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General Review Discussion / Re: Quick Review: Ghostery - Best blocker I've used since JunkBuster

« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2015, 08:27 PM »

So, I've been using Ghostery for a while, and now I think that might change.

I noticed something called Ghostery Privacy Notice, and wondered what it was.. then started investigating.  I didn't like what I found.

Lifehacker summarizes it better than I can.

http://lifehacker.co...-data-to-a-514417864

So I've started trying Disconnect.  They seem more upfront... so I'm going to trial it for a while.  But figured I'd post the information, at least.

And I'm feeling pretty good about it after this sensational uninstall page:

https://apps.ghostery.com/en/uninstall

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: better desktop icon grouping system

« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2015, 08:24 PM »

Can someone explain it?  I'm not going to look at a video just to see about software...

-wraith808 (August 17, 2015, 10:00 AM)

^seriously?

  

-Curt (August 18, 2015, 04:50 PM)

Seriously.  When someone just drops a video, says this satisfies your needs, doesn't include a link to the software site.... yeah, I skip it.  The only reason I even asked was that it came up again.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Program Proposal: "File Master" Cataloging Software

« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2015, 02:46 PM »

WinCatalog 2015 might be worth a purchase/trial: (I'm thinking about it...)

This programme seems to be continually updated
Paid upgrade seems to be only every few years (if you own 2011 version it is still a free upgrade to 2015 version).

2015 version (including updates - "for noncommercial use") currently on offer for $14.99 this week via SharewareOnSale.

-tomos (August 18, 2015, 09:14 AM)

-IainB (August 18, 2015, 02:30 PM)

I actually have a serial to it, and put it aside after purchasing (yes, I'm very wasteful).

From what I remember when I used it, it's really disk cataloging software, where I was looking for file cataloging.  You couldn't break things up into different catalogs on a particular disk.  It cataloged the whole disk, which wasn't what I needed.  It seemed to be aimed at those that had several disks (either HDD or DVD, etc) and wanted to know what was on each particular physical disk without having to insert them.  Useful, certainly, but not what I was looking for.  Not sure if it's changed substantially since then- looking through my registrations, this was admittedly back in 2007.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: better desktop icon grouping system

« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2015, 01:46 PM »

I was returning to the first post of the thread. I don't know anything about Splinter, went to their page and it looks complicated, far more than I need. As for fences, correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears to leave all your program icons showing, it just corrals them into groups set apart by shading. I want ONLY the group icons to show. Then when one is clicked, a compact pick list of PROGRAM (or document) icons and/or labelled buttons appears. Not an entire window of icons spaced far apart on a white background, as Windows explorer does. Really not a radical idea.

-lifespurpose (August 18, 2015, 01:14 PM)

That is incorrect- you can see that from my simple use that it doesn't just space them apart, but allows you to set them where you wish.  You can create your own fences to show icons which can be clicked to launch said icon.  You can also use the fences to show a portal into a folder, or many folders.  You can hide them at will or show them by double clicking on the desktop.  You can also scroll the fences so that you scroll between pages, and auto organize or hide icons as they are created.  Quite a bit more than what you say; my uses were just not that complicated.  It, however, does not show folders as menus, other than in the actual fence in the case of a desktop portal, i.e. it drills down.  You can however, pair it with something like 7stacks or StandaloneStack so that each one invokes one of your stacks.







Some examples I whipped up quickly.  The only things that I've noticed is that (a) with 7stacks, it constrains the location of the popup to the bottom of the screen, and (b) with standalone stack, it actually runs a new version of the application for each stack opened.  They're small... but that's messy IMO>

Also for future reference, if you think the thread has gone off of what you want to ask or you want to add more, it might be clearer to just make a comment to add to the thread stating that you'd tried the options and what your results are and how they failed in that capacity.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: better desktop icon grouping system

« Last post by wraith808 on August 18, 2015, 12:30 PM »

I'm not sure whom that last post was aimed at.  I was asking for an explanation of Splinter.

