http://productivegeek.com/forums/ The Geeky Way to Get Things Done en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:02:31 +0000 http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/task-scheduler#post-1814 Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:56:46 +0000 nofare 1814@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>I use Windows 7.<br /> I'm trying to use Task Scheduler. I'd like a particular script to start each time I quit Firefox.<br /> The problem is that I can't seem to find, within Task Scheduler, the trigger that corresponds to the event of my quitting Firefox.<br /> Any hint would be welcome.</p> <p>Thanks. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/s-i-m-p-l-e#post-1802 Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:48:41 +0000 ALIV 1802@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <pre><code>&lt;a target=&#39;_blank&#39; href=&#39;http://img708.imageshack.us/i/20100804i.png/&#39;&gt;&lt;img src=&#39;http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/9240/20100804i.th.png&#39; border=&#39;0&#39;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Uploaded with &lt;a target=&#39;_blank&#39; href=&#39;http://imageshack.us&#39;&gt;ImageShack.us&lt;/a&gt;</code></pre> <p>&lt;sub&gt;<b>! d e t a i l s</b><br /> rainmeter taskbar: <a href="http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/sysmonitor/rainmeter/?order=9#/d2rh7e6">SIMPLE TASKBAR</a>, Black Version. 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These annoying solicitations actually SLOW down your workflow to the point that PhraseExpress is counter-productive.</p> <p>I had to uninstall PhraseExpress and take up the awesome AHK. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-text-replacement-app#post-1700 Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:07:15 +0000 sirikan 1700@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I use Autohotkey for text replacment. Hate the syntax of the language though. I am more a fan of c syntax or basic syntax. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-text-replacement-app#post-1699 Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:10:26 +0000 devz 1699@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Please give "Rocket Typing" a try.<br /> It's easy to learn and use. </p> <p><a href="http://www.word-expander.com">http://www.word-expander.com</a> </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/do-you-auto-hide-the-taskbar-or-dock#post-1503 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:30:45 +0000 matteotom 1503@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I autohide both my dock and taskbar, because it takes up valuable screen space that can be used for whatever I am doing. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/do-you-auto-hide-the-taskbar-or-dock#post-1502 Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:11:24 +0000 howtogeek 1502@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>It really does help keep me more focused. You need to turn down the notifications too though. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/do-you-auto-hide-the-taskbar-or-dock#post-1498 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:36:29 +0000 Vito 1498@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I noticed in the Geek's article about the undesktop, and the clear and clean desktop, that it was mentioned that hiding the taskbar helped productivity. What I'm wondering is whether anybdy has really noticed a difference. Does it really help to hide the taskbar? </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/moving-all-windows-to-my-primary-monitor-screen#post-1485 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:04:55 +0000 howtogeek 1485@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Sweet, I was able to put together a script that sets Ctrl+Alt+Left and Right to move all windows to one monitor or the other:</p> <pre><code>^!Left::GatherWindows(1) ^!Right::GatherWindows(2) IsResizable() { WinGet, Style, Style return (Style &amp; 0x40000) ; WS_SIZEBOX } GatherWindows(md=1) { global ProcessGatherExcludeList SetWinDelay, -1 ; Makes a BIG difference to perceived performance. ; List all visible windows. WinGet, win, List ; Copy bounds of all monitors to an array. SysGet, mc, MonitorCount Loop, %mc% SysGet, mon%A_Index%, MonitorWorkArea, %A_Index% ; Destination monitor mdx := mon%md%Left mdy := mon%md%Top mdw := mon%md%Right - mdx mdh := mon%md%Bottom - mdy Loop, %win% { ; If this window matches the GatherExclude group, don&#39;t touch it. if (WinExist(&quot;ahk_group GatherExclude ahk_id &quot; . win%A_Index%)) continue ; Set Last Found Window. if (!WinExist(&quot;ahk_id &quot; . win%A_Index%)) continue WinGet, procname, ProcessName ; Check process (program) exclusion list. if procname in %ProcessGatherExcludeList% continue WinGetPos, x, y, w, h ; Determine which monitor this window is on. xc := x+w/2, yc := y+h/2 ms := 1 Loop, %mc% if (xc &gt;= mon%A_Index%Left &amp;&amp; xc &lt;= mon%A_Index%Right &amp;&amp; yc &gt;= mon%A_Index%Top &amp;&amp; yc &lt;= mon%A_Index%Bottom) { ms := A_Index break } ; If already on destination monitor, skip this window. if (ms = md) continue ; Source monitor msx := mon%ms%Left msy := mon%ms%Top msw := mon%ms%Right - msx msh := mon%ms%Bottom - msy ; If the window is resizable, scale it by the monitors&#39; resolution difference. if (IsResizable()) { w *= (mdw/msw) h *= (mdh/msh) } WinGet, state, MinMax if state = 1 WinRestore ; Move window, using resolution difference to scale co-ordinates. WinMove,,, mdx + (x-msx)*(mdw/msw), mdy + (y-msy)*(mdh/msh), w, h if state = 1 WinMaximize } }</code></pre> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/moving-all-windows-to-my-primary-monitor-screen#post-1483 Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:45:22 +0000 LifeButBetter.com 1483@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>WindowPad - an AHK script can do this. It assigns keys to actions such as maximising, switching monitoring and moving all windows to one or the other.