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General Software Discussion / Re: How long is 'temporary'?

« Last post by Curt on March 30, 2010, 04:40 PM »

- good to see that ZTree has been "rewritten as a fully Unicode-enabled application" 

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

« Last post by Curt on March 30, 2010, 01:10 PM »

300 cyber posts from our diva  






https://www.donation....msg200155#msg200155

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Vista: tool for hiding program icons from the task bar wanted

« Last post by Curt on March 30, 2010, 08:52 AM »

http://www.freedownl...for_Windows_57295_p/

Ease your control over foreground processes and windows now with new version of Process Manager for Windows . You can perform following operations on any application by just right clicking on them in taskbar.

1. Kill
2. Change their Priority.
3.Always on Top.
4. Minimize to tray
5. Hide
6. Hide others
7. Change Transparency.

If this is not it, right click on PMW icon in tray and

8. You can Hide All Open windows ,
9. Unhide them all in one go,
10. you can even hide the PMW icon from tray.
and the best feature of this tool is
11. You can control which menu's you want and which menu you do not want.

Product homepage: http://processpriori...iki.sourceforge.net/

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows Vista: tool for hiding program icons from the task bar wanted

« Last post by Curt on March 30, 2010, 08:38 AM »

PS Tray Factory    $25

Edited:
- oh, you said task bar. Sorry. PS is for the process / tray area

Edit2:
However, you could "hide to tray"+"always minimize to tray", and then PS will have them

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: WinPatrol PLUS at 50% off until April 7

« Last post by Curt on March 30, 2010, 05:59 AM »

Fine program. Interesting how he is offering this rebate exactly two months after he gave it away for free; though only for that day, 29-01-2010. Don't get me wrong; I am not implying anything negative; on the contrary, I am impressed with his lack of greedy ;-)

WinPatrol cannot run together with Outpost Security Suite.    I have both 

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X5

« Last post by Curt on March 30, 2010, 03:16 AM »

Americans and Brits my be speaking the same language, more or less, but England is part of Europe, and therefore must pay the price; more rather than less...

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 05:40 PM »

- TrimAll will do the job and close again within a second. Click & Forget. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: How long is 'temporary'?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 05:38 PM »

- thanks, f0dder. I will take a closer look at dates of age.

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 05:36 PM »

- TrimAll:

...: "No GUI, no nothing", meaning there is nothing to see unless you are watching via your task / process manager 'Memory Use' Before/After. TrimAll wil AT ONCE lower the total memory use with approx 20 %

-Curt (March 28, 2010, 02:04 PM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 05:27 PM »

- it actually has been corrected to 'recovery' - at least on your link's page.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair BROWSEINFO lpbi ?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 05:23 PM »

Another post somewhere also gave me the idea that it all may be due to filenames being too long because some unwanted 'changes' may have been implemented. Is there something that can make Windows no longer accept 256 characters (or is it 264, or whatever number) in drive+directory+folder+folder+filename?

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair BROWSEINFO lpbi ?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 05:16 PM »

- you made me uninstall '1-abc.net Right Click Configurator' at once, f0dder, but to no avail. But of course there are "many" others to test, before I can say if you're right.

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General Software Discussion / GoogleClean 2011

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 02:15 PM »

edited: goggle have been changed to google
------------------------------

Dear valued Abelssoft user,

did you know that Google collects many personal information about you and your application usage? Our new version GoogleClean 2011 stops Google from spying you. It scans for Google applications and removes all tracking functionality. GoogleClean allows you to sop big brother. :-)

What can GoogleClean 2011 do for you?

Feature    GoogleClean switches off spying functionality in Google programms.
Feature    GoogleClean deletes Google tracking cookies
Feature    GoogleClean finds and deletes tracking information in the background
Feature    Cleans all Google programs: Chrome, Earth, Desktop, Picasa, ...

Feature    Click here to learn more...

http://www.abelssoft...011&ctk=gc2011en
http://www.abelssoft.net/

Edited:
AbelSoft seems to think just like Corel; the app is much cheaper in US $ than in Euro!!
I got 3 years for $17.78

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 02:10 PM »

I did the test with Firefox just before posting, so I used the real values; my Firefox went from 130MB to 10MB in a second. Then it started building up again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 02:04 PM »

@tuxman > Quote: "No GUI, no nothing", meaning there is nothing to see unless you are watching via your task / process manager 'Memory Use' Before/After. TrimAll wil AT ONCE lower the total memory use with approx 20 %

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 01:55 PM »

if you want Firefox or any other application to use less memory right here and now, you will at any time be better off using f0dder's TrimAll. Click it and Firefox will AT ONCE go down from say 130MB to less than 10MB. (Of course it will then rise again.) TrimAll really is superior to CleanMem and all the others. Very fine work, f0dder!

