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1976

Screenshot Captor / Re: My experiences with Screenshot Captor

« Last post by Ath on October 04, 2012, 01:44 AM »

(it was a dos window: SC captured it 2 times and placed them (as looking in a vertical mirror) side by side)

-robbero (October 04, 2012, 01:38 AM)

Was that a standard Command Prompt window or a different command processor, like 4Dos and it's cousins? And with or w/o Administrator privileges?

1977

General Software Discussion / Re: Cool New Malware/Spyware ;)

« Last post by Ath on October 03, 2012, 08:38 AM »

... and everyone starts spying on their "friends"?

-nudone (October 03, 2012, 08:21 AM)

Why bother if "everyone" is dumping their entire life on Facebook?

1978

Screenshot Captor / Re: Scrolling capture wonderfulness

« Last post by Ath on October 02, 2012, 05:35 PM »

Mouser to the rescue

1979

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

« Last post by Ath on October 02, 2012, 05:24 AM »

This Awesome person probably guessed what his user-id was going to be:



Awesome!

1980

General Software Discussion / Re: Program restarts, hibernations and shut downs software

« Last post by Ath on October 02, 2012, 04:44 AM »

What would you be using this for?

1981

Coding Snacks / Re: Single click focus, double click bring to front

« Last post by Ath on October 01, 2012, 05:12 PM »

For what purpose do you want the Window to get focus? Mouse-wheel scrolling ?

1982

Find And Run Robot / Re: Search Result Context Menu Item and Underlining

« Last post by Ath on October 01, 2012, 05:02 AM »

Isn't that directly related to the feature of not underlining the menu-trigger letters by default? Unless that menu is triggered by a keyboard event, that is, and it can be set to always show, but with quite different procedures depending in the Windows version (XP, 7).

1983

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: sort of launcher for command lines with parameter in a pre-defined place

« Last post by Ath on September 29, 2012, 09:26 AM »

Hm, it's not too difficult to add these features to WinButtons.
I'll use the variables it already supports, adding some options there, to show a parameter window-section like you sketched.
I can create a Quick button editor, with just the most standard fields, and the Confirmation option isn't that much work too.

1984

Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: sort of launcher for command lines with parameter in a pre-defined place

« Last post by Ath on September 29, 2012, 03:21 AM »

How about WinButtons?

The UI for editing the button actions may not be super, but IMHO it's usable.
If you have any feature requests, just throw 'm in

1985

General Software Discussion / Re: Antivirus-less setup

« Last post by Ath on September 28, 2012, 03:09 AM »

There was a meme at one point that a Windows Box "busy patching" with no AV would get hacked in a matter of hours

-TaoPhoenix (September 28, 2012, 02:50 AM)

That was for Windows XP without any service pack or update applied. And it would be infected within 18 minutes, on average

1986

General Software Discussion / Re: Want to send a Batch file - but gmail & prob AV dont...

« Last post by Ath on September 27, 2012, 05:54 AM »

Just hit Win+R and type the one line command in the box, and click OK.

-app103 (September 27, 2012, 05:32 AM)

Sidenote: Disadvantage of that, is that the output isn't visible anymore after the command completes, might you need that.

1987

Find And Run Robot / Re: Include Windows 7 Start Button Search Results in FARR?

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2012, 07:31 AM »

I need a list of the GUIDs in order to begin this process.

-Josh (September 26, 2012, 07:04 AM)

This list? : http://msdn.microsof...41%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

1988

General Software Discussion / Re: Want to send a Batch file - but gmail & prob AV dont...

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2012, 01:28 AM »

Passing a script like .bat, .cmd or .sh as an attachment is most easily done by renaming to .txt (or .log), like originally mentioned. Best is to replace the original file extension, and instruct the recipient to save and rename the file. If they don't know how to handle that, then you've probably addressed the wrong person...
Anticipating on what an AV would catch is a waste of time, you won't know until you've tried.

1989

General Software Discussion / Re: Help! How do I Convert .SCR Screensaver to and EXE Installer for Windows?

« Last post by Ath on September 26, 2012, 01:22 AM »

Packaging something executable like a screensaver into a setup is a perfect job for Inno Setup, (or NSIS if you want a little more difficult scripting). Both are Windows-only. But then the .scr file is also Windows-only
Putting an .scr file into the Windows system directories has some caveats, but it's not too difficult. Read the (on-line) docs and ask any questions in the newsgroups.

