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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Free License Give-away for USB Safely Remove v4.1

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 04:29 PM »

One question, does it remove the "Safely remove hardware" icon from your systray? ;-)

-Josh (September 26, 2009, 03:26 PM)

Yes, while it's running. I find it a useful ap. FWIW.

-cranioscopical (September 26, 2009, 03:43 PM)

It didn't do anything for my USB docking station, but I just tried it with a USB key drive and it worked immediately, so I guess it's a keeper.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Choose which browser will open a url from external app

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 04:26 PM »

btw I went to Browser Chooser site.  Turns out it's Open Source.  I don't have VB.NET installed, but if someone is into Visual Basic for .NET it should be a fairly straight-forward modification to add options to associate a bunch of window title strings with each browser in the toolbar.

Probably in the OnLoad handler for the main form, before the focus is removed from the current app, get the window title of the active window. If in the options list, launch the chosen browser with the url instead of bringing up the toolbar.

It looks like the project is originally from around 2004 so I'm not sure if it would automatically load and be valid with a newer VB.NET.  Contacting the author may be a good idea before investing too much time in it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 04:17 PM »

Afa laying on top of a running OS I think it worked for me twice. Putting Windows 3.1 on the same partition as Dos 5.2, and maybe putting Win98 2nd ed. onto a Win95 partition.  Other than that, it's way too flaky. It's more hassle to fix it than to reinstall.  I tried W7 64 bit upgrade on my Vista64 just for grins.  The start menu was hosed and stuff was really flaky.  I laid my Vista64 image back on.  Besides, other than the Taskbar I didn't notice a difference.  Vista64 with SP1 is pretty smooth.

As close as I can get is the Custom install.  Portable apps that are just in a folder I only have to drag a shortcut to use.  But anything with registry is stuck in Windows.old.

Besides, Windows Seven 7077 is running great.  Sandboxie 3.8 works beautifully.  Don't want to fix what ain't broken.  When the time runs out then either I'll put XP, or my old Vista 32 bit image back on, buy some 7 or, if I'm really lucky, pull the HD and Network card out and junk it for a new PC with 7 SP1 already on.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Copy a bunch of cd/dvd

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 11:36 AM »

Wish I had ESata port.  I got one of those USB docking stations and it's very convenient.  Kinda' slow with USB 2.0 though.  Fine for doing backups and getting files off the main HD.  It reads just fast enough I can do a 16x DVD burn from it if I have to.

Seems like on prebuilt systems they mix the features up with no rhyme or reason other than to get everything you want you have to buy at least 2 machines.  Hmm, maybe that's the rhyme?

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Living Room / Re: How to host you Windows 7 house party... wtf?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 11:32 AM »

or maybe the people on that video are trapped in a hellish world of continual windows 7 parties and party planning 24 hours a day.

-mouser (September 24, 2009, 09:14 PM)

HAHAHAHA!

-Hirudin (September 25, 2009, 01:09 PM)

they wake up every morning, check the date - damn, it's windows 7 day again

-tomos (September 25, 2009, 02:09 PM)

Have they hired Bill Murray for the lead?  Geez I hope I don't have to watch him commit suicide 64(or some other power of 2) more times!!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 11:29 AM »

Minefield.... how sarcastically appropriate...

-SectorSeven (September 26, 2009, 11:27 AM)

I take it as truth in advertising.  No warranty.

edit: other than that all I can say is Opera 10 seems pretty solid.  Still doesn't have things that have become habitual for me like AutoCopy but at least the password and form entry stuff works well.  I don't get into mouse gestures or that hot page whatever it is, so I can't speak to those.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 11:24 AM »

It's too bad the nightly build branch has gone to 3.7.  Trying various 3.6pre builds I noticed from day to day, sometimes the autoupdate would be fine, sometimes things would get flaky.  I started downloading and saving full installers for the nightly builds that seemed rock solid.  If I got a flaky update, I'd run one of the solid build installs.  FEBE and SyncPlaces would make sure I didn't have to reconfigure everything if something strange happened.

One thing about the nightly builds, they have them configured to install in a separate folder(Minefield) and just inherit your profile.  If you uninstall Minefield, the other firefox already on your system should work as it did before except on first launch it will take you to the page as if you updated.

As 3.7 goes along you might try a few and see if one stands out as much better than what you have. The changes will be much faster than waiting for 3.5 updates. I know what you mean about the Firefox minority of problems.  Seems like when 3.x came out it was totally unusable for me while many others were happily browsing along.  I stayed with 2.x for a long time.  3.0x and 3.5x didn't seem any better.  That's why when I read about this jit stuff and 3.6pre I decided if any 3.x is flaky anyway, I might as well go for some speed.  Worked out well in my case.

