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General Software Discussion / Re: [suggestion] ProcessGuard and RegDefend

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2005, 02:07 AM »

yeah,

i guess i favor a backup/virtualmachine - centric approach.

this basically says that you should have backups so that if you get infected by something you can roll back your machine to a good backup, rather than trying to find and clean the infection.

and secondly, run all suspicious stuff on a virtual machine instead of your main machine.

the only fly in that ointment is that a trojan can send sensitive stuff out through the internet so by then the damage may be done..

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Official DonationCoder.com Reviews / Re: This weeks review subject changed from Backup Tool to Best Virtual Machine Tool

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2005, 01:59 AM »

i just thought i should break the news to you sooner rather than later.

virtualpc is a good product too though, and does all the important stuff identicially.
no real reason to regret the purchase of virtualpc.

the main thing is to have a virtual machine tool; the differences between vmware and virtualpc are not that great.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [suggestion] ProcessGuard and RegDefend

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2005, 01:57 AM »

the point about possibly causing trouble during an install is a really good one,
i can easily see one of these protection programs totally creating havok with the install of an app that used some system drivers, etc. and i'd be concerned about such a possibility.

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General Software Discussion / Re: the definitive minimal amount of programs for the greatest security?

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2005, 01:55 AM »

well,

i agree that there is no one answer for everyone, in all fairness the spirit of this site has been trying to make these kind of generalizations about what would be a good setup, so i wouldnt be so hard on an attempt to suggest a good minimal set of recommended apps, and just say that people should take such suggestions with a grain of salt.

its interesting to see that some firewalls are adding the kind of functionality that process guard adds, and im guessing that the functionality of something like process guard is a good idea and could make it into operating systems in the future.

ie you should have some better control of what executable processes run.  but for me process guard is a bit too much.

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Official DonationCoder.com Reviews / Re: This weeks review subject changed from Backup Tool to Best Virtual Machine Tool

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2005, 01:50 AM »

best virtual machine review was posted last week scott.. vmware was the winner.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [suggestion] ProcessGuard and RegDefend

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2005, 01:49 AM »

i have to say i tried processguard and did not have much success with it.
I tried using process tamer gui to kill apps and process guard didn't seem to be able to prevent it.


the friend of mine who found it useful says he doesn't keep it running on his machine, but has used it in an emergency when an installed virus or trojan would not let itself be stopped.  process guard was the only thing he found to keep it from running until he was able to clean the system.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: About the Members Only Sections

« Last post by mouser on April 16, 2005, 12:50 AM »

If for some reason you cannot (or will not) donate, but really want to be able to download one of the releases on this site that is currently restricted to members only,

or you feel like you want to donate but not until you try out one of the beta releases that is currently reserved to members only, just send me an email explaining your position and i will send you a download link.

[email protected]

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Living Room / Re: Who are you & what do you do?

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2005, 11:42 PM »

I'm a ph.d. student in computer science who should have gotten his degree about 5 years ago.  Projects like this keep me constantly in debt and delayed   grew up in nyc, now living in midwest.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Beta Testers Requested

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2005, 10:48 PM »

I could really use some beta testing of this app by people with multiple browsers,
who are feeling brave.

i've done everything i know of to make sure that registry changes are safe, documented, anc backed up just in case. but i'd really like to get some preliminary reports from a friendly audience here before i release it into the wild so to speak

if anyone wants to try this who isnt a member, here is the download:

https://www.donation...rTraySwitchSetup.exe

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Skinning?

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2005, 06:05 AM »

one other thing -
check the help file of f&r at the last page youll see a list of all the other related programs i've found - might want to check them out too

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Skinning?

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2005, 05:51 AM »

thanks coolcatbad,

yeah the name is a bit lame.

i'm not a really big fan of skinning so that's probably not in the cards, though i'm certainly willing to entertain suggestions about how to make it look better.

i've got some new features that i need to add as well, as suggested by users of this forum, so please suggest away

i should note, that f&r does not actually search in the CONTENTS of files, just their names, so its not going to compete with the desktop search engines that can search insider the contents of files..

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ProcessTamer / ProcessTamer 2.00.14

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2005, 05:14 AM »

sometime between 2.00.11  and 2.00.13 i set the update speed to once every 5 seconds as a test and forgot to set it back to once per second, which was basically causing it to take a loooooooooooooong time to detect hogging cpu processes.  sorry!

please upgrade to 2.00.14 (full change list on process tamer page)

url in members only section.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ForegroundLockTimeout Value

« Last post by mouser on April 15, 2005, 01:01 AM »

well in the current version it sets it when (every time) the process tamer tray starts up.
maybe i'll just remove this setting completely from the program and include in the next release 2 little .reg files for people who want to experiment with forcing this value between default value and 0.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ForegroundLockTimeout Value

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 11:09 PM »

yes well,
MS says to set it to 0 to fix problems.
which is what i did.
and it seemed to help.

of course we shouldn't be surprised that given its from MS, it has some side effects.
i guess you were experiencing one of the side effects..
regardless, it's not needed any more by process tamer so i'm removing it.


new version is up on members page.
this version forces the value back to its default of 200000; in a couple more versions i will remove this forcing.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ForegroundLockTimeout Value

