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Rinze
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I like Partition Wizard to manage partitions, unlike Easeus Partition Manager it also works on 64 bit Windows.
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kumkss
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| Posted: Sat, 16th Oct 2010 17:24 Post subject: |
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is there any adobe writer alternative?
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kumkss
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Oct 2010 17:00 Post subject: |
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/classicshell/files/
for those that find the windows 7 start menu annoying, ugly as shit, uncostumizable and a mayor fail: return to the classic start menu, not as brilliant as vista, but better than this shit of win7
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Nalo
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Oct 2010 19:21 Post subject: |
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kumkss
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Oct 2010 23:42 Post subject: |
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Werelds
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jan 2011 10:46 Post subject: |
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This thread lacks Irfanview, I've been using this for as long as I can remember and it beats the shit out of Windows' Image viewer. Not sure what stuff like ACDSee is like these days, but I somehow doubt it matches the speed and simplicity of Irfanview 
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_SiN_
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jan 2011 11:16 Post subject: |
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Depends on what you're looking for. ACDSee is very nice (it was when I used it last 6-7 months ago) with a lot of options. If you want simplicity and speed, ACDSee is a waste. It would be like using Photoshop when Paint is sufficient.
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Werelds
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jan 2011 11:19 Post subject: |
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Thing is though, Irfanview can probably do what ACDSee can as well - it might be through a plugin, but considering the whole thing including plugins is like 10 megs.. 
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Sep 2012 23:02 Post subject: |
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http://blog.orbmu2k.de/
very very nicely done windows 7 gadgets.
I like the audio gadget at the bottom. It shows separate volume abr for left and right channel and can be adjusted with wheel mouse.
3080, ps5, lg oled
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Sep 2012 23:30 Post subject: |
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Use Rainmeter instead, much more customizable and a lot of support for it. And it has plenty of stuff like those gadgets.
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Sep 2012 23:40 Post subject: |
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Interesting. I never ever tried actually changing my desktop. Rainmeter is the best frontend ?
3080, ps5, lg oled
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
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| Posted: Tue, 4th Sep 2012 23:41 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Thu, 6th Sep 2012 10:30 Post subject: |
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ok thanks, I am using it right now and I love it! The customization is endless.
One thing I've noticed tho. Within many skins there is a network activity monitor showing up/down speeds.
I am getting up and down to ~150-200 spikes randomly even when I am not downloading anything nor browsing. I've checked network activity and it seems to be steam etc so nothing bad.
Anyway, again, thanks. That is what I was looking for
3080, ps5, lg oled
Sin317-"im 31 years old and still surprised at how much shit comes out of my ass actually ..."
SteamDRM-"Call of Duty is the symbol of the true perfection in every aspect. Call of Duty games are like Mozart's/Beethoven's symphonies"
deadpoetic-"are you new to the cyberspace?"
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tallship
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Sep 2012 13:30 Post subject: Don't forget to include links when making your suggestions |
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It would be nice if there were links when people leave suggestions. IrfanView was mentioned but no link was given - this is really good stuff too so here's the link to IrfanView
Let's not forget The GIMP or InkSkape either! Those two goodies pretty much replace any need for Adobe products like Photoshop or Illustrator 
And one would be remiss if these vital, powerful, utils weren't mentioned (All of them syntactically support slashes as well as backslashes, FYI):
Dexpot is a fantastic pager (Everyone needs more desk space).
There are so many text editors, but here's a couple of my favs
First, we have a wYNd0z3 only editor that is almost a mini-ide,that works great for general purpose stuff and especially when working with PHP: PSPad
Notepad++ also deserves mention, and is a fav of many.
Another great, and completely cross-platform editor (a lightweight, mini-IDE if you will) is Geany.
Media Player Classic was mentioned above, which is a most excellent offering, yet VLC should not go without mention.
Here are a few more completely cross-platform goodies, so no one has to switch gears when moving from one OS to another:
HandBrake is a nice transcoder,and TeamViewer is mentioned above for folks already for those wanting remote support/control - but it isn't cross-platform...
For that, I like to keep Mikogo as one of the tools in my arsenal, and I'm sure that most of you appreciate having capable choices in your arsenal too Did I mention it's cross-platform compatible where TeamViewer isn't?
In showing you the links to Mikogo (since most of these types of utils would like you to pay for subscriptions for commercial or enhanced capabilities, I want to offer the following links, which would normally take someone a while to find. These two links provide the instructions, in a tutorial fashion, for some of the most commonly desired methods for using remote control software:
To configure and optimize Mikogo for remote support
To configure Mikogo's Autojoin capabilities so you can email this "One-Click" method to others or put up a link on your website
I know I provided a whole suite of UNIX utilities above that are actually native wYND0z3 apps, but what about bringing the full breadth of UNIX (Linux) power to your wYNd0z3 machine? Cygwin brings all of that functionality to you w/o having to install VirtualBox and have to go through installing Linux, Solaris, or one of the BSDs in a virtual machine (subtracting from your available installed memory when running those guest OSes).
Not convinced that this may be just the thing you were looking for? Well how about if you have access to a remote UNIX machine or your own VPS, and you want to run the GUI applications on that machine like they were on your own desktop? Cygwin has you covered, because it somes with it's own X Server (Called Cygwin/X) so you can do just that!
What's that you say? You only want a stand-alone, high quality X Server for your wYNd0z3 box so you can run those remote Linux GUI apps on your desktop? No problem! Xming is probably what you're looking for.
