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General Software Discussion / Re: Data recovery software suggestions?

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2008, 10:57 AM »

GetDataBack has a very good reputation: http://www.runtime.org/

-mouser (September 12, 2006, 07:25 PM)

I am getting even more interested in this GetDataBack because of this new feature they added via the free HDHost:

HDHost
Recover files over your local network or even over the Internet

HDHost enables you to run the GetDataBack on one computer ("remote") while accessing the drives of another computer ("host").

The "remote" computer runs GetDataBack, the "host" computer runs HDHost.

If there is no way to attach the drive to a working computer (e.g. a laptop hard drive) you can run HdHost from a WinPE boot CD-Rom. The benefit is you do not need to install any software on the system or drive you want to recover from.

You can run GetDataBack (too) from a WinPE boot CD-ROM.

 

GetDataBack for NTFS is $79, and for FAT it is $69 - GetDataBack supports Unicode.

Note: We recommend that you download the demo version of GetDataBack first to see if your files are recoverable. The demo version allows you to perform the data recovery and to see and verify your recovered files.

A license key is then required to actually save these files. Once you have a license key for the software, you don't have to run the program again, just enter the license key in the demo version to enable the copy function.

- even more thumbs up!

http://www.runtime.o...ecovery-software.htm

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General Software Discussion / Re: File Managers! Windows Explorer replacement! Come one, come all...

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2008, 10:00 AM »

Couldn't wait for your answer so I bought it anyway.

... I keep spending my money on software that I don't really use enough to justify the expense. FileBoss is a case in point -

-Darwin (May 17, 2008, 01:32 PM)

- I know what you mean. Why would I even want yet another file manager? I love my (amplified) Explorer!

-Curt (May 17, 2008, 02:01 PM)

I was puzzled when I re-read this post just now: What did I purchase? Oh, FileBoss!! I am embarrassed to admit that I haven't used it since the purchase, not even once!   
I guess my final comment in the quote is adequate: I love my (amplified) Explorer! 

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General Software Discussion / Activate 'Terminate Services' ???

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2008, 09:35 AM »

I am trying to install the new Windows Search 4 but the installation gets aborted and this strange message comes up: Make sure 'Terminate Services' is activated / allowed (or how the English terms would go). Now, of course I never knew that such a feature could be de-activated in the first place, but the world must know by now that I have absolutely no idea on how to solve this problem, if possible. What can you tell me about this? Services and processes are being terminated all the time, so I guess it really may be some other problem and the XP system perhaps just gave "some" message because it didn't know any better? Do you have an idea, please?

 

Edited: Wrong first titel; "services", not "processes".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Is there an alternative for Babylon Rightclick Translation software?

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2008, 08:43 AM »

- yes, their policies are tuff. Also, I was disappointed not to see any real new development from version 6 to 7 even though the upgrade price was $52 (incl the $7 insurrance and VAT). Babylon is fine by itself, but it's biggest advantage is the possible use of add-on dictionaries - I have quite a number. Some of them were expensive, but most were free. Together they allow Babylon to answer almost any question faster than any other I have tried.

Despite of all this, I believe my next program in the field of stand-alone dictionaries will be the PRO version of WordWeb, though it can easily / will be much more expensive than Babylon.

So, now that it has been half a year since my purchase of Babylon 7 I am merely a modest fan.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MakeUsOf Blog Entry: Cool Tips to Put your Mouse Scroll Button to Work

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2008, 06:26 AM »

- the überOptions' changelog is quite impressive 

http://www.mstar.net...ns/?n=Main.ChangeLog

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General Software Discussion / Re: XP or Vista user — take the poll!

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2008, 05:52 AM »

Number of Voters:  1238
First Vote         :  Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:48
Last Vote     :  Thursday, 05 June 2008 11:37

2k/XP: 62.8 %
Vista: 29.3 %

take the poll from the link in the upper right corner at http://www.copyhandl...om/en/home/index.php

BTW: Copy Handler is very promising, but maybe not all finished, yet
- read test at FreewareGenius

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is the currently best Desktop Search software?

« Last post by Curt on June 05, 2008, 03:26 AM »

FindOnClick really is impressively fast.