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 10:53 PM »

scott -

i was just about to tell you that there is no code in process tamer that sets this, until i rechecked and discovered that indeed there is.

here is the code:
   // F*CKING MICROSOFT SHOULD BURN IN HELL
   // this code is nesc. to allow pop up to get foreground focus
   #ifndef SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT
      #define SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT 0x2001
   #endif
   SystemParametersInfo(SPI_SETFOREGROUNDLOCKTIMEOUT, 0, (LPVOID)0,SPIF_SENDWININICHANGE | SPIF_UPDATEINIFILE);

evidently i added it at some point in a pique of anger because a popup message from the tray tool was showing up behind other windows; the new process tamer doesnt use popups though, and uses tray balloons, so i am going to remove this code.

see:
http://support.micro...oft.com/?kbid=886217


now, the question is, should new versions of process tamer now revert this back to 200000 for users of prior versions?  im thinking yes.

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ProcessTamer / Anyone else with this issue?

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 09:06 PM »

got a report that the open file dialog that pops up when you click the "Open File" button, on very top right (to right of "Tool Menu Caption") of configuration tab on Process Tamer 2 options form, dissapears or never shows up at all.

anyone else find that pushing this button has no effect or somehow shows the open file dialog off screen or something?

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ProcessTamer / Re: perl.exe

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 12:44 PM »

ben,

im having no trouble changing the process of my perl.exe on winXpPro.

so i'm not sure if its a win 2k3 issue or something else.
i was running perl through commandline, maybe you are running it as a service of some sort?

anyone else have any ideas?

if you try changing the priority from the process tamer 2 gui, what happens?

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DesktopCoral / Re: Question about feature....

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 08:10 AM »

one thing it will do is, if the opacity is <5 it will bump it to 5 when opening options dialog, just so you can see it.
i could get rid of this if people think it is confusing.

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DesktopCoral / Re: DesktopCoral Download

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 06:40 AM »

i should probably make it a public download before it's mentioned, otherwise they will be frustrated not being able to try it.

so i'm going to just make desktop coral downloadable by public now.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: Features being considered..

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 04:55 AM »

this is a good question.

when writing browser tray switch i discovered that there are a very annoyingly large set of different settings that effect the default browser, and different browsers seem to use different tricks to make themselves the current browser.

for example there are different settings that effect which browser gets launched if you double click a .htm vs which browser gets launched if you click on a .url shortcut or when a program launches a url.

i dont know exactly how to set it up so that different users would have dif browsers but it might be possible.

but i guess you are talking about email clients.. this is a nice idea for me to make an emailtrayswitch util which works the same as browsertrayswitch but for email clients.. i will look into it..  very good idea.

i will add in next version the ability to specify the browser to change to on the commandline  so that you could put it in a batch file to be run when switching users to make it even easier.

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DesktopCoral / Re: DesktopCoral Download

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 03:33 AM »

im hoping that ozzy, who requested this app,  will test it and if he finds it does what he wanted may explain to other samurize users what it does and why it works well with samurize.  i've learned the hard way that going to someone else's forum and trying to say how you made a good program is often considered spam advertising and does not go over well, even if you mean it to.

btw desktopcoral now has its own mini section like all the other apps, so we should probably move this discussion over to there.

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ProcessTamer / Re: ideas for process tamer

« Last post by mouser on April 14, 2005, 12:46 AM »

i have been thinking about restoring stopped processes; if this is something people want i will add it.

i could also add the possibilty of doing certain things when processes die or have their priorities changed (like sending an email, etc), if this was something that people really wanted, though this would involve more work (not so much work in implementation of core functionality but in adding such options to the process tamer 2 configuration gui).

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ProcessTamer / Some other apps related to process tamer

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2005, 11:42 PM »

in my help files i always try to list similar apps to mine.
here are some programs similar in approach to my process tamer app, for those who are curious.  these can also be found in process tamer help file or online help:

http://www.bitsum.com/ProSuper.asp - similar application, works on networked installations (shareware)
http://www.prioritymaster.com/ - similar program (seems a bit hyped shareware)
http://ivagos.com/index.php?lnk=6 - manually set process priorities (shareware)
http://www.pgware.com/products/pcboost - boosts priority of currently used app [works on win9X?]  (shareware)

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DesktopCoral / Re: Question about feature....

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2005, 09:41 AM »

DesktopCoral will be of interest to very few people.
Unless you have a real purpose for this program it's not likely to be useful.

ozzy requested it, maybe he will tell us a little bit about why its useful in his case (assuming of course that this does what he wanted).


ps. kifitting - i think it's time you chose an avatar for your forum profile.

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DesktopCoral / Re: Question about feature....

« Last post by mouser on April 13, 2005, 06:55 AM »

i know exactly what you mean -
unforuntately DesktopCoral cannot do this.

the desktop area not used by DesktopCoral will behave like your normal desktop, ie you can expand stuff inside it.
but within DesktopCoral region, if you moved an app there and maximized it, it would jump out of the coral and into the main desktop region.

it's probably possible to do what you want by writing using some low-level virtual monitor driver, which would be a very fun idea, but outside of scope of this small project for me.

may i suggest you look into buying a dual monitor setup for your computer.  I use one and it does exactly what you are describing, but with two desktops side by side, one on each monitor, and i could never go back to a single monitor.  it truely is the only way to live.