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Screenshot Captor / Re: [Solved] Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on July 24, 2019, 05:07 PM »

Mouser,  I know you said that, and I had tried SC without many other apps running but never suspected Powerpro's setting since I've been running Powerpro longer than SC.  I do remember enabling this setting not that long ago, however.

I never could figure out what it was.  I found it whilst trying to solve my other problem.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on July 24, 2019, 04:02 PM »

I figured it out!

I use a program called PowerPro, and it has on option to "Force all newly created windows onto the screen" - for when dialogue windows appear off the edges.  Well, this was enabled, and everytime SC's crosshairs would appear they would get zapped to the center monitor.  Apparently, Powerpro can't deal with three monitors.

I disabled the option and now it works perfectly again!
Thanks for SC, Mouser.  I'm sorry for the troubles.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 7 not able to connect to network shares

« Last post by BGM on July 24, 2019, 09:00 AM »

Yes and no.

I have the same problem with domain-joined computers as well as non-domain computers, but strangely enough, not with the domain servers.

Reset Winsock  (I like to use Complete Internet Repair for these things; it's wonderful)
Flushed DNS
Renew WINS registrations

I tried disabling Flow Control on the network adapter driver settings.
I also removed the "Windows Network Client" from my network adapter and then re-installed it.


For example, I have this non-domain-connected laptop here next to me.  From this machine, I can connect to my domain workstation easily and never with any issue.  However, from my domain workstation, I cannot connect to the laptop.  Yesterday I could do it for several hours, but now I can't, no matter what I do.

I can also get this:
Network Error
Error code: 0x80004005
Unspecified error

Other times, when I working with a laptop, I cannot connect to it from my workstation until I first use the laptop to access my workstations public share.  After that I can then connect to the laptop from the workstation.  This workaround works about 30% of the time. 

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General Software Discussion / Windows 7 not able to connect to network shares

« Last post by BGM on July 23, 2019, 06:52 PM »

My Windows 7 Workstation keeps having an issue where it cannot connect to network shares on other Windows 7 machines.  I am logged in using a domain account and am domain admin.

Sometimes I can connect, other times no.
It makes no difference if I use the computer's name nor their ip address.
I can always ping the other computer.
The other computer can access MY network shares with no problem.
I've gone through all the obvious stuff.
Netbios is enabled in the ipv4 settings for the adapter.
I can access the network shares on our servers.
Sometimes I can access the other Win7 share, and after awhile, then I can't do it anymore.
Rebooting doesn't help.
All the ip addresses are assigned by the DHCP server and never change.
When I try the network share, I receive a message: "The specified server cannot perform the requested operation".
Error code: 0x80070035
The network path was not found.  (even though I can ping the machine)

I've had this problem for a long time and can't solve it.  Any ideas?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stop using LaTeX!

« Last post by BGM on July 19, 2019, 10:56 AM »

Well, I've only ever done it once.

I use InDesign for typesetting, anyway.  I never could get used to a "writing only" area.  For me, writing and it's display seem to go hand-in-hand.  I've never used LaTex for typesetting; I was just adding my two cents for LaTex.  I use it only for outputting Gregorian Chant via Gregorio.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Stop using LaTeX!

« Last post by BGM on July 19, 2019, 12:33 AM »

I don't know about using LaTeX for writing, but one really good thing you can do with it is to rotate a pdf by X degrees:

[Select]

%Rotate a pdf file by any degree
%Works on every page of a multi-page pdf file
%You can't even buy software that will do this!
%http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/233513/how-to-rotate-a-pdf
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{pdfpages}

\begin{document}
  \includepdf[pages={-},angle=0.7]{yourPDFfile.pdf}
\end{document}

This is something you can't do in nearly any pdf editor.  I've used this little script to rotate a pdf by 7 degrees before.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 always slow after idle

« Last post by BGM on June 21, 2019, 09:32 PM »

I haven't totally figured this out yet, but I swapped screensavers so that I was using anything other than the zzStarwars one (my favourite) and I haven't had the hangups for awhile. 

