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Living Room / NOD32 config info at Wilders - good but a quick warning

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 08, 2005, 06:28 AM »

I was recently pointed at http://www.wildersse...owthread.php?t=37509 by Fred Langa's newsletter (you all get this ... right www.langa.com there is a free version but I pay for the plus version and it is an excellent read).

This provides a comprehensive set up and tweak list for NOD32 version 2.5 and is excellent.

The only problem I had (and this is the warning) is that after applying all the tweaks GetRight download manager stopped getting file sizes for new downloads and really struggled to complete downloads.

Be aware that the HTTP compatability settings need to be set with care (half way down page 2):



and in particular all the GetRight settings need to be set for compatability mode.

The problem arises becase when "Higher efficiency" is set all files are downloaded first by NOD32 and scanned before being passed to the application that requested them. Sometimes this means that applications make the request and it is then downloaded twice! Once for NOD32 to check and once for the application, but in GetRights case it tries to download it and sticks in the last few bites forever and so the download never completes!

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Find And Run Robot / Re: A tip - if you want to use digits in searches..

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 08, 2005, 06:16 AM »

Good grief this is being a constructive week ...

all these downloads are going to eat up my bandwidth allowance - I only have 30Gb a month .... 

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Fix ReDownload of Incomplete Downloads

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 08, 2005, 06:13 AM »

One simple approach if you have this problem is to clear your cache ?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 06:45 PM »

Why not just type it into the box - I don't think you need a rule to do this (or am I missing what you are trying to do).

If you want all .exe on your chosen paths just type *.exe after pressing break, or any other wildcard expression - so w*.exe will bring up all .exe file beginning with w.

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 04:59 PM »

Have a try before by that isn't unlockable and has a key feature limited in scope (making sure it is actually differently coded so that it can't be hacked and replaced). Final versions would have to be downloaded and installed over the top. PITA but it would stop all but the hard core rip offs.

It would also save your bandwidth so that any illegal copies can be paid for by someone else.

You may want to consider an automatic update check too which would check for invalid registrations and politely warn the user that they are using an illegal copy.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 04:54 PM »

Mouser, why not just use a simple INI type format and parse it to merge into existing entries ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 04:19 PM »

How about having a secure download page where the serial has to be entered to get the download, then only codes you have issued could work.

You can't stop what's out there but you can stop people downloading from your site, and make future editions more secure.

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Bug(?) in aliases

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 02:03 PM »

Need I say more 

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 11:24 AM »

Hey - me like them thar stickies ...

They are particularly good on a network where you can post a sticky on a friends dest to say "Don't forget to make Carol a coffee"

Top fun, and potentially useful when the novelty wears off 

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Find And Run Robot / Bug(?) in aliases

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 10:13 AM »

Here are a couple more settings

lookup
 (.*)
Encarta $$1 |http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/search.aspx?q=$$1
Britannica $$1 |http://www.britannica.com/search?query=$$1&go_button.x=10&go_button.y=5&ct=



Strangely I find if I type:

lookup Einstein                (I was feeling highbrow)

not only does it come up with the expected:

Encarta Einstein
Britannica Einstein

but it also comes up with all of the "define Einstein" results (based on your dictionary dist) but not the "search Einstein" results (based on my web search list).

Any idea why this should be?

I tried various alternative alias names but it made no difference??

Using build 1.07.06 by the way.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 09:51 AM »

No the only time I started the config screen from Start is when the tray icon was disabled. In that case the config option on the tray icon would not work ???

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 08:07 AM »

Now all we need is a scripting file - with import facility ....

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 08:04 AM »

Yes it says it is is enabled.

However if I disable it while the config window is open nothing happens (ie. it isn't reflected).

On the config page bottom right it reports whether the tray app is running correctly (including realtime loading and unloading).

New rules work fine when the config window is shut (not as you create them).

Here is a sequence & reactions ...

Start Process Tamer - icon appears

Open config window

Status - Running

Disable from tray - no response in config

Close config - reopen it (from Start menu - icon doens't work) - Status Running (even though disabled)

Re enable at  tray icon

Go to Process display - set rule on an item using CPU cycles (Below Normal, say) ... no response

Close Config - open config - new rule reflected in process status

Changing external tool or double click setting has no effect until tray icon exited and reloaded.

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 07:15 AM »

WinXP SP2 (all updates)

Rules are updated instantly - so they are obviously talking ?

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 06:47 AM »

It doesn't seem to update the 'Double click tray' setting either.

Also I had an 'Access Violation' error today when I deleted a rule ???

