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Yes, it works fine via the proxy (and faster than I've ever seen that page load TBH)... Yes, I still have no access directly, so either my ISP doesn't allow ksoft.nm.ru or ksoft.nm.ru doesn't allow my IP, or IP range any more. FYI, UK 20Meg Cable (Always on, no dial in) user. Thanks for the proxy link, I'll try some others I know for the files, but SmartUp Menu, and Mac Finder Toolbar for Windows are looking really good in the screenies.

This is odd. KSoft site is still showing "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server." But Google cached it on 27th May. Have I been blocked? The cached page suggests Konstantin has moved on to a new launcher... But I can't access anything but the basic text of the page. I'm eager to try out "SmartUp Menu v0.1.1" but as things stand, I can't even see the screenshots.

KSoft website has been down for me for about a week now. Missing RunMe & IcyRadio linkage usually found at ksoft.nm.ru. Please tell me this (and other KSoft apps) are not going for good. Missing you already Konstantin.

Thanks Lid... I've not noticed such problems with Vista Home Premium x64 and V2.0, and Ice theme, but good to know of any new release.

From what I can make out, this article explains DEP quite well in Russian language.

@Lupo73 I don't think "a good refresh" is the best way to put it. Icy is already really good at what it does, and it's appearance is awesome, if you don't like what you have, just make a new skin. It could use some more integration, drag'n'drop URLs from browser or browser plugin (IE BHO and/or Mozilla xpi) and streaming video (which is where I use it most) could use a little polishing off. Some channels I have to revert to VLC because they just don't start in Icy, and initial setup of channels is quite funky rooting through the html source for the stream URL. I still prefer to use the Icy UI for accessing regular streams over VLC tho. Just coz the UI is so cool. @KSoft (Konstatin) You don't have a problem with Icy on XP / Vista if you don't alter DEP settings from default. However "default" is different on 2003 / 2007 OS, and if you set XP /Vista to 2003 / 2007 "safer" settings then you have a problem with Icy, and have to "exclude" it. DEP works a little like firewall or web popup blocker. It makes certain code, which has legitimate uses, but is more frequently used for evil purposes (just like popups) an illegal operation. Intel and AMD implemented this in hardware as Linux OS' were working on software code breakers to secure Linux servers... DEP (Data Execution Protection) is supported on all Windows OS from 5.1sp2 upwards... there may also be different effects depending on whether it is implemented by the CPU (hardware DEP) or only in the OS Kernel (software DEP). It's quite simple if you understand any Machine Code language, but not so clear if you are used to only High Level language code only. I've attached a PDF that illustrates the basics better than I can in a BBCode message, but I know language barriers are also a problem. The biggest point is that it is hard to break DEP in High Level languages (you can do it in C, and therefor C++, but you would have to break several conventions and put up with compiler warnings, any BASIC which still supports PEEK, POKE and GOTO could do it) otherwise you'd have to link some Assembler either statically or via a DLL. This is why I don't think it's IcyRadio it's self, but rather some component the program relies on. The other point is that code which breaks DEP was perfectly legal Windows code up until XPsp2, and is still acceptable in certain uncommon cases. Self-Modifying code, "Just In Time Compilation" etc. Many AV programs try to detect what DEP stops dead at a much higher level, and I would try to code DEP friendly, just as I would try to avoid upsetting common AV programs. "False positives" are sometimes unavoidable however... and this is (kind of) one of them. Summery Until you can find what component causes DEP to break and find an update or replacement which doesn't. The False Positive, exclude Icy from DEP explanation is the best way to tell users what and why this happens. DEP_Explain.pdf

Yes yes... I completely agree. I'm quite attached to some of the compilers I use, but I'm always on the look out for something more cross platform. I think essentially, I'd like something that can encapsulate Mozillas XUL UI into the VCL hierarchy. lol... never mind we can dream. BTW... what timing component / API are you using to time the animations? Perhaps I could research alternatives for you... with regard to the speed differentials depending on what other windows are in memory, or help debug ones you find on alternative hardware. Let me know if you want a Beta tester.