My problems with the program were: 1) that it is not "integrated" with Explorer other than in the context menu. In most cases my search via GTSearch or QT will have ended before FindOnClick even have begun to search, because these apps are genuinely INTEGRATED. This is of course only a concern if the user already is inside Explorer.  2) FindOnClick can set a shortcut to the search you have performed. Nice. But a) you will have to name the link yourself if you are going to have more than one of the kind, and b) it is not a link to the result of the search but to a new search for the same criteria, (some non-sense deleted). 3) It is not FindOnClick but FindOnDoubleclick 4) It is $30  Edited: seems to be $30 including: EncryptOnClick + DeleteOnClick + UndeleteOnClick + HashOnClick + PatchOnClick + ScrambleOnClick   which all seems very cheap (read: "cheap" as in a fine deal, not as in cheap crap), but I don't think I want any of them.

But other than this it really is both fast and 'nice'.

Edited:

5) During un-install I was asked this question I really hate to get:
>Remove shared file?<   



EvenMoreEdited:

Also, the shortcut in Quick Launch was left behind. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Unlock files because of sharing violations

« Last post by Curt on June 04, 2008, 05:23 PM »

- or, if you read German: SoftwareOK FingerWeg

    FingerWeg 1.33    Description: DEUTSCH
Update: 17.02.2008 

FingerWeg ist ein kleines und effektives Programm, wenn es darum geht, gesperrte (geschützte) Dateien zu endsperren oder zu löschen.
So manches professionelles Virenscannprogramm stößt hier an seine Grenzen, FingerWeg macht hier einfach weiter!

Installation ist nicht erforderlich, FingerWeg einfach am Desktop platzieren und Dateien per Drop auf FingerWeg ablegen .
Mit gerade mal 67 KB ist es keine Belastung !

http://www.softwareo...e=Software/FingerWeg

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?

« Last post by Curt on June 03, 2008, 11:03 AM »

Ah, you are in luck, the article (with clear instructions and pictures) is still there:
http://www.informati...?articleID=189400897

-Shades (May 30, 2008, 10:15 PM)

I was not all comfortable with the small pictures in the otherwise fine instructive article - ("I cannot see which important line the author is referring too, because the pic is too small!") - so I made a version with larger images (and less text) as a supplement. I guess the text in the images shows that the file has been compressed a little too much - sorry:

XPs_No_Reformat,_Nondestructive_Total_Rebuild_...pdf (318.47 kB - downloaded 344 times.)

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

« Last post by Curt on June 03, 2008, 05:17 AM »

justice #888:


https://www.donation....msg115208#msg115208

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General Software Discussion / Re: What was the name of that Right/Middle Click Circle-based interface app launcher

« Last post by Curt on June 03, 2008, 04:28 AM »

Does Magic Formation need 'mousegestures' to be ON ? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: MakeUsOf Blog Entry: Cool Tips to Put your Mouse Scroll Button to Work

« Last post by Curt on June 02, 2008, 05:51 PM »

they should put more buttons on the other side of the mouse.

-mouser (June 02, 2008, 07:23 AM)

I want to try such a thing, like this $60 one, but the prices in Denmark are double up...

Saitek GM3200 Laser Mouse | USB 2.0 | 6 Programmable Buttons:

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General Software Discussion / Re: MakeUsOf Blog Entry: Cool Tips to Put your Mouse Scroll Button to Work

« Last post by Curt on June 02, 2008, 05:22 PM »

I like to click the wheel  and auto-scroll   in my Internet browsers.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nero Vision replacement

« Last post by Curt on May 31, 2008, 10:11 AM »

App-Zilla is a esteemed name who are offering [name deleted] ripp-offs

- sorry, close spelling made me confuse two different companies.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Disktrix's UltimateDefrag V1 released as freeware !

« Last post by Curt on May 31, 2008, 08:11 AM »

Thanks, PhilB66, for the informative wiki link.

However, I fail to see what the 9 kb invalid rar container has to do with all this.
Surely, you don't mean to tell me that 2.2 MB can be copied into 9 KB?

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General Software Discussion / Re: What is your boot time?

« Last post by Curt on May 31, 2008, 03:15 AM »

@ Curt:
Indeed, it is a shame you don't have a XP installation CD.

Ah, you are in luck, the article (with clear instructions and pictures) is still there:
http://www.informati...?articleID=189400897

-Shades (May 30, 2008, 10:15 PM)

Thanks for the sympathy, Shades, and for the link. 
Can anyone guess why I had to use IE7 to open the link? Firefox only gave me a blank page!

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Disktrix's UltimateDefrag V1 released as freeware !

« Last post by Curt on May 31, 2008, 03:00 AM »

... the most recent review - UltimateDefrag 2008 Debate: I, which confirms earlier findings.

-PhilB66 (May 30, 2008, 09:53 PM)

All about files bigger than 4 GB!
Who have files at such a ridiculous size?
Well, let him choose another program!

