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I have been on a Windows tablet for a year, a Dell Venue, with similar setup. 1) Figure out how to restore it to factory. You don't have to do it, but make certain you understand exactly how it has to be done and what types of drives will work - those types of tablet with minimal USB ports are tricky. 2) Get a big enough and the fastest SD card for it you can afford. I store everything on my SD card, but that isn't essential. 3) I am weird about my internal drive. I don't want to junk it up nor junk up the System folder, so excepting the basics, Office, Acrobat, Kindle, et al., I mainly run only Portable programs. PortableApps.com and PortableFreeware.com should be your new favorite sites. I run everything I get from those sites off my SD card. 4) Bluetooth devices, research those so when you are ready, you can have keyboard and mouse ready when you are.
Since I am a neat freak in my computer, I primarily use portable software. So, the app I am suggesting is portable. Remember, portable apps by their nature do not have to be installed into your system/registry whatever. They run from the executable, so they can be on your flash drive, network drive, or whatever.
Go get a copy of AutoHotKey. There is a 32 and a 64bit version. It probably can handle your task. Here is their tutorial page.
Very cool! We attempted something like this awhile back. Became too much of a hassle to keep it up to date. Will give this a try!
Two things. You might find the "Universal Silent Switch Finder" handy for some automation. Second, check out d7 if you haven't already.
ahh i guess a lot of us didnt read. You dont necessarily have an infection but building something more perm.
depends on your PE..
you cna make a windows 7 PE with windows safety scanner in it. or get some portable apps and just drop them in the pe.. probably easiest
portable apps (this one has a nice little launcher)
or just download portable clamav from here.
you cant just copy over from hirens as it writes reg entries and such.
You might consider something like Kiwi6 (no login required) for hosting audio clips
Converting a wave to an mp3 for hosting online is as easy as dragging your file to the window of LameDropXPd (no install required).
Backing up applications is a mixed bag.
Most applications store some data in the registry, some data in the user's appdata directory, and obviously, the main program resides wherever you installed it. There are tools to make this process easier, but none of them are guaranteed to work. A good way of getting around this is to use mostly portable software (software that can run without being installed/doesn't write anything to the registry). Check out PortableFreeware.com or see if your favorite software has a portable version (if it's not provided, there's usually a way to make it portable).
As far as backing up the drive is concerned, there are a number of tools to facilitate this.
Windows 7 actually has a very thorough backup tool built right in. It'll do a complete system image backup, which you can restore from later on. However, this type of image does have a few downsides. It's a restore image, so you can't boot from it. Also, it requires you have a copy of the Windows Repair Disc (Windows will create this for you) in order to perform the restoration.
The alternative is a 1:1 backup, where you clone the entire drive. This takes a lot longer (days, even), but it will let you boot directly from the drive itself and doesn't require a repair disc.
So, it really depends on your priorities. Using a system image will allow you to make backups more often, because they won't take forever to complete. However, if your hard drive completely dies on you and you don't have a drive to install your backup image to, you'll be stuck until you buy another drive. The clone will tie up your computer a lot longer, so it isn't something you're going to want to do often, but if your drive dies on you, it's just a simple case of plugging in the backup and pretending like nothing happened.
I'd start with checking the SMART status of the hard drive to determine its health download page.
If that's not enough you can use SeaTools and run the extended tests.
Hard drives can sometimes have bad sectors and fail, you can start by running a checkdisk in an attempt to flag and reallocate bad sectors, however if the hard drive tests failed you might want to consider RMA/warranty on the drive.
As others suggested, it's a counterfeit card. I was burned with a counterfeit 64GB Lexar 633x a couple of years ago and now I never buy my cards online unless from a valid retailer like Best Buy, etc. Amazon is only the middle-man in these deals and most of the cards come from China.
It took me a few days to convince them it was a counterfeit and had to run a block test for verification (software called H2testw. Located here), but they agreed with me and refunded my money.
Love these kind of GIFs!
I made a similar one a while ago using GifCam, a portable freeware that is really simple to use.
Can you send me the source pictures? I'll add them to your profile, as usual.
Although I have no real compelling reason to move away from VLC at this point, I second PotPlayer. I have tried it and ExdigguserPies is spot on...the menus are much more complicated than VLC. But I've never thrown a video format at it that it would not play. And as a bonus, it can be run in portable mode using these instructions.
I used that thing in the past. It is Windows only but has the neat feature of providing a drop zone, where you can drag and drop files. Also it has a favorite function, so you can add favorite files/folders you want to be able to encrypt and decrypt from the context menu of the drop zone itself.
Uses the Twofish algorithm
Official Website (german)
it also deletes the original files by overwriting them after encryption
It doesn't look like there is a portable version of DuckLink, other than the command-line version.