Ahh, Ja. En Deutsche sprechen das Wettervorhersage ist en Fahrenheit oder Celsius. Das ist her gut. Unlike my German which is only so-so. Fahrenheit and Celsius is a very scientific description of the two measuring systems, and therefor a-political, which is better considering the wide variety of what is considered "politically correct" around the world, even within the same language. I can't get RunMe to produce what I guess would be Фаренгейт or Цельсия, even though my system supports Cyrillic type, as I think RunMe is not a Unicode built application. All I get are ??????????s. lol That's normal with Delphi, and I can't find an easy way to do Unicode apps in C++ Builder either... From what I can gather Lazuras produces true Unicode executables, and can build to 32 or 64 bit applications. But I'm not sure how easy it would be to port your GDI Plus controls from VCL to LCL. (Lazuras makes me green with envy, I want a C++ version of it. ) In Britain we also use "Centigrade" to refer to metric temperatures, but I can't promise that that is so with all English speakers around the world, where I'm pretty sure we would all understand Celsius. As to Drag and Drop, I've not found a way to make this work well, since the menus disappear as soon as you select icons in Explorer or Fileman, and don't return when you drag files over the tab. If I drop them on the tab, they appear in the start panel (which is never where I want them) and in no particular place on it... each time I drop they come up somewhere else. I just accept this as part of a work in progress. I can't drag items from RunMe, to it's self (to re-order items) or to the desktop (to create shortcuts)... but since you can cut and paste items in RunMe with a similar end result, I presume this is normal behavior too.

Are you sure you're using the latest 0.9.2 version? I remember something similar, but can't reproduce it now... just in-case, it might help to know which theme/skin you are using and what side you are docking RunMe? Digression I do notice that selecting "Slide Out On Mouse Leave" happens regardless of the check box state... and that weather measurements are either "English" or "Metric"... well I'm English, and all our weather, temperatures etc are quoted in Metric... we haven't used imperial measurements for many years, except in our pubs (as in "a pint of beer") and road signs (Miles as opposed to Kilometers). I believe only the Americans, and then probably not the Canadian ones still use Fahrenheit, and their interpretation of Imperial quantities is different from the English. So I'm guessing the term should be Metric or U.S. Though you could use the term "Imperial" if it turns out some nation of the former British Empire or perhaps former British Commonwealth nation does still use that measurement system for their weather... Of course I have no idea how Mexico, and other non-US American nations measure temperature, but I think many of them do use kilometers on road due to their connections to Spain, and their former empire. And to all those who live in nations still suffering the legacies of my nations former Empire, on behalf of my ancestors, I do apologize. There are many little inconsistencies like this in the program, and I imagine there will be till KSoft reaches a version 1.x of RunMe. It's good to note them, but we also need to be able to reproduce the effect in order to fix it. Is anyone else having this trouble and can you share what configuration you are using? Cheers.

You're all most welcome. And yes I'm still keeping tabs here. Just to confirm, both KSoft download and Aqua-Soft forum exe only provide the same exe Version 0.9.2(.1) File hashes (exe file):- MD5 = 213C24AA5FF1761A7AB416C445E5C713 SHA1 = B4D4F15907378C3AA9467C137BDADA3AB2BC7023 If your exe hash doesn't match, it's either a different version or infected.

Err... version 0.9.2 is available as a Zip from http://www.ksoft.nm.ru/... scroll down to RunMe. There is no installer as yet. Just extract to C:Program Files or C:Program Files (x86) as appropriate and run from there. Right click any menu item and select Settings, on the options tab, the bottom tick box is for starting at login... there are other ways to achieve this, but that's all you need to do. I don't know of a Version 0.9.2.1... Konstantin could know more / better.

