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Skwire Empire / Re: Steam URL Converter

« Last post by skwire on August 28, 2015, 09:49 AM »

Hi, MrZoolook, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

For what it's worth, it appears to work on my Win7 setup. I also noticed you can bulk select a whole group of shortcuts, and use the tool on them all in one hit!
-MrZoolook (August 28, 2015, 01:08 AM)

It's nice when a plan comes together, eh?

Very well done. I only have a hundred or so games, and I wasn't looking forward to doing this s**t manually, so I can't imagine how it'd be for anyone with more then that. Why the hell don't steam do it like this to begin with!?
-MrZoolook (August 28, 2015, 01:08 AM)

Well, I think it has to do with the fact that using the URL format is supposed to be just that, universal. This means they can use this format on different platforms (Linux and Mac) without much internal code differences. That is, I don't think that Linux and Mac support Windows LNK files.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by skwire on August 19, 2015, 11:52 AM »

hm, don't know what to say, maybe because I run the portable version?
-ScreenManiac (August 19, 2015, 11:22 AM)

I tested with the portable version as well.

When I don't specify a specific chm-file, but just fire up the kchmviewer, it tries to launch another instance and I also get an error. But again, no showstopper.
-ScreenManiac (August 19, 2015, 11:22 AM)

Hmmm, this program works for me as well. It might be important to note that I run my account as administrator with UAC disabled. Maybe that makes a difference?

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by skwire on August 19, 2015, 06:23 AM »

Run process only if its not running does not work in a bunch of cases
- for some programs running silently in the background, such as http://www.listary.c...text-editor-anywhere
-ScreenManiac (August 19, 2015, 02:03 AM)

Hmmm...seems to work here.

- for chm or pdf files; if already open, it will attempt to open them again in the same default application, which - depending on the application, results in yet another read-only copy, or in an error message
-ScreenManiac (August 19, 2015, 02:03 AM)

Correct. I should add a disclaimer to the help file that the "Run if not running" command only relates to the actual executable process itself. That is, there is not a reliable way to tell if a given file or URL is already open in an application. Yes, sometimes that information is within the titlebar text but not nearly always.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tool that lists digitally signed files from a folder/disk

« Last post by skwire on August 18, 2015, 04:25 PM »

Thus, we have another category of files which are signed : "Revoked". This should be displayed under "View" tab. What do you think, @skwire ?
-neverlight (August 18, 2015, 04:10 PM)

Well, I don't know. I mean, I'm no expert regarding any of this but, without knowing the reason a signature was revoked, I'm not sure I'd put 'Revoked' on the same level as 'Signed'. Maybe I'm wrong?

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N.A.N.Y. 2009 / Re: NANY 2009 Release: Trout (audio player)

« Last post by skwire on August 11, 2015, 01:45 PM »

Website | Installer | Portable v1.0.6 build 76 - 2015-08-11 + Added an "Autoplay on add" feature under Tools > Options > General. (Thanks, mouser) * Updated BASS and all plugins. ! Fixed some parsing issues with displayed lyrics.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tool that lists digitally signed files from a folder/disk

« Last post by skwire on August 11, 2015, 01:35 PM »

Thats exactly what I did: But GUI v1.1 works only with SigCheck v2.1 and not v2.2
-pstein (August 11, 2015, 01:20 PM)

SigcheckGUI v1.1.0 works fine for me with sigcheck.exe v2.20 in the folder.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tool that lists digitally signed files from a folder/disk

« Last post by skwire on August 11, 2015, 09:59 AM »

On page http://skwire.dcmemb...fp/?page=sigcheckgui
still only v1.0.9 is available and
-pstein (August 11, 2015, 05:44 AM)

Updated, thank you.

Sigcheck (cmdline version from sysinternals) v2.2 is already available!
Your package contains only v2.1
-pstein (August 11, 2015, 05:44 AM)

The EULA of the 2.2 version changed and I'm no longer allowed to distribute sigcheck.exe in the SigcheckGUI download zip. However, you're free to download the new 2.2 version yourself and copy it into your SigcheckGUI folder. FWIW, I can't seem to find a changelog for Sigcheck so I'm unsure as to what has changed in the 2.2 version.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tool that lists digitally signed files from a folder/disk

« Last post by skwire on August 11, 2015, 02:56 AM »

I am using GUI version 1.0.9 and SigCheck v2.2. Are there an newer versions?
-pstein (August 11, 2015, 02:46 AM)

Yes. If you look at the bottom of my previous post, you'll see version 1.1.0.

