabled so I could erase the magic slate by just rebooting.  I wonder if anyone has experience with and an opinion on SlimBrowser?  I liked that it seemed pretty snappy and didn't use gobs of memory.  I am leery of the fact it is IE based with multiple tabs sort of like MaxThon.  The other annoyance is it is set up with a bunch of commerce buttons such as eBay etc..

The buttons can easily be removed.  First thing it does when it cones up is ask where you want to import stuff from.  I selected Firefox and it populated the BookmarksBar with my folders without manual intervention.  I just had to delete the bookmark crap already in place.  It seems fairly sleek and snappy.  But I am paranoid about anything that can run ActiveX and BHOs.

So far in my quest for a light fast browser I seem to be stuck with K-Meleon.  It's not horrible.  Just lacks panache.  

I keep hoping to find something fast off the dime that still has a few features.

1992

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PowerISO 6.0 (100% Discount) - CD/DVD image file processing tool

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 03, 2015, 05:54 AM »

Speaking of install protection.. I found another good use for ToolWiz TimeFreeze.  I tunred it on, updated both Cyberfox and Firefox to 38.05.  Ran them awhile to make sure all was cool.  Reboot and do the updates for real. 

1993

Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 03, 2015, 05:50 AM »

http://crashworks.or...uages_were_vehicles/

-panzer (June 03, 2015, 03:39 AM)

Heh heh heh. 

1994

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 02, 2015, 01:48 PM »

Wasn't Windows 10 supposed to be free?  lol.

-superboyac (June 02, 2015, 01:34 PM)

I wouldn't worry too much.  Just leave your machine up and connected to the net overnights.  One morning 10 will just be there. 

1995

Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 02, 2015, 01:45 PM »

Ra and Buddha got to talking...

-TaoPhoenix (June 02, 2015, 01:39 PM)

Buddha may provide illumination.  But only Ra can give you a great tan. 

1996

Living Room / BB King

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 02, 2015, 08:05 AM »

I only got to hear him live once.  It was in the early 70s at the Sunset Series on the Boston Common.  There was a fenced in area with tarp on the chain link fence.  Those of us outside listening for free could see just a bit of the show between the sections of the tarp.  But the sound was great.  I had some great times at those concerts.

Jimi Hendrix was supposed to appear on one date.  But he cancelled.  In a classy move he sent a check for 25 large to cover the setup costs for his show.

Other groups I saw at the series included Weather Report, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Poco, Michael White, Maynard Ferguson.  Too many great nights to remember.

I don't believe any of the groups had an engineer "playing" tracks backstage.  All the music was performed live by artists like BB King who could make their instruments talk.

Too many talented musicians are passing away these days.

1997

Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 02, 2015, 07:28 AM »

(see attachment in previous post)
Internet pictures can hide code that leaves you open to hacks

The picture is silly, the subject isn't.

-Arizona Hot (June 01, 2015, 06:33 PM)

You mean clicking that image could be catastrophic? 

1998

Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 02, 2015, 07:26 AM »

There are two kinds of people in the world.  Those who live in a hemisphere named after Amerigo Vespucci and those who don't.

-MilesAhead (May 30, 2015, 06:06 AM)

And which hemisphere would that be? Northern, southern, eastern, or western?

-app103 (June 02, 2015, 05:55 AM)

A literalist in every crowd.   

 

1999

Found Deals and Discounts / Re: PowerISO 6.0 (100% Discount) - CD/DVD image file processing tool

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 02, 2015, 05:40 AM »

PowerISO...

Then I should have Googled (but was too lazy).  Now that I have, I remember: PowerISO is bundled with Conduit,

-mwb1100 (June 01, 2015, 05:58 PM)

The one from Windows Deal is fine.  I didn't think it through either.  I have ToolWiz TimeFree.  I should have activated that first if I wanted to check out what would happen during install.  One reboot and all the PUPs and everything else would disappear.  I'll have to remember next time. 

2000

General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by MilesAhead on June 01, 2015, 03:14 PM »

One thing I noticed on TenForums was a post about what you lose if you upgrade from W7.  The main item seemed to be Media Center.  If you have a Media Center edition of Windows that upgrades to W10, the Media Center is stripped out.  I don't want to duplicate all the TenForums News articles here so I'll just supply the link if anyone wants to check out the subforum.  Once W10 is released then the forum will switch into problem solving mode.

Windows Ten Forums - News