Direct link to exe: https://www.donation...=2794.0;attach=17116

Here you go

"trimall.exe" automatically trims all processes, has no GUI or status indication or whatever (thus the small size). It still won't trim system processes.

-f0dder (April 20, 2007, 08:30 AM)

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General Software Discussion / Re: How long is 'temporary'?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 12:10 PM »

Thanks, that was "interesting"..., but also just a little scary! I didn't manage to read what would happen before my fingers already had clicked Start, so I got nervous when Explorer was closed, thinking it was crashing. But no, it was meant to close. However, it did not restart, though it was supposed to. I rebooted Vista and now Explorer is well, again. Several temp folders were cleansed, but C:\Users\Curt\AppData\Local\Temp has not been touched. It is now 2677 files and folders.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How to repair BROWSEINFO lpbi ?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 11:42 AM »

- yes, but they seemed all to be for software authors.
At least  I didn't understand any of it.

The closest I came was the answer to a related but not identical problem:

A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product $upport $ervices to obtain the hotfix.

Somewhere somehow I get the impression that the error has to do with .NET Framework. Only thing is, my Frameworks (1.1 and 3.5 SP1) have apparently not been changed recently.

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General Software Discussion / How to repair BROWSEINFO lpbi ?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 06:17 AM »

More and more programs are crashing on me when I navigate them to a folder in Vista and click 'open'. Until now no program has told me why they crashed, but finally Microsoft AutoCollage told something about the reason: "error detail:
System.Windows.Forms.UnsafeNativeMethods.Shell32.SHBrowseForFolder(BROWSEINFO lpbi)".
Whatever that means.

Does any one have a clue?
And maybe even an idea on how to fix this?



---
- no, I don't have an installation-CD to "repair Vista" with.

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General Software Discussion / Re: How long is 'temporary'?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 06:04 AM »

Sorry for talking about things I have very little understanding of, but I pasted the full directory folder address because there are several temp folder addresses. I am not too sure we are talking about the same temp folder address; Did you check yours?

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General Software Discussion / How long is 'temporary'?

« Last post by Curt on March 28, 2010, 04:53 AM »

I was having a look in C:\Users\Curt\AppData\Local\Temp and was quite confused to meet 2665 files and folders, dating back to even when the computer was new. Somehow I have been given the impression that temp is short for temporary, but really... just for how long can something be temporary???

Can I delete the lot?
- yes of course, but will I most likely loose something important like uninstallers, etc?
The folder is hidden, and there must be a reason.

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 27, 2010, 06:13 AM »

I've come across a page that is telling about the all new Mozilla page, that I've been referring to. So I guess that's the problem; the plugin updating feature is so brand new that most plugins not yet have been implemented, but in time may be.

The page is in Danish and from my IP supplier.

Edited:
The page is naming these plugins only:

Shockwave for Director
Java JRE
Silverlight
DivX Web Player
Shockwave Flash
QuickTime Plug-in
2007 Microsoft Office system
Microsoft Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin

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General Software Discussion / Re: updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 26, 2010, 08:08 PM »

I am sorry I didn't express my mind very well. But to avoid further confusing:
I was talking about Plugins  only, not addons.





---------
@Tuxman
No Java or flash is of course a very good reason not to update the plugins! 

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General Software Discussion / updating Firefox plugins sucks!

« Last post by Curt on March 26, 2010, 03:50 PM »

For the first time ever, I clicked Addons > Plugins > check for updates, in Firefox, and was very surprised to watch the following procedure.

First, I was sent to a homepage that knew what plugin versions I have. Unfortunately it didn't know more than 6 out of 28. The remaining 22 plugins were merely marked with a grey (gray) button saying "Unable to Detect Plugin Version".

Then, when clicking the first "update" button, (Adobe Shockwave), the homepage would send me to Adobe's homepage, using the same window !! I find this to be equal to idiocy. Of course it must use another window / tab!

Finally, when I clicked the first of the 22 grey (gray) buttons, HD View 3.3.0.0 Mozilla plugin, Firefox did *not* link me to the product's homepage, but merely gave me a google search (still in the same window) for current version plugin HD View !!


Realizing I still had 21 more plugins to go, I simply gave up and closed the plugin's box.

Do you 'auto-update' your Firefox plugins via https://www.mozilla....m/en-US/plugincheck/ ?
- or what do you do to keep your plugins updated??
 

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General Software Discussion / Re: A new approach to reduce NTFS fragmentation

« Last post by Curt on March 26, 2010, 07:31 AM »

Their english seems dubious at best, never a good sign.

-Eóin (March 25, 2010, 10:43 AM)

I will try to be polite and just say that I do not agree with you on this.