Save Desktop Icon Layout

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ActivIcons allows you to customize the Windows desktop icon and cursor
attributes. Swap your own, custom icons for Network Neighborhood, My
Computer, and other icons which Windows places on your desktop and Explorer
file manager. It also lets you quickly change the default Windows mouse
cursors, make the icon text labels transparent, change the color of desktop
icon text descriptions, replace the Windows startup and shutdown screens,
rebuild the Windows icon cache, increase the size of the Windows desktop
cache, replace various drive and folder icons, remove shortcut symbols,
restore the desktop default icons, save/restore the positions of desktop
icons, replace the IE and OE logo animations, change or hide the Windows
"Start" button, and more. Windows 95, 98 or NT4 (SP3+) or XP.
ftp://ftp.monash.edu.au/pub/winxp/desktop/actic326.exe ~1.8Mb

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Bjorn said:
Think so yes, see previous message with link and info
<or
<http://google.com/groups?&[email protected]&lr=&hl=en>
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Thanks Bjorn,

I spent some time chasing *Layout* the other day, thought I had it
pinned down but wasn't entirely sure.

Layout is *not* an easy app name to back-track in ACF posts. ("What To
Do" was fun too.) :)

The DL link you gave works fine: http://www.fester.de/9downld/layout.zip

FYI - http://www.PCNineOneOne.com does still have an on-site DL:

http://www.pcnineoneone.com/tweaks/layout.zip (5 KB) don't blink. :)

Susan
 
Susan Bugher wrote in said:
Layout is *not* an easy app name to back-track in ACF posts.
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Kind of like searching a.c.f for "freeware"
(google says about 341.000 hits, well not quite
the same then - only about 1530 for "layout")
("What To Do" was fun too.) :)
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I'm sure it was, if I only knew what you mean....)

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Bjorn said:
Kind of like searching a.c.f for "freeware"
(google says about 341.000 hits, well not quite
the same then - only about 1530 for "layout")




I'm sure it was, if I only knew what you mean....)
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another app (808 hits on What To Do). :)

I did find it:

What To Do
http://www.handcraftedbytes.com/

Awesome program. Have used a lot of todo lists programs. ...
alt.comp.freeware - Nov 24, 2002 by R.L.

Susan
 
Susan Bugher wrote in said:
another app (808 hits on What To Do). :)
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Ah...me slow :)
To make up for it, here is another tiny app not on our P list AFAIK:

From: <http://fromwithin.com/software.html>
FindUPX v1.0c (22k exe).
"A Win32 command-line program to search through a bunch of files
and report any files that have been compressed with the {UPX}
executable compressor. I needed this because I compressed a bunch
of windows DLLs which then stopped compiled windows help files
from displaying any more. I couldn't find the DLL that I had
compressed, so wrote this to find it."

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
Bjorn said:
Ah...me slow :)
To make up for it, here is another tiny app not on our P list AFAIK:

From: <http://fromwithin.com/software.html>
FindUPX v1.0c (22k exe).
"A Win32 command-line program to search through a bunch of files
and report any files that have been compressed with the {UPX}
executable compressor. I needed this because I compressed a bunch
of windows DLLs which then stopped compiled windows help files
from displaying any more. I couldn't find the DLL that I had
compressed, so wrote this to find it."
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Thanks Bjorn. I *appreciate* the help.

FWIW - the app count seems to be holding fairly steady ATM (about 2800
apps) - as I find duplicates and delete them - you give me info about
apps to add. a nice exercise in teamwork. . . :)

Most of the apps have URL's now (that's not to say they are all *good*
URL's) and I'm working on filling in the author column. It's about time
to pause and create a new set of pages. . .

Susan
 
Bjorn Simonsen said:
To make up for it, here is another tiny app not on our P list AFAIK:

From: <http://fromwithin.com/software.html>
FindUPX v1.0c (22k exe).
"A Win32 command-line program to search through a bunch of files
and report any files that have been compressed with the {UPX}
executable compressor.
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As most are aware, when there is malware, it pretty much always tries to
hide in compressed form. URL below refs an older/dated test (2yrs), but
still meaningful I think in a general way, about occurrence of misses on
scan.

| Informal Trojan Detection
|
| Tests were performed with six files, each a version of Sub7
| 2.13 MUIE server, a common RAT (Remote Administration
| Trojan). Only the third file (that-packed.exe) was left
| un-manipulated. All other server files were compressed
| or edited as described below.
|
| http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/trojans/tr-tests.htm


.. . .

That which got my interest recently, about running compressed executables,
was what I read here...

| http://www.ericphelps.com/scripting/samples/index.htm#Run
|
| Compressed Executables If you use the batch file "START
| /WAIT" command or the scripting "wsh.Run,,True" method and
| expect a program to wait -- but it doesn't wait -- well, the
| most likely cause is that the program you tried to run was
| "compressed". What happens is that the program decompresses
| itself in memory, starts the new decompressed version as a
| separate process, then terminates itself. The START command
| and wsh.Run method see the original program termination and
| assume everything is done [....]

But, same time, I have to say I'm a little confused. I've run a number
of programs, many that I've not uncompressed, with start /wait, and witnessed
no problems. My bat file structure is basically like this:

:: merge reg keys
start /w application.exe
:: export and del reg keys

That last stage, the export and delete, I haven't seen it happen until
the application has in fact terminated. So I don't know how to evaluate
the excerpt I've quoted. I'm keeping it in mind anyway. I do routinely
decompress many exes anyway.


.. . .

For those who don't have UPX, get it here:

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

Compress or decompress programs with it, as you wish. To decompress you
add the switch -d.

upx -d program.exe

Back up the file first, and test right after decompressing. As I heard
about the UPX license agreement, developers are not permitted to UPX their
executables in a way that would make them not function once decompressed.
However, I have come across an occasional problem. Perhaps in play was
violation of the license as I understand it, or perhaps some technical
reason that I'd not been able to guess into.
 
another app (808 hits on What To Do). :)

I did find it:

What To Do
http://www.handcraftedbytes.com/

Awesome program. Have used a lot of todo lists programs. ...
alt.comp.freeware - Nov 24, 2002 by R.L.

Susan
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Susan,
Is it ever! It even has the appearance of having object-oriented
features...except inheritance :-}

I just DL'd and installed it, and I think I'll retire everything else.
Regards,
Ted
 
Is it ever! It even has the appearance of having object-oriented
features...except inheritance :-}

I just DL'd and installed it, and I think I'll retire everything else.
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Hi Ted,

Sounds great. R.L. found a lot of nice apps (haven't heard from her in a
while - darn it).

Susan
 
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