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doctorfrog posted:I'm looking for multiple desktop freeware for Windows 7. I'd like hotkeys to be able to not only switch between desktops, but also send windows to next desktop. Strongly prefer hotkeys to mouse controls. Like, if I move my mouse to the edge of the screen, and it switches desktops, that I would disable immediately. Nothing super fancy, no Mac-style Expose, just 2-4 virtual desktops with no added crap. This is all doable with default bbZero (a fork of bblean, which is a port/fork of blackbox), but it's a shell replacement which is more than you probably want. It also requires editing config files to get it working exactly how you want it. By default the workspace (virtual desktop) bindings are pre:Workspaces: Win + Num1..6: Workspace1..6 Win + Left: PrevWorkspace Win + Right: NextWorkspace Win + Ctrl + Left: PrevWindow Win + Ctrl + Right: NextWindow Win + Ctrl + Up: PrevWindowAllWorkspaces Win + Ctrl + Down: NextWindowAllWorkspaces Win + Up: MoveWindowLeft Win + Down: MoveWindowRight Win + G: GatherWindows
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doctorfrog posted:I'm looking for multiple desktop freeware for Windows 7. I'd like hotkeys to be able to not only switch between desktops, but also send windows to next desktop. Strongly prefer hotkeys to mouse controls. Like, if I move my mouse to the edge of the screen, and it switches desktops, that I would disable immediately. Nothing super fancy, no Mac-style Expose, just 2-4 virtual desktops with no added crap. Back when I did the virtual desktop thing, always found this the best for windows http://dexpot.de/?lang=en
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Oct 28, 2016 10:15
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Stardock has a virtual desktop application iirc, though it was  or something.
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Oct 28, 2016 12:11
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Be mindful though that you'd be giving money directly to a human shitstain.
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Oct 28, 2016 12:15
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The Lord Bude posted:Be mindful though that you'd be giving money directly to a human shitstain. Stardock? Well, since I've already given them money... Care to elaborate?
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Oct 28, 2016 14:19
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reL posted:Stardock? I believe it's about the CEO and sexual harassment or something, but I can't honestly remember all the details. That said, most companies have some seedy assholes in them. You buy gas, but nobody's saying BP or Exxon are exactly saints. HalloKitty fucked around with this message at 15:20 on Oct 28, 2016 |
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Oct 28, 2016 15:18
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HalloKitty posted:I believe it's about the CEO and sexual harassment or something, but I can't honestly remember all the details. That said, most companies have some seedy assholes in them. You buy gas, but nobody's saying BP or Exxon are exactly saints. Someone in sales or marketing filed a sexual harassment charge. It was later dropped. This stuff happens all the time, and does not automatically mean the accused is guilty of a crime. Unless you have non-public knowledge of the incident, or know the individuals involved personally, I wouldn't cite a dropped charge as my reason for recommending or not recommending a software product.
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Oct 28, 2016 18:49
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There's way more to his behaviour than that, if you care to do a bit of reading on the original controversy. It became quite apparent that he was an awful human being. You can't really drive without petrol, but not giving stardock money is pretty easy and a choice I made a long time ago.
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Oct 29, 2016 02:48
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SEKCobra posted:Honestly, at this point you should switch to Windows 10, it's not something Windows 7 does very well. No thank you. John Capslocke posted:Back when I did the virtual desktop thing, always found this the best for windows http://dexpot.de/?lang=en Thank you! Read posted:This is all doable with default bbZero (a fork of bblean, which is a port/fork of blackbox), but it's a shell replacement which is more than you probably want. It also requires editing config files to get it working exactly how you want it. Yeah, this is what I run on my home machine at the moment. This is for a work machine I'm not able to change the shell for.
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The Lord Bude posted:There's way more to his behaviour than that, if you care to do a bit of reading on the original controversy. It became quite apparent that he was an awful human being. That thread got pretty funny when the beekeeping stuff came up. I wish I had a link.
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Oct 29, 2016 11:08
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I'm looking for a small desktop app that shows a clock, something that i can just leave run on a second screen. Doesn't need to be anything fancy or feature laden, as long as it shows the time. Toggling 'Always on top' is about the only option i can see wanting for this. Holy poo poo all i am finding is hot garbage from the MS store. Full screen apps, live tiles, apps that look good but scale laughably. Big rear end windows that have backgrounds and their own wall paper, that again dont scale for poo poo. Is my best bet just to re-enable gadgets and go that way?