I'm curious if Environment Variables or Shell Namespace Objects are acceptable for paths... fe %UserProfle% or shell:Programs. Testing, shell:Programs seems to work as "Link" or "Disk or Folder" provided "As Menu" is not ticked, %UserProfile% doesn't work at all. And about the "Scroll button", yes, I knew what you meant. I have a left button, a right button and no scroll wheels middle mouse buttons or scroll buttons. Nor do I intend to give up my custom pointing device to acquire some cheep scroll wheel which only does the same as the one on my keyboard, or an extra mouse button. I guess I could macro the eMail key or something to send middle mouse button signal to Windows with AHK or AutoIt, seems like a lot of effort however. Can't we just have a configurable click (ctrl + left click, etc) for that function? Just to be backward compatible for people (like me) who think Apple have the right idea not complicating the pointing device with 1000 + 1 fancy controls you never normally use? What will we do when we are all using tablet PCs, many of them don't have any buttons on the stylus. (Okay keyboard combinations with no keyboard isn't really happening either but you get my point. Different people work different ways and prefer different devices.)

That's a good simple low-tech solution I've seen before, in many guises. They typically work well for explorer based interaction, but fall over if your guests have access to the command prompt or alternative file managers such as Fileman.exe, Total Commander etc. But it gives me a good idea. ADS (Alternative Data Streams) never show up in either explorer or cmd.exe. Therefor you could attach your filesystem image (from ImDisk, DriveCrypt, TrueCrypt etc) to "C:Windows:hidden.img" or such. That would make the image file (containing all your "pr0n" or whatever) very difficult to remove without a rootkit / malware removal program which looks for and removes ADS's. As I say, my main concern with mounting a filesystem stored in an image file, is that if you find the image file, it usually looks like nothing and is easier and quicker to delete by mistake than a whole folder (directory tree) full of "valuable" files. Thinking again, there is another way to look at this whole thing. I guess, ultimately, what we are really trying to do here is avoid having to make backups in case of mistakes... I wonder why none of us has put it that way before? lol The lengths we all go to to avoid doing something simple but tedious. Any of the folders I would be concerned about are tens of Gigs in size, but if you had less, I suppose I could suggest some form of on-line scheduled synchronisation. How sensitive your pr0n collection (and yes, I'm using pr0n to describe any data of sentimental value to you) is will determine who you use as a backup store. There is a filesystem available for both Windows and *nix environments which uses a GMail account as it's backing store... SkyDrives, MegaUpload and RapidShare are other alternative, cheap to free solutions with very little security with regards to the privacy of your store. Of course most real Mac owners have the use of an iDrive. The GMail drive is about the closest equivalent of this. http://www.viksoe.dk/code/gmail.htm As a side note, ImDisk supports hosting your image file on an HTTP server, so if you rent WebSpace which you have upload and download capability on, you can mount an image file stored there. What ever capacity they may allow you, uploading 40Gig even every week, or even making incremental backups from an originator is going to be costly in time and bandwidth. Hence my initial statement on practicality based on scale. Equally, backing up 40Gig to 10 or so DVDs in your writer takes a lot of time. I know, because every 3 or 4 months I typically have to do this for my own piece of mind. The advantage of an on-line solution may be that you don't have to break the archive down in to parts which will optimise the use of your media, and can be left running unattended.

Aha!!! I only have 2 mouse buttons. No, those sliders don't (normally) work for me in the new 0.9.2 version, though they did in 0.8.x. I've made a breakthrough in when it works at sensible speed and when it doesn't. o/ ( I will gladly clarify if needed.

Hmm. You mean TrueCrypt / DriveCrypt? Same thing. But I do apologies for the mixed metaphor. You understood the gist anyway, the encryption is beside the point, it's making it harder to access the volume that's the interesting part for you. I'd recommend ImDisk http://www.ltr-data.se/opencode.html If there is something else I'm missing or misunderstanding I'm afraid after re-reading I still can't see it.

It is wide, but that isn't the problem, it's the length. Yes it makes sense. There are a number of work around, I presently make links as far as I need to, I could make folders with shortcuts, softlinks, junctions, hardlinks, reparse points etc... each of which has it's down side. So my point still stands, the simplest solution right now is to make groups (not folder / drive links) put in only items I want, and add an item called "Open" to the top of the group so I can open that folder, rather than it's group. It would be very nice for me if a future version could have a click target action as well as a hover pullout for groups. I hope this makes sense to you. The slow show hide option, I don't know about 2K but it is the same on Vista and XP. I had it go faster, (not as fast as I'd like) but I don't know what I did. It wasn't related to the slide bars in the settings, that much I do know. Smooth is not as important as fast in something which is supposed to be a shortcut... though pretty is nice.