Another thing I noticed was my disk grinding alot with RAM consumed by ClipX (64bit) and NVDisplay.Container.exe  (nvidia's tray app).  I killed nvdisplay; of course, it restarts itself, but is better the next run.  For ClipX, I uninstalled the 64bit version and installed the 32 bit version and that seems to have calmed that one.  They were both running up to around 800MB RAM each. 

The only other big culprit for RAM consumption is Waterfox (runs up to 2GB sometimes), but you know how that goes.

If I figure out anything else, I will post it in case someone else comes a-looking for answers.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 always slow after idle

« Last post by BGM on June 12, 2019, 06:45 PM »

Ath - sorry!  No, no beta stuff.  Drivers are as up to date as I can get them.   I think it is something to do with the interaction of the idle process, the processor, and the graphics cards.

When the slowness starts, sometimes I can fix it by closing random applications.  It's as if one of the programs "locks" up the graphics.  Another time or two, I've fixed it by applying nVidia 3D settings to random applications.  But neither of those fixes is consistent, and I can't pinpoint any particular program to be a culprit.  There's something else going on.

I have, indeed cleaned the innards of the machine, not long ago, and have reset the RAM chips.  The motherboard, processor and RAM are all less than one year old at this point.  One of the graphics cards is also a year old or less, the other a year or two older. 

It seems like this is impossible to solve, that's why I've posted here to see if anyone has any ideas.  I can't find anything wrong with the HDDs or SSDs using diagnostics programs.

I never had these issues until I upgraded the motherboard.  I do still need to run the memtest.  But other than the unpredictable slowness, there are no other issues at all.  The only lead I have seems to be related to system idle, and I normally discover it in the morning when I begin to work, bringing my computer out of screensaver mode.

I've been running zzStarwars as the screensaver; I'm going to switch that and see if it helps.  And I'll try adding DisplayFusion and the .scr files to the exculsion list for MSE.

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Living Room / Re: Windows 7 always slow after idle

« Last post by BGM on June 11, 2019, 04:55 PM »

For AV, I'm just using Windows Security Essentials.  Our network is behind a fancy high-end firewall, so I've never needed anything more.  Scans with Malwarebytes produce no results and the machine is clean.  Besides that, the symptoms are not those of a virus.

For screensaver, I let DisplayFusion "manage" my screensavers, so I use ZZstarwars on monitor 1 and the other two are blank (just black).

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Living Room / Windows 7 always slow after idle

« Last post by BGM on June 11, 2019, 09:25 AM »

My computer has some slowness issue that I can't figure out.  It happens everyday, and I can't really pinpoint what causes it or when exactly it happens.

Stats:

• Motherboard: MSI 7370 PC ProMSI Z370 PC Pro
• RAM: 32 GB DDR4
• Processor: Intel i5-8600K (not overclocked)
• Windows 7 Pro
• Dual Graphics cards: MSI GeForce GT 710 & MSI GeForce GT 730 - using the same driver
• Three monitors - All the same: Dell S2415H (one connected via VGA, the other two via HDMI)

Now, Intel's 8th gen processors do not "support" Windows 7, therefore the onboard graphics do not work at all because there is no driver available, so I have to use the two graphics cards.  However, Windows 7 runs just fine otherwise.

Also, I am using an internal SSD drive to accelerate my C drive (HDD) with Intel Rapid Storage Technology.

Thunderbird and Waterfox files, profiles and applications are kept on an internal NVM disk - as fast as you can possibly get.

The slowness happens, from what I can tell, after I leave my screensaver on overnight - so I'm suspecting it is on account of system idling.  Slowness consists of certain programs not reacting instantly - there are lags when I type, lags when I click the mouse, if I run the Nox Android Emulator, it is slow to react and sometimes freezes for a second or two before reacting.

