Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Heatsink On Laptop NVME (Holy Smokeless)

Some time ago I installed an NVME OS drive in my laptop. The temps were alarming but I put up with it.
Finally I bought a heatsink.

Here were previous idle temps. Temps were in the red if I was doing anything.


Here are idle temps after:
Just browsing the temps hit 50 but still a big improvement.






Thursday, May 25, 2023

Transfer Between PC and Android

Sharing should be easy but what the heck? 
So while you are searching for that perfect solution . . .  just do this:

Install Snapdrop on Android.
Choose the "pairdrop" server.

Then on the PC open pairdrop.net 

ShareDrop works with browser only. Simply send a link or scan the UPC.

Or just use Mega

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

Razor Mouse (What is all this crap?)

Just bought a Razer Basilisk V3 for the grandkids.
Wow - Get rid of Razor software ASAP
sysdm.cpl (turn off automatic driver installation)
Uninstall all things Razor (RevoUninstaller)
Razor leaves an installer folder so find it and delete it (EverythingSearch)
If you want to fool with RGB get this: https://openrgb.org/

Sunday, May 21, 2023

Symenu

12-11-2023 Version 8 has a problem with scaling on high resolution screens. A setting has been added to Options>General for High Def screens. It worked for my XPS13. Updating to 8 on regular screens seems fine. If "check version" is unchecked, SyMenu will on offer upgrade at startup but will offer update when doing updates.

I always use Symenu. Here is a folder structure that works for me.

Analyze
Auto Start
Backup
Cleaners
Disk
File
Graphics
Network
PDF Epub
Repair
Update
USB ISO

A copy of Symenu with folders here.

Useful program list
Symenu:
AnyDesk
Any_Burn
Autoruns
BCUninstaller
CCleaner_Portable
CrystalDiskInfo_Portable
CrystalDiskMark_Portable
DNS_Jumper
DriverBackup
HFS
HWiNFO
IcoFX
LaunchyQT
MiniTool_Partition_Wizard_Free_(x64) (Only old v10 will clone)
NexusFont
PatchMyPC
PDFTK_Builder_Portable
PDF_Arranger
PeStudio
Process_Explorer
Process_Hacker
Q-Dir_(x64)
Rainmeter4_(x64)
Revo_Uninstaller
Safe_Mode_Launcher
ScreenToGif_(x64)
Speccy
Sumatra_PDF_(x64)
SUMo_Portable
Tor_Browser
Ventoy
VeraCrypt_Portable
Windows_Repair_Toolbox
WinSCP
Wireshark_portable_(x64)
Wise_Disk_Cleaner

Nirsoft:
QuickSetDNS
TaskSchedulerView_x64
Volumouse_x64
Wireless_Network_Watcher

Saturday, May 20, 2023

Launchy

2023-09-21 I like LaunchyQT and always use it, but on one system it refused to recognize both monitors and opened on the "wrong" one. 
So I installed (portable) original Launchy and it works fine.
Original Launchy natively accepts path entries but you still want to check the .ini file for path accuracy.
Something like the following . . . note the backslash pattern. The \ patterns are different than on version QT.
I still like QT and will use it when it works.
Don't ignore the "utilities" folder and add your own favorite links and shortcuts.

[directories]
size=4
1\name=C:\\Users\\User\\Documents
1\types=@Invalid()
1\indexDirs=true
1\indexExes=false
1\depth=100
2\name=C:\\Portable Apps
2\types=@Invalid()
2\indexDirs=false
2\indexExes=true
2\depth=100
3\name=C:\\\\ProgramData\\\\Microsoft\\\\Windows\\\\Start Menu
3\types=@Invalid()
3\indexDirs=false
3\indexExes=true
3\depth=100
4\name=C:\\\\Users\\\\George\\\\AppData\\\\Roaming\\\\Microsoft\\\\Windows\\\\Start Menu
4\types=@Invalid()
4\indexDirs=false
4\indexExes=true
4\depth=100


Even though I use Symenu to download and upgrade portable apps, I prefer to launch them with Launchy.
For the first time on someone's PC I couldn't add a program path to the catalog.
LaunchyQT now can not add paths to catalog: to add paths go to launchy.ini
4\name=D:\\Portable Programs
4\types=@Invalid()
4\indexDirs=false
4\indexExes=true
4\depth=10

Since this is a Launchy post:
After years of using the default alt+space hotkey I'm changing to alt+z. I want to use the standard alt+space m to move windows with the arrow keys or mouse in a pinch.

Here is a directory portion for C: drive only.
Change the user and/or drive letter as needed.

[directories]
1\name=C:\\ProgramData\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu
1\types=*.lnk
1\indexDirs=false
1\indexExes=false
1\depth=10
2\name=C:\\Users\\George\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu
2\types=*.lnk
2\indexDirs=false
2\indexExes=false
2\depth=10
3\name=utilities\\
3\types=*.lnk, *.cmd, *.vbs
3\indexDirs=false
3\indexExes=false
3\depth=10
4\name=C:\\ProgramData\\chocolatey\\lib
4\types=@Invalid()
4\indexDirs=false
4\indexExes=true
4\depth=10
5\name=C:\\Portable Programs
5\types=@Invalid()
5\indexDirs=false
5\indexExes=true
5\depth=10
6\name=C:\\Portable Apps
6\types=@Invalid()
6\indexDirs=false
6\indexExes=true
6\depth=10
size=6

Monday, May 15, 2023

Net Framework - Visual C Runtime Error

 AOMEI Partition Manager would not start because of a "side by side" error involving Microsoft.VC80.MFC" version="8.0.50727.762.

Go to event viewer and check the problem.

Looked to me like a 2005 Visual C problem even though it was installed.

which has a zip of all versions. I reinstalled 2005 and bingo. Thank you TechPowerUp.
In 42 years of PC usage this is the first "side by side" error I've seen.




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