I realize it doesn't necessarily mean it will automatically work great on your system.  Just with rapidly changing builds you have more shots at the bullseye.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 26, 2009, 12:23 AM »

W7 7077? Why haven't you at least upgraded to the public RC build 7100 candidate?

-Innuendo (September 25, 2009, 11:06 PM)

What's the advantage of reinstalling my apps yet another time?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 25, 2009, 03:42 PM »

That's up to you.  I'm running Aug 5 build on XP SP2, W7 7077 and Vista64 SP1 and it's quite smooth.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 25, 2009, 03:25 PM »

btw here's the 3.6pre that was released the day after the one I use.  That's as close as I can find.  I haven't tried it myself.  I like the Aug 5 build. But it may be better than what you are experiencing.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Rant: Firefox 3.5.x

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 25, 2009, 02:58 PM »

I'm running with Minefield 3.6 pre from August 5. It's just before the Firefox 3.6 pre alpha release.  I've found it quite stable.  So much so that I've quit playing around with other nightly builds and just settled on using this until FF 3.6 comes out.

Using Mr Tech Toolkit with AutoCopy, Better Privacy, deskCut, Download Statusbar, FEBE, FlashGot with GigaGet download manager, Launchy, NoScript, Secure Login, Stay-open Menu, Sync Places and Tab Mix Plus.

Seems as stable as any other FF I've used. Definitely better than any of the other 3.x versions I've tried.

edit: Thing is I don't know if you can find it.  That nightly build fpt branch is now populated with the 3.7 pre stuff.  Don't know if 3.6 pre alpha is as good as the one I'm using.  I'm sticking with this one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Copy a bunch of cd/dvd

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 25, 2009, 02:45 PM »

This forum may be helpful:
http://forum.videohe...mp4-wmv-mkv-f11.html

Also videohelp.com hosts software, some of which you can no longer get from the authors, such as RipIt4Me, and DVD Decrypter.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Choose which browser will open a url from external app

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 25, 2009, 12:51 PM »

Sorry, but at the moment it seems like going directly to the desired browser depending on which app launched the url would be a natural progression for the Browser Chooser program.  Messing with the registry on my machines is just an invitation for them to start acting weird.  I would agree with lanux that a feature request probably makes the most sense.  All the Browser Chooser has to do is get the title of the active window and if it's in the list of settings, not bring up his toolbar.  Just pass the url on to the browser in the settings.  No sense reinventing the wheel when the Browser Chooser wheel already looks pretty good to me.

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Living Room / Re: How to host you Windows 7 house party... wtf?

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 24, 2009, 09:07 PM »

Hmmmmmm, for some reason I get an AmWay flashback.  Like, you try to sell AmWay to your friends only to find out they were already in the pyramid before you thought of getting into it.  Nothing to do but rent a storage locker for tons of powdered soap.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: BrowserTraySwitch & Vista

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 24, 2009, 06:55 PM »

Thanks.  I'd appreciate any clues.  I can read C++,C,asm,delphi,vb,c#,ruby,python and some other stuff I don't remember at the moment.  I'll figure it out if you send it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Copy a bunch of cd/dvd

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 24, 2009, 06:53 PM »

Imgburn has a queue mechanism.  I've never used it as I only burn a CD or DVD at a time.  You can take a look and see if it's useful:
http://www.imgburn.com

The site has links to an Imgburn forum with guides and of course you can post questions.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Choose which browser will open a url from external app

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 24, 2009, 04:09 PM »

Will do.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: IDEA: Choose which browser will open a url from external app

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 24, 2009, 02:37 PM »

I need a way to specify the browser that will handle the opening of URLs per application.

For example I want all links in outlook to be opened in Maxthon where as links in other applications should continue to be opened w/ my default browser, Firefox.

Possible?

-sri (September 15, 2009, 01:45 AM)

I think I can do the programming part of this pretty easily.  The fly in the ointment, as usual, is the Registry settings.  From searching Browser Chooser in the Registry it looks like there's at least a dozen keys used when he sets the default browser(I don't know if he sets them all or Vista64 sets the "Wow6432Node" stuff itself.. this 64 bit Registry scam is new to me.) I already have a function I use in my HomeFolder program that returns the exe file associated with the active window.  If EditPad is active and you double click on the text "www.favessoft.com" and it opens the URL with the default browser, it's no big deal for my program to know it's EditPad and choose the browser you set up in settings.  But it's getting Windows to launch my program without breaking anything in the Registry that requires some research.

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BrowserTraySwitch / Re: BrowserTraySwitch & Vista

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 24, 2009, 02:24 PM »

hopefully it now works in vista in the latest version (2.03.01).

-mouser (July 10, 2009, 04:05 PM)

I just tried it on Vista64 SP1.  Not quite sure what goes on with it but clicking on help in the Tray Menu would not show the help file.  When I did the install I selected "create desktop icon" and there was no icon.  I used a restore point after removal at that point.