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Oct 31, 2016 21:38
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Have you considered an actual clock
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:I'm looking for a small desktop app that shows a clock, something that i can just leave run on a second screen. Doesn't need to be anything fancy or feature laden, as long as it shows the time. Toggling 'Always on top' is about the only option i can see wanting for this. Holy poo poo all i am finding is hot garbage from the MS store. Full screen apps, live tiles, apps that look good but scale laughably. Big rear end windows that have backgrounds and their own wall paper, that again dont scale for poo poo. Can you be a bit more specific? Like is this what you want:  You keep saying things don't scale properly? Does it need to be a specific size?
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I do have physical clocks around, but they don't do much when the lights are low for watching something or playing games. As far as the few i checked out, the Microsoft Store, that I kept getting directed to, was full of either clocks intended to run in a start menu tile, or apps that looked like maybe an 800x600 window with a clock in the center and some background image(which when i tried to resize the window it would break the clock in goofy ways, or just not resize) For example, this one looked cool, its a little Nixie tube clock and sure, it looks pretty neat full screen. When trying to resize i got it to about 1/3 of the horizontal screen and a little shorter than full screen top to bottom. Seems pretty ridiculous to use a 1/3rd of an already small screen for that I have my primary monitor centered above my desk, as its the primary it has the taskbar w the clock. I have a smaller 2nd monitor(1024x768) off to the side that I usually have MIRC or mumble or whatever running. On this 2nd, i just want something unobtrusive that shows the time and doesnt look like a big dumb window sitting on top of other programs. Went with the plain ol windows gadget based clock, looks like it's probably the same one from Vista/7. My needs have been suited
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Nov 1, 2016 04:54
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Rainmeter + Windows Gadgets pack = Highly customizable gadgets without the security issues that got gadgets yanked in the first place https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=20699 
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Fart.Bleed.Repeat. posted:I have my primary monitor centered above my desk, as its the primary it has the taskbar w the clock. I have a smaller 2nd monitor(1024x768) off to the side that I usually have MIRC or mumble or whatever running. On this 2nd, i just want something unobtrusive that shows the time and doesnt look like a big dumb window sitting on top of other programs.
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Nov 1, 2016 06:29
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Is there any way to pin folders and files inside Windows Explorer? I don't mean to pin them to the jumplist or Quick Access. I mean some way to right click and "pin in folder" so whatever name you give them they'll always be at the top. At the moment I'm relying on adding numbers and poo poo to the front like a barbarian.
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syntaxfunction posted:Is there any way to pin folders and files inside Windows Explorer? I don't mean to pin them to the jumplist or Quick Access. I mean some way to right click and "pin in folder" so whatever name you give them they'll always be at the top. At the moment I'm relying on adding numbers and poo poo to the front like a barbarian. You can do that in xyplorer, a windows explorer replacement, but it's paid software. If you want to go with it, just set a label on the files you want and sort by labels or select them all and sort by selected items to top. There are probably other ways to do it too, xyplorer has a shitload of features.
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Read posted:You can do that in xyplorer, a windows explorer replacement, but it's paid software. If you want to go with it, just set a label on the files you want and sort by labels or select them all and sort by selected items to top. There are probably other ways to do it too, xyplorer has a shitload of features. XYplorer very kindly has a free version. Another way to accomplish the OP is to select the files you want to stick on top, and go to View > Sort By > Selected items on top.
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Nov 1, 2016 12:21
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3rding xyplorer. It's my favourite explorer replacement. Directory opus can probably do this as well, but it costs fairly serious money.
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is there a thread to talk about the surface studio and the dial? can't find anything in shsc or iyg.
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Speaking of directory opus... https://www.humblebundle.com/lifehacker-software-bundle
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c0burn posted:Speaking of directory opus... https://www.humblebundle.com/lifehacker-software-bundle Bleh got that because I was just about to buy LastPass Premium so I figured it was a no brainer. Missed the "New customers only" bit. =/ Oh well, maybe the link will work for one of you guys who wants it - Click here to give it a whirl Please say "I got this" if it worked for you so others don't try.
