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General Software Discussion / HowTo open Explorer with admin rights?

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2012, 01:06 PM »

Maybe I am too dumb for computers in general, but I am certainly too dumb for Windows 7.

On the process line I see the shortcut to Explorer > Libraries. It is clearly a limited rights -version. This is my first problem. I have no guest accounts, I am The single user Administrator, so how on earth can it be that this Explorer doesn't give me an administrator's rights?

I have QTTabbar installed. When I open one of the folders I have made shortcuts for in Explorer via QTTabbar, I have elevated rights. But never when I click the default Explorer shortcut in the process line. I have tried to remove it from the process line  and pin a new shortcut, from a situation when all tabs were made by QTTabbar (and as such should give me Admin's rights), but the shortcut turned out to open a "normal" less rights -Explorer, not the QTTabbar version with elevated rights I was hoping for.

What have you "single-user-administrators" done? Did you shake you shoulders and gave in?
Or are any of you  genuine Administrators of Explorer? If Yes: How?  

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FYI:
Explorer with ten QTTabbar -tabs:

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General Software Discussion / Re: Text replacement app for Windows?

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2012, 12:13 PM »

@ Redhat, Is your mum good at typing without looking at the keyboard?
Several programs of this kind have the problem that they pop-up a box. And if the user is looking at the keyboard, much typing can be for nothing because Windows is waiting for the user to respond to the pop-up box.

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Living Room / World's Best Flash Drive™: PortableApps

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2012, 10:46 AM »

World's Best Flash Drive™: The PortableApps.com Companion™.
Laser-etched with your name, quote or URL at no extra cost.
Limited Lifetime warranty, and a 30-day return policy.
8GB: $40, 16GB: $55, 32GB: $100
    USB 3.0: up to 85 MB/s read and 44 MB/s write*
    USB 2.0: up to 37 MB/s read and 28 MB/s write*

http://worldsbestflashdrive.com/
http://portableapps.com/

"PortableApps.com and CustomUSB have teamed up to create the World's Best Flash Drive
It's durable. Incredibly fast. Personalized. Affordable. And backed by a lifetime warranty.
It's the World's Best Flash Drive and we're making one just for you!"



Nice. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Vivideo editor includes FLV editing

« Last post by Curt on April 08, 2012, 10:08 AM »

The 'Vivideo' name didn't catch, so
the new version 3 has been renamed to Wondershare Video Editor.
Together with more features the price went up to $40, now on sale for $30:

http://www.wondersha...ngbreak/discount.php

For the offer to appear, you must first find and click the picture looking like this:

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Living Room / Re: Hello everyone!

« Last post by Curt on April 07, 2012, 10:22 AM »

Welcome, c.gingerich 

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Where are the shareware utilities?

-TaoPhoenix (April 07, 2012, 10:07 AM)

Maybe InsureSign is his shareware, or maybe his shareware was replaced by InsureSign.  

http://insuresign.com/ No downloadable file. Contact first.

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

« Last post by Curt on April 07, 2012, 05:11 AM »

Curt numbered his post-count after the first IBM PC (model 5150)

-Ath (April 07, 2012, 03:23 AM)

ohh, memory lane...
In the autumn 1981 I was sent on a course to learn about this new thing we called a data-machine. No one used the word "computer" yet, unless when explaining the abbreviation "PC". I don't remember the name of the thing, but giving the Wikipedia story, I guess it really was IBM PC model 51150!
Thank you for this  and for the kind words, Ath 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2012, 05:47 PM »

@ crabby3, I am getting confused.
Will you please remind us what operating system you have? XP, Vista, 7, etc.

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General Software Discussion / Re: detect color in pdf

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2012, 04:49 PM »

congratulations on your membership :-)
Sorry to hear you are colour blind :-(

2409

General Software Discussion / WMP plays all formats, incl. DivX, Mkv, FLV

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2012, 08:08 AM »

Trying to avoid the usual plural number of installed media players, I went looking for something to make my 64-bit Windows Media Player become a genuine media player..., and stumbled upon Shark007 > Windows Codecs:

The following filetypes are enabled and SUPPORTED by the installation of Shark's Codec Solutions:
amr | mpc | ofr | divx | mka | ape | flac | evo | flv | m4b | mkv | ogg | ogv | ogm | rmvb | xvid
All of the above filetypes can be queued to the Windows Media Player Playlist using a right-click

-Shark007

64-bit users must observe an important rule:

64bit users, please remember to uninstall the x64Components BEFORE uninstalling the Win7codecs.
If you forgot this sequence; install the new 32bit release and afterwards, you can uninstall and install the newer x64Components addon.

