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[seekermeister]

If you are talking about searching from a browser window (FF), there is an addon called Fastest Fox 4.3.5. If searching from some other source, I have no idea.

 

[Mike Connor]

If you are talking about searching from a browser window (FF), there is an addon called Fastest Fox 4.3.5. If searching from some other source, I have no idea.

No, I use fastest fox regularly. The add-on I am looking for adds an item "Search Online" to the explorer context menu. If you right click on any file in explorer it searches for it immediately on line using your default browser and search engine. I am really annoyed at losing this important add-on, it is not on any of my back-ups, and I have spent nearly twelve hours searching for it on the web, with no luck!

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[seekermeister]

I don't know anything about it, but it sounds interesting. If you do find it, let us know where to find it.

 

[Mike Connor]

Well, despite searching for over three days I can not find the original explorer context add-on. I just hope I stumble across it again sometime.

However, since I can not do without such a search function for various things, I wrote a workaround Autohotkey script

; search selected text
^#g::
{
clipboardBackup = %clipboard%
Send ^c
ClipWait
Run http://www.google.com/search?q=%clipboard%
clipboard = %clipboardBackup%
return
}

This will automatically search any highlighted text from anywhere ( Even PDF files etc), in Google, when you press <Ctrl> + <Win> + <G>

It is not perfect, ( for instance if you highlight files in a folder, it automatically copies the path as well as the name), and I will doubtless be filing at it until I am satisfied.

You can run it as a script if you have Autohotkey installed, if you don't want to install it, here is the compiled version, ( runs directly as an executable file in the system tray);

searchselected.exe - download now for free. File sharing. Software file sharing. Free file hosting. File upload. FileFactory.com

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[kado897]

If you use Chrome there is an extension which does a similar sort of thing. Don't know whether there is a Firefox version.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/floipahigmmkfhkoapmnijnlnboniglg

 

[seekermeister]

Well, despite searching for over three days I can not find the original explorer context add-on. I just hope I stumble across it again sometime.

However, since I can not do without such a search function for various things, I wrote a workaround Autohotkey script

; search selected text
^#g::
{
clipboardBackup = %clipboard%
Send ^c
ClipWait
Run http://www.google.com/search?q=%clipboard%
clipboard = %clipboardBackup%
return
}

This will automatically search any highlighted text from anywhere ( Even PDF files etc), in Google, when you press <Ctrl> + <Win> + <G>

It is not perfect, ( for instance if you highlight files in a folder, it automatically copies the path as well as the name), and I will doubtless be filing at it until I am satisfied.

You can run it as a script if you have Autohotkey installed, if you don't want to install it, here is the compiled version, ( runs directly as an executable file in the system tray);

searchselected.exe - download now for free. File sharing. Software file sharing. Free file hosting. File upload. FileFactory.com

Regards....Mike Connor

Sorry that you search has turned up empty, I know the feeling, because with my memory, that happens all to often.

I'm not too sure about your script, because if I understood you, it would send everything to Google, whether I wanted to or not. I often highlight something for copy/paste functions that I don't want to Google.

EDIT: Oops! I missed the part with the key combo. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all.

 

[Mike Connor]

Permissions Analyzer

Download Our Free Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory: Quickly & Easily View Effective Permissions - SolarWinds

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[qwerty12]

MonitorES

MonitorES is a small windows utility that helps you to turnoff monitor display when you lock down your machine.Also when you lock your machine, it will pause all your running media programs & set your IM status message to "Away" / Custom message(via options) and restore it back to normal when you back.

Homepage

 

[qwerty12]

NetSpeedMonitor

NetSpeedMonitor is a lightweight Network Monitoring Toolbar for your Windows Taskbar designed to be used on computers that run Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista or Windows 7. With NetSpeedMonitor you can monitor the current speed (up- and downstream) of your Network Interfaces and the amount of data transferred. In addition to the Connection Table with all TCP/UDP endpoints and the Toolbar Tooltip with a quick and short traffic overview, you can also see detailed daily and monthly Traffic Statistics. NetSpeedMonitor toolbar requires no additional drivers like other Network Monitoring tools do!