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Does anyone know of a way to get rid of this insanely large media display that shows up when I change my volume?  Looks like it's a relatively new thing: I googled around and couldn't find any information.
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Nov 1, 2016 22:44
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It was introduced with Windows 8. But I suppose the program you're using needs to have support for it and maybe that's how it could be new to you. If you don't want it, I suppose you want a different media player or an older version of your current one maybe.
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Thanks for the XYPlorer suggestion guys. Bit disappointed there's no way to do that in normal Explorer though. Come on Microsoft, up your game!
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bvoid posted:Does anyone know of a way to get rid of this insanely large media display that shows up when I change my volume? Are you using Spotify? That started coming up for myself as well with a recent update, and after looking it up everyone's bitching about it right now because there's no option to turn it off.
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Medullah posted:Bleh got that because I was just about to buy LastPass Premium so I figured it was a no brainer. Missed the "New customers only" bit. =/
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Can anyone recommended software to monitor or track packet loss to multiple different domains at the same time? Using the command prompt gets kind of clunky.
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Can anyone recommend some software which will show me how much bandwidth each program/process is currently using? My media server has multiple programs which use large bandwidth (NZB/Torrent/Plex etc...) and it would be handy to see which one is currently sucking up the bandwidth without having to load the user interface for each one in turn.
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Nov 4, 2016 11:45
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Slash posted:Can anyone recommend some software which will show me how much bandwidth each program/process is currently using?
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Slash posted:Can anyone recommend some software which will show me how much bandwidth each program/process is currently using? http://www.hageltech.com/dumeter/about I've been using this for years, and it has a number of features you might like/find useful. You can do a 30 day trial, all features are usable. Can stopwatch/count totals for up/down Display current bandwith usage Can meter usage & warn you/do things if you get close to a usage threshold Can dump stats to database file/Excel spreadsheet Can split traffic monitoring by LAN or Internet Can monitor usage on a per process level, either simple display or full sperg details:  If a particular process is not listed in the simple display, it's not currently generating any traffic.  
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Nov 4, 2016 19:39
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Get Process Explorer and turn on whatever Network IO columns you want.
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Well heck, I've been wanting something like this for some time, just not enough to go git it. Thanks!
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Factor Mystic posted:Get Process Explorer and turn on whatever Network IO columns you want. Edit: Looks like you have to run it as administrator before the option will show up. Lork fucked around with this message at 23:16 on Nov 4, 2016 |
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Not sure if this is the right place to ask, but is there some reliable way to find out every single file that's using space on a drive in Windows? There's a difference showing in the total size of the files and folders that something like WizTree sees and the "used space" in the disk properties. I can't account for the full difference even with all of the hidden files that WizTree finds. This seems to be happening on all of my drives. I've tried using WinDirStat, TreeSize, and WizTree, and WizTree seems to be the one that actually shows the majority of the hidden files and folders, but even that has some discrepancies in the total size used on the drive and the amount when you add up the various files and folders individually (still within WizTree). Hidden things like the $MFT and $LogFile files that WizTree actually shows can account for some of the size difference between the files shown normally in Windows (including hidden/system) and the disk properties, but there are still "items" and space missing according to the counts in WizTree (39.6 MB and 6 "items" on one drive, 2.8 GB and 16 "items" on another, etc.). My main system drive is slightly different, where the "used space" amount is actually lower than the total of all of the files WizTree finds (4.9 GB less). I'm just trying to figure out what isn't showing and what's taking up the remaining space.
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It's going to be things like WinSxs and hard links or whatever they're called.
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Also, there's not even a reason to assume that of all measurements you're taking, the one in disk properties is the technically accurate one.
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Okay, so should I just assume there's nothing malicious in there or nothing to worry about and let it be? I didn't notice any real problems with my system, I was just checking folder sizes and disk usage and then fell down this rabbit hole.
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I'm sure this has been posted in a different thread but my searching is not so good. I'm looking at sucking it up and paying for a Dropbox, Google Drive or Onedrive account. I've been spreading my stuff over the free versions I've got, but I'm at a point now where I need a significant amount of cloud storage readily available and fluctuating frequently (so Carbonite is out). Probably between 100-200gb. Anyone have any recommendations for best deal out there of the three? Familiar with all of them so it's just a matter of picking the best deal.
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