I was wondering if there was some change in the configurations file. I've tried fiddling with the "Slide in/out" sliders, though which end is fast and which slow is not very clear, it seems to have no effect. I worry about the config, because some groups I change to Popup ("As menu" as it's now called) turn into a type the Properties page cannot describe and therefor can't be changed back. I presume this is because I'm still using the configuration file from my old 0.8 version, as performing the same operations on new groups I create causes no such problems. Therefore, I guess it's possible the slide in/out settings could be suffering from similar incompatibilities between the config file formats. ???

Yes, you are right... it was 0.8.x version. Changing to 0.9.2 makes the popup groups show skinned like any other group, but also makes the initial slide in of the menu so slow as to be incredibly boring. Also, of course, it doesn't improve the complexity of a folders contents. Sorry... always over post. All my bad. If a picture is worth a thousand words (and defiantly multi-lingual) see attached for "what I get and what I want". I think it's pretty obvious which it the more presentable.

Attached is a screenshot of my machine browsing my wifes (file and folder names blurred for her privacy) where I created a "New Folder" accepted the default name, selected it and tapped "Del". This has been the same since Win95, but there has always been a registry tweak to disable it, which at one time, IMS, was in the list of tick boxes for Folder Options. The exact text of the dialog has changed over various Windows incarnations, and ofc if varies with your localisation of Windows. But it's always there. The other problem (and the reason these dialogs are only useful as annoyance) is that the default is "Yes" and anyone who uses Explorer much just taps "Del" followed by "Return" pretty rapidly without even reading the dialog. You'd need to get the text for your install of Windows right if you were to make an AutoIt or AHK blocker. Here's a AutoIt example:- While 1 While Not WinExists("Delete Folder", "Are you sure you want to") and Not WinExists("Delete File", "Are you sure you want to") Sleep 20; Don't kill the CPU WEnd; Nothing interesting, just keep monitoring If WinExists("Delete Folder") WinActivate("Delete Folder"); Make sure keypress goes to the right place Else; Must be Delete File WinActivate("Delete File") ElseIf Send("{ESC}") MsgBox(0,"Delete Denied","Removing files and folders is disabled!") WEnd; Keep doing it even after the first time. Of course, you will want to hide the icon in the system tray, add some passworded means of turning it off for your self, (I'd suggest a HotKey or something) or you could just password the account you use, make other people log-in on a guests account and only run your monitor script in the guests login. NOTE: Windows has a "guest" account which is disabled for good reason, so call yours something else... Notme or Anonymous or Others or Friends or so. The DriveCrypt idea is quite nice, I like it. Don't encrypt your pr0n though, the gf won't appreciate that. Just pop it in a folder called "Hot Chix", "T&A" or "Boobies" and she'll know exactly what it is and either leave well enough alone or curse herself for looking not you for hiding it. If it's hidden she'll assume it must be kiddie fiddling or snuff flix and wonder what kind of sicko shes dating. Whatever she wonders it will be at least 3 times worse than the truth. Don't go there. She won't understand the pr0n, but she won't hate you for that like she'll hate you for keeping it secret. At least in my experience, but you know your own better than I do. In any case, you can mount ISOs, or HD images that aren't encrypted if you don't care who reads it, the problem is that encryption or not if they find the image file and delete that the fact that the mount is read only won't make a hapeth of difference. Is that too British? (Hapeth, Hapennie, Half a Pennie... pronounced "Hey-peth") Anyway, DriveCrypt is good at stopping people who want to read files you have that you'd rather they didn't. It's no good at stopping people who don't give a stuff about your data from deleting or corrupting it. If your machine is the only one which attaches to the NAS, why is the NAS not just a second Hard Drive in your PC? As anything you do to your OS won't affect anyone who pops over with a WiFi Laptop and accesses the NAS. For this reason, again if the NAS supports NTFS ACLs (Access control lists, as SirSmiley illustrated) then use them, they are the ultimate defense, and my primary reason for switching to NT based OS from 9x way before most people.

