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*I just use the built in Windows Defender for virus protection now | *I just use the built in Windows Defender for virus protection now |
*Xplorer2 - a multi-paned file explorer replacement - //I do not use any more. See notes below.// | *Xplorer2 - a multi-paned file explorer replacement - //I do not use any more. See notes below.// |
*Notepad++ - a good general text editor for Windows | *%%Notepad++%% - a good general text editor for Windows |
*Utilities | *Utilities |
*Notepad++ - a good general text editor for Windows. Seemed really good on Windows. I use VIM on Linux now. | *%%Notepad++%% - a good general text editor for Windows. Seemed really good on Windows. I use VIM on Linux now. |
*7Zip - a good general file compression program (**!**) | *7Zip - a good general file compression program (**!**) |
*CCleaner - a Windows system maintenance program, clean junk files and registry and other - **Do not use anymore, looks like spam now** | *CCleaner - a Windows system maintenance program, clean junk files and registry and other - **Do not use anymore, looks like spam now** |
*SystemMechanic - a Windows system maintenance program - paid software -**I am no longer using this, looks like spam now** | *SystemMechanic - a Windows system maintenance program - paid software -**I am no longer using this, looks like spam now** |
*AIMP - Music player (reminds me of the old lost classic Winamp) -//I am no longer using this// | *AIMP - Music player (reminds me of the old lost classic Winamp) -//I am no longer using this// |
*Clementine - Music player, looks like a modern take on Winamp. I am using on Linux via Flatpak and also have installed on Windows 11 desktop. (**!L**) | *Clementine - Music player, looks like a modern take on Winamp. I am using on Linux via Flatpak and also have installed on Windows 11 desktop. (!L) |
| *Strawberry is a fork of Clementine and looks to be better maintained. (**!L**) |
*Spotify (**!L**) (I have family license as my sons have demanded.....) I am now family subscribed to YouTube which automatically gives YouTube Music. I will probably move away from Spotify for this reason. | *Spotify (**!L**) (I have family license as my sons have demanded.....) I am now family subscribed to YouTube which automatically gives YouTube Music. I will probably move away from Spotify for this reason. |
*Youtube / Youtube Music, is web based on desktop and has apps for iOS (**!L**) | *Youtube / Youtube Music, is web based on desktop and has apps for iOS (**!L**) |
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Notes on licensed software: | Notes on licensed software: |
*Xplorer2 :- I am going back to using plan Windows Explorer. The licensing requirements were a pain in the arse. I appreciate that the author fairly and reasonably wants to make money from the product he has worked on, however I was primarily use this product at home on a few machines and on on work machine. The author required that I have licenses on every machine. This couples with learning the interface that is not identical to vanilla Explorer made me give up on the software. Also at home I now primarily use Linux desktop for which Xplorer2 does not function. I believe I had 2 for life licenses. I suspect the author may have modified the "for life | *Xplorer2 :- I am going back to using plan Windows Explorer. The licensing requirements were a pain in the arse. I appreciate that the author fairly and reasonably wants to make money from the product he has worked on, however I was primarily using this product at home on a few machines and on a work machine. The author required that I have licenses on every machine. This coupled with learning the interface that is not identical to vanilla Explorer made me give up on the software. Also, at home I now primarily use Linux desktop for which Xplorer2 does not function. I believe I had 2 for life licenses, although this was for 2 different versions of the application. I suspect the author may have modified the "for life license"? As of 2024 I have not used this product for circa 7 years. |
*Polyview :- Went the way of the Dodo..... I had a license. I do not regret purchasing this license once off. I got many year of use. It worked really well at the time. I remember sending a query to the author concerning font comparability, circa 2008. He said the program was ANSI font only not compatible with the expanded font set, I forget what it is called now. | *Polyview :- Went the way of the Dodo..... I had a license. I do not regret purchasing this license once off. I got many years of use. It worked really well at the time. I remember sending a query to the author concerning font comparability, circa 2008. He said the program was ANSI font only not compatible with the expanded font set, I forget what it is called now. |
*Vuescan :- simply the best scanner program around, consistently an well supported. Multi platformed, Windows, Linux, perhaps Mac. | *VueScan :- simply the best scanner program around, consistently well supported. Multi platformed, Windows, Linux, perhaps Mac. |