As far as your specifications, fences does that.  Right click on desktop, drag the area to the desired size, and in the right click menu, create fence.  Then drop your icons there.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: better desktop icon grouping system

« Last post by wraith808 on August 17, 2015, 10:00 AM »

Can someone explain it?  I'm not going to look at a video just to see about software...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 10 a trojan?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 17, 2015, 09:58 AM »

The proper way to redistribute software internally - and the way any responsible administrator does it - is to download a redistributable to one system, check it, and then redistribute it.  Microsoft provides this capability for nearly everything you can get from their site. Just look for the IT and tech support versions.

-xtabber (August 17, 2015, 06:35 AM)

There are enough PCs in my home, that its like a medium sized business.  But I'm not looking for IT overhead, even though I know how to do do such things, it's a headache.  So the more its built into existing infrastructure, the better it is for me.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 10 a trojan?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2015, 06:39 PM »

I'd love an option to specify between "share downloaded update data between computers on my local network" and "share downloaded update data with the entire goddamn Internet". But I agree the option could/should have been in the installer, maybe even a time-based auto-selection (i.e. it defaults to "yes", but pops up on screen as a question for 30 seconds to a minute while other stuff is being done in the background, and if no answer is given it becomes yes, but you *can* choose no if you care to). With a time-based option they could avoid the problem of added complexity in choice in the installer to some degree.

Btw in this thread I'm really wishing for a "like" option for posts.

- Oshyan

-JavaJones (August 16, 2015, 03:22 PM)

That option does exist.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: better desktop icon grouping system

« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2015, 01:43 PM »

^ but not everyone wants to be scared of their task bar

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's up with WinPatrol?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2015, 01:42 PM »

Yeah... i sent them an e-mail about it, and they said they knew... but not having a person or a direct way to communicate with google had proven very frustrating.  They are in the process of proving that it's a false result... but in the meantime, they're losing sales.

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Living Room / Re: OnLive.com has shut down.......

« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2015, 09:47 AM »

Were you on regularly?  I would just be surprised if you paid for content and there wasn't a migration plan put in before 4/30.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 10 a trojan?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 16, 2015, 12:44 AM »

That may be true, but Delivery Optimization probably should be opt-in (like torrents are). For a corporate network, some sort of group policy should allow it to be easily configured.

Actually, most of the things Auerbach discussed should have been opt-in.

I haven't paid much attention to the Windows 10 release - is there anything compelling in Win 10 that might make me want to move off of Win7?

-mwb1100 (August 16, 2015, 12:30 AM)

World of Warcraft is... using Bittorrent.  And it's not opt in.  Facebook and Twitter use bittorrent... and it's not opt-in.  There are a whole lot of other uses for bittorrent and p2p that are not opt-in that are in use all over.  And they're so not opt in, that there is no indication that it is being utilized.

Ironically, these same people also think torrents are the cats meow..

Personally I think it's a brilliant idea, because it allows updates to be downloaded from the fastest source possible...instead of forcing everyone to try ripping it fresh through the same tiny hole.

-Stoic Joker (August 15, 2015, 10:23 PM)

Exactly.  Is it the use?  Or is it who is using it?  It seems to be who is using it that is the largest objection.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is Windows 10 a trojan?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 15, 2015, 05:48 PM »

That topic title is a bit ... hyperbolic.

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on August 14, 2015, 05:59 PM »

^sounds like they're having fun,
glad they not my neighbours though

-tomos (August 14, 2015, 03:21 PM)

It said one resident.  Between that and the watermark...

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General Software Discussion / Re: What's living in your taskbar notification area right now?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 14, 2015, 05:58 PM »

• Join.me (can't figure out how to disable launch on startup)

-Deozaan (July 22, 2015, 09:15 PM)

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run -> join.me.launcher

Of course, whenever you use it, it adds it back

-wraith808 (July 23, 2015, 10:12 AM)

I don't run the software, but perhaps renaming the launcher (brute force) is the way to go ? (but then you'd still have to do it after every update)

-DeXXus (August 14, 2015, 03:28 PM)

Whenever you use it, it adds it back.

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Living Room / Re: good Videos [short films] here :)

« Last post by wraith808 on August 14, 2015, 03:24 PM »

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on August 14, 2015, 03:07 PM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: So, what pdf reader app is your fav?

