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Have you experienced this? Do you have a fix?

A1: yes I have.
A2: no I don’t.

FileBox eXtender – keep favorite folders at your fingertips

I second FileBox eXtender. Just let me add: “and make any application always on top with just one click”.

From one of the freeware sites you mentioned I just found Everything[/url] which I got to like instantly.

Locate files and folders by name instantly.
– Small installation file
– Clean and simple user interface
– Quick file indexing
– Quick searching
– Minimal resource usage
– Share files with others easily
– Real-time updating

WinXP’s file finder is too awkward, so I’ve been using PowerDesk’s one for several years now. Seems it’s going to have a hard time trying to rival Everything!

V-Tools was mentioned by unkamunka in 2006: V-Tools Freeware Utility (2.0 – 2003).

It has since been updated to support Access 2007 too, so it doesn’t hurt to draw attention to it again.

Good.

I started in my current job in Oct-2006, and some time later (I guess a couple years later) I found the Access Tools | Addins menu, which was populated with what I thought were several Microsoft add-ins, such as the Solver or Analysis Toolpak add-ins for Excel. As I became more dependent on the Work on SQL tool, one day I sought it in my home computer, and to my surprise it was not there, nor could I locate the XLA equivalent for Access. So I started investigating what was going on and it dawned on me I had installed V-Tools at work, but who knows when.

I see unkamunka’s post dates from Apr-2006, prior to me starting this job. Normally I remember when I did what, so this is a little bit puzzling, but well… I’ll have to live with it!

What matters now is that V-Tools is here to make things simpler.

Thanks Alan!

I’ll come back to this post if ever I have a need for more serious Irfan Viewing in the future.

PS: note a Lounger was the first one (that I know) to put up an IView tutorial, and many years ago!

IrfanView Resize/Resample Tutorial, by Bruce Krymow

(unfortunately the link to the tutorial is not working now)

No one has mentioned Irfanview yet. This is my choice unless more complex editing is required, which is highly unlikely in my case. Just press “c” to get prompted with the capture options.

English Translation care of Babel Fish

After a quick glance I would stick to Google’s: http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?h…numero116_2.htm

I realize both translations can be a pain in the rear after all. Here’s another article in English, which does not address all the issues the Spanish one mentions, but it is informative enough to discuss some points anyway: Shining a light on hazards of fluorescent bulbs

Manufacturers and the EPA say broken CFLs should be handled carefully and recycled to limit dangerous vapors and the spread of mercury dust. But guidelines for how to do that can be difficult to find, as Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, discovered.

“It was just a wiggly bulb that I reached up to change,” Bridges said. “When the bulb hit the floor, it shattered.”

When Bridges began calling around to local government agencies to find out what to do, “I was shocked to see how uninformed literally everyone I spoke to was,” she said. “Even our own poison control operator didn’t know what to tell me.”

The state eventually referred her to a private cleanup firm, which quoted a $2,000 estimate to contain the mercury. After Bridges complained publicly about her predicament, state officials changed their recommendation: Simply throw it in the trash, they said.

Break a bulb? Five steps for cleanup
That was the wrong answer, according to the EPA. It offers a detailed, 11-step procedure you should follow: Air out the room for a quarter of an hour. Wear gloves. Double-bag the refuse. Use duct tape to lift the residue from a carpet. Don’t use a vacuum cleaner, as that will only spread the problem. The next time you vacuum the area, immediately dispose of the vacuum bag.

In general, however, the EPA endorses the use of fluorescent bulbs, citing their energy savings. Silbergeld also does not discourage their use because of their energy savings, but she said the EPA could be sending mixed signals to confused consumers.

“It’s kind of ironic that on the one hand, the agency is saying, ‘Don’t worry, it’s a very small amount of mercury.’ Then they have a whole page of [instructions] how to handle the situation if you break one,” she said.

Probably worth mentioning that “normal” dialog boxes (the ones that ask you to hit OK, or Yes/No, or Abort/Retry/Ignore) can be copied without any work. Just hit Ctrl+C.

Thanks, Damian. Didn’t know about that either.

For most young people, including, sadly, my offspring, FB seems like an exercise in solipsism.

Had to look that one up!

Eng2Spa(“solipsism”) = “solipsismo” =

Eng2Eng(“solipsism”) = “(philosophy) the philosophical theory that the self is all that you know to exist” (much better!)

Now I know 2 more words

Third, you may find that Facebook starts to consume a lot of your time.

That’s a very important reason I’m not on Facebook. Free time does not precisely abound, and I think social networking at the Facebook level has a significant superficial component. I see it in friends and workmates, who seem to be condemned to a constant drain on their free time each time someone uploads a photoset or invites them to play a game or just to check their “friends”‘ walls and drop a comment. I do think there might be a good use for photo sharing, but our societies seems to have been taken over by vanity. Is it so important to see every single photoset of every single person you may happen to know? You are probably leaving more important stuff aside to do that.

On the other hand, many people have become increasingly anxious to shoot a new collection just to upload it and share with the rest. Are people likely to watch every single picture you take? Furthermore, are YOU likely to watch all the pictures you take in the rest of your life? Lots of folks I know abide by the “the more the better” rule and fill their disks with uncountable photo collections. If you think carefully, it’s highly unlikely you will find the time to see all those photos again! I know it’s hard to refrain from shooting beautiful landscapes or that funny face or whatever, but I believe a photograph has a purpose: that it can be seen again later. It’s just my opinion: I’m more on the old-day, few-photo side than on the modern, indicriminate shooting frenzy.

Wow, have I digressed. My point is: our societies seems to have been taken over by vanity.

You are welcome.

I mentioned big file deletion but omitted referring to compression, which is a more common approach in my case. I remember examining an old 8-Gig disk looking for files to compress. When I was done I had freed about 1 Gig or so, ie, about 12.5% of disk space. Of course after a couple years this wouldn’t suffice either, but it helped to lenghten the life of the HD a little bit back then.

OK, I’ll ask the bumb question:
Why does it matter WHERE the big files are? Can I do anyhting about them if I know where they are?

It does matter! When you run out of space you will probably wonder what the heck is taking up so much space. Scanning your drive with SpaceSniffer (or with my favourite, Sequoiaview) will tell you where the bad guys are. It’s then up to you to delete them.

I think these programs were more useful some years ago when disk space was a more serious concern. Then you would find that a bunch of temp files residing out of the %temp% folder, which did not amount to much considered individually, would take up considerable space. You would also find that some application was creating temp files here and there. If you were not much into it, perhaps you would realize there was something called Outlook.pst and wow, is that file big! BTW, pagefile.sys @ 2 GB??? What is THAT doing there and why can’t I get rid of it? Googling a little bit you would gain an understanding of many of the devils taking over your disk space. You could then delete them and probably plan in advance what to store, what not to, and periodic cleanups.

I use Sequoiaview once a year or so, and after 7 years it still feels cool!

Thanks for this thread. I was looking for the same thing.

Hello Hans,

Thank you! This is two steps closer to “the ideal fix” . I didn’t intend that you bother this much!

Hello Servando,

Thanks for your customized response

For your information I am using an English version of Excel at work, and I could follow your directions right away.

This is exactly what I’ll do, but it would be more useful if the changes were local to the book rather than global (just as the Manual Save setting). It is inconvenient to change global settings each time I need to copy and paste into word a statement with some figures to report to the US or any other country with a similar system.

Fortunately this doesn’t happen too often, but I was looking for the ideal fix.

Thank you very much.