</p> <p><a href="http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic21703.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.autohotkey.com/forum/topic21703.html</a> </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/moving-all-windows-to-my-primary-monitor-screen#post-1481 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:22:21 +0000 howtogeek 1481@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Yeah, I am sure I could write a script, just figured someone has solved this before. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/moving-all-windows-to-my-primary-monitor-screen#post-1478 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:43:52 +0000 alexward1981 1478@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Not 100% sure if this works outside of windows 7 but you can use the windows key + arrows to move windows from one monitor to another. Its still a one-by-one thing but you could probably automate it in some way using EventGhost. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/moving-all-windows-to-my-primary-monitor-screen#post-1477 Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:03:30 +0000 howtogeek 1477@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Every day when I leave work, I manually move all my windows from my secondary screen to my primary (laptop) screen. What's the best automated way to do this? Preferably a keyboard shortcut and autohotkey, but could be something else as long as it's done in one step. The challenge is that my secondary monitor is really big, and my laptop screen is a much smaller resolution, so half the windows need to be resized to fit. </p> <p>Got a solution? Best answer might get featured on Lifehacker or How-To Geek! </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-text-replacement-app#post-1465 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:04:59 +0000 LifeButBetter.com 1465@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I use AHK but understand it people prefer to a more automatic, GUI driven application like PhraseExpress. </p> <p>I've tried PhraseExpress a couple of times, but it never fully behaves like I expect it to. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-text-replacement-app#post-1459 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:15:06 +0000 c.barber78 1459@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Personally, I just use hotstrings in AutoHotkey however I might consider including Texter in my ahk script if I add more hotstrings. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-local-version-control-software#post-1412 Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:59:13 +0000 boter2099 1412@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Perforce</p> <p><a href="http://www.perforce.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.perforce.com</a> - The free evaluation never expires and lets you run a local server with 2 users for free (5 work spaces each I think). I run it at home for my Picts, my MP3s, my personal wiki backups, and all of my important docs.</p> <p>IMHO their CLI is better than the GUI. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-local-version-control-software#post-1388 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:35:57 +0000 spirion 1388@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Filehamster is the easiest I've ever used:</p> <p><a href="http://www.filehamster.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.filehamster.com/</a> </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-text-replacement-app#post-1180 Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:23:22 +0000 evilmunky 1180@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Notepad ++ for my windows needs.</p> <p>For batch file / script stuff I use fart.exe </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/registry-cleaners-do-they-really-work#post-1102 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 22:50:19 +0000 Brady 1102@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>@sirikan<br /> Yes it was those types of files - probably harmless to remove but I didn't bother with it. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/registry-cleaners-do-they-really-work#post-1089 Sat, 23 Jan 2010 05:28:35 +0000 b0ring 1089@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I've only used registry cleaners when program installs have been giving me problems, other than that I don't see the point. I find it hard to believe my computer will grind to a halt because one thing in the registry is confusing it.</p> <p>I always (and only) use Revo for uninstalling programs and I've never had a problem with it. Well, sometimes it tries to delete related programs by accident, for example uninstalling a Steam game means it tries to delete your entire Steam folder as "left overs", but you can always see what's going on. As for it's registry cleaning, it will always (unless disabled) create a system restore before uninstalling so if it messes up you can go back. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/registry-cleaners-do-they-really-work#post-1087 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 21:18:07 +0000 sirikan 1087@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Brady what keys did it want to delete out of curiosity? I have never used Revo Uninstaller but would be interested in what it was removing. If it was a bunch of numbers and letters surounded by {} it might have been a COM registration which could have been one of the applications dll files. