New CPanel alias discussion and suggestions

[Josh]

To all that are interested in the new CPanel alias mentioned here, please post any comments or suggestions to this thread. If you find any missing applets (not vendor specific such as NVidia or AMD, or ones that come with a utility such as sisoft sandra or everest), please post them here and what OS you are running.

[Josh]

On the note, if you have a separate vendor-specific control panel applet, please pass the .cpl or namespace and GUID for it, and I will create a separate, optional, alias file for the vendor-specific entries.

[ewemoa]

Brief testing under Windows 7 Pro 64-bit with FARR 2.107.01 (tried running as admin as well as non-admin):

Dialog displays for (works as expected?):

 System
 Display

Nothing seems to happen:

 Mouse
 Keyboard

Error dialog (sorry non-English text which I didn't manage to parse):

 Fonts
 Speech

With 2.107.02 seems much better -- though the dialogs that came up before were different...


After typing cpanel, it seems to take a while for the control panel items to show up here -- if I didn't know to wait I might wonder whether it was working correctly  With 2.107.02 seems much faster  


Side note: didn't see mention of this thread in the beta thread -- if it hasn't been mentioned there, may be it would make sense to?

[daddydave]

What is different about cpanel? Mine's altered, so maybe that is why I am not seeing any changes. Does it still pull from %FARRDIR%\scripts?

[mouser]

Does it still pull from %FARRDIR%\scripts?

NO.

in fact you better back up yours if you've someone changed it, becase the new farr installer will remove the old FARRDIR\Scripts\cpanel when run.

[Josh]

All,

Here is a list of msc files I am going to add for MSC files. This will fall under the admin alias:

azman.msc	Authentication Manager
certmgr.msc	Certificate Manager
comexp.msc	Component Services (COM+) Administration
compmgmt.msc	Computer Management
devmgmt.msc	Device Manager
diskmgmt.msc	Disk Management
eventvwr.msc	Event Viewer
fsmgmt.msc	Shared Folders Management
gpedit.msc	Group Policy Editor
lusrmgr.msc	Local Users and Groups
NAPCLCFG.msc	Network Access Protocol Client Configuration
perfmon.msc	Performance Monitor
printmanagement.msc	Print Management
rsop.msc	Resultant Set Of Policy
SecPol.msc	Security Policy Editor (A subset of Group Policy)
Services.msc	Services manager
TaskSchd.msc	Task Scheduler
tpm.msc	Trusted Platform Module
WF.msc	Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
WMImgmt.msc	Windows Management Instrumentation Control

Once this is complete, I will create an adcpl alias for active directory tools. This will include things like DHCP, DNS, RRAS, Active Directory Users and Computers, Sites and Services, Domains and Trusts, etc.

Please let me know what you think of the current or planned aliases! Thanks!
Josh

[mouser]

With 2.107.02 seems much faster

Josh's new alias was added in 2.107.02, so I guess what you are saying is that Josh's new cpanel alias is a big improvement over the old cpanel shotcuts that FARR used to use.

[jdmarch]

A basic question from someone who's been depending on FARR for many years, but hasn't really followed its enhancements for most of that time: With this latest update, how do I get a CPanel applet to appear in history? Before this update, this "just worked"; now CPanel itself appears in history, but not the applets. Also, manually adjusting the applet scores does not affect their scores in the search window. Thanks!

[mouser]

Alias results don't currently show in launch history; the reason they showed in previous version and not now is that they used to be handled by shortcut files in a special directory and now they're handled by an alias.

The request that alias results be added to launch history is not a new one.. I think I will be adding it soon.

[jdmarch]

Thanks, Mouser. I will wait patiently by the mouse hole