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General Software Discussion / Re: Retrieving the name of a nice process killer

« Last post by 4wd on January 26, 2012, 05:18 AM »

Advanced Process Termination (PenDriveApps.com link) ?

Advanced Process Termination is a Free Portable Software that can be used to Kill Running Processes. The tool offers many different methods that can be used to Kill Processes or Terminate Running Programs (Kill Running Tasks). In addition it can Freeze or Suspend Running Processes, Resume Suspended Processes or even attempt to Crash a Running Process or Kernel Kill the Running Process.

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Living Room / Re: Google Ends Privacy

« Last post by 4wd on January 26, 2012, 01:17 AM »

Also one should realise too that you can view the profile Google has built up on you and request that they no longer use targeted ads.

-Eóin (January 25, 2012, 04:57 PM)

Silly question, but how do you view it ?

Just interested, I doubt I'll have one since I only use GMail via POP3/IMAP, any Google Analytics scripts are blocked and cookies are anonymised.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Icon not displayed in standard warning popup window (Win7x64)

« Last post by 4wd on January 24, 2012, 03:03 AM »

Thanks. I am not sure on how to restart Explorer.exe .....

-MerleOne (January 24, 2012, 01:23 AM)

Run Task Manager, click the Processes tab, right-click the explorer.exe task and select End Process and hit OK.
Select File->New Task (Run...).
Type in explorer.exe and hit OK.

I can wait some more time for Microsoft to solve it (in Win7, not Win8 !).

The disappearing Tray icons "feature" has been there an awful long time, (since XP).....how long do you want to wait?

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Living Room / Re: [SOLVED] Windows XP system clock losing (lots) of time.

« Last post by 4wd on January 23, 2012, 04:51 PM »

I also want to express my thanks to Cranioscopical for his community spirit; little surprises like the one he sent my way are what makes this community great!

-worstje (January 23, 2012, 05:11 AM)

+2 

(Senior moments and all)   

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

« Last post by 4wd on January 23, 2012, 05:00 AM »

I am sad that I have to tell you this news, but Samantha is Lesbian btw.

 

-panzer (January 23, 2012, 02:50 AM)

Doesn't stop me looking

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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2012, 11:17 PM »

Zoiks! That's a hell of a round. But I'd rather the hollow-point, as they're designed to frag and stop in the first target. It's safer for the Innocent bystanders that way. Chances are you'll have to asses the field of fire in a split second, so it's best not to take chances with overkill.

-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 10:23 PM)

Perhaps I should have pointed out that the second, (12g - causes very large recoil and makes a really big mess of things ), doesn't go in the first, (1851 Navy Colt - lot of fun, bit slow to reload).

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

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2012, 07:54 PM »

VaporFox will be the 128bit version....sorry couldn't resist.

-rgdot (January 22, 2012, 07:42 PM)

I'd prefer SamanthaFox   

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

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2012, 07:28 PM »

Waterfox is a x64 build of Firefox, I've been using it for a while after Pale Moon x64 was giving me some strange problems.  Pale Moon directory structure was also different to Firefox's, this was good for those times when programs expected to just dump things onto Firefox, (toolbars, bookmarks, etc), because they couldn't find the directories, (thus assumed no browser), but not so good when you were trying to get some plugin to work.

So far I haven't found any problems with using Waterfox over Firefox.

Powered by Mozilla & Waterfox 9.0.1
Jan 7, 2012
Posted by: MrAlex

Waterfox has now been accepted as a project by Mozilla and has been placed on their website! Waterfox 9.0.1 has also been released, but at the moment is only available through the internal updating program available in Waterfox 9.0. This is to try and iron out any issues for the release of Waterfox.

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Living Room / Re: Can U Say Crap-O-Riffic??

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2012, 06:24 PM »

loaded with hollow-points

-kyrathaba (January 22, 2012, 03:45 PM)

(Well of course) Do they still make another kind of bullet?  

-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 03:53 PM)

Solids

Spoiler

Yes, because the very last thing you want to have in a shooting is a second version of what happened...  

-Stoic Joker (January 22, 2012, 06:19 PM)

Spoiler

Solids: The only way to say "F*CK OFF!" to the person in front and his three mates behind......with one shot.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Icon not displayed in standard warning popup window (Win7x64)

« Last post by 4wd on January 22, 2012, 08:03 AM »

This is probably the same sort of bug as the disappearing tray icons.

That can be fixed, (albeit temporarily), by restarting explorer.exe - have tried that?

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Living Room / Re: Windows XP system clock losing (lots) of time.

« Last post by 4wd on January 21, 2012, 06:13 AM »

I did some checking, and it looks like it may be driver related. Especially the chipset.

-worstje (January 07, 2012, 07:57 AM)

Guess what?  You hit it in one, after an image restore I removed the nVidia driver and then reinstalled the latest WHQL XP drivers I could find, (which wasn't from nVidia' site).  No more clock problems since.

Definitely no more updating for this machine now, service disabled.

Thanks for the clue worstje  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Buying cheap Vmware from this site, what do you think?

« Last post by 4wd on January 21, 2012, 05:31 AM »

I get a better deal there, $199 discounted to $119



I think you only need to look at the prices for Windows 7 on the site to realise it's a bit dodgy since at those prices they're probably the usual MSDN keys palmed off with a copied DVD.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [REQ] Disable sleep/hibernation one time to drain battery

« Last post by 4wd on January 19, 2012, 11:32 PM »

Updated - now outputs to a window.

Run it once:


Run it again:


It will say Fail instead of Done if the powercfg.exe command failed, (and give the error), or the RunOnce registry entry couldn't be (re)set.