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/registry-cleaners-do-they-really-work#post-1074 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 13:08:30 +0000 Brady 1074@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>A couple of people here have mentioned Revo Uninstaller and the role it plats in reg cleaning. However, when I tried Revo, I did a full uninstall and got the registry cleaning portion, and it looked like it wanted to delete some keys which were not in any apparent way related to the program I was uninstalling. They may have been, but they may not have been, too. It made me nervous that Revo was going to delete some portion of my registry due to mistaken identity, so I stopped using it.<br /> Am I being too paranoid? Should I trust Revo to fully uninstall, including clearing the registry, without killing the wrong key? </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/registry-cleaners-do-they-really-work#post-1071 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:50:32 +0000 akishore 1071@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I've used CCleaner and it's never messed up my system. That's the only program I really use to do any kind of registry cleaning. It's just to risky to try out all these random programs. </p> <p>The best thing to do is install applications into a virtual environment or using visualization software. This way your main registry never gets loaded with junk, but you can still install whatever you like. </p> <p>I wrote about a program called Altiris Software Virtualization, which is now part of Symantec:</p> <p><a href="http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/install-software-virtually-and-protect-your-computer-using-altiris-software-virtualization/" rel="nofollow">http://www.online-tech-tips.com/software-reviews/install-software-virtually-and-protect-your-computer-using-altiris-software-virtualization/</a></p> <p>Microsoft also has a application virtualization software: </p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/appv/default.mspx</a> </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-local-version-control-software#post-1070 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:27:47 +0000 sirikan 1070@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Mercurial would be my choice. While it might not be as flexible as git it takes a lot less to setup and seems to do everything I could ever want. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/registry-cleaners-do-they-really-work#post-1069 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:25:42 +0000 sirikan 1069@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I see registry cleaners as a tool that can fix specific problems. I generally don't recommend running them on a regular basis to improve perfomance.</p> <p>A good example of when I would run a registry cleaner is say an application doesn't uninstall properly, it may have left a heap of enteries in CLSID, trying to track the GUID back to the components would be very painful but registry cleaners like ccleaner can scan CLSID and remove enteries that reference files that no longer exist. Plus it also dumps a reg file so you can undo any problems it created. </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-local-version-control-software#post-1044 Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:47:03 +0000 t0mt0m 1044@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>@jj128: do I have versioned folders in Dropbox for an unlimited time (with the free 2GB version?). If it's so, than I can also give a +1 for dropbox :) </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/looking-for-system-snapshot-utility-for-software-troubleshooting#post-939 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:23:22 +0000 piercedjai 939@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Also might want to look at System Explorer, not as in depth as SIW, might still be useful.</p> <p>System Explorer - <a href="http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/" rel="nofollow">http://systemexplorer.mistergroup.org/</a> </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/looking-for-system-snapshot-utility-for-software-troubleshooting#post-927 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:58:34 +0000 KvnKrft 927@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Thanks for sharing. I found SIW to be "overkill", a great application but just too much. I'll check out Lupo Pen Suite! </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/best-64-bit-software-for-windows#post-923 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:58:00 +0000 akishore 923@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>Here's an awesome list of 64-bit software for Windows broken down nicely by category and function:</p> <p><a href="http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows7-vista-64-bit-software.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-windows7-vista-64-bit-software.htm</a> </p> http://productivegeek.com/forums/topic/looking-for-system-snapshot-utility-for-software-troubleshooting#post-922 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:57:48 +0000 piercedjai 922@http://productivegeek.com/forums/ <p>I use SIW (System Information for Windows) for this exact reason. Below is a download link, also the software is portable freindly and I use it as part of my Lupo Pen Suite.</p> <p>SIW - <a href="http://www.gtopala.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gtopala.com/</a></p> <p>Lupo Pen Suite - <a href="http://www.lupopensuite.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lupopensuite.com/</a> </p>