So again: Why do I get no further information?
-pstein (August 11, 2015, 02:46 AM)

*shrug* I don't know. Are you running the application with administrator rights? Please note that SigcheckGUI is just a front-end for the sigcheck.exe commandline program that you'll find in your SigcheckGUI folder. You could try running sigcheck.exe directly on one of those files in question and see what it reports back. I'd be interested to know.

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Tool that lists digitally signed files from a folder/disk

« Last post by skwire on August 11, 2015, 02:28 AM »

What does a blue question mark mean?
-pstein (August 10, 2015, 11:50 PM)

In the Verified column, you should see some text. "Signed" gets a green check mark; "Unsigned" gets red exclamation point; "A required certificate is not within its validity period when verifying against the current system clock or the timestamp in the signed file." gets a yellow exclamation point. Any other text in there gets a blue question mark. One example I've seen is, "The timestamp signature and/or certificate could not be verified or is malformed."

They are not checked in Virustotal. Why not?
-pstein (August 10, 2015, 11:50 PM)

Are you saying that none of your files have VirusTotal URLs listed? If so, do you have the appropriate option checked in the Options tab? FWIW, the VirusTotal URLs appear to be working fine for me under W7/64. Which OS are you using?

I cannot open the file location: Why not?
-pstein (August 10, 2015, 11:50 PM)

This took some research but should be fixed in the latest version. In a nutshell, on 64-bit versions of Windows, 32-bit applications such as AutoHotkey run inside WOW64 so calls to certain 64-bit files were getting automatically redirected to the c:\Windows\SysWOW\64 folder. $:-\$ $:-\$ $:-\$

How can I verify otherwise that they are the correct/correctly signed original binaries from Microsoft?
-pstein (August 10, 2015, 11:50 PM)

Again, things appear to be working fine for me. Which OS are you using? Please note that I develop and test on Win7/64. I sometimes test on XP if necessary. I do not have W8 or W10.

Website | Download v1.1.0 - 2015-08-11 ! "Open file location" did not work properly for certain 64-bit files. (Thanks, pstein)

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by skwire on August 10, 2015, 05:53 PM »

- Reordering of profiles in the profile window via context-menu does not work.
-AtmanActive (August 10, 2015, 12:46 PM)

Fixed, thank you.

There is no way to auto-run a profile with Splat when Splat is set to 'Start with windows'.
I like Splat so much that I would like to try to use it as my one and only launcher program.
It has it's own 'Start with windows' option to make it auto-run with each boot. Fine.
But, among all my profiles, there is one I would also like to run on each boot. No way.
-AtmanActive (August 10, 2015, 12:54 PM)

It's not quite what you described but I think it'll be enough for your purposes.

Website | Download v1.1.8 - 2015-08-10 + Ability to create a profile shortcut in your startup folder. Right-click a profile and choose the option from the menu. (Thanks, AtmanActive) ! Context menu did not work for reordering profiles. (Thanks, AtmanActive)

You can add multiple shortcuts to your startup folder. However, they will all get launched concurrently. If you want to control that timing, create a new "startup master" profile that runs your desired profiles in the order you want and then shortcut that "startup master" profile. Makes sense?

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Finished Programs / Re: DONE: Right Click any file and create New Folder by its Name

« Last post by skwire on August 01, 2015, 03:35 PM »

Hi, Paul, and welcome to the DonationCoder site.

Hey thanks for the awesome program. I use it everyday.
-hairypaulsack (July 31, 2015, 04:22 AM)

You're welcome; I'm glad you find it useful.

1. I manually entered a string value with a location to my Files2Folder.exe to use it's icon. Looks more nice in the context menu. Maybe ask users upon installation?
-hairypaulsack (July 31, 2015, 04:22 AM)

I'll consider this. Which hive/key/value did you add?

2. Doesn't work with items on my desktop.
[...]
May this have something to do with them being shortcuts?
-hairypaulsack (July 31, 2015, 04:22 AM)

Correct, the program doesn't work with .LNK or .URL files. However, for me at least, regular items seem to work fine on my desktop. Keep in mind that I have UAC disabled on my computer.

3. Finally I'm having issues in protected areas. I can't use the program in say Program Files. I assume this is due to UAC
-hairypaulsack (July 31, 2015, 04:22 AM)

It's almost certainly due to UAC. I know it's not much help, but the app works fine for me in Program Files. Again, though, I have UAC disabled. Please keep in mind that F2F was originally developed in 2009 on XP and, due to the massive shell code changes after XP, I'm surprised it works at all under Windows Vista/7/8/10.