Does the utility have to be DuckLink? Greenshot is probably the best free screen capture utilty:
First thing I would do is check your HDD for errors in an another computer or in bootable software, like Seagate SeaTools or Western Digital DataLifeguard. Both of those can be found on Hiren's BootCD. Make sure you're booting from the disc to test rather than doing it inside of Windows. If you opt to test in another computer, I like HDTune Portable.
If that comes back OK, it's possible your OS is just hosed. At that point, back up what you can and reload it.
For some reason, WizMouse didn't like scrolling in Lync for me, so I kept hunting and found AlwaysMouseWheel, which works for me.
Either way, I LOVE this functionality now that I've gotten used to it.
I use a freeware (Windows) program called Belvedere just for this purpose. You can set it to delete files based on modification date, created date, etc. I keep some daily shows only for two weeks. Select weekly shows a month.
Edit: link and clarify
Presuming you mean Windoze, any software that does not run as a service, add to registry, add fonts etc. will not slow down your computer.
Look at portablefreeware.com for software you can run w/o install (or install, package & uninstall for use).
Like e60deluxe said, bring up the network/wireless info on the printer at the printer's interface and see what the networking info is.
Also, from the laptop, run this tool and scan the subnet the printer should be on. Does it find anything?
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1618
There are a few ways to trim it down a bit. Before doing anything, close Chrome and make a backup.
- Download SQLiteSpy
- Run it and open the settings file
- Right-click on 'ItemTable' in the tree view in the left pane and choose 'Show Data'
In the empty pane at the top-right, paste in the command
DELETE FROM "ItemTable" where key like '%keyboardNavLastIndex%';
and press F9 to execute it.
- Choose 'Vacuum Database' from the 'Execute' menu at the top of the window
- Exit the program, choosing 'No' when prompted.
The file should now be considerably smaller.
MicroSIP - open source portable SIP softphone based on PJSIP stack for Windows OS.
MicroSIP is allowing to do high quality VoIP calls (person-to-person or on regular telephones) via open SIP protocol. From cloud of SIP providers you can choose best for you, register account and use it with MicroSIP. You'll get free person-to-person calls and cheap international calls.
Main in MicroSIP:
- small footprint (>2.5MB) and RAM usage (>5MB) - written in C and C++ with minimal possible system resources usage
- usability - user friendly in daily usage
- functionality - voice, messaging, presence, video h264 and h263+
- compatibility - strongly conform to SIP standards
- voice quality - supports best voice codecs: speex@8,16,32kHz, iLBC@8kHz, GSM@8kHz, G.711@8kHz (PCMU and PCMA), G.722@16kHz, G.729@8kHz, SILK@8,12,16,24kHz, Linear PCM@8,16,44kHz
- privacy - configurable encryption TLS / SRTP for control and media
- portability - stores setting in ini file (Read more on TPFC)
FastStone Capture. They've now changed it to shareware, but the last free version (5.1) is still legal to download. There are other screen capture applications but I like this one since it works flawlessly and provides everything I need despite its outdatedness.
screenshots is my suggestion. FSCapture 5.3 portable is my goto--can set it up to save a PNG and wire it to a hotkey.
then just go back and update the filenames to the player's name and you can refer back to it during th season.
One of the options of FileMenu Tools is to Unpack Folder. Select folders, right click->FileMenu Tools->Unpack Folder, and all the contents are moved to the current folder as long as there isn't duplicate names.
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1286 download this for free or pay for a newer version named "deskspace". you can work on 4 individual desktops arranged as a 3d cube and set the keys to switch desktop (mine is alt + left/right). you can also set speed and zoom in/out rate. this program saved our asses in laptop class from 7th to 9th grade. even in taskmanager you can't see the programs of another desktop.
You can always open images in your web browser if you need to.
If you have trouble clicking a button to confirm admin rights, download a free file manager and run that as administrator. Then everything started from it will also have admin permissions without asking you. If you repeatedly install the same crap because you deploy software on other peoples computer make yourself a batch file for all installers and run that as administrator. This way you can also supply arguments to the installer to make them install in silent mode. I did that for java, flash and adobe reader all together, when I needed to install that crap a lot.
> the only files on my entire computer that are missing are files that were stored in Plex.
This is interesting, but the files are never 'in' Plex - Plex only reads the files.
My only quick suggestion is to use something like Spacemonger to get a graphical representation of your disk and see if the files are hiding somewhere unexpected.
Good luck sorting out your D:
Honestly, as far as I know, your best bet is to search for each program you want individually and use reputable sources from there.
For instance, Googling "Portable Chrome" gave me a link to MajorGeeks.com which is fine.
There's also:
http://www.portablefreeware.com
and
For poetry, you might want to have a look at McGill English Dictionary of Rhyme / VersePerfect and a portable version I don't write a lot of poetry, but this works for me..
