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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 8 start button + menu: €5

« Last post by x16wda on October 28, 2012, 11:08 AM »

Oh, and there's also Win+X for $0 also.

-wraith808 (October 27, 2012, 12:10 PM)

Such as described here?

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Powershell Plus Free

« Last post by x16wda on October 25, 2012, 07:39 PM »

Powershell can do some very nice things for scripting, like piping objects and not just text.  But it can also be pigheaded about others, like some of its formatting options.  Required for working with new releases of Exchange, Sql, Sharepoint, active directory.  I keep telling myself that familiarity breeds....... resigned acceptance?

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Announce Your Software/Service/Product / Re: Edit Text Anywhere with Your Favorite Editor [Freeware]

« Last post by x16wda on October 20, 2012, 03:37 PM »

Interesting - TEA is similar to Dolphin Text Editor Menu (which I like a lot) but a slightly different take on the idea.  I upgraded to Listary Pro  the same day I tried it out, but didn't check out the rest of the web site.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Listary Pro for only $9.95 on Friday 19 October

« Last post by x16wda on October 17, 2012, 07:53 PM »

I bought it at full price after the last offer expired, and have also been patiently waiting :-)

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program restarts, hibernations and shut downs software

« Last post by x16wda on October 06, 2012, 12:21 PM »

This is from the help file about Cyclic Rebooting.  You would need to set up the Auto-Login section and enable it, then set up a shortcut in your Startup folder to the program, making sure to include the -Reboot option.  Then set the number of reboots you want on the screen and click Reboot Now to start...


"This page gives a brief description of how a PC can be set-up to reboot itself in a cycle.

Step1 – Select and save Rebooter settings
Start Rebooter and use the “Clear” button to return the reboot count to 0.
Set the ‘Maximum Reboots’ value to the number of cycles required.  <--- MY NOTE: how many times you want to reboot
Set the other parameters in Rebooter. (Reboot type, Delay, etc). Don’t set the delay value to be too short, as you want Windows to fully boot before starting the next cycle. 20 Seconds is a good value.   <--- MY NOTE: you may want it to be longer than 20 seconds!
Save the settings, with the ‘Save Options’ button.

Step2 – Create an autorun shortcut
Create an autorun short cut that points back to Rebooter executable. See the auto-run page for help on how to do this. The shortcut must use the  ‘-Reboot’ command line parameter.

Step3 – Start the cycle
Click on the “Reboot Now” button to start the cycle.

Each time Rebooter is started with the ‘–Reboot’ command line parameter, the reboot counter in incremented. Once the reboot counter becomes equal to the Maximum Reboots value no further cycles will be executed and the reboot counter will be reset to zero (ready for the next run).

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Living Room / Re: Project Honeynet's HoneyMap displays cyberattacks in real time

« Last post by x16wda on October 05, 2012, 09:32 PM »

Stop clicking on shit before I read the instructions.

-Stoic Joker (October 05, 2012, 03:58 PM)

  Happened to me just the other day, couldn't quite remember why I had downloaded TunnelVision or just what it did...

(But afterward I had great fun in the office with it!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Program restarts, hibernations and shut downs software

« Last post by x16wda on October 04, 2012, 07:12 PM »

There are lots of programs to do pieces of the things you want, but nothing I know of that puts them all together.

* Scheduled reboots by Poweroff
* Multiple reboots by Rebooter
* Boot into safe mode by BootSafe

Poweroff at least has a very good command line so you could script most of its actions as desired.

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fSekrit / Re: fSekrit not working on an old XP PC

« Last post by x16wda on October 04, 2012, 06:57 PM »

Now, everyone silently send up an appropriate word of thanks to Mr. Gates for his decision to hide file extensions by default.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: ASAP Utilities for Excel

« Last post by x16wda on October 04, 2012, 06:42 PM »

This stuff is the bomb.  It makes a lot of awkward stuff easy.  Listen, it costs nothing for non-commercial use, you owe it to yourself to give it a try if you use Excel and you value your time.  I started by using a bunch of the text functions for formatting:



and the other categories are just as powerful and varied.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: This program should be avoided like the plague!

« Last post by x16wda on October 04, 2012, 06:29 PM »

Maybe, after installation, before the first time older screenshots are moved into the archive folder, you could pop up a dialog to ask the user how he would like it handled.  One question, one time, and then the user is aware of it and can change the setting later if he wishes.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Nuance PDF Reader - Acresso-FLEXnet agent is Annoyware/Adware WARNING.

« Last post by x16wda on September 30, 2012, 07:30 PM »

I switched to the free version of PDF-XChange Viewer, which had been highly recommended to me.  I've been very happy with it ever since.  I see that Gizmo's Best Freeware site lists PDF-XChange Viewer as its top pick:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-non-adobe-pdf-reader.htm.

-cyberdiva (September 30, 2012, 08:28 AM)

I switched based on Gizmo's suggestion too, until I found that the software had some difficulties rendering several work-related forms properly.  Switched to Sumatra and have been happy since then.  However I'm always happy to revisit my choices when something better comes along, so I pulled down copies of STDU Reader and Bluebeam to look at.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Atari Remakes for 40th Anniversary

« Last post by x16wda on September 04, 2012, 07:39 PM »

Pong was a little disappointing; the graphics weren't as smooth as I would have thought, and the ball had a tendency to fall in the gap between the edge of the field and the edge of the paddle at its farthest.