I can fix it all by rebooting.  Sometimes if I close programs (doesn't matter which ones), one of them will "release" the lag and everything will go back to normal speeds.

I've defragmented everything.  The machine is not consuming much RAM or CPU - the meters never run past half the total available amount.  Crystal Disk Info reports a "good" health status for all my disks.

The only thing left for me to do is a memtest.

Any other clues here?

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« Last post by BGM on June 09, 2019, 04:30 PM »

oblivion - yeah, it's really a compiled autohotkey script, and does a lot of juggling of the clipboard - I can see how it could set off an alarm.  But thanks for submitting it and getting it classified.  That's kind of neat - I don't think anyone has ever told me they've done this before!  I don't write programs for money or profit - just for fun for myself, and I just share for fun, too.  Thanks, friend!

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on June 06, 2019, 06:50 PM »

Well, I don't know what changed, but now it's broken again.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on June 06, 2019, 03:15 PM »

Well, I don't know what I did, but SC is working fine again.  Really, I can't think of anything significant.  It works on all three monitors now without shifting.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on June 04, 2019, 11:11 AM »

Cant' figure it out.  I can't find any other program interfering.

SC seems to always ignore one of the monitors.

I have no issues with SnipPaste, if I use it instead of SC.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« Last post by BGM on June 01, 2019, 02:10 PM »

Hi, Nelson,

Translate...  ah, well, I'd have to invent something in order to translate it; at the moment it's never been designed for that, and the way the names are inbedded in the code is kind of intricate.  If I ever figure it out (and spend time on that) then I'll let you know, but I don't expect it to be anytime soon.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Best 'no frills' clipboard history tool?

« Last post by BGM on May 28, 2019, 11:48 AM »

I've used clipX for a really long time.
http://bluemars.org/clipx/

I push win+shift+v to paste history items.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on May 27, 2019, 10:39 AM »

Well, I tried SC with DisplayFusion not running and had the same problem.
I don't have another program using printscreen, and SC is the only program I use for screen capture.

It's possible something else is wrong.  I am running Windows 7 on an MSI Z370 PC Pro motherboard ith an Intel Core i5-8600k.  The 8th gen Intels do not support Windows 7 (it works, they just have some bargain with M$ to force everyone to Win10) and so you can't use the onboard graphics with Windows 7, so to get around this, I use two graphics cards - an MSI GeForce GT 710 and a GT 730. 

But quite often something happens and I can't figure out what yet - where when I type into Mozilla programs, there is a typing lag.  And certain other programs will also lag.  Maybe the same thing happens with SC.  But it wasn't always this way, and I can't figure out what interferes with SC yet.  When I reboot the machine, it fixes the typing lag for awhile, but does not fix SC's issue.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on May 26, 2019, 09:38 PM »

Mouser, yes, it is capture selected region.  I push printscreen and when I go to select the area, the crosshairs and the full-size image moves to the next monitor.
This happens on monitor 2 which is set to primary: the full-image jumps to monitor 3.  And I have the same problem even if DisplayFusion is not running.  If I try it on monitor 1 or monitor 3, it works like it ought to.

The "jump" happens as soon as I push the printscreen button.
If I push shift+printscreen to capture the last performed capture, I just get a white square - but the autoname is correct.

Yes, it's really strange.  But I can repeat the same issues over and over.
I don't know about a screencast (as it happens on two monitors), but I might be able to take a video with my camera.

If I capture the entire screen it works fine, too.

When I push printscreen to capture selected region, crossahairs and full-sized image appear on monitor 3.  I can select the region there.

So, in DisplayFusion, I tried changing the primary monitor to monitor3 and then I could could NOT grab an image on monitor 2 at all.  It's as if monitor 2 is immune.