Unfortunately, it's not easy to determine how an AutoIt executable was launched, (CLI or Windows), so the output will always be to a window even if launched from the CLI.

I think that about covers it unless there's a problem - I might look at enabling/disabling Hibernate/Sleep from within the script, (to reduce reliance on powercfg.exe), but don't count on it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nasty NTFS issue ? [Solved !]

« Last post by 4wd on January 17, 2012, 09:44 PM »

For future reference: Large List of Downloadable Computer Repair CDs Note: They're not all freeware.

And to remove the Antivirus virus: Removal Tools and Methods for Uninstalling Major Antivirus Products

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Living Room / Re: "Save the internet"

« Last post by 4wd on January 17, 2012, 07:50 PM »

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nasty NTFS issue ?

« Last post by 4wd on January 15, 2012, 10:26 PM »

There's also the bootable MSSS, Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper, in both x86 and x64 flavours.

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Support. You have been directed here to download and install the beta version of Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta, a recovery tool that can help you start an infected PC and perform an offline scan to help identify and remove rootkits and other advanced malware. In addition, Microsoft Standalone System Sweeper Beta can be used if you cannot install or start an antivirus solution on your PC, or if the installed solution can’t detect or remove malware on your PC.

It will output to Flash, CD/DVD or ISO.

You could put an old disconnected number in I suppose.

-cmpm (January 15, 2012, 08:36 AM)

Fake Name Generator

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

« Last post by 4wd on January 15, 2012, 12:18 AM »

Duct tape. Never leave home without it...
During a private fly-in fishing excursion into the Alaskan wilderness, the chartered pilot and fishermen left a cooler with bait in the plane. And a bear smelled it.
This is what it did to the plane...



Read on

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nasty NTFS issue ?

« Last post by 4wd on January 14, 2012, 09:18 PM »

Still, what troubles me is why this defect would be revealed by a chkdsk@boottime.  

-MerleOne (January 14, 2012, 06:13 AM)

Because at boot time there are files that aren't locked by the operating system and are therefore accessible for testing.  That's why it's always better to do an offline test and the main reason I always have some form of PE to boot from.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nasty NTFS issue ?

« Last post by 4wd on January 13, 2012, 06:27 PM »

This should work but I would lose 2 years of configurations of all the software I have added since I got it.

-MerleOne (January 13, 2012, 05:25 PM)

That shouldn't happen, about the only software I've had affected by a Repair install is Windows itself, (all updates are lost), possibly virtual network drivers will no longer work, (eg. OpenVPN), and AV software will no longer work.  Any time I've done it all my other software has kept working fine unless it specifically relied upon an update later than the install disc.

But I always do a full disk image before attempting the Repair install.

I checked surface defects with HDD Regenerator : none found.  Didn't try safe mode, maybe because I considered that after the chkdsk, the system was anyway badly damaged so working in safe mode would not help repairing it (maybe I am wrong here).

Safe mode will help rule out any driver/program conflict problems.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Easy Remote access to another PC?

« Last post by 4wd on January 13, 2012, 05:23 AM »

I use UltraVNC also, the only problem with it and other VNC variants is I've yet to find one that can handle overlay video correctly.

Something which RDP seems to handle fine but then I have problems because it wants exclusive access to the audio even though I don't pass it through to the client.

As an example, when I was in the UK last year I was editing video back in Australia over RDP.  I had to start the edit using RDP over HTTP because the editing program, (VideoReDo), would complain it couldn't load the video because of no access to an audio decoder, (DirectX).  After the video was loaded into the program I could then switch to straight RDP to do the editing.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [REQ] Disable sleep/hibernation one time to drain battery

« Last post by 4wd on January 12, 2012, 09:25 PM »

No visual output.....I'm a bit of a lazy coder

However, you should get aural feedback.  When my machines are switched to High performance/Always On the CPU fan goes into high gear

I'll look at providing some kind of output window at the end.

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by 4wd on January 12, 2012, 09:23 PM »

Another milestone......or should that be millstone?

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Living Room / Re: Best USB/Bootable recovery and "utility" tools

« Last post by 4wd on January 12, 2012, 09:16 PM »

@Josh: Did you mean UBCD or UBCD4Win?

Driver Pack Solution 11 - DVD or copy the files to a flash drive.  Identify and, optionally, install/update drivers and other common programs, (eg. Firefox, µTorrent, etc).
D7 - Kind of a multi-tool.

Other than that I usually roll my own using WinBuilder, (over UBCD or BartPE), for the same reason 40hz said.

Everything installed on a ~30GB bootable FAT32 partition on a 2.5" external, (using SARDU) - I've found more computers are willing to boot off of a real USB HDD rather than a flash drive posing as a HDD.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: [REQ] Disable sleep/hibernation one time to drain battery

« Last post by 4wd on January 12, 2012, 02:00 AM »

Updated, see above - now reverts system on second run.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Detecting duplicate videos

« Last post by 4wd on January 11, 2012, 05:48 PM »

I suppose as a "cheap" way of doing it, you could:
1) Convert both clips into individual frame images.
2) Compare using an image comparison program, ideally one that would just output a report - if all the images in the shorter clip compare at, say, an 80+% match with some of the images in the other - chances are it's a clip cut from the other, (either it or its source).

Downside is it will be hugely resource intensive in terms of space, time and CPU/GPU.

Here's a script on Ubuntu, (and a link to a Ruby version in the last post), that will compare exact same video across different formats/framerate: Script to find duplicate videos based on content regardless of format. - it might give you some ideas.

There's also UQLIPS, (video upload/search link): A real-time near-duplicate video clip detection system (PDF paper) - who knows, they may be working on a standalone program.