Oh, BTW. In my Screeny above, "bin" and "bin(x86)" are another form of shortcut I use when I'm doing stuff in the command line. They are just HardLinks to "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)" since command line stuff often needs me to navigate to those locations and it's not easy (not easy enough for me) when there are spaces in the directories names. "bin" is very short, and standard on POSIX platforms, so it becomes pretty instinctive. The mess on that menu also illustrates my annoyance with Doze. I use Windows, Program Files(or their shortened aliases), Users and Dev-Cpp quite a bit, but the rest of it is just OS junk as far as I'm concerned, it should be hidden away in system areas, a boot folder in Windows or somewhere in etc not spread all over my drive so that I have to wade through this detritus. Moving, or deleting it is not advantageous either as it upsets bits of Windows sooner or later.

Hi Konstantin, As requested I moved this here. For those following this thread, I asked K' if it would be possible to have a separate click action for groups compared to their hover action, so a "My Documents" group could take you to "My Documents" in explorer as well as having "My Pictures", "My Downloads", "My Video" etc items within it. He suggested this was possible to add, but something similar already exists in the form of the "as Popup" checkbox on "Drive or Folder" type groups. My problem is that in the orientation I keep RunMe, the popup disappears when I move the mouse near it, as though RunMe windows have a higher priority over the pointer even when a menu is displaying over the top of them. The exact position configuration you asked for is that the menu is a "Right" menu positioned high on my screen. As I said earlier, this is something I got to like when I used BeOS. To emphasis how much I like this I shall compare it's pros and cons to other methods of application launching:- Many people love the new Vista Start menu, I don't. It's constantly re-organising me menus which are now buried even further down the list than they were in XP. Classic Win95 start is more helpful to me as I can arrange it how I like. A couple of clicks is still easier than typing a bit, waiting to see if the right icon appears then switching from kbd to mouse to click that off. The easies means of launching programs that I recall was Amiga or Acorn RISC OS where applications were represented in the FS by one Icon and dropped right on your hard disk which you organised as you liked. That was all you had to do to install. OS X still keeps this to a large extent, and Apps and Utilities are always on the finder menu. Quick Launch is great for your most frequently used programs, especially the little ones, OS X style Zooming Docks took the neXT dock to the point where this is useful for most stuff, and unlike traditional QuickLaunch, Docks or Warfs is both clear and doesn't take up too much space. If you have 30-100 programs it still isn't practical for them all, and I don't find Stacks much help... again, the Apps and Utilities menu in Finder is easier. RunMe allows me to create structure for types of applications. It's Win95 Start Menu, but beautiful. I can link favorite folders for data, and programs of differing types (Games, Office, Software Dev, System Tools etc.) and I can have the same programs grouped by company (MS, Adobe, Sun, Corel, Symantec, O&O, Roxio, Ahead, GNU etc). Like the OS X Dock it hides away to nothing when you don't need it, not even a "Start" button, and yet it's always there when I need it. The big problem with Windows is that your OS is your Home, it's nice to lay your home out the way you want it. With MacOS, Linux, Amiga, RISC OS, BeOs, neXT etc that's pretty simple. With Windows, you pretty much need to slipstream a custom install to get anywhere near having your Hard Drive organised the way YOU want it, and if you do too much that isn't the way MS normally does it many apps get upset. Hence we are forced to represent our directory structure in ways which differ from that which they are layed out in the File System. This is a great way of doing this. Thank you KSoft. My only issue, is that I would like my drives in a menu without having to go through My Computer in Explorer and waiting for it to determine all the characteristics of each device when I know I just want to look on my flash drive, and I want to be able to go straight to my Videos without going through My Documents and waiting for Explorer to fill in the thumbnails for all my Photos and Documents for those funky little "folder contains" like icons. But sometimes, I really do need to get just to my profile, documents, computer too. The simplest solution is to have an "Open" item at the top, I know. But it would be nice if I could click it off, or hover over it for sub-items. The "as Popup" works (aside from disappearing in my configuration) but it's rather too detailed too. What I like is that my profile contains items which I don't put there, and never use, but it also contains stuff I need to get to all the time. Likewise My Computer often contains items I never want to see or touch (swap partitions on attached drives, the control panel and shared folders, digital camera import virtual folders even when the camera isn't attached etc.) it's all detracting, and irrelevant. With RunMe, I don't have to wade through numerous registry fixes to get rid of unwanted shell objects, or add "Hidden" attributes to files that the system needs in folders I use just so they don't get in my way, I just don't add them to the list. Anyway, there you have it. Both praise and criticism in the same post. Thank you for a fantastic program, and I hope my comments and the screeny can help make this uber tool even more uber.