*Youtube Premium Family. As much as I do not like supporting Google / Alphabeta I have been enjoying the use of Youtube Premium and they throw in Youtube Music too. The family like too. | *YouTube Premium Family. As much as I do not like supporting Google / Alphabeta I have been enjoying the use of YouTube Premium and they throw in YouTube Music too. The family like too. Getting rid of the Ads has been wonderful! |
*Spotify - My son original wanted and I ended up going with family option. Will probably move to Youtube option as it included Youtube plus Music. | *Spotify - My son originally wanted this and I ended up going with family option. Have move to YouTube option as it includes YouTube plus Music. |
====Microsoft PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows==== | ====Microsoft PowerToys: Utilities to customize Windows==== |
[[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install|Install PowerToys]] | [[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/install|Install PowerToys]] |
*Key point is I do very little printing at home. If fact so little that some time I need to do a deep clean on the nozzles as they have blocked from infrequent use, usually after 1 - 2 months of non-use. I need to try to remember to print a basic test page every month at minimum. | *Key point is I do very little printing at home. If fact so little that some time I need to do a deep clean on the nozzles as they have blocked from infrequent use, usually after 1 - 2 months of non-use. I need to try to remember to print a basic test page every month at minimum. |
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I looked at 2 main options | ++++I looked at 2 main options:| |
*An A3 multi function from Epson the WF-7725, this is the option I went with. | *An A3 multi function from Epson the WF-7725, this is the option I went with. |
*The printer cost is about 2x the large ink cartridge pack cost. Which at 4 years I have only purchased 2 times. I need to purchase a spare again soon. | *The printer cost is about 2x the large ink cartridge pack cost. Which at 4 years I have only purchased 2 times. I need to purchase a spare again soon. |
*The up front cost is higher, however usually include 2 years of ink, so is competitive cost-wise in this consideration. | *The up front cost is higher, however usually include 2 years of ink, so is competitive cost-wise in this consideration. |
*The A3 version of this printer was significantly more expensive (x5 the WF-7725 cost) | *The A3 version of this printer was significantly more expensive (x5 the WF-7725 cost) |
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====Old Printer==== | ====Old Printer==== |
I finally stopped using the printer after over 8 years of use in 2019, it was a Canon MP990 multifunction. | ++++tldr;| |
| I finally stopped using the printer after over 8 years of use in 2019, it was a Canon MP990 multi-function. |
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Canon seem to not be supplying an updated driver after Windows 8.1, that is, no Windows 10 drivers. I suspect there are 3 reasons for this; first, due to the age of the printer the vendor does not wish to spend the money to update the drivers, and second, the vendor hopes that users will simply purchase a new printer! Fortunately the default MSWindows 10 printer driver seems to work adequately with most required options. Unfortunately, the MSWindows scanner driver options are very limited. I attempted to load the OEM Windows 8.1 drivers, however they did not seem to recognise the printer. So I found a suitable free scanner driver that give the basic required scanner functionality, xxxNAPS2xxx, however the functionality proved to be too limited. I found and purchased a copy of Vuescan and now use this, it is very good and not tied to any particular printer supplier. | Canon seem to not be supplying an updated driver after Windows 8.1, that is, no Windows 10 drivers. I suspect there are 3 reasons for this; first, due to the age of the printer the vendor does not wish to spend the money to update the drivers, and second, the vendor hopes that users will simply purchase a new printer! Fortunately the default MSWindows 10 printer driver seems to work adequately with most required options. Unfortunately, the MSWindows scanner driver options are very limited. I attempted to load the OEM Windows 8.1 drivers, however they did not seem to recognise the printer. So I found a suitable free scanner driver that give the basic required scanner functionality, xxxNAPS2xxx, however the functionality proved to be too limited. I found and purchased a copy of Vuescan and now use this, it is very good and not tied to any particular printer supplier. |
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I always felt the original Canon software was quite bloated. | I always felt the original Canon software was quite bloated. |
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====Offsite Printing==== | ====Offsite Printing==== |
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After this I want to list the level of the directory, to do this I count the number of "\" in cell B3: ''=LEN(B3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B3,"\",""))'' | After this I want to list the level of the directory, to do this I count the number of "\" in cell B3: ''=LEN(B3)-LEN(SUBSTITUTE(B3,"\",""))'' |
