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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: Post your FARR v2 Plugin Idea Requests Here - Plugin Writers Read In

« Last post by Muadib on April 30, 2007, 04:49 AM »

Hi Mouser,

First of all, forgive me if this is already available or it can be done using another software.

Secondly, I really appreciate FARR  and I miss just one thing, that I don't know if it can be implemented as a plug-in or it should be a different software: last programs executed.

What I mean is something different from the default Windows space available inside the "Start" menu (Win XP), which I never know when will include a program there. I'm looking for something more similar to "My recent documents", but having programs instead. I know that there is a software (which I don't remember the name) that include that as an extra menu in the "Start", but I don't like going through too much sub-menus to find the software I used two minutes ago. It Could be faster to me if i could find it in a easier way (a pop-up maybe?) in the FARR.

Thank you for this very helpful software.

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Living Room / Re: is it me or is it the machine (i'm sorry for even posting this).

« Last post by Muadib on January 27, 2007, 05:55 PM »

Hi Nudone,

I'm preparing a old computer to give to a friend of mine, and during the process of verifying the HD before installing things on it I remembered about a wonderful and FREE set of nice tools available as ISO image called "Ultimate Boot CD" (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com), which together with several useful tools you can find a set for "partitions tools", where a specific software called SPFDisk can be used to verify the HD's surface (similar to the old DOS SCANDISK), so I grabbed my old (and hated) Samsung and I started using that software on it. Again I could confirm that old HD has a lot of Bad Cluster. Suddenly I imagined that you could use that CD to run few test on your computer. There you can find tests for memory, CPU, HD, network, etc.

I don't know if somebody indicated this CD before in the forum but it's fantastic! You can use it for several things on your computer. It worth seeing the list of softwares included in the CD, maybe you can find something to keep you busy during the weekend 

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Living Room / Re: is it me or is it the machine (i'm sorry for even posting this).

« Last post by Muadib on January 24, 2007, 12:31 PM »

Dune fan, eh?

-f0dder (January 24, 2007, 11:19 AM)

Who!? Me!?.. err... yes...

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Living Room / Re: is it me or is it the machine (i'm sorry for even posting this).

« Last post by Muadib on January 24, 2007, 11:12 AM »

Nudone,

After reading your posts I've noticed you cited having a Samsung drive. Well, by coincidence I had similar problems during months. I even made similar actions trying to find the source of all problems. Until the day that I used a software to scan the HD's surface. Then I've noticed bad blocks that Scandisk never showed. Not completely sure that could be that the problem I decided to buy another HD. This time I bought a Western Digital one. Coincidence or not, all the problems disappeared. It seems that the windows used in some occasions some regions with bad clusters.

I'm not telling that you have the same problem that I had, but if you can try another HD (any brand but Samsung) maybe you can verified that.

I hope you can solve that problem.