I was looking for an easy way to set default browser, but it looks like if I want to do anything with URL redirection I'm going to have to bite the bullet and delve into the Registry default browser quagmire(it's even worse on 64 bit with those 3264Wow keys or whatever they are.)  Either that or send an email to the author of Browser Chooser.  His app sets about a dozen keys when you set it as default browser.

See I have AutoIt3 routine that can get the program path from the active window, so all it would take is associations where the user would set which browser to open when each app tries to open a URL using the default browser.  That part of the program would probably take a couple of days.  Playing with the registry keys would probably take another week of no fun slogging.

edit: just as a wild guess I'm thinking maybe the help file didn't come up because Vista64 installs 32 bit programs in "C:\Program Files (x86)\" instead of "C:\Program Files\"    .. but anyway

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General Software Discussion / Re: Macrium Reflect Free version updated to 4.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 23, 2009, 11:00 PM »

I haven't tried Acronis yet but I did download that WD software since I bought a couple of Caviar Black drives. Unfortunately neither one of my machines has an ESata port.  Seems if I want to get more than 24 MB/sec out of 'em I have to open up the PC case and either put an ESata card in, or swap the OEM drive out. HP doesn't make it as easy as they used to.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.95

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2009, 09:51 PM »

Selector 1.95 Fixed a small bug where the popup window did not close after pressing the Image URL Button.  The latest can be had from my page immediately(see link in first post.)  Softpedia should update in a day or so.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.9

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2009, 08:48 PM »

Thanks for the reply.  I didn't think of just having a shortcut with the url.  Maybe I'll reinstall BrowserChooser since I can always just set something else as default browser to temporarily disable it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Most Recently Installed Programs

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2009, 06:28 PM »

I use Nirsoft's MyUninstaller because it provides plenty of installation info, including the most recently installed programs.

-sajman99 (September 22, 2009, 01:34 PM)

You beat me to it.
I use MyUnintaller also.  NirSoft has some nice little utils. I just started using RegScanner.

On topic, also SIW has an item in the tree view for installed apps. Likewise, you can click the installation date column to sort.  Another nice one like this is LookInMyPC.  When I got Vista before SP1 you had to really study up and tweak services to quiet the HD.  LookInMyPC has a nice export to html table.  Once you get your services tweaked the way you like, this provides a good document for reference.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Selector 1.9

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2009, 03:27 PM »

« Getting better all the time ! » as the good old Beattles' song use to say !

I downloaded and installed it. Thanks, Miles.


Right after, I stumbled across these two links :

- http://lifehacker.co...to-open-new-links-in

- http://browserchooser.codeplex.com/

An interseting feature in "Browser chosser" is the one that allows it to be defined as a "pseudo" default browser. Each time you click on a link (whatever this link is), on a "favorite", the little wondow with the browsers pops-up allowing you to choose which one you wanna use. So the favorite and link a re no longer related to one browser only; this is quiet "handy".

Yet, it lacks the precision of Selector as long as it does not allow to move to a specific link selected in another browser : it only opens a new browser displaying its own starting page.

So, according to my purpose, I either use Selector or the Browser chooser, now.

What do you think about it ?

-Xvarnah (September 14, 2009, 09:42 AM)

Just for grins I tried out Browser Chooser.  I didn't quite get it until I messed around with it.  Looks like it's made to intercept browser launch from another application(like if EditPad launches the default browser because you double click a url) but it does nothing from inside a browser.  Anyway, thought I'd let you know I tried it.  Did you make any progress having the mouse trigger Selector or are you using Launchy or another utility?  I'm just curious since I'm always on the look-out for free utilities.

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General Software Discussion / Macrium Reflect Free version updated to 4.2

« Last post by MilesAhead on September 22, 2009, 03:22 PM »

I was happily using Paragon Drive Backup Personal 9.0 until I bought an HP PC with a Raid controller.  Paragon Rescue CD didn't support it.  I tried Macrium Reflect Free version.. no joy.  The Macrium Reflect 4.2 trial did work.  I bought that.

Now I see the Macrium Reflect Free Version
has been updated to 4.2.  I verified with the sysop on Macrium Forum that the Linux Rescue CD and the image backup file format used in the new free version is exactly the same as the one I bought. The paid version lets you download WinPE(either 32 bit or 64 bit, not both) and doubtless has some other features but if you are just looking for disaster recovery the free version may be a good choice. I put the free version on my Windows 7 32 bit PC.  I have Paragon on there but I like using the Macrium better because it saves your MBR with the backup image, where Paragon does not. That can make a big difference.

Anyway, just thought I'd pass it along since I found out yesterday about the Linux Rescue CD.