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Last post Author Topic: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software  (Read 72144 times)

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #25 on: October 24, 2007, 04:18 PM »
How about the option to "Clear ALL" to stop prevoiusly closed programs from popping up again UNWANTED, unless you can fix the problem. bigbazza

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #26 on: December 09, 2007, 09:31 AM »
Thanks skrommel for a great application.

One bug on my XP machine: when I press the Start button, the whole task bar disappears, and after the 60 seconds I get a system Shutdown message.

Indeed on the Start button I get two tooltips - the original "Click here to begin", and additionally the app's "Gone in X seconds".

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #27 on: January 09, 2008, 12:15 PM »
How about the option to "Clear ALL" to stop prevoiusly closed programs from popping up again UNWANTED, unless you can fix the problem. bigbazza

I have got the same problem of apps coming back automatically after 60s and I think a KILL via tray would be a good an easy solution to this.

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #28 on: January 09, 2008, 01:04 PM »
Guess who made it to CNET's "The Daily Download Blog"? And featured in the corresponding newsletter, too ;D

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #29 on: January 09, 2008, 08:55 PM »
Skrommel's seems to be on a sabbatical but maybe all these bug reports may tempt him back.. :-\

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #30 on: January 13, 2008, 07:04 AM »
Skrommel's seems to be on a sabbatical but maybe all these bug reports may tempt him back.. :-\

I hope it does! As for now, the bug with winodws reappearing again and again became so unnerving, that I removed the app from my system :-(

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2008, 10:45 AM »
Could you please include a 16 x 16 icon as well?  Thank you kindly.

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #32 on: April 01, 2008, 11:50 AM »
Bug: Add Explorer.exe on IgnoreList and try to close the Explorer Window, nothing happens...
BTW I use QTTabBar.

Ok, some seconds later everything worked... o_O strange...
(Is it possible to disable the Tooltip with the info, which process is hovered?)
« Last Edit: April 01, 2008, 11:53 AM by apfel »

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #33 on: October 11, 2008, 09:33 AM »
I just came across this tiny app which is just what I've been looking for! Thanks a lot!

Unfortunaly however the GoneIn60s.exe has NO icon here (XP Home Sp3). I've re-downloaded it several times, always NO icon, just the name is visible. And what is worse: No icon in the systray either when the app is running?!?!?

Does anybody experience the same bug??? Can the author help me, please?!?

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #34 on: October 21, 2008, 05:20 AM »
This might be a case of skrommel needing to recompile this.. Skrommel wake up!

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #35 on: October 21, 2008, 10:20 AM »
given the prolific rate that Skrommel writes programs, maintenance will usually take some time. :)

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #36 on: October 22, 2008, 05:13 PM »
 :) Just uploaded GoneIn60s v1.4!

- Added option to ignore classes, closes windows when exiting.

Skrommel

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #37 on: November 05, 2008, 08:54 AM »
Great idea and program!  I'm testing it out w.r.t. : IDEA: reopen recently opened explorer windows, history, MRU (thanks to lanux128's suggestion)

I found it amusing while testing that the program's own about box can be recovered -- what a nice bit of semi-self-reference :)

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #38 on: November 05, 2008, 09:41 AM »
In my environment, it appears that (perhaps w/ other factors involved) VirtualBox and GoneIn60s don't play well together [1].  Specifically, I'm finding that some times GoneIn60s doesn't appear to "capture" the apps that I close.


[1] I guess this is not too surprising and I'd hazard a guess that some VMWare products might behave similarly though I haven't tested this myself.



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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #39 on: November 05, 2008, 08:04 PM »
[1] I guess this is not too surprising and I'd hazard a guess that some VMWare products might behave similarly though I haven't tested this myself.

that'd be my guess as well. visualization might interfere with the windows detection. :)

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #40 on: November 05, 2008, 10:45 PM »
My current guess is that apps that do focus-related auto-capturing [1] (e.g. VirtualBox, VMWare, some VNC clients [2]) are likely suspects in being trouble-makers for GoneIn60s.


[1] Is that what you mean by "visualization"?

[2] Now  I have to find some app that has a name not beginning w/ the letter V that I can suspect...hmmm...oh, I did have some trouble while using VirtuaWin [3]...darn, that begins w/ "V" too :(

[3] Haven't narrowed it down enough to say for sure -- will keep an eye out for this to come up w/ reproducing instructions.
« Last Edit: November 05, 2008, 10:46 PM by ewemoa »

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #41 on: November 05, 2008, 10:58 PM »
My current guess is that apps that do focus-related auto-capturing [1] (e.g. VirtualBox, VMWare, some VNC clients [2]) are likely suspects in being trouble-makers for GoneIn60s.

[1] Is that what you mean by "visualization"?

i meant 'virtualization'. i had meant to say that these type of software might interfere due to the way the AHK script detects the active window. sorry about the typo. :-[

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #42 on: November 06, 2008, 05:08 AM »
Thanks for the clarification -- I think I understand better now :)

Perhaps if a number of offending apps use a similar approach, if that approach could be coped w/, it would mean that individual app-specific work-arounds wouldn't be necessary...OTOH, may be there are no (or very few) users who are actually experiencing these problems...

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #43 on: November 06, 2008, 09:22 PM »
This is similar to the request.
I don't know how it works, i haven't tried it.
And the homepage for it will not come up.
But here it is at snapfiles.

http://www.snapfiles.../get/smartclose.html

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #44 on: November 07, 2008, 12:30 AM »
Well, I installed it and used it.

It's great for system snapshots.
But to make one it shuts down everything it can.
So it knows what to open back up I guess.
It does keep the computer running at a minimum.

Then restoring the snapshot starts everything it closed.

I had ms word, ac browser plus, slickrun and firefox opened and up on the screen.
It restored everything back to the way it was including the web page I had Firefox on which wasn't my home page.

So it's not similar to the requested program of this thread.

But I think it is unique in that it will open back up everything you had up and working with. Like a workspace saver. And more then one 'workspace' can be saved.

But it has to close everything it can to save. There are no selective options for one or a few programs and services.

So, sorry it don't fit the thread, it's a different deal.

edit-found it here also, didn't search dc for it, before finding it

https://www.donation...dex.php?topic=6205.0
« Last Edit: November 07, 2008, 01:03 AM by cmpm »

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #45 on: March 30, 2009, 04:18 PM »
I like to request a feature; an option to remove an item from the list.

It's not possible to close the program permanently, so I have to wait the whole 60 seconds (or different) for the program to close.

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #46 on: October 20, 2009, 01:03 PM »
I'm having an unexpected problem with GoneIn60s.

If I close an app using Alt+F4, everything works as expected.  However, if I just click the close button (X) of a window, it will not end up in the list to be restored.

Am I misunderstanding how it is supposed to work?

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2012, 03:12 PM »
- If not restored, it is gone in 60 seconds

can we disable this? ie. to maintain as many as possible last closed program windows?

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #48 on: October 07, 2012, 06:37 PM »
An awesome idea with a bit buggy realization.
Nonetheless, thanks for that util!

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Re: IDEA: Closed Program Bin / Reopen accidentily closed software
« Reply #49 on: June 29, 2014, 03:23 PM »
Hi Skrommel, first of all sorry to bump an old topic but this app is such a genius. Gonein60Secs in fantastic but would it possible to remove the timeout entirely? How about remembering it until the user logs out/restarts, essentially turning GoneIn60seconds into a Recently closed apps list like the list Windows maintains for documents?