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Good man.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
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Tested in W7-64 only: never had a problem of a stuck-open TaskBar with XP or Vista.
Bedeviled by Windows #whatever~7 locking your TaskBar open, and ignoring your 'Auto-hide' = 'checked' setting ? I know I was. At random, perhaps every hour or so, I have been having to open the Task Manager, kill Explorer.exe, and then re-launch Explorer.
This strange little program puts a stop to that[^]
I say 'strange,' because it comes as a simple '.exe' file, you run it, and ... it runs in the TaskBar ... well, most of the time ... in W7-64- ... sometimes it seems to disappear. Hint: when you exit the Preferences window, hit the Close button on the Form, do not click the 'Exit button.
But, when He Hid ... He was very, very Hid: it will indeed hide your TaskBar, but it will not restore your TaskBar to "normal behavior:" but, I would rather hit Alt-T than open the #%%!0* Task Mananger and kill, and re-launch, Explorer again !
When it's running you use Alt-T to toggle the TaskBar visibility, or Control-Shift-T to open its preferences windows. You can select to have it opened when you boot.
best, Bill
p.s. Be assured I have examined every possible cause for the Win7 TaskBar sticking open from unopened Action Center messages, to looking for Malware, to examining every running process in the TaskBar. I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
"Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of
meaning." C.S. Lewis
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BillWoodruff wrote: I believe this is a bug in Win 7.
Inherited from Vista. The dreaded V does it to me intermittently - not often enough to provoke me into hunting it down, but enough to really p*** me off when I've got something fullscreen on the primary monitor.  Just figured out why I tend to run fullscreen stuff on the secondary monitor (above the primary)... Need more caffeine...
Cheers,
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994.
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Funny, on my wife's laptop, running win7 64bit, the taskbar continually wants to HIDE and she complains about her missing taskbar. The "Auto-hide" checkbox becomes mysteriously checked.
Weird.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering” - Wernher von Braun
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Nice find, although I get finicky about the task bar.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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IcoFx
IcoFx is a free icon editor. I'm sure you could use Photoshop or something, but with IcoFx you can put multiple icon sizes. It lets you create both icons for Windows and Macintosh OS X. Click the link above to learn more.
CLWPROGRAMMER
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Simple & great tool 
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Greenfish Icon Editor[^] is another free and simple one I've used in the past.
Also there is a free icon plugin for Paint.NET available here[^], which is currently my icon tool of choice. It does everything I need, and integrates really well into Paint.NET.
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Here I'm putting a link[^] to a tool that recently has saved my life... welll not so much... it has only allowed me to recover a pendrive that I used to boot Linux some time ago.
The tool is called BOOTICE and you will be able to follow the instructions in the same link.
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Deserves a 5. Will try this at home.
Joan Murt wrote: BOOTICE
Does this sound like what I am thinking? 
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.Barry LePatner
...it's our division that makes us sane(r), and their unity that makes them crazy.Ian Shlasko
Arguing with your boss is like wrestling with a pig in the mud. After a while, you realize you are getting dirty but pig is enjoying it.amitkarnik2211
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If you're coding in C or C++, there's an open source code coverage suite known as TestCocoon[^].
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Nice, gets a 5, and C++ is a complicated thing for me, so anything that eases it is cool!
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Winmail Reader[^]
That pesky little file that gets encrypted by some email servers and makes it unreadable.
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Looks cool BAB.
BTW I liked the snap in that screenshot[^] 
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As an Astonomer I can say that Stellarium is excellent, very useful.
I dislike the 'horizon' with it's barns and buildings rather than the flat horizon it ought to be, but otherwise it is excellent.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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I too use it, better than Distant Suns and cheaper too.
Being Free it is cool!
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BareTail[^], mTail[^], and Tail[^].
I've used all at different times (after starting developing one of my own at one point). Don't have a preference though.
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Nice!
And useful.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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Thanks for sharing.
IMO, Its RegEx is better than BRU's
You can flame me whichever way you want and I wouldn't care a bit.
But if you group me with some idiots, I'll turn into your worst nightmare.
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See here.[^]
Random.org have a true random generator free for use.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
CCC Link[ ^]
Trolls[ ^]
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