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General Software Discussion / Re: TopmostToggle 1.9.2.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 06, 2012, 08:40 AM »

TopmostToggle 1.9.2.0 Removed all but system windows such as Task Tray, Start Menu etc. from exclusion list. PastePath shared the same hotkey. To resolve the conflict I changed the PastePath hotkey to Control Winkey Right Click.

Now you can set an Explorer Windows as Topmost if you wish.
Note that while an Explorer Window is topmost, that's the only Explorer Window that PastePath will copy to clipboard even if you give another Explorer Window the keyboard focus. It's just how the window detection works.

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General Software Discussion / Re: PastePath 1.2.0.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 06, 2012, 08:39 AM »

PastePath 1.2.0.0 Changed the hotkey to Control Winkey Right Click. Removed all window exclusions. Now works with any target window that will except text paste from clipboard.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any program to manually run startup programs?

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 06, 2012, 07:26 AM »

I like that one Miles, good one!

-cmpm (November 05, 2012, 09:19 PM)

Thanks. One reason I did it that way was to put programs that sit in the tray and monitor other stuff, towards the end. That way they don't catch a bunch of startup tray programs in their lists. When you delete an entry and want to adjust the times of the remaining apps you have to press F2 on each entry in the delay column. But in most cases there's less than a dozen in the list. Not that big a hardship.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Any program to manually run startup programs?

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 05, 2012, 09:02 PM »

Not exactly what you want. You have to manually set it up by dragging the shortcut you would normally put in StartUp folder onto DelayedCuts Gui. You can download from this page

You set the delay time for each item. The manual part is inverse of what you specified(but who knows? You might want to try it.)  As each program is ready to start a panel slides up telling the delay left in seconds. If you want to skip that item, double click the tray icon. Otherwise they all come up in order. I have all my hotkey programs start like this.  Just keeps them from starting simultaneously.  Where my program differs from many delay starters is it requires you to drag a shortcut onto the ListView Gui. That way you have all setting available. Command line, working directory, start minimized etc.. rather than just dragging an exe program from the shortcut to some delay mechanism.

Here's a screen shot of the ListView Gui

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General Software Discussion / Re: Ditto: yet another free clipboard manager

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 05, 2012, 02:06 PM »

I made a few changes to DittoFriend to give the macros a better chance of success on the first try. Source,icon and exe are included in DittonFriendNEW.zip attached.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 04, 2012, 10:27 AM »

Heh is that the graphic depiction of ROFL?  

I'm not even sure what to add, without getting more tangled. It was more like a quirk I've seen a ton of programs do.

-TaoPhoenix (November 04, 2012, 09:11 AM)

Ok, later after football I'll mess around with it. See what's what.

Funny what google turns up. Didn't have a shortcut for the usual smiley so I just searched. That one looked a bit unusual.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 04, 2012, 08:51 AM »

All seriousness aside... it's your app. Let me know what you want to add.



You don't work the same way I do so I'll just add it.  Anyway, it seemed more fun with a good argument first.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 03, 2012, 02:16 PM »

Right. You save the file with no extension so it has no type. I already explained the program does not require any particular file type. Only plain text content. If you can't type a file extension with the name then I guess you're going to have issues with lots of programs that don't register a file type.

If I add .txt and you double click the file, it's going to open an editor anyway. Not my program. There is no registered file type for it. Don't know how many ways to say it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 03, 2012, 11:50 AM »

If you set it to hide the file extension and then don't specify an extension I don't see how you would expect it to do so. The tab gathering bit is just a macro after all.  There must be hundreds of thousands of settings in Windows. I'd be dead before I tested the interaction of 1/1000th of the permutations. It's a bit unrealistic don't you think?

Sounds like the old "the computer should do what I'm thinking, not what I'm typing" routine.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Browser Bunch 1.4.2.0 - with BBSS

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 03, 2012, 09:38 AM »

There's no stipulation in either program for the files to have ".txt" extension. Only that they be plain text in content. First thing I do when I get a new PC or install Windows is turn off the "hide extensions" setting. Don't know what good it does, but the harm has to be at least an order of magnitude greater. On Windows forums I think about 10% of the posts for help disappear once the poster turns that off.

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Living Room / Re: General av and anti-malware discussion

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 02, 2012, 10:09 PM »

If you shut down your PC every day then the Autobackup program that comes with ERUNT is handy. Someplace I found a string for the target line that keeps one week of rotating backups.  On the 8th day the oldest backup is deleted. It's cool because once you get through the first week the disk space usage you carry is close to constant.

Even if you never shut down you can run it manually. Once the day flips over it will run. If you forget and run it again it just quits with no action.

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Living Room / Re: General av and anti-malware discussion

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 02, 2012, 06:26 PM »

Sometimes I'll use CCleaner to root out dead registry settings. It worked so well for so long I took it for granted. I didn't save the .reg backup. Then I got a CCleaner update with a bug.  I think I bailed out of the mess by using my ERUNT backup.  But now I use the .reg backup, ERUNT and make sure I have a recent restore point before cleaning out the crap.

