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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4365 on: April 18, 2015, 03:37:46 PM »
Bob, did you try Free Fixer and Drive The Life. And if so was it in a VM.  Seems like these are programs that could bork your computer very easy if your not careful.
Unless I specifically note that I haven't used the program, I always test a program before I post it here or anywhere else.
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Drive The Life updates your drivers and only notifies you if it finds a newer signed driver. (no betas.)
Free Fixer requires some knowledge and research. It lets you know what's running and then lets you decide (through research) if there is anything that
needs to be removed. The removal decision is up to you and, in the free version is not reversible.
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4366 on: April 19, 2015, 12:40:06 AM »
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4367 on: April 19, 2015, 09:01:38 PM »
Copy An Image Or Contents Of A Text File Without Opening It
The app is a really small download and installs in half a minute.
Once installed, right-click a JPG, PCX, PNG, BMP, TGA, GIF and TIF image file,
or a simple text file with the TXT or SRT (or similar) extension.
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4368 on: April 19, 2015, 09:18:54 PM »
Hi Bob!

Theme: 'FreeFixer' and 'Drive The Live'.
Do you think, if they are for foreign languages, too (besides 'en')?
 ;)
HDW
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4369 on: April 19, 2015, 09:36:12 PM »
Hi Bob!

Theme: 'FreeFixer' and 'Drive The Live'.
Do you think, if they are for foreign languages, too (besides 'en')?
 ;)
HDW
Don't know what you mean???
Go to their website and check it out for yourself. :)
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4370 on: April 19, 2015, 11:58:50 PM »
Hi Bob!

Theme: 'FreeFixer' and 'Drive The Live'.
Do you think, if they are for foreign languages, too (besides 'en')?
 ;)
HDW
Don't know what you mean???
Go to their website and check it out for yourself. :)
I meant, if it's only in English, I can't install on computers, which owners don't understand English.

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4371 on: April 20, 2015, 07:30:44 AM »
Hi Bob!

Theme: 'FreeFixer' and 'Drive The Live'.
Do you think, if they are for foreign languages, too (besides 'en')?
 ;)
HDW
Don't know what you mean???
Go to their website and check it out for yourself. :)
I meant, if it's only in English, I can't install on computers, which owners don't understand English.
Go to their website and check it for yourself.
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4372 on: April 20, 2015, 07:29:55 PM »
Hi Bob!

Theme: 'FreeFixer' and 'Drive The Live'.
Do you think, if they are for foreign languages, too (besides 'en')?
 ;)
HDW
Don't know what you mean???
Go to their website and check it out for yourself. :)
I meant, if it's only in English, I can't install on computers, which owners don't understand English.
Go to their website and check it for yourself.
Ok. Thanks, Bob.

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4373 on: April 22, 2015, 03:21:17 PM »

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4374 on: April 24, 2015, 02:40:14 PM »

You can read this and many other interesting articles in Bill Mullins Tech Thoughts
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4375 on: April 28, 2015, 01:18:01 PM »

 XP Update Extender 
 Freeware
    Current Version: 1.0.0.0
    Supports Windows XP
    German and English user interface (depending on the system language)
    receive updates for Windows XP until 2019
    Pretends your OS to be a version of XP Embedded
    Those updates may not have been properly tested for your version of Windows XP
    and might harm your system. Use at your own risk!
(I have not tested this software. No longer have an XP system.)
Use Caution when installing this program. Use a custom install and avoid installing PC-Mechanic

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4376 on: April 28, 2015, 05:15:34 PM »
Screencast-O-Matic new Beta release.
My favorite Video recording and editing program.

If you're using the pro version, it now makes the new screen capture available:
 
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4377 on: April 28, 2015, 09:10:59 PM »

 XP Update Extender 
 Freeware
    Current Version: 1.0.0.0
    Supports Windows XP
    German and English user interface (depending on the system language)
    receive updates for Windows XP until 2019
    Pretends your OS to be a version of XP Embedded
    Those updates may not have been properly tested for your version of Windows XP
    and might harm your system. Use at your own risk!
(I have not tested this software. No longer have an XP system.)
Hi Bob!

I'll try (on one of my machines) and report.
 ;)
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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4378 on: April 29, 2015, 10:25:04 PM »
Google launches Password Alert extension against PHISHing - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-alert/noondiphcddnnabmjcihcjfbhfklnnep
Read here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6197508
This is additional to Google Safebrowsing Phishing alerts, whenever one was missed.

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Re: Interesting Software and System News
« Reply #4379 on: May 01, 2015, 03:50:41 PM »
Noscript Lite

Noscript Lite provides an extra security for your Browser (Firefox, Chrome, Opera). It allows JavaScript (inline & external) to be executed only by trusted websites of your choice. Some websites are added to the whitelist by default, but you can add or remove items at any time.

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