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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable apps suites - is there a good one?
« Last post by techidave on September 08, 2010, 05:38 AM »
Hmm...how about a portable app updating utility?  How would one go about doing that?


 :up: :up: :up:
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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable apps suites - is there a good one?
« Last post by techidave on September 07, 2010, 09:55 PM »
I am with Superboy on this one!  An excellent idea to make a list of must haves.  Off the top of my head I would vote for any or all of Nirsoft's programs.  Also System Explorer and CCleaner are must haves for me.

I would use portable apps more but having to constantly update them can be a real pain in the butt.   :(   Of course, I guess updating them isn't mandatory.   :D
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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable apps suites - is there a good one?
« Last post by techidave on September 07, 2010, 09:27 PM »
what i'd really like to do is come up with something so that LBC and FARR can parse the portable-app-collection formats, so that you can use LBC and FARR as a drop-in replacement for those portable app menu launchers without doing any special configuration.

that may mean including a set of pre-defined launchbars with different category icons and looks that users can choose, that could be provided by people on the dc forum.
-mouser (September 07, 2010, 07:32 PM)

using FARR instead of a launcher would be awesome.  I have FARR installed on most of my computers that I use on a regular basis.  I looked at LBC sometime back so I will have to revisit it again.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable apps suites - is there a good one?
« Last post by techidave on September 06, 2010, 09:58 PM »
most of mine are XP but I am seeing more Win 7 machines.  perhaps in time. :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Portable apps suites - is there a good one?
« Last post by techidave on September 06, 2010, 09:18 PM »
thanks Wraith.  I am downloading now to give it another whirl.
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General Software Discussion / Portable apps suites - is there a good one?
« Last post by techidave on September 06, 2010, 08:48 PM »
The last couple of days I have been looking at Liberkey and PortableApps suites as a way to get some good tools on a usb stick.  I have tried both of them before but it seems to be over my head as how to install them on my flash drive.

So this  brings up the question of is there one out there that is easy to install to the flash drive and also easy to add other apps to it?

I would like something that autoruns when I plug the flash drive into a computer which is what I am having problems with.  It needs to autostart no matter what the drive letter would be on any machine.   

I tend to install USBDLM on most of my machines and maybe that is the problem??

So what does my friends at DC use?

Dave
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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: MajorGeeks discounts
« Last post by techidave on August 29, 2010, 08:53 PM »
Thanks for the heads up Curt.  I have looked at their site in detail but missed the store.  Looks good.  :)
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Living Room / Re: Simple way to connect two computers (both XP) ?
« Last post by techidave on August 23, 2010, 06:28 PM »
actually if you are on xp pro, you can go to gpedit.msc and tell it to allow blank passwords.  I forget exactly where it is but could look it up if need be.
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Living Room / Re: HOSTS File for malware prevention
« Last post by techidave on August 21, 2010, 08:20 PM »
Good idea sj. I keep forgetting about this program.
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Living Room / HOSTS File for malware prevention
« Last post by techidave on August 21, 2010, 02:35 PM »
I have been reading about the use of the HOSTS file to prevent malware, etc., from getting on  your computer.  I am having trouble determing if Firefox and Opera use the HOSTS file like IE does.  how does the HOSTS file supplied by mvps.org differ from that of Spyware Blaster or Spybot's Search and Destory Immunize feature?

I am trying to figure out if the HOST file is a good way to prevent malware on computers??

How does this differ from Restricted Sites (probably IE only)?

Dave
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General Software Discussion / Re: It is impossible to remove the network connection icon from the system tray.
« Last post by techidave on August 21, 2010, 12:09 PM »
are you selecting the "hide when inactive" or the "always hide" in the dropdown box? 
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General Software Discussion / Re: It is impossible to remove the network connection icon from the system tray.
« Last post by techidave on August 21, 2010, 05:36 AM »
You can hide the tray icons in xhttp://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-hide-system-tray-icons-in-windows-xp/ also.  I do it all the time.  here are the instructions.
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Living Room / Re: How difficult/feasible to do a desktop virtualization of my home PC?
« Last post by techidave on August 20, 2010, 05:54 AM »
Citrix is an expensive item.  Our school looked briefly at it 5 or 6 years ago.  For our 100 machines or so it would have been $20,000 to implement it.  Why, supposedly so we could use our older, slower machines and save money cause we wouldn't need machines with hard drives and cd drives.

