For those of you who said they liked XYplorer, Give Away Of The Day is offering it free today
Son of a B....
I missed it !?!?!?!?!
Still on the trial version and still rocks but, damn, i wished i logged on earlier.
Meh.. I never liked those giveaway-of-the-day things. Last one I looked at had some kind of time limited installer that was good only for one machine and after x-amount of days it wouldn't re-install ever again.
Meh.. I never liked those giveaway-of-the-day things. Last one I looked at had some kind of time limited installer that was good only for one machine and after x-amount of days it wouldn't re-install ever again.
All the GAOTD things have I've installed always been okay. I don't expect them to be able to re-install or be put on other machines, after all they are a giveaway.
looked at had some kind of time limited installer that was good only for one machine and after x-amount of days it wouldn't re-install ever again.
yes and that shouldn't have come as a surprise as that is EXACTLY what the site is
Quite often GAOTD starts the day so well with a powerful laxative to cleanse the inner workings of a computer.
Those days end so badly for some whose computers crash and they ask for help on fixing the damage,
and even worse for those who can no longer get on the Internet.
I also remember one person downloaded a "Folder Hider" that promised to conceal any folder he chose.
He chose to hide a folder he never used.
He chose to hide "C:\Program Files\"
The good news was that Folder Hider did what it promised,
but the consequences were severe
hmmm. maybe I dodged a bullet.....
I also remember one person downloaded a "Folder Hider" that promised to conceal any folder he chose.
He chose to hide a folder he never used.
He chose to hide "C:\Program Files\"
The good news was that Folder Hider did what it promised,
but the consequences were severe
@alan_b: What consequences ? Wasn't Windows able to execute the programs in that folder ?
Nevertheless, I subscribed to the GAOTD. Perhaps some nice software will be given away for free in the future.
@alan_b: What consequences ? Wasn't Windows able to execute the programs in that folder ?
Nevertheless, I subscribed to the GAOTD. Perhaps some nice software will be given away for free in the future.
Yes, he was unable to run some programs.
He especially was unable to launch Folder Hider to undo what he had done
I do get daily emails from them and perhaps 2% of them intrigue me enough to click and see the details.
Over the last 7 years I think I actually installed only three for use plus one to observe.
I observed "Glary Cleaner" or some such super zapper of junk.
I was amazed at how much of my Win XP was recommended to removal.
Originally I had intended to let it do its thing and observe the results and then restore my system from my partition image backup,
but when I saw what was intended I realised that my Acronis "built in" restore might be overwhelmed and that I would have to dust off the Acronis Linux boot CD,
so I simply aborted Glary.
Sure enough, at the end of the day there were many very unhappy campers on the GAOTD site who had allowed Glary to perform a "tender embrace".
Quite often GAOTD starts the day so well with a powerful laxative to cleanse the inner workings of a computer.
Those days end so badly for some whose computers crash and they ask for help on fixing the damage,
and even worse for those who can no longer get on the Internet.
I also remember one person downloaded a "Folder Hider" that promised to conceal any folder he chose.
He chose to hide a folder he never used.
He chose to hide "C:\Program Files\"
The good news was that Folder Hider did what it promised,
but the consequences were severe
It's hardly the site's fault that some people are dumb.
I believe Glary Utilities is still fairly popular.
But really, why is there a "folder hider," that's like making a "shortcut maker"
But really, why is there a "folder hider," that's like making a "shortcut maker"
Sometimes things are made just because. Busywork.
I believe Glary Utilities is still fairly popular.
But really, why is there a "folder hider," that's like making a "shortcut maker"
Glary has been on GAOTD several times since I gave it a go,
and on the more recent times my only interest was to look at the end of the day to see how many more victims had suffered and by some means got back on the Internet.
More recently I have not seen many such victims.
I deduce that either Glary has tamed down the product with less adventurous settings
or alternatively has ramped up the aggression and the victims never manage to struggle back on to the Internet
The idea of the "Folder Hider" was privacy.
Without submitting a password the existence of the contents of the folder was concealed,
and possibly (I do not remember for sure) the presence of the folder.
I believe it simply modified the Access Control Levels that in the absence of the password are applied to the designated folder,
and ACL's are very fine grained with more than a dozen different restrictions of what they can permit,
i.e. you can prevent Windows Explorer from viewing the contents of a folder,
but you also have the option of or not a desktop shortcut can EXECUTE an executable is known to exist therein.
was getting sick of the file manager in Ubuntu and just discovered & installed Dolphin.
apologies if it is old news but I'm new to Unix and wasn't enjoying the experience of the default file manager.
Dolphin was especially easy to access my NAS, something I found much harder to get working with the original manager.
I'm interested to hear of any other decent/favourite file ,managers for Ubuntu.
I never played with alternative file managers for unix.
I know Nautilus is the default for GNOME, but Ubuntu runs unity now and I'm not sure what it ships with (a google search says Thundar?)
If Nautilus is what I was using on Ubuntu before it switched to Unity, I'd reccomend you give that a look.
I never played with alternative file managers for unix.
I know Nautilus is the default for GNOME, but Ubuntu runs unity now and I'm not sure what it ships with (a google search says Thundar?)
If Nautilus is what I was using on Ubuntu before it switched to Unity, I'd reccomend you give that a look.
Still Nautilus on Ubuntu 13.04.
not 100% sure, but i seem to recall Ubuntu 12.04 LTS came with Nautilus.
If it didn't, it must have been one of the first things I changed, as I tried it and another one call File Manager (10/10 for original naming) and found them OK but lacking.
i guess the reason Dolphin is so far appealing is its split screen option and it's Windows'ish UI (which will probably turn the die-hard unix lovers/windows haters off)
@mta: XYplorer is certainly better than the original Windows Explorer.
@willy2,
I would have to agree, maybe not by a long shot, it would honestly be neck and neck.
I do like the familiar look and feel of Windows Explorer but love the customisations that XYplorer offers.
Even though i bought XY and have used it for 5 or so months, it's still hard to break the 25 year habit of Windows Explorer.