Okay, now I've done it (playing with DF settings)...  Now printscreen only captures selected region on monitor 2, no matter what monitor I use the hotkey on (no matter where the mouse is) and it moves the fullscreen image of monitor 2 to monitor 3 every time.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on May 26, 2019, 09:42 AM »

Mouser,  All three monitors are exactly the same, running at the exact same standard resolution of 1920 x 1080. 

So, I have my config set for printscreen button to enable region selection.

No, the screen isn't magnified - it just moves to the next monitor.  You know how when you go to select region, the screen "freezes" for a moment until you select the region?  I think what it really does is make a temporary full-screen bitmap of the full monitor's screen and then let you select what part of it you want.  Well, it's this full-screen bitmap that gets jumped to the next monitor.

Another thing is that when the full-size image is moved to the next monitor, when I select the part I want - that part works, but the auto-name that SC gives it is named by the highest window in the stack on that monitor.  So, if I have notepad open on the other monitor, the autonamer names it notepad, even if I am screenshotting something on the first monitor.

Restarting does not change anything.

Here are my monitor display configurations.



Actually, this only happens if I try to take screenshots on the center monitor #2, where the full-size image and the crosshairs move onto monitor 3 for me to crop.  If I hit the hotkey on monitor #1 or monitor #3, it seems to work just fine.

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Screenshot Captor / [Solved] Capture moves window to other monitor

« Last post by BGM on May 25, 2019, 02:56 PM »

Mouser, I somewhat recently upgraded my graphics card.  I have three monitors running on two cards, all use the same driver.

Ever since I did that, when I push the printscreen button (I like that) to enter capture mode, it creates a full-screen image of the monitor being captured and moves it to another monitor along with the sniper crosshairs and I have to move my mouse over there to select the region. 

It used to do this on the monitor where I am making the capture.  Now I have to select the area on the other monitor and it's annoying.

How do I fix this?  I'm running the latest version.

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General Software Discussion / Re: looking for a simple windows app to track time

« Last post by BGM on May 21, 2019, 01:14 PM »

Heres a link for ManicTime.  It was even updated just today.
https://www.majorgee...tails/manictime.html

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N.A.N.Y. 2017 / Re: NANY 2017: Calculor - A Live, Handy, Dandy, Inline Calculator

« Last post by BGM on May 16, 2019, 03:32 PM »

Calculor is updated to version 1.9.  Links are in the first post.

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N.A.N.Y. 2019 / Re: NANY 2019: TextWorx - Universal Text Manipulator

« Last post by BGM on May 16, 2019, 02:45 PM »

TextWorx updated to version 1.4.  Lots of goodies here.  See the help file or online documentation.  Links are in the first post.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software for Managing the Production of a Magazine

« Last post by BGM on May 13, 2019, 09:37 PM »

I do have Office365 Planner, which is their version of trello and looks similar.  It's a bit simplistic, though.  I don't want a subject board for each part of the magazine, and I don't want a hundred boards when I try to plan ahead for the next one.  Maybe a sharepoint list would work better.  Still, it seems complicated. 

I'm not sure what canned pork has to do with anything.

Wraith, - that Notion software looks interesting, but I don't want to purchase anything else, and don't want to fight with limitations.  Maybe I'll try and use a sharepoint group that comes with it's own lists and conversations or something.

Here are some links that compare Trello to MS Planner:
https://www.computer...365-integration.html
https://www.getapp.c...icrosoft-office-365/

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General Software Discussion / Software for Managing the Production of a Magazine

« Last post by BGM on May 12, 2019, 10:24 PM »

Every other month I publish a childrens' magazine - about 800 copies with 1200 readers.  I have several authours and illustrators, and I write and illustrate, too, but I'm having a hard time keeping track of what should be in future issues, who is doing what article, and what needs to be done.  I've tried doing it in all sorts of ways.

I also have access to full office365, but I'm not sure how to leverage that do do what I need.

Is there an open-source/freeware software that can help handle these things?  Anyone have any good ideas?