You obviously love to hate my new program -
I will tell you later on if I love or hate it, and why.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Disktrix's UltimateDefrag V1 released as freeware !

« Last post by Curt on May 31, 2008, 02:43 AM »

I still don't know what you are implying about rapidlinks. What is a crack and what is it supposed to do? I have just now clicked 'download' and twice followed the never-ending redirections and both times ended up downloading a 9 kb invalid rar container file - is that a 'crack' ? Of course, I couldn't see what was inside the invalid container, but the original file is 2.44 MB. The link may of course be removed, I don't want to offend the forum with something of no importance at all, but I just don't fully know what you are talking about. And I guess a lot of other innocent people don't know either.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Disktrix's UltimateDefrag V1 released as freeware !

« Last post by Curt on May 30, 2008, 05:32 PM »

I have several defraggers, but I WANTED this. 


I merely linked to a fine article. I don't know what else may be going on at rapidlinks.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Disktrix's UltimateDefrag V1 released as freeware !

« Last post by Curt on May 30, 2008, 04:48 PM »

That was all back then. Now they seem to have learned a lesson; the old PDF in question has been removed, and the new is free of charge. I would say their UltimateDefrag 2008 is a fine piece of work, so I am purchasing it NOW, and then we'll see Sunday if the 25% discount offer is still valid, even it says "until 31 May 2008".

Edited:
Read more at rapidlinks[-deleted-]=12797

even more edited:
- about the previous version, the one that is now free, well, we all followed the great shootout, didn't we:

UltimateDefrag is probably the closest program yet reviewed to being the "ultimate" defrag software, particularly if you're a power user. It gets a "Thumbs Up" rating in spite of its flaws.

http://donnedwards.o...t-xiii-disktrix.html

-The Great Degfrag Shootout, XIII

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Living Room / Re: $7.5 to optimize XP NTFS Drive access : rip-off or not ?

« Last post by Curt on May 30, 2008, 04:26 PM »

- yes, Carol, you're right: A couple of years ago I NTFS-compressed some 20 GB of MP3 files, but saved merely 300 MB space, and saw no increase in speed. Also, later on I forgot to de-compress before the drive ran out of available space...

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General Software Discussion / Re: Troupware, another unknown gem

« Last post by Curt on May 30, 2008, 04:05 PM »

One might say he doesn't update too often, I guess. He is bound to know that it doesn't work flawlessly, and yet it hasn't been updated for half a year. But you are of course right, Darwin, we should talk about how the beatle handles  -  only, I haven't tested it... because of the quoted warning!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Troupware, another unknown gem

« Last post by Curt on May 30, 2008, 03:55 PM »

I have re-edited the first post and added this quote:

BEATLE v1.0 Beta 1, Build #1273 Released
HOT OFF THE PRESS!! BEATLE v1.0, Build #1273 Beta 1 is now available for download. The original version of BEATLE will be maintained for the time being, but all development on the project has been stopped. There is too much to say about what’s been changed in the new BEATLE, but all I will say is this: EVERTHING!!

Please remember that this release is for testing purposes only and should not be used as your default media player. You will also notice that some features are missing or some are not working. Please don’t worry as they will be ready for the final release.

Enjoy
Posted on 15 Nov 2007 by William Troup

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General Software Discussion / Re: TechSmith release Jing (free at the moment)

« Last post by Curt on May 30, 2008, 01:04 PM »

They have improved a lot on Jing's speed, and added two new buttons:

One (button) saves your image or video to any location you choose. The other (button) copies your whole image (not just the URL) to the clipboard so you can paste it into an email...or wherever you want it.

Watch their video, What's new in Jing 1.6?".

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nero Vision replacement

« Last post by Curt on May 30, 2008, 11:33 AM »

Maybe it would be a good idea to give him a premium membership to Gizmo's ? 

Some say ImgBurn, others CDBurnerXP, but *IIRC* the latter doesn't handle videos. Maybe DVD Flick is okay? I assume it is, because it comes from the sourceforge community, but I don't know. But go and check http://www.techsuppo...burning-software.htm when you have become a premium member... sorry, but I am logged in', so all I can give you right now is the main link: www.techsupportalert.com/

Edit 1:
- I should specify that I don't burn videos, so I don't *know* anything about this subject.

Edit 2:
Google "burn video to dvd", first answer:

Hack Attack: Burn almost any video file to a playable DVD

-lifehacker

- and the third answer:

DVD burning in XP

-Microsoft at work (from year 2002)