Does it have to be exactly 25MB? I'm a software n00b (writing scripts? what?), so I'd try using the Explorer size-filtering function to narrow the range of file sizes being selected, then use a simple tool like TyperTask to automate the file-selection and zipping process...
e.g. filter for files up to 100kb. You know that you can select 256 files and always be on or under the 25MB limit. The TyperTask automation would look something like {Control}{Shift}Z={shiftdown}{pagedown}{pagedown}{pagedown}{pagedown}{pagedown}{shiftup}{delay=200}{Altdown}{Altup}{delay=300}f{delay=300}n{delay=300}{enter}{delay=20000}{enter}
Then filter for files between 100kb and 200kb - you know you can select 128 files and be under the limit. And so on and so forth.
I have both the portable only versions Sumatra and PDF-xChange viewers in my launcher. I tend to use PDF-xChange a bit more since it feels faster.
Just in-case, portable software doesn't have to be installed. This allows you to have your software library everywhere you go, and it allows you to keep your system clean. Two great sites for portable freeware are PortableApps.com and PortableFreeware.com. Try Sumatra or PDF-xChange or even Foxit.
I just looked through the offerings at alternative.net, and if you look at the alternatives to the Dr. Explain alternatives, there are a few free titles.
I have used Snipping Tool or SnagIt, Imago, and IrfanView (for editing) along with a CHM editor to produce some good material.
For CHM editors, I have used both Kel CHM tool, which is old and Precision Helper
For general screenshot purposes, I can very much recommend Faststone Capture. v5.3 is the last free version before the product went commercial:
Infos: https://whatsonmypc.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/faststone/
Download: http://www.portablefreeware.com/?q=faststone+capture&m=Search
I like DoubleKiller, personally. There's a shitload of options, from Name and Size, to CRC32, etc. There's also a lot of sorting options to choose from when it lists which duplicates exist on the filesystem.
Because people have pointed to Firefox and Chrome extensions that do this, I'm going to leave this here as well. http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=775
Sometimes glitches on Windows 7+ but is immensely useful if you're using XP or lower (and when it works on 7-10).
I am going to backup Cheesysnipsnap's suggestion. If you have a really, really bad infection, you do not want to infect your laptop.
Here are two USB bootable builders: they take an ISO and make it bootable on a USB without have to think. Universal USB Builder and YUMI. YUMI is nice in that it lets you create multiboot USB devices.
These are portable applications. That means that they run without have to install them. When you are through with them, you can just delete them.
Now, you need a good ISO for cleaning viruses. There are more than half a dozen. Or, you could get Hiren's CD which will let you run other portable apps.
Honest advice: do not clean it!!! Get all of your data off of it and do a reinstall. I never trust machines that have been infected. I get the data off, erase, and reinstall. It takes more time than a clean, but time is a good educator. Next time, you or whoever was careless and got a virus will remember how long it takes to fix things. That's how I came to be more cautious today.
I linked to the download because there's very little on the home page about it, but here's the home page: https://bvckup2.com/ and beta release info: https://bvckup2.com/support/forum/#!/topic/98 ... you can set it up to run off a USB drive using this method: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=69809#p69809
I found another link for it. It's called Page Countser. If it says Socket Error it's because it's not being run as Administrator.
I use LC ISO Creator to rip PS2 discs. You'll want as recent of a version of PCSX2 as you can get.
You can get the games cheap on the Amazon Marketplace or eBay if you're willing to play the waiting game. Sometimes you can score a huge ass lot for a steal. If you don't care about the condition of the cases and manuals, you can really bank a fuckton of games quickly for next to nothing.
Use the Pricecharting site as a guide for how much you should be looking at paying.
Snipping Tool > Built-in to Windows Vista and newer
Jing > Free version of SnagIt, and SnagIt is by far my favorite screenshot tool.
FastStone > Portable and extremely fast/responsive
XmediaRecode. You can get it via portablefreeware.com. By default, it comes with German as the default language, but that's a simple change. I like it because it is portable. Handbrake, as capsl0ck0n says, rocks too.
Start with a portable freeware pdf reader: http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1041
Use the command line to print pdf files: Reader.exe /p MyFile.pdf
use batch/scripting language of choice to identify pdf files and print them with the aforementioned commandline.
Go to PortableFreeware.com and search for duplicate. You will find a bunch of titles that will find duplicates and a few that will find and display images.
Portable Apps are great in that they do not have to be installed on a machine. They can run off your USB or any drive.
There is one there, that is not really portable, called DupDetector. It still works up through Win7. You launch it, have it "get data" build a scanned folder list, have it find dups, and then view the results.
I have used DupDetector for years, but not much in Windows 7. I have also used most of the higher rated programs under the search term duplicate at Portable Freeware. These will probably meet your needs.
Why do people act like 7zip is the only decompression freeware out there? Seriously, some of these (edit: well, ok, a bunch of them) aren't really replacements for winrar per se, but there are 21 programs listed here, and these are only PORTABLE apps..
Yes on the portable world. I like the PortableApps site, but I love the portablefreeware a bit more. The discussions on the program's install and internet usage is more thorough.