With file type associations in the registry it used to be that the file type was owned by the last app that registered it. If you uninstalled the app you were left with a "hole" in the associations.  Seems the kludge to get around it was having a User Level association and a global association.  When you uninstall an associated app it fills the hole with the global setting. Not exactly perfect.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 02, 2012, 01:16 PM »

Places AddOn Info has a few tidbits of info regarding SyncPlaces, SortPlaces,CheckPlaces and SearchPlaces. For one, it shows how to set the max FF version in the xpi file.  A good idea before upgrading to a higher major FF version.

Also it has downloads for the last version of each AddOn.

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Living Room / Re: General av and anti-malware discussion

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 02, 2012, 09:34 AM »

The pun didn't even occur to me. I meant the hijack of the SciFi thread. Once it was on its own topic, the malware thread petered out is my point.

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Living Room / Re: General av and anti-malware discussion

« Last post by MilesAhead on November 01, 2012, 11:36 PM »

Guess  if it's not a hijack the thrill is gone.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 31, 2012, 12:42 PM »

btw is anyone else using FVD Speed Dial ??

I haven't tried the online sync part. But it's very similar to Speed-Dial 2 for chrome. When I first started moving dials around it was driving me nuts. I couldn't tell when the dial I was dropping near would swap or not. But I was moving too fast.  If you move the dragged dial around near the target it pops up arrows showing if you'll get a swap or it will just insert itself in the row. Looks like they did a nice job with it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 30, 2012, 06:47 PM »

It passed my "off the dime" test at any rate. I have it set to come up with Speed-Dial page. My test is, start MBAM doing a quick scan.  When it starts reading off the HD, start the browser.  Waterfox came right up!!  Not bad!!

Edit: I guess it should though. Seems to like to use at least 254 MB of memory even if you only have one page open!  But on an 8 GB machine I guess I can live with it.  Seems pretty solid. Only thing is even with hotkeys I can't seem to get tabs to open in foreground and background the way I want with mouse clicks, like I can with chrome.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 30, 2012, 06:07 PM »

Not very encouraging.  The installer crashed with "The Application ran into a problem I couldn't handle. Sorry for the inconvenience."

And this splash screen popped up behind the install dialog.

-MilesAhead (October 30, 2012, 06:00 PM)

I guess the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. Just like FF, if you select Custom Install instead of Typical, it craps out!! Hah hah hah

I'm on it now after doing Typical install. Seems SyncPlaces worked. But it did kind of hang a turn blue for a disconcerting about of time.  At least it came up with all my bookmark toolbar folders etc..

So time to surf and see if this thing flies.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 30, 2012, 06:00 PM »

Not very encouraging.  The installer crashed with "The Application ran into a problem I couldn't handle. Sorry for the inconvenience."

And this splash screen popped up behind the install dialog.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Waterfox has now been accepted as a Mozilla project

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 30, 2012, 05:57 PM »

Waterfox is 16.01 and FF is 16.02 so is it up to date afa latest security whatever?

I'm going to try it. How can I resist a 64 bit browser written in C++? I'm waiting for the download to complete.

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General Software Discussion / Re: TopmostToggle 1.9.1.0

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 30, 2012, 01:12 PM »

TopmostToggle 1.9.1.0 Added exclusion for Browse for Folder/SaveAs/Open dialogs to avoid conflict with PastePath.

It should still work with dialog based apps that have #32770 window class, unless the caption starts with Save/Browse/Open .. which should be unlikely.

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Living Room / Re: New AHK Forum Software

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 30, 2012, 11:20 AM »

I wonder if they're hinting at Au3/Ahk merger? Or maybe they just got a big discount?  

I'm already used to AutoIt forum so it's no biggie for me. Main thing was messing with cookies because that login doesn't seem to work that well with LastPass.

The glitch I've noticed is, when you post using code tags the script is double spaced. To grab a script you need to use an editor that has a Delete Blank Lines feature.

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Living Room / Re: General av and anti-malware discussion

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 30, 2012, 10:15 AM »

I've started using ClamWin as a supplemental scanner.

So far the only real annoyance is it seems to think there's an email somewhere hidden in my Thunderbird inbox with a spoofed domain.  It can't pin down which one. This leads to  a lot of futile delete/compact/rescan cycles.  MBAM shows it clean. It's likely a false positive. But I'd say it's useless for scanning Thunderbird folders. I searched ClamWin forums. It's been reported frequently. The main advice seems to be, if it was reported all along it's probably a false positive. If it's a new issue then you may need to hunt down the offending email. But that could take a full work week.

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Living Room / Re: You like science fiction, don't you? Of course you do!

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 29, 2012, 10:58 PM »

Cool. I'll just stick the link here for the jump:

https://www.donation....msg304911#msg304911

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Living Room / General av and anti-malware discussion

« Last post by MilesAhead on October 29, 2012, 10:57 PM »

General discussion of ins and outs of MBAM and other popular anti-malware, anti-spyware, av utilities etc..