« Last post by wraith808 on August 14, 2015, 02:11 PM »

Isn't 9 EoL, or do you still get security updates for it?

-Stoic Joker (April 10, 2015, 07:02 AM)

Not sure. I've got 9.5.5 now. Haven't paid for any new versions. And I rarely download PDF files. I *always* check the source.

-Renegade (April 10, 2015, 12:10 PM)

I have a strong aversion to Adobe- mostly because I have to develop for it, and doing that let's you know what kind of arsehats they are.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Wanted: better desktop icon grouping system

« Last post by wraith808 on August 14, 2015, 10:44 AM »

My solution to this has been Stardock's Fences. Neat little app worth looking up

-iphigenie (May 14, 2012, 02:36 AM)

+1

Find it at Stardock's Fences Site

Key Features

• Create shaded areas to organize your desktop
• Double click the desktop to hide or show icons
• Define rules to organize your desktop icons
• Swipe between multiple pages of fences
• Create a desktop portal from any folder

The fences on the left are actual icons.  The Newly Installed fence puts anything I install into that fence by default.  The fences on the right are portals into folders I have set up (I do it that way because I use it for quick launch bar also).  It can do more complicated things... but that's good enough for me.

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DC Gamer Club / Giveaways of Extra Games from Humble Weekly Bundle: The Return of Space Boy

« Last post by wraith808 on August 13, 2015, 03:44 PM »

I bought in on the Humble Weekly Bundle: The Return of Space Boy

There were a lot of duplicates in there for me, so I'm putting them here.  You have to be a member of the DC steam group.  There are also some personal groups included in there to make the pool a little wider- but not much.

The giveaways run from today until 8/27/2015 (2 weeks)

Steam Marines: http://www.steamgift.../eBgkO/steam-marines
Starmade: http://www.steamgift...eaway/PzUmp/starmade
Interplanetary: http://www.steamgift...xGwMJ/interplanetary
Edge of Space: http://www.steamgift.../iRm6l/edge-of-space

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Living Room / Re: I need help coming up with a plan to fix my NTFS security permissions problems

« Last post by wraith808 on August 13, 2015, 12:59 PM »

Note: if it's just you - and only you - who will ever be accessing the server, you can also simply grant Full Control permission for the Everyone group across the board and be done with it.

-40hz (August 13, 2015, 08:59 AM)

O_O ... Ggaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

-Stoic Joker (August 13, 2015, 11:17 AM)

I think something broke...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Clean Install Instructions

« Last post by wraith808 on August 13, 2015, 10:36 AM »

Relevant: http://www.zdnet.com...-10/#ftag=YHFb1d24ec

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Clean Install Instructions

« Last post by wraith808 on August 11, 2015, 09:22 PM »

+1 with SJ, I've used the relevant key for swapping between architecture, (x86/x64), over the years for XP, 7, and 8 without any problem.

It'll fail if you try to install a product it doesn't match though, (eg. Pro key and you're installing Win HP).

You could also try backing up the activation tokens from the upgrade and restoring them into the clean install.

Although, ATM and Produkey come up with two different product keys for my Win10Pro netbook 

-4wd (August 11, 2015, 09:02 PM)

I wonder if this points to the reason for that:

Windows 8.1 is * NOT * fully supported. All the activation data can be saved, but only those that were activated by * Phone * will be restored properly.

In other words, the Online activated backups can not be restored until now, * ONLY * if your OS is the Windows 8.1 – Other OS(es) are NOT affected ! We are working to discover why.

*** You can * NOT * restore the Windows 8 activation on Windows 8.1. Microsoft was made hard changes on the Windows 8.1 activation system, so we are unable to port the Windows 8 activation to Windows 8.1 without brick the system.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Clean Install Instructions

« Last post by wraith808 on August 11, 2015, 03:38 PM »

Remove everything is different than a clean install.  I currently have windows 7 ultimate 32-bit installed.  I want to install windows 10 64-bit.

There's no upgrade path.  I have to do a clean install.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Clean Install Instructions

« Last post by wraith808 on August 11, 2015, 09:03 AM »

No, I haven't.  I guess I should before I get to that step... Now I'm concerned.  I have my DVD ready to go... but I'm just apprehensive about trying the full install