FlorianGilles.com - NetSpeedMonitor

 

[MilesAhead]

OneKey

I wrote a simple Hotkey program that sits in the tray called OneKey. You can download from my page here:

Hotkeys

I have written other launchers and use other programmer's launchers but the idea of this one is to set up a single hotkey(default is function key F11) to do tasks that I do all the time. You can change the hotkey via command line param or using the Tray Menu command. You can associate the hotkey with any shortcut, data file, .cmd batch file, or executable file.

It's for that one task you do so often that you just want to be able to hit a key and that's it.

As example, since I have a couple of USB docking stations I find that often I use sync.exe to flush the disk buffers to the drives. I was typing "sync" in a command prompt. Then I made a shortcut so all I had to do was click the shortcut. But I do it so often that I just hooked it to OneKey. Now every time I press F11 a command prompt comes up, runs sync, then waits for 3 seconds so I can see the results, and closes.

It's free for you to use at your own risk. Should work on XP and later.

 

[StalkeR]

This is must have tool!


FileHippo.com Update Checker

What is it?
The Update Checker will scan your computer for installed software, check the versions and then send this information to FileHippo.com to see if there are any newer releases. These are then neatly displayed in your browser for you to download. Please note that not all programs are supported.


But it gets better...
The client is FREE, just over 200kb to download and only takes seconds to run! In fact on our test machines the process is complete in under 2 seconds!

Download Update Checker

 

[seekermeister]

It must be in an early stage, because even though you said that it doesn't support all programs, I would say that it supports very few. I have a lot of programs installed, and File Hippo has a lot of programs to download, but the updater only found 1 normal update (Open Office), and two betas (both flash player).

 

[StalkeR]

Here,FileHippo find almoust all of programs installed on my pc. I can't say 100,but 90% yes.

 

[seekermeister]

I'm curious, do you have it set to run at boot? When I installed it, it ran automatically when I closed the installer. In the very short time that it ran before popping the window with the update options, I doubt that it could have checked all installed programs, transmitted the data to File Hippo, and received a very comprehensive list of choices.

 

[Mike Connor]

Text Editor add on.

Dolphin Text Editor Menu (Animal Software)

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[Mike Connor]

Application Virtuialisation

Cameyo | Free Application Virtualization

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[Maxxwire]

I was checking out Cameyo as I could use a virtualization program like this. Here are some comments I came across in The Softpedia Review of Cameyo...

Our experience with the virtualized results of Cameyo was not too pleasant. From all the aforementioned programs only FileZilla and uTorrent worked. Maxthon 3 would crash every time we tried to launch it while Google Chrome’s interface loaded, but nothing worked as its tabs would crash and later attempts faced us with a fatal error informing us that the virtual key could not be opened, so the application would no longer load.

Virtualized application remains installed on the host system and in case virtualization does not succeed as planned you have to uninstall them in order to repeat the procedure. Cameyo’s approach on virtualization is indeed great, but the implementation needs some serious work in order to result in a stable application ready to tackle just about any sort of software.
******************

At first I was hoping that I could use Cameyo to create a virtual .exe of a program without having to install it on my computer's SSD, but apparently that is not the way that the program works, but thank you very much for bringing this program to our attention.

~Maxx~

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[Mike Connor]

I have only tried Cameyo with a couple of small applications, more out of curiosity than any need. Both worked.

You might like to try this? ;

http://www.enigmaprotector.com/en/aboutvb.html

Enigma Virtual Box Download by The Enigma Protector Developers Team at File & Disk Management, Utilities

I have not tried it much, just one application, which worked.

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[MilesAhead]

I have only tried Cameyo with a couple of small applications, more out of curiosity than any need. Both worked.

You might like to try this? ;

The Enigma Protector - Software Protection and Licensing System

Enigma Virtual Box Download by The Enigma Protector Developers Team at File & Disk Management, Utilities

I have not tried it much, just one application, which worked.

Regards....Mike Connor

I posted a question on the forum for the free version several weeks ago. The author was very responsive and helpful:

Enigma Protector • Index page

I don't have a real need to use the program at present. But I added it to the toolbox.

 

[seekermeister]

I don't know how great it is, but since it is from Nero and it is free, which is an unusual combination, I felt that it needed to be posted:

Nero Kwik Media