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64bit users, after installing both the 32bit Win7codecs and the x64Components addon, do the folowing in both Settings Applications.

After installation, rightclick the Settings Application shortcut, and choose Run as Adminstrator.
The Reset function runs and completes the innitial setup. This only happens once, on 1st use, to setup the codecs.

It has been a real joy for me the last couple of days to re-watch my collection of Flash videos from YouTube, and DivX from Stage6, etcetera, in WMP, without the need for various players - except for .SWF.

http://shark007.net/index.html
http://shark007.net/...read-Setup-and-usage
Freeware.

Modified:
Be aware during installation; two toolbars are checked by default!  

edit#2:

After installation, rightclick the Settings Application shortcut in the Start menu ("Shark007 codecs"), and choose Run as Adminstrator.
The Reset function runs and completes the innitial setup. This only happens once, on 1st use, to setup the codecs.

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

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2012, 06:10 AM »

Participant kalos reached 600 questions:

2411

General Software Discussion / Re: reserved characters in NTFS

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2012, 05:53 AM »

#  is maybe the only logic replacement sign, since it can mean anything when you search for file names.

2412

General Software Discussion / Re: AllMyApps

« Last post by Curt on April 06, 2012, 01:47 AM »

I have never tested AllMyApps, but I found this answer:

Pierre Tabuteau 1 year ago

All software on Allmyapps are toolbar free
So, you can install all apps without fear

Pierre

https://getsatisfact.../topics/remove_bloat

The main reason I didn't test it, was the number of problems reported in the forum.
https://getsatisfact...com/allmyapps/topics

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Mini-Reviews by Members / Re: Bookmark Docs - MiniReview

« Last post by Curt on April 05, 2012, 05:10 PM »

From "Found Deals and Discounts":

Upgrade policy

   All upgrades are free for one year after the purchase of Bookmark Docs.
After the first year, you can order new version with a 40% discount.

Special offers:
License renewal for a year with a 70% discount for only $7.45
Or a renewal for 3 years with a 50% discount for only $12.45

-Bookmark Docs

Now may be the right time to make a purchase!  http://www.bookmarkd...cs.com/purchase.html

What are you users saying, is it (still) a fine program? 
-what about working together with Firefox ... ??

-Curt (April 02, 2012, 12:31 PM)

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Developer's Corner / High DPI Awareness

« Last post by Curt on April 05, 2012, 04:56 PM »

knock knock, sorry to disturb you coders. I just stumbled upon this:

User Interface - High DPI Awareness (Windows)

-msdn.microsoft

-and thought maybe someone would like to know about the subject.
The occasion was this:

Lose Your Mind Development » Blog Archive » Printer’s Apprentice – Support for High DPI displays added

-where Real Life examples are given.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by Curt on April 05, 2012, 04:08 PM »

-I simply started moving the 'My Pictures' folder to the D -drive, and Windows popped up and asked if I wanted to split or move my folder - or something similar. This is of course only appl' (what is the word?) to User's system folders.

(...) But that comes automatically.

-Curt (April 05, 2012, 12:35 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by Curt on April 05, 2012, 12:35 PM »

-yes, Windows will see "My (your) Pictures" as one system folder, even if you split it ;-)
you just need to tell it to. But that comes automatically.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by Curt on April 05, 2012, 04:29 AM »

I was given this answer to a different question, but it may be of great help to you:

The root of the C: drive (and other select folders) are protected by Windows from being written to by misbehaving/malevolent programs. This is generally considered to be A Good Thing as it can protect you from a lot of grief if one's PC is ever compromised.

Turning off UAC and circumventing Windows other security protocols is not a good idea at all. If you should ever want to save something to one of these protected zones, just right-click on a program's shortcut & select Run As Administrator if it's just a one-time thing. If you need something more permanent, then you should go into the program shortcut's properties and select Run This Program As Administrator on its property tab.

The smartest method is to work with UAC rather than try to work against/around it. If you are trying to download something from your browser to the C: drive, make a folder, and save the item inside it. You won't be bothered by UAC at all then. The location C:\ is a protected space, but say....C:\Downloads or C:\Graphics is not.

Personally, I have my primary hard drive set up as two partitions.  There's a small 75 GB partition & that's where I installed Windows. It's my C drive. I leave that for Windows to do what it will & for those brain-dead programs that don't know how to do anything but install to C: (Yes! They STILL exist!!). The rest of my primary drive is my D: drive. It's 1.8 TB or so & that's where I save all my downloads, install all my programs, and keep their data.

