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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Horizontal scrolling

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 04:10 PM »

it's an excellent idea, and one of the tools might already support horizontal "autofit" .. i wish i hadn't uninstalled them all already; i'll have to remember to keep them installed for longer for questions like this.

you might be able to find the answer just by visiting the websites; look for something like autofit or column sizing.  and let us know what you find, please.  could be very useful if you have long filename.  (though if you just set the width of the dialog very large it should solve most of your problem).

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: Horizontal scrolling

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 03:54 PM »

great question.

all of ones marked as "expands dialog" will let you make the dialogs very wide, which will mostly solve your problem.

if i remember correctly, at least one of the programs has an option to remember the column widths, which would let you force the leftmost column to be not so wide, but i don't remember which

if you can find the one that best solves your particular problem let me know.

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Living Room / Re: Van Zant CD taking a beating for containing this Sony Rootkit thing.

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 01:17 PM »

nice mainstream article on the issue:
http://www.businessw...c20051129_938966.htm

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Upload a picture to image hosting service

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 01:02 PM »

it shouldn't be too much harder than using wget, however the tool needs to check for the url returned by the image hosting service and report it (or copy it to clipboard), or display an error if upload was unsuccessful.

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Living Room / Re: FREE Textbook website launched!

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 12:06 PM »

jason -
 just noticed that you got mentioned on lifehacker today - congratulations!


Texboook Revolution site looks like its doing great and doing good.

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Best Dialog Extender / Re: PowerDesk Pro's Dialog Helper

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 10:54 AM »

good point - i'll add that to the review; i happen to be a big fan of powerdesk actually.

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Post New Requests Here / IDEA: Upload a picture to image hosting service

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 10:35 AM »

im interested in a commandline tool that could upload an image file specified on the commandline to one of the image hosting services (like http://www.imageshack.us/) , and reports back the url to the uploaded file.

how i would use this:
i'd like to add it to screenshot captor tool menu.

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General Software Discussion / flow|state - nice blog on user interface design

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 09:38 AM »

http://miksovsky.blogs.com/flowstate/

[linked from the old new thing, another good programming blog http://blogs.msdn.co...ewthing/default.aspx]

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Living Room / Re: Browser Tray Switch

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 08:31 AM »

another great example of bill gates software:

it WILL let my program change important registry entries which changes your default browser.
it WONT let my program simply make a copy of existing registry settings to a file for backup.

 

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ProcessTamer / Process Tamer - LATEST VERSION INFO THREAD - v2.11.01 - Apr 23, 2009

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 08:15 AM »

Download from Program Web Page or Main Release Page.

LATEST RELEASE:

v2.11.01 - 4/23/09

• Live update of cpu usage is disabled while changing rules -- avoids problem where grid updating disrupts the modification of rules.

v2.10.01 - 3/27/09 beta

• Added support for the ConfigDir.ini file (allows setting custom directories for config files; better Vista and portable use).
• Updated manifests to insist on administrative rights (needed for Vista and later).
• Fixed issues in vista and with large fonts.
• Packaged more recent dcuhelper.exe update helper.
• Changed start-with-windows process to use registry instead of startup group.
• The programmers who designed Vista should be shot -- they have made it virtually impossible for me to make Process Tamer start with windows.  Vista insists on blocking it at startup.
• Fixed some hints and tab order in the Configuration dialog.
• Increased size of Min. Change Interval option.

v2.09.01 - 8/18/07

• Added support for update checking
• Compiled with manifest to force ProcessTamerTray to run with elevated administrator mode on Microsoft VISTA, which is needed in order to reduce process priorities.

v2.08.01 - 10/08/06

• Process view now remembers sorting order.
• Stopped pointless announcing about increasing it's own priority.

OLDER VERSIONS

v2.07.02 - 10/02/06

• Added advanced killing for processes that resisted termination in the past.   

v2.06.01 - 9/18/06

• Code added to enable Process Tamer to control priorities of stubborn services (for example winlogon.exe, etc). 
• Added tips+troubleshooting help page.   

v2.05.02 - 05/11/06

• [documentation] help file now fully up to date with current pictures and help and tips
• [new feature] you can now independently turn on/off balloon tray message for taming by cpu use, untaming by cpu usage, and priority adjustment by explicit rules
• [new feature] foreground process boosting option.
• [new feature] foreground process protection option.
• [new feature] option to run PT always at high priority (prevents other apps from being evil)
• [minor improvement] option to hide < 1% processes now doesn't hide non-normal priorities
• [cosmetic bugfix] configuration form checkbox was displaying where it should not.

v2.03.01 - 12/22/05

• [new feature] you can now toggle on/off the taming of processes by cpu use (i.e. only use explicit rules if you prefer)

v2.02.01 - 11/25/05 - Maintenance Release

• [bugfix] rare bug was causing sequence of error message in the GUI configurator tool if left running for long periods.
• [bugfix] apps sending timer broadcasts could confused process tamer and cause it to start taming apps prematurely.
• [new feature] option to automatically remove processes with <1% usage from task monitor after a small delay.
• this is a minor release but fixes some bugs that i thought should be addressed.