DEP? No of course you can't. That's why I suggested you look into which components Icy uses that your other apps don't. It's clearly not inherent in your style of coding. Though in BCB I have had such issues pop up when I changed something in the build method of Compile optimisations. RunMe... Will do. Thanks for the advise.

Oh. BTW, I'm not good at grep either, but if you redirect the output of DIR to a file you can then open that in Notepad, Excel, Open Office Calc or anything else that can read a text file, and search the output for what you want. The full path is listed so then you know where it's ended up. Wildcards in the DIR may be sufficient, but sometimes the search may take a two phase approach. I've used this many times in our Domain at work when users have accidentally "lost" something in a structure they are supposed to maintain. It's low tech but it works.

Indeed. Setting the appropriate ACLs for the folder is the "correct" solution. However, ACLs are stored only on NTFS drives. Leopard (and maybe Tiger?) have ACLs but their implementation is not compatible with Windows, or vise vesa AFAIK. In Unix the appropriate action is to set mode +r -w +x on the directory for the GID who uses the shares, but allow +r +w for the owner / administrators group, and ensure that the files / directories are owned by "root". Something like "chmod 775" The problem is that NAS drives are essentially a mini PC with a simple file server software installed in ROM and a formatted hard drive attached. Most will have some understanding of Unix file permissions, because these are also the permissions set in FTP. ACLs are a Cisco invention MS / IBM took for the NTFS (originally OS/2 HPFS), and as you can see they are far more comprehensive than usual Unix permissions. And therefore much more confusing. Anything you install on your PC is just stopping you from being a dumba...hahaha. Not ensuring the security of the file server on the NAS. But if that's what you are looking for, some patch to the Windows API to get a file handle, then another to monitor that handle for modification by Write or Delete APIs, and require an authentication. It's a lot of effort to go to for idiot proofing. And Windows has enough annoying "Are you sure you want to..." messages as it is. Windows defaults to "Are you sure you want to Delete this file/folder" and a similar, yet different popup for "Move this file/folder to the Recycle Bin", personally I never see the latter as I always set the bin to delete immediately. I never throw stuff away that I might want to get at later. It's common on Hot Desk Domain Servers not to have a bin. If you had one, anything you threw away on a particular workstation, would not only be accessible only on that workstation (and you'd have to remember where you threw the file away) but may also be accessible to ANYONE who logged in to that workstation. Noting that the MsgBox is different for trashing to deleting, you could use AutoIt or AHK script to look out for the dangerous one, and lock up the keyboard and mouse for a couple of seconds and play a klaxon sound fe. That should get your attention. I would suggest removing the Recycle Bin from the desktop, and replacing it with a Widget to move anything dropped to it to a (compressed?) folder in a safe location. Maybe on the NAS. Give the widget a Trash Can like Icon. Accidentally drag-dropping folders into each other is an occupational hazard. The best way to avoid this, is to use the keyboard, not the mouse to manage your filesystem. PowerShell or Bash are excellent at this. Luckily, the search features in Vista and Tiger OS make locating missing folders pretty easy. If you're still on XP get Windows Desktop Search or Google Desktop Search. GNU "whereis" is pretty good, and DIR /s /a:d /b is always a good fall back. Hope some of these ideas are of use.

Okay... just thought I'd like to say, this is awsome, and well worth installing .Net 3.5. Thank you D-Shade.