How about a little example of how useful this is? Let's say you don't want to be limited by renting one of those expensive seedboxes, and would instead prefer to simply have your own UNIX VPS that you install your own bittorent application on. We all know that there's a Wynd0z3 port of Transmission, which is a most excellent BitTorrent client (with remote web-based control too), but using the X Server that comes with Cygwin or installing Xming on your local machine allows you to run the actual Transmission GUI application on your own desktop, managing your seedbox remotely as if it was on your local machine, but with all of the torrents you manage actually being on that remote UNIX machine - you get the power and stability of the Linux version of Transmission but the convenience of running it as if is was a locally installed application!
Well, I hope I've been able to contribute to this thread in a valuable way, but I'd like to leave everyone with a special thought about free software. When you use free software, remember that many developers and their teams only receive compensation from donations or technical support for their software - so if you like something, and have used it a few times or more, considering sending those developers five or ten bucks - that's probably less than the lunch you paid for yesterday, or the drinks you had last night at happy hour, and it leaves you with the satisfaction that you have in some way helped to ensure that this software will be around for you and others to use in the years to come - even though wYNd0z3 might not LOL!
I hope that helps
Kindest regards,
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| Posted: Fri, 14th Sep 2012 13:43 Post subject: |
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Enough with the "wYNd0z3 LOL" immature rubbish already. Your detailed posts are helpful, the condescending crap isn't.
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tallship
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Mon, 17th Sep 2012 18:05 Post subject: |
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| tallship wrote: |
Why thank you. it is truly appreciated.
Now have a nice life in the bowels of my ignore list.
I hope that helps
Kindest regards,
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Wait, your also one of the people that announce you put someone on ignore? how quaint..
Do you also tell people "I'm going to hang up on you! enjoy me not being able to hear your reply to that" out of satisfaction of pointing that out, before you angrily hang up on them on the phone?
I also like the permission to add you to his list as if its a courtesy you extend in case we fear doing so without it, worries us of a negative reaction. AS if we go "I've been tempted to add him, but worried how he would feel about us doing so..glad he pointed out its ok to do"
While at the same time you obviously don't need that same courtesy in return before doing it.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
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Werelds
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Nalo
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Mon, 17th Sep 2012 19:42 Post subject: |
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| Werelds wrote: | So no, I'm not buying your "I hope I've been able to contribute to this thread in a valuable way" either, since half of your list are not tools that anyone bar a programmer will need. Either you are a wannabe Linux purist or you're a troll.
Either way, welcome to the hump, I'm sure I'll make your ignore list with this post as well. You're off to a great start |
But hows he suppose to subtly show off his amazing *nix kernel compiling skills as if they are second nature to him in this thread...while staying in context .Unless he passively tosses them into the 'what I consider essential core programs everyone needs'.
As if someone going "I don't know what 1/2 those are or how I would need them everyday" would cause confusion on his part with a: "You don't get up everyday and compile some non-wYNd0z3 code while starting breakfast??"
we get it dude, you don't like windows, you love unix, and want to validate yourself as a high end PC user because you are the fresh face here and trying to establish 'street cred' if you wish to call it, Good first impression and all.
Just chill, and drop the ego. Its just as annoying as some new mechanic walking into a new job..and immediately talking about how much that car the other guy is working sucks as a brand based on his years of experience working on cars, and relaying a story of how he was elbow deep a week ago into a Ferrari upgrading the sensitive timing belt/chipset system for a high end customer he had.
In other words "your trying too hard to sound convincing" true or not...to be convincing.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jun 2013 05:07 Post subject: |
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treesize, wonderful tool that lists directories by size (scans the entire disk), really helpful to clean up an aging install, just cleaned today and saved 40gb on my ssd >_< just unused leftovers from uninstalled crap
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jun 2013 13:09 Post subject: |
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| MEGAtexture wrote: | treesize, wonderful tool that lists directories by size (scans the entire disk), really helpful to clean up an aging install, just cleaned today and saved 40gb on my ssd >_< just unused leftovers from uninstalled crap
http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/ |
THIS x10
I love treesize, I use it on every PC brought to me to fix and cleanup, And for work too.
Another good thing I figured out about it, even the installer version doesn't need an installer.
Just copy the exe to a PC and run it. it works. (you have to install it on yours of course..to get the exe)
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
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Aeon
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[mrt]
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jun 2013 19:22 Post subject: |
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If you like those sort of things give WinDirStat a try or SpaceMonger. The first has very nice visuals.
teey
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Werelds
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jun 2013 19:22 Post subject: |
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WinDirStat for Windows, Disk Inventory X for OS X
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DXWarlock
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fisk
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Someone should make a "humpers toolkit"-package with all these tools in one easy installation box.
Yes, yes I'm back.
Somewhat.
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DXWarlock
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| Posted: Wed, 26th Jun 2013 21:10 Post subject: |
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Submit it to be added here Fisk:
http://ninite.com/
They always take suggestions on what to add to the list.
I love that site, its saved me sooo much time on redoing windows for family members.
its literally 'one click install' for everything you select on it.
It even bypasses all the freeware/adware crap some of the free apps wants to install by itself.
-We don't control what happens to us in life, but we control how we respond to what happens in life.
-Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times. -G. Michael Hopf
Disclaimer: Post made by me are of my own creation. A delusional mind relayed in text form.
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Necromancy!
VLC and MPC-HC both support playing from RAR (including multi-part RAR) as long as it's uncompressed (because it's trivial to implement, you just read the multimedia file inside RAR from some offset instead from the beginning).
Not universally useful feature, but works for scene movie releases if you want to preserve them in original RARs (because they are uncompressed).
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