I really wanted to see Defender, that was the bomb back on my Atari 400!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Alternatives to RecentX

« Last post by x16wda on August 25, 2012, 08:35 PM »

I used ReOpen (same folks as FolderCache, the next program down on the web page) for awhile before I found Listary.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Newest malware now able to target virtual machines?

« Last post by x16wda on August 24, 2012, 07:34 PM »

I wonder if you couldn't overcome that, to some extent, with a liveCD with TrueCrypt on it?  (Assuming, of course that you'd used TrueCrypt to encrypt the disk.)

-barney (August 24, 2012, 06:23 PM)

Depending on where the failure is, the device should be mountable on another machine with Truecrypt running.  I've done that while testing, but unfortunately the disk didn't croak on me :-)

The usable lifespan of a broken disk is short enough, adding in the complexity and disk access to get the drive mounted might make it tougher to get anything off.

I could never convince my old company to use full disk encryption... even though I figured out how to work around users forgetting their boot password, the concensus was apparently the execs just didn't want to be bothered with another password...

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General Software Discussion / Re: "Do copy acceleration utilities actually lower file transfer speeds?"

« Last post by x16wda on August 12, 2012, 05:03 PM »

That's very strange... I did a comparison a couple years ago between Windows and several of the other accelerators (Fastcopy, Supercopier 2, Copy Handler, FF Copy, Ultracopier and a couple more, all that would be no cost for commercial use, which ruled out Teracopy) to see what they did locally and over a lan.  It wasn't a double blind, duplicate hardware kind of test but it was the same sets of files and targets.  In those tests Fastcopy was the clear winner speed-wise (although the interface is lousy, which is not an issue if you're scripting something).  A few others were clumped behind that, generally not too far behind.  Windows was never the fastest option, although some of the utilities were slower in some of the tests.

I don't have the details any more, but that said, the real end result is that I have Supercopier installed on my personal PCs.  It was almost as fast as Fastcopy and does a good job with the management part that has been mentioned, and it has always been reliable.  That was the surprising part to me -- with half of the other utilities I tested, I had issues with installation, lockups or copy failures.  To my mind that immediately ruled them out.

That was back when I could do stuff like that for my previous employer.  I can't recall if was running XP or 7 at the time, but would have been 32 bit in eiother case.  Would probably be worth revisiting.

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Found Deals and Discounts / Re: Clipstory - Free today 2012-07-28

« Last post by x16wda on July 29, 2012, 11:30 AM »

There are so many good options for clipboard managers these days.  I've been happy with Ditto for a long time, and of course mouser's Clipboard Help+Spell has the best support system around! 

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Living Room / Re: In search of ... cookie viewer w/create date

« Last post by x16wda on July 28, 2012, 07:06 PM »

• some cookies simply cannot be deleted (but haven't checked for LSOs for them yet

-barney (July 28, 2012, 03:10 PM)

aside: You may be able to kill those nasties with Bleachbit (here), although that's not what you're asking for here...

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Create a file list from multiple folders

« Last post by x16wda on July 28, 2012, 06:56 AM »

superb trick cyclist video

-IainB (July 25, 2012, 04:44 AM)

My goodness!  That's someone who is one with his bike!

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Living Room / Re: esata vs. USB...fight!

« Last post by x16wda on July 22, 2012, 07:24 PM »

How did you do your throughput tests?  I just got a laptop with usb 3 ("super speed") ports, and the first full backup to an external usb 3 hard drive was significantly faster than usb 2 speeds (as I would hope), but I haven't done any specific measurements.  (It's kind of moot, it's not like I have an esata port on anything...)  Anyway, did you use a utility, or just queue up a hundred gigs and see how long it took?  FreeFileSync and watch what it said?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Outlook PST Repair Recommendations?

« Last post by x16wda on July 10, 2012, 06:48 PM »

As long as we're on the topic, readers might want to take a look at several free Kernel tools that let you access PST, OST and EDB files without requiring Outlook or Exchange to be installed.  I've tried several of these and they are worth much more than their cost.  

Oh yeah - and like Carol said, Mailstore is the bomb!

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Living Room / Re: Help me design my next Tattoo!

« Last post by x16wda on July 08, 2012, 07:49 AM »

rgdot - is that Homer screaming to get out or eating his way through? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Checking Bad sector in HDD and ExtHDD

« Last post by x16wda on June 26, 2012, 08:24 PM »

Just ran across this thread, nobody mentioned Steve Gibson's Spinrite?

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Living Room / Re: Apple...Just ever so slightly paranoid?

« Last post by x16wda on June 19, 2012, 10:30 PM »

So no more "Tell us where your leader is hiding, or we will play more Justin Beiber" techniques? Goddamn it, we are all doomed!

-Stephen66515 (June 18, 2012, 01:33 PM)

Two words...... Mars Attacks!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Remove this residual files after update !!!

« Last post by x16wda on June 16, 2012, 06:54 AM »

Right click on the folder, go to properties, go to security.  select the administrators group and you will see no permissions checked.  Check full permissions (or depending on o/s version, click edit and then select administrators and set full permissions) and then ok your way back.  Then you should be able to delete the leftovers.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: settings cannot be saved

« Last post by x16wda on May 30, 2012, 08:29 PM »

Same thing happened here, a new job, new PC, new redirected folders, and I was setting up SSC offline... thank goodness for Search!  (And Mouser! )