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Find And Run Robot / Re: v1.07.02 beta - with regular expression commands

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 06:30 AM »

Here is an initial set of search engines to cut and paste:

Google $$1 |http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=$$1
GoogleUK $$1 |http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=
GoogleGroups $$1 |http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&q$$1&qt_s=Search
Mamma $$1 |http://www.mamma.com/Mamma?qtype=0&query=$$1
AllTheWeb $$1 |http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cs=utf-8&q=$$!
A9 $$1 |http://a9.com/$$!
Ask $$1 |http://web.ask.com/web?q=$$1
AltaVista $$1 |http://www.altavista.com/web/results?q=$$1
Dictionary $$1 |http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=$$1
eBay $$1 |http://search.ebay.com/$$1
eBayUK $$1 |http://search.ebay.co.uk/$$1
HappyHunterDVD $$1 |http://www.happyhunter.co.uk/$$1
DvdPacific $$1 |http://www.dvdpacific.com/search.asp?title=$$1
PlayUSA $$1 |http://www.playusa.com/playusa.asp?searchtype=r1title&page=search&searchstring=$$1
Play $$1 |http://www.play.com/play247.asp?pa=search&searchtype=allproducts&page=search&Go.x=50&Go.y=9&searchstring=$$1
MusicRoom $$1 |http://www.musicroom.com/gmsearch.aspx?searchtype=mr_products&searchtext=$$1
ABEbooks $$1 |http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bx=off&sts=t&ds=30&bi=0&sortby=2&kn=$$1
ABEbooksUK $$1 |http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?bx=off&sts=t&ds=30&bi=0&n=200000169&sortby=2&kn=$$1
Amazon $$1 |http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&keyword=$$1
AmazonUK $$1 |http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/external-search?mode=blended&keyword=$$1
MSN $$1 |http://search.msn.com/results.asp?q=$$1
YahooNews $$1 |http://news.search.yahoo.com/search/news?ei=UTF-8&p=$$1
Yahoo $$1 |http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=robo&ei=UTF-8&p=$$1
GoogleNews $$1 |http://news.google.com/news?q=$$1
BBCNews $$1 |http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=news&go=homepage&q=$$1
BBC $$1 |http://www.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?tab=allbbc&go=homepage&q=$$1

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ProcessTamer / Re: Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 07, 2005, 04:18 AM »

#1 didn't work when I added an exteral utility. I had to shut down and reload the tray icon.

#2 Great

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Unfinished Requests / Re: IDEA: Graffiti Picture ScreenSaver

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 06:29 PM »

Hey, can you imagine 360 degree rotating and changing panoramas ... and not just screen savers ... how about wallpaper too.

Now that would be cool!

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ProcessTamer / Feature Idea: Profiles

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 06:26 PM »

Two requests:

1) Is it possible for the configuartion app to force the tray app to reload its configuration file? One possible way this could be implemented is for the config file to be monitored and when configuration changes are OKed a flag in the ini file is read by the tray app and reset as it loads the new config.

2) Another possible solution/enhancement is allowing profiles to be loaded (ie. different ini files). I find that invariably the one process I want to be working at full steam is the one that gets slowed down! Consequently I end up with loads of processes set to ignore, which defeats the purpose. If I could have eg. a CD buring profile that suppresses CPU usage for everything other than Nero then I could carry on doing things while Nero gets on without disruption ...

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General Software Discussion / Re: For Developers: Do Donations Make a Difference?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 06:14 PM »

Mouser - out of curiosty how are you hosting your site and community pages? Are you running your own server or is it being hosted externally and costing you dosh?

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Living Room / Re: paypal announces new micropayment system

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 02:38 PM »

Interesting pricing structure. Can't quite see how it is going to work. Does the item price have to be less than $2 or the total payment?

If it is the total payment it isn't very good from a sellers point of view as there is basically a 10% transaction fee - which to my mind is quite heavy.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: New Review (09/05/05) - Best Archive Tool

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 01:28 PM »

There is a way to do that - it isn't MS's fault if developers can't be bothered!

I have toolbars in MS Word, Excel and Outlook all of which are able to retain their correct position each time the app starts.

For me it is one criteria to decide whether to use a piece of software. If developers can't get that right what chance have they got of writing software that behaves properly in other respects ?

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Best Archive Tool / Re: New Review (09/05/05) - Best Archive Tool

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 12:57 PM »

Trouble is programmers can take shortcuts, and do. I think this is one area where MS can't be blamed really (there aren't many times I'd say that). Actuallythere must be times where being able to generate custom toolbars on the fly would be useful.

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Best Archive Tool / Re: New Review (09/05/05) - Best Archive Tool

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 12:31 PM »

I'd guess locking toolbars is a bit difficult when they are generated by third party products. Adobe Acrobat is notorious for cocking up other toolbars (at least it does in version 5), and the macros that generate StuffIt 8 and 9 toolbars are generated on the fly when the program starts up - which is why the position is not retained.

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Living Room / Re: File associations screwed - anyone help?

« Last post by Carol Haynes on September 06, 2005, 08:32 AM »

Hmmm ... went back to play with this and see if I can resolve the issue.

Disabled all context menu items in ShellEx and then re-enabled individually.

No probls with IrfanView Extension or Ghost Security CryptoSuite

- or anything else ... 

What I did find though was that leaving ShellPicture disabled allowed all other context menus to function ... so

I either have Shell Picture or IrfanView + CryptoSuite but not all three.

Very strange but I have removed Shell Picture for the moment.

Interestingly I had a copy of ACD mPowerTools which I hadn't used in a long time (since most of its functions are provided by ACDSee). mPowerTools also provides ContextMenu thumbnail for graphics files and loads of other options, but when I installed this I again got the same problem.

I wonder if it is to do with the way graphics are added to the context menu ??

Any one got any other context menu addons that add graphics so that I can test this theory out?