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General Software Discussion / Re: uninstall games in Windows 8

« Last post by skwire on July 31, 2015, 04:41 PM »

At this point, I think you have the following options left:

Why did you only try the first one? Try the other tutorials listed in the Google search.
If that doesn't work, navigate to the game's install folder and look for an "uninstall.exe" (or similar).
If that doesn't work, do a Google search for: "uninstalling <game name here>"
If nothing else works, just delete the game's folder and forget about it.

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Caption jpg files

« Last post by skwire on July 31, 2015, 10:20 AM »

Great suggestion, JJ.

@John Alaska: Do you mind if I mark this thread as solved and move it to the Finished Section?

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General Software Discussion / Re: uninstall games in Windows 8

« Last post by skwire on July 31, 2015, 08:57 AM »

There seems to be several tutorials on uninstalling games in Windows 8. Have you tried any of them?

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Post New Requests Here / Re: Program Proposal: "File Master" Cataloging Software

« Last post by skwire on July 31, 2015, 08:53 AM »

Many thanks for the suggestion! I have just downloaded Daminion... It appears quite complicated but what I can tell it relies mostly upon the native properties in Windows for its tagging fields. Please let me know if you can figure out how to add custom columns, tags, etc. I am not seeing the option(s)
-woodr2011 (July 31, 2015, 08:36 AM)

For the record, one of the Daminion co-founders has responded in this DC thread about the application: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=26159.0

You might consider asking your question in that thread.

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N.A.N.Y. 2015 / Re: NANY 2015 Release - Splat (Simple Program Launching and Termination)

« Last post by skwire on July 19, 2015, 04:54 PM »

Is it possible to configure things like "eject media", "increase/decrease sound volume", "mute", "shutdown"?
-dantheman (July 18, 2015, 08:11 PM)

"Shutdown" is already in there and I could add handling for your other three requests.

Reason i'm asking, have been using Hotkeyz for these things and it isn't being upgraded and won't work well with Windows 10.
-dantheman (July 18, 2015, 08:11 PM)

Splat is developed and tested on Windows 7 only so I can't promise that anything will work on W10. That said, has Splat been working well for you under W10?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2015, 04:36 PM »

s it possible for you to base the code on the "free" RAM instead on the "available" RAM? For me, free RAM is a much better indicator: things tend to slow down when all free RAM is used up (probably because of increased pagefile usage).
-brotherS (July 16, 2015, 03:43 PM)

AFAIK, Free is (roughly) the value of Available minus Cached. However, the data in Cached is not written to disk, i.e., it's not swapped to disk. Windows just holds it in memory in case it needs to be used again and it's immediately overwritten, in RAM, by new data if the system needs the RAM. That is, this all happens in RAM, not the HDD/SSD. In other words, your system should release that cached RAM immediately when it's needed and your system shouldn't slow down.

At any rate, I can't seem to find an MSDN article on how to retrieve those Free and/or Cached values anyway.

Maybe somebody else can point me to one.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2015, 12:12 PM »

I like the idea of something like the way Task Manager sits there with a square with a dark background and a solid color rises and falls showing Cpu usage. Task Manager's is green. You could do the same look with blue and it would be a great pair because at least for my daily use, Cpu use and memory use are far from the same, and I don't currently have anything fancy installed that dynamically monitors memory.
-TaoPhoenix (July 16, 2015, 12:07 PM)

Process Explorer does what you're asking. Launch it and look under Options > Tray Icons.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2015, 12:10 PM »

Give this a try, please: http://skwire.dcmembers.com/apps/snacks/brotherSTrayMem.zip

Notes:

There are a few values in the INI file you can modify. By default, the application checks the RAM every second, the yellow level is set at 2/3 of available RAM, and the red level is set at 1/3 of available RAM.
The icons it uses are in the /icons folder. I included two sets I made so feel free to use whichever you want (or make your own and share).
Hovering over the tray icon will show a tooltip with the available RAM on your computer.

I've done some basic testing with it but let me know if you have any issues.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Software wanted: warn when free RAM falls below xxx MB

« Last post by skwire on July 16, 2015, 09:50 AM »

Give me a few minutes and I can have something written for you. What kind of icon design were you thinking of? Simple squares of colour? Something else?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Jaikoz Audio Tagger, what are your thoughts?

« Last post by skwire on July 14, 2015, 11:54 AM »

I haven't used anything but Mp3tag for many years now. An absolutely bullshit-free interface just like I prefer and free (though I did donate years ago).

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