Give me a break, I still used the older, slower machines without a whole lot of problems.  But there are quite a few schools that do use it.  They must have deeper pockets than our school does!   :(


sorry, I didn't mean to hijack this thread.
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General Software Discussion / Re: power management software - free
« Last post by techidave on August 02, 2010, 06:40 AM »
You are correct, Curt.  But the real question was has anyone out there in DC land used any of this stuff before?  The OP probably didn't have the question stated very clearly.
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General Software Discussion / Re: power management software - free
« Last post by techidave on July 31, 2010, 03:03 PM »
by the way I have read the suggestions from energystar.gov but haven't actually tried any of their recommendations.  Has anyone tried them?

software options
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General Software Discussion / power management software - free
« Last post by techidave on July 31, 2010, 02:48 PM »
 does anyone know of any kind of power management software that will work on a network?  for windows machines using windows server 2003 with active directory. something free, open source, or low cost would be great!

Actually want something that will give me a central control over the power settings on the other computers on the network.  They are running Win XP Pro SP3

i have looked at the demo on www.absolute.com/power but it does way more than what I want.

I will have 110 computers this year (down from the last year).  with our declining enrollment, we need to pinch pennies anywhere we can.  by the way, we are a K-12 public school here in the heartland of the United States (Kansas).

thanks in advanced,
dave
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General Software Discussion / Re: print listing of music titles
« Last post by techidave on July 28, 2010, 06:58 AM »
thanks!  credits coming  your way
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General Software Discussion / Re: print listing of music titles
« Last post by techidave on July 28, 2010, 06:40 AM »
a manual save would be fine.

csv format is ok too!

thanks!
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General Software Discussion / Re: print listing of music titles
« Last post by techidave on July 28, 2010, 05:49 AM »
skwire,
two things I would like to see added to your program.

1.  the ability to save the result
2.  to export it to excel.

I don't know if these are possible or not.    :) :)
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General Software Discussion / Re: Best way to collaborate (chat-like) within in the office?
« Last post by techidave on July 20, 2010, 09:52 PM »
I remember looking at these about 7 years ago when I first started at the school.  I don't remember which ones I tried but I do remember settling on Windows Messenger just because it was already installed.

In searching the only familiar ones were Bopup Messenger.  I will see if I can remember though.
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Living Room / Re: Software Industry Conference - Dallas, Texas -- Pics
« Last post by techidave on July 16, 2010, 08:52 PM »
so which one was you??
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General Software Discussion / Re: cannot play ripped music files
« Last post by techidave on July 13, 2010, 05:33 AM »
I never thought about looking for a drm removal tool and apparently no one else did either until now.

and this thread is a little over a year old too.
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General Software Discussion / Re: print listing of music titles
« Last post by techidave on July 12, 2010, 05:27 PM »
English please Curt. :P  your screenshots are all greek to me :D

most of them were ripped with WMP.  I didn't record them just ripped them to my hard drive is all.
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General Software Discussion / Re: cannot play ripped music files
« Last post by techidave on July 12, 2010, 05:23 PM »
not really.  someone suggested that I rip them as mp3s because they weren't  bothered by DRM so much.

doesn't help much when its been ripped as a wma and you cannot find the original cd.  :(
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Living Room / Re: A special gift from Veign.com to DonationCoder - thank you!
« Last post by techidave on July 12, 2010, 05:11 PM »
Thank you Veign for donating and congrats to skwire!  :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :Thmbsup: :Thmbsup:
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