Download from normal releases download page: https://www.donation...ftware/releases.html
Or from program page: https://www.donation...proctamer/index.html

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Site/Forum Features / Re: non-users can't view added images

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 06:38 AM »

Can you monitor how long people look for ... how long is considered abuse ?

   

no, abuse would be:
someone wants to share a 2mb zip file with 500,000 people so they attach it to a post, and post the link to the forum attachment all over the internet.

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PopUp Wisdom / Re: RAM and CPU usage?

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 06:12 AM »

shouldn't use any cpu.. as for ram.. 900k in memory (6.3mb private, 41mb total according to taskinfo)

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PopUp Wisdom / Added a few more books to the download page..

« Last post by mouser on November 30, 2005, 05:35 AM »

I added a few more books to the popup wisdom download page:

https://www.donation...pUpWisdom/books.html

including a nice book of love quotes sent it by member  Praveen Piriya (thanks!).

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Living Room / Re: Browser Tray Switch

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 10:25 PM »

great to hear it

i'll try to do some more experimenting and figure out why it failed to run it automatically and add a note to the error message instructing user to run it manually.  thanks for the report.

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Best Firewall / Re: agnitum outpost v3 - the horror?

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 06:32 PM »

i went back to v2.5 for now, but i'm on the hunt for a better firewall, yet again.

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Finished Programs / Re: IDEA: Tray utility to mute speaker when you are away from the computer!

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 06:23 PM »

works perfect here (using exe version), toggles between red and green without flaw.
skrommel the gui is great - i can see this may usher in a whole new world of skrommel utilities with nice gui configurations - i shudder to think.  might i also add that this little utility rocks.

luckman maybe does the toggling work properly when you do it from the menu and when you double click - is it only the icon that doesn't change properly?  i know what windows sometimes has issues with refreshing icons..

ps.
don't forget to make a little donation to skrommel if you can afford it to support his work!

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Living Room / Re: Browser Tray Switch

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 06:13 PM »

i'll have to check out maxthon.. it amazes me how many different ways there are to capture the default browser.
or maybe this is a win xp sp2 issue..

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Site/Forum Features / Re: non-users can't view added images

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 04:44 PM »

a small small portion; bandwidth amount is not really an issue for us in terms of some limit we are allowed,
the only issue would be much bandwidth could we sustain before it starting slowing the system down.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: non-users can't view added images

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 04:29 PM »

i've updated the permissions to allow guests (people not signed up at the forum) to view attachment images; if it's abused we'll worry about it then.

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Site/Forum Features / Re: non-users can't view added images

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 04:25 PM »

can a guest reading a thread not see pics?

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Site/Forum Features / Re: non-users can't view added images

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 04:13 PM »

that's the only thing im a bit reluctant to do.

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Living Room / Re: Browser Tray Switch

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 04:10 PM »

the browsers frequently still pop up and say "xxx is not set as default browser" even with bts sets them so -
but that doesn't mean that bts hasn't done its job; you just have to disable this warning message in your browser.

if its otherwise not doing its job let me know.

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Best Firewall / Re: agnitum outpost v3 - the horror?

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 04:06 PM »

after a day of struggle and a few days of confusion, i have uninstalled v3, and made a frustrated and sad post to agnitum forum, you can read here:
http://outpostfirewa...?p=113723#post113723

i've also updated our review warning people not to buy v3:
https://www.donation.../Firewall/index.html

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Living Room / Re: Browser Tray Switch

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 03:49 PM »

it will refuse to change browser if it doesn't find the backups were created properly.

you could try running the BackupCurrentBrowserSettings.bat batch file yourself in the BrowserBackup directory and see if you get any errors; perhaps you don't have permissions to access registry, or maybe there is something with sp2 that's causing that backup script to fail to export the registry keys?  i'll try to test it on an sp2 machine if you can't make progres. let me know.

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General Software Discussion / symantec kills free sygate firewall

« Last post by mouser on November 29, 2005, 10:35 AM »

http://www.theinquir...r.net/?article=28000

THE POPULAR Sygate Personal Firewall and the Pro version are to kick the bucket at the end of this month, news.com reports.
Symantec bought Sygate earlier this year, but according to the report customers will be offered upgrades from the software to its own Norton Personal Firewall.

The big difference is that Sygate Personal Firewall was free, and the upgrade to Pro was what cost.

A rep told news.com that the products "overlapped" in the consumer market.