1990

Developer's Corner / Re: WiX Installer - not really a review

« Last post by Ath on September 23, 2012, 10:08 AM »

Again, the need to put the files in manually is incredibly mind numbing and I'm surprised there's not a VS extension to take that pain away.

-wraith808 (September 23, 2012, 10:02 AM)

+1

The documentation mentions this as one of the strong features of WiX, 'full developer control', but it also kind of means that the developer has to be the one developing the installer, while he's adding modules & files to the project, and that is one thing I surely won't leave as a responsibility for the development team I have to work with atm,...

1991

Developer's Corner / Re: WiX Installer - not really a review

« Last post by Ath on September 23, 2012, 09:47 AM »

Is there any compelling reason to use it over Inno Setup or the VS setup project?

-Renegade (September 23, 2012, 12:15 AM)

That's easy, don't ever use VS setup project! It's so stupid, that an update requires you to un-install before you can update. And the lack of control that wraith808 mentions.

Inno Setup is a good choice for anything that's either created with VS or not with VS, if you work in VS exclusively, then WiX is a good alternative to Inno Setup (but I'm a bit biased about Inno Setup as I've been using that for 13 years now...)

There is a VS plugin for Inno Setup (or used to be, not sure and not really interested), as I use one of the 3rd party IDE's for all my Inno Setup projects.

1992

Developer's Corner / Re: change page size for default printer

« Last post by Ath on September 22, 2012, 12:10 PM »

This seems to be kind of a difficult setting not many people use anymore, so thats probably why Microsoft hid it a bit

Others have had the same issues, and on this page is a short but complete description of how to set a custom papersize as a printer's default: http://www.zan1011.com/paper.htm
Tried it with a freshly installed LX300+ II driver (Win7), and the new format showed up in the list of available Paper sizes, after I pressed the 'Advanced...' button of the 'Printing preferences...' of that printer.
I'd set the driver's 'Paper Source' to Tractor (and use the tractor-feed if possible), so tearing off the sheet doesn't move the beginning of the next page.

Don't have the hardware, so I can't try if it actually works, and you probably need to tweak the minimum margins to get all output on the paper, but that's just fine-tuning

1993

Clipboard Help+Spell / Re: Remote Desktop / mstsc / rdpclip Woes

« Last post by Ath on September 21, 2012, 01:24 AM »

Would it help if you used an alternative RDP Client, like Terminals ?

1994

Developer's Corner / Re: A Bonehead Programming "Bug"

« Last post by Ath on September 20, 2012, 04:05 AM »

  Need more coffee (or other stimulants) ?

1995

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

« Last post by Ath on September 13, 2012, 01:09 PM »

Josh's bug - frozen in time
... and his 3,000th post

-tomos (September 13, 2012, 01:03 PM)

@tomos
Great that you caught Josh in action

@rgdot
Keep up the good work!

1996

General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox 15 less of a memory hog

« Last post by Ath on September 12, 2012, 05:45 AM »

+1, sometimes there seem to be some parts of the text moving/wiggling and not scrolling, other parts of the text then do not move/wiggle; if the mouse is moved to another area of the page the scroll function returns.
I'm using WaterFox 15, so it seems like a common FireFox 15 issue as both are built from the same codebase

1997

Screenshot Captor / Re: Copy image as JPG to clipboard

« Last post by Ath on September 12, 2012, 05:40 AM »

That is quite easy:
- Open Preferences
- On the page 'Image File Format' you can select JPG (if you want jaggies in your screenshots) or PNG (for very nice and compact screenshots)
- On the page 'Post-Capture Options' you can select 'Post Capture - Actions' / 'Copy Image to Clipboard', and set other options to your wishes

1998

ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Request - Start as a service

« Last post by Ath on September 11, 2012, 02:55 PM »

Assuming Windows Vista or 7, you can add a Scheduled task (wizard in Control Panel/Administrative tools) to run at Log on, and specify the program to run. That should avoid the daily UAC prompt.

1999

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

« Last post by Ath on September 05, 2012, 02:03 AM »

      Worked around a proxy issue regarding the location time and update check
      functionalities.  (Thanks, Ath)

-skwire (September 04, 2012, 04:48 PM)

These issues are fixed now, at both my regular, proxy-'protected', locations

2000

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

« Last post by Ath on September 04, 2012, 02:28 AM »

Hm, this might be proxy-related (simple no-password http proxy) but that has worked before, I also couldn't get the automatic updates where I am now might be some silly network configuration issue.