With this system even with having UAC on the highest, most secure setting I only see UAC prompts two or three times a week and that's when I'm doing something I know needs admin access like registry edits or installing certain programs that work at the system level. A sweet side-benefit to laying my hard drive this way is if the need or desire to reinstall Windows ever comes up I can just format that 75 GB partition immediately & reinstall Windows. I don't have to worry about copying/saving anything because everything is on the other partition.

(Oh, C:\Program Files and C:\Program Files (x86) are protected spaces as well. Using my system above everything is installed to D:\Program Files and D:\Program Files (x86) which allows older programs and games that don't know anything about UAC to work properly.)

-Innuendo (March 15, 2012, 10:55 AM)

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

« Last post by Curt on April 04, 2012, 10:15 AM »

I have not yet tested this one, but I am informing about it because "darktrojan" didn't give any search results on the forum.

http://www.darktroja...are/addons/openwith/
https://addons.mozil...fox/addon/open-with/

Open With

Latest version: 5.1.1
for Firefox 10.0 - 13.0a1,
SeaMonkey 2.7 - 2.8.*

Browser-Switch Shortcuts for Firefox and SeaMonkey

This extension displays a list of your browsers on your menus and toolbars in Firefox or SeaMonkey. Clicking on them takes you to the page you're looking at in the browser of your choice.

On Windows and Mac OS X, Open With will load a list of browsers. You can add your own entries using the Options panel (go to Tools > Add-ons, find Open With, and then Options).

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Swift To-Do List 7 Standard FREE today 2012-03-26 Only on BDJ

« Last post by Curt on April 02, 2012, 04:45 PM »

dextronet is repeating the upgrade offer they also gave via Bits du Jour:

The price is plus VAT.

Hi ,

You are currently using the Standard edition of Swift To-Do List, but today,
you can upgrade to Swift To-Do List 7 Professional with a big 50% discount!
Instead of paying the full price of $89.95, you can get it just for $45.

Click here to purchase the upgrade:

http://go.dextronet.com/to-pro

-dextronet Swift To-Do List

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: 7 Days of Free Downloads from VideoBlocks.com

« Last post by Curt on April 02, 2012, 04:26 PM »

due to my recent Vista crash, I lost all the videos from VideoBlocks. But now VideoBlocks is repeating the offer! This time the campaign is aimed at church leaders etcetera, (via eStudySource), but the content is the same. Also, they have written what I failed to notice from the beginning, that they will give you back your money if you forget to cancel in time. Again, you cannot download more than 20 files per day; it is not "50.000", but "max 140 of 50.000"

https://www.videoblo...dySourceReligion0312

Just create a username and password*, and you get download access to everything on VideoBlocks.com for 7 days. You can download 20 clips per day.

*To ensure one login per customer, we require a credit card to sign up for an account on VideoBlocks.com. However, you will not be charged anything for your 7 days of complimentary access. After 7 days you will automatically be charged if you do not cancel your account, but we will happily refund you if you forget.

VideoBlocks.com is only giving this complimentary access to a limited number of users, so start downloading now:

Get Your 7 Days of Complimentary Downloads

-VideoBlocks

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Bookmark Docs

« Last post by Curt on April 02, 2012, 12:31 PM »

Upgrade policy

   All upgrades are free for one year after the purchase of Bookmark Docs.
After the first year, you can order new version with a 40% discount.

Special offers:
License renewal for a year with a 70% discount for only $7.45
Or a renewal for 3 years with a 50% discount for only $12.45

-Bookmark Docs

Now may be the right time to make a purchase!   http://www.bookmarkd...cs.com/purchase.html

What are you users saying, is it (still) a fine program?  
-what about working together with Firefox 6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14...??

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program to control program

« Last post by Curt on April 02, 2012, 11:41 AM »

Are you really #sure# the 332kB ClickOff cannot do it?
If so, please tell more exactly what program it should 'master', and how.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor 1.0.30

« Last post by Curt on April 01, 2012, 02:15 AM »

my copy of the initial 1.1 is running fine on my 64-bit Win 7.

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: BBCeditor 1.1

« Last post by Curt on March 31, 2012, 06:34 PM »

-marvelous!  

I have no further requests. THANK YOU!  

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Thanks also for explaining 'inline mode'.

Edited:
FYI: the file type abbreviation .pdb is also being used by other programs. Windows has marked my copy as a "STDUviewer PDB File", but "of course" STDUviewer cannot open it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Help is NO HELP

« Last post by Curt on March 31, 2012, 12:38 PM »

-yes!

1):

Windows Explorer Folder View settings - Vista Forums

2):

ResizeExplorer 1.1.0.2 - DonationCoder.com