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| =====MSExcel Visual Basic===== |
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| ====friction factor calculation==== |
| Earlier in my engineering career I used Lotus123 and MSExcel with iteration to calculate the friction factor of piping with Newtonian fluid according to the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcy_friction_factor_formulae#Colebrook%E2%80%93White_equation|Darcy friction factor formulae]]. To remove the iteration from the spreadsheet I wrote a simple VB script that took care of this. When I get the change I will copy the script here. |
| <code basic>'Public Re As Double 'Reynold number unitless 0<Re<10E9 |
| 'Public Rr As Double 'Relative Roughness unitless |
| Public Ff As Double 'Friction Factor unitless |
| Public Fnew As Double |
| Public error As Double |
| Public i As Integer |
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| Public Function Pipefriction(Re, Rr) |
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| ' Calculated Moody Friction Factor for fluid flows |
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| 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcy_friction_factor_formulae |
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| 'The log function is understood to be base-10 (as is customary in engineering fields): if x = log(y), then y = 10x. |
| 'Hence, Loge(10)=2.30258509299405, 2/loge(10)=0.8685889638065 |
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| Ff = -1 |
| i = 0 |
| If Re > 0 And Re <= 2000 Then |
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| Ff = 64 / Re |
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| ElseIf Re > 2000# And Re < 90000000000# And Rr > 0 And Rr < 0.01 Then |
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| Ff = 0.015 |
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| Do |
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| ' Fnew = 1 / (2 * Log10(Rr / 3.7 + 2.51 / (Re * Ff ^ 0.5))) ^ 2 |
| Fnew = 1 / (0.8685889638065 * Log(Rr / 3.7 + 2.51 / (Re * Ff ^ 0.5))) ^ 2 |
| error = Abs(Fnew - Ff) / Fnew |
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| Ff = Fnew |
| i = i + 1 |
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| Loop Until error < 0.00001 |
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| End If |
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| Pipefriction = Ff |
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| End Function |
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| 'Static Function Log10(X) |
| ' Log10 = Log(X) / Log(10#) |
| 'End Function</code> |
| As can be seen in the wiki page, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcy_friction_factor_formulae#Colebrook%E2%80%93White_equation|Darcy friction factor formulae]], there are reasonably accurate equations that approximate the Colebrook equation that are available that do not require iterations to solve. I believe the VBscript is simpler and not an approximation..... |
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| ======MS Word====== |
| *[[https://www.bettersolutions.com/word/fields/toc-field.htm|TOC [switches]]] |
| *''{ TOC \o "1-2" \h \z \f }'' |
| *The TOC \f switch will include identified TC fields |
| *[[https://www.bettersolutions.com/word/fields/tc-field.htm|TC "text" [switches]]] |
| *''{ TC "Appendix A - Content/Name" \l 1 \n }'' |
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| =====MS Word and Excel Keyboard Shortcuts===== |
| Replace File menu commands: |
| *%%Ctrl-p for print dialogue%% |
| *%%Ctrl-S or Shift-F12 for save%% |
| *%%F12 for save-as%% |
| *%Ctrl-w to close the current document%% |
| *%Ctrl-n or Ctrl-Alt-F2 to create new document%% |
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| *[[https://www.computerhope.com/shortcut/word.htm#:~:text=Microsoft%20Word%20keyboard%20shortcuts%20%20%20%20Shortcut,the%20r%20...%20%2040%20more%20rows%20|Microsoft Word keyboard shortcuts]] |
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======Frozen Program Safe Start====== | ======Frozen Program Safe Start====== |
*Check task manager to see if a frozen process is the problem.\\ | *Check task manager to see if a frozen process is the problem.\\ |
*Restart the computer. | *Restart the computer. |
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| ======Autodesk====== |
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| =====AutoCAD Hardware Acceleration===== |
| The Intel built in graphics accelerator seems to have problems with proper full screen resolution on 4K monitors. A solution to rectify this is to turn off the hardware acceleration within the AutoCAD product, see [[https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-enable-or-disable-hardware-acceleration-in-AutoCAD.html|How to enable or disable hardware acceleration in AutoCAD]]. The hardware configuration option can be found using the following commpands: '' graphicsconfig, 3Dconfig, options. |
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