Computer Questions Not Worth Their Own Thread II

So it depends on the editor?
 
Yes.

Notepad is basically just a windows standard text box control, those are very basic.

You used to be able to fix the line breaks by opening files with edit.com, an ancient DOS program, and that converts the line breaks to windows format when you save the file. EDIT: I have XP pro and still have edit available from the command line!). They may have removed it from newer versions of Windows.

Wordpad probably does the right thing as well.

I have no idea why windows uses 2 characters for a line break (ASCII 12, ASCII 13) instead of just a newline character (ASCII 13).
 
I just open them with Notepad++ which is more useful anyways. Most of the time I just use Windows Notepad as a place to drop text snippets until I need them.

Another question: Sometimes when I try to compress a large folder (e.g. my videos) explorer hangs. is there a better way to do it?
 
Videos don't compress well anyway... they are already highly compressed.
 
I've got so many that it really adds up .. LOL.
 
Question: These two videos are identical content-wise. The bitrate and resolution are the same. So which one would you keep?

Spoiler :
twovideos.png


Edit: oh crap! Mods, could you please ignore the filename? I forgot to edit it out.

ANOTHER EDIT: Heres another question. Suppose I have a certain filetype that half the time I open it in one program and the other half that I open it in another. Is there a way to have Windows not choose a default program but instead make you pick? Sort of like the Open With tool.
 
Suppose I have a WAV file and I encode it to FLAC. Is there any reason to keep the original WAV? It's rather large (think in the gigabytes range).
 
1. Whenever I run minecraft it always places an icon on my desktop. I don't like this. I have several other games that save files in places I don't want them saving files (like mount and blade warband which stores files in my documents). Is it possible to trick a computer program into saving files in a different location than where it is suppose to without causing problems? I would prefer it the user (me) won't see anything or at least, to have it as un-noticeable as possible. I however have my computer set to see hidden files so simply hiding everything won't work. Thanks
2. Minecraft (along with just about any other program that doesn't use an installer) doesn't place an icon in the start menu. How do I get the program to do so? I'm using windows 7. I know that I can just pin the program to the start menu but I don't want to do that, I want to have it in All programs>games part of the start menu along with the "Games" library. I've had this issue with several computer programs I've made for school and I was wondering if there was a way to have them show up on the start menu without pining them to it. Thanks
 
For #2, find the executable, create a shortcut. Open the start menu, right click all programs, click open, find where you want to drop the shortcut and copy and paste it there.

If you're technically inclined you could create a batch file in SendTo to automate this but I've had no luck doing that yet.
 
You're better off going to those forums and asking for tech support. Likely there are command line parameters or a notepad configuration file that can set the options that you want. Or request that feature with the dev.


Aimee's suggestion for a minecraft batch file is sound, to automate removing the desktop item every time.



@Aimee, are you trolling us with that video question?
 
No, I was just wondering which of the two I ought to keep. Actually it doesnt apply anymore because I deleted one set of the videos anyways.
 
Question: Do junction directories work well over networks?

Background: I'd like to install a game on my laptop. I'd like to create a junction directory in the laptop savegame folder so it would access the main computer savegame folder (which would be a shared folder). This way I don't have to bother syncing it back and forth.

Main computer Vista; laptop Windows 7. No password protection on the network as I found it a hassle and there's nothing terribly private.

EDIT: Junction directory not work but I'll try a symbolic link
 
Anyone use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware together with Lavasoft's Ad-Aware? Lately Ad-Aware (my first love) has been failing to initialize. I'm wondering if it was deactivated by some of the software that I've added (maybe even ZoneAlarm is blocking an update).

Just curious if they have an automatic hate-hate relations with each other.
 
GoodGame said:
Anyone use Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware together with Lavasoft's Ad-Aware? Lately Ad-Aware (my first love) has been failing to initialize. I'm wondering if it was deactivated by some of the software that I've added (maybe even ZoneAlarm is blocking an update).

Just curious if they have an automatic hate-hate relations with each other.
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Do you run them at the same time? IIRC, it is fairly common for Anti-Virus software to mess each other up.

Do you really need them both?
 
PeteAtoms said:
Do you run them at the same time? IIRC, it is fairly common for Anti-Virus software to mess each other up.

Do you really need them both?
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I'm currently using the free versions of both, and they actually complement each other pretty well. The reason is that the free version of Ad-Aware supports active searching for suspicious activity, while the free version Malabytes only provides protection when you order a scan. I also use the Microsoft MSE tool, of which I forget if it does both scanning on demand, and active searching of suspicious activity. I also suffered a self-inflicted adware attack (part of my grinding for free game credits through "surveys" etc...---silly I know, but still effective at 3rd world slave labor rates--I've earned $17 of "game currency" in 2 days, but thats another story); but anyway, I discovered that Malabytes detects quite a bit more than Ad-Aware detects, but Ad-Aware is pretty good at picking up on suspicious activity before it takes root. So I see a reason to keep both for the duration, until I buy one or the other.

I've been using MSE with Ad-aware without problems for several weeks. I just picked up Malabytes program the other night. Oh well I uninstall Ad-Aware and am reinstalling it to see if they can cohabitate now.

I suppose eventually I'll just buy one or two of them and hope they integrate.
 
Actually, if two antiviruses aren't both real-time or scanning at the exact same time usually they're cooperative.

I like to run MalwareBytes as a secondary one because it occasionally catches things that the other one don't. (In fact, recently it picked up something in my Temporary folder on my laptop -- keeping an eye on things but it seems fine for now.)
 
I was mucking around and I created a subst drive (if you don't know, it's mounting a folder as a drive). Anyways I can't rename the volume... I looked up various solutions such as modifying the registry default volume labels but it didn't seem to work. Is there any way or am I left stuck with two "Data" drives?

Also, what happens if you fill up every letter of the alphabet with drives (physical or virtual) and then try to add another?

Also, free of operating system/filesystem limitations, is there a maximum number of partitions you can put on a single hard drive?
 
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