I will be shifting the XP shortly and do not want Norton 2004 on my
drive- it has become spyware- but do want three features that worked
well for me with win 98se- windoctor, diskdoctor and defragmenter.

Windoctor checked the registry and shortcuts and fixed all the loose
ends. Diskdoctor fixed the fat and broken files. Defrag defragmented the
drive. What are good alternate freeware programs that do the same as
these programs?

Thanks.

GA
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Gordon Abbot <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> Windoctor checked the registry and shortcuts

For purpose of maintenance of shortcut (.lnk) files, a neat utility
is Goldenfrog's Shortcutter.

http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils4.html
ftp://ftp.ee.ncku.edu.tw/pub/cpatch/...ter/srtcut.zip


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> For purpose of maintenance of shortcut (.lnk) files, a neat utility
> is Goldenfrog's Shortcutter.
>
> http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils4.html
> ftp://ftp.ee.ncku.edu.tw/pub/cpatch/...ter/srtcut.zip

I've got an array of screenshots from my initial explorations of
Shortcutter. (Screenshots have become how the main way I remind
myself of different features in programs). Just now, I've uploaded
several.

http://omega5.port5.com/clips/golden...tDeadLinks.png
When Shortcutter gives you the list of dead lnks (which you can get it
to try to resolve, else delete), it lets you sort by different columns.

http://omega5.port5.com/clips/golden...nfoColumns.png
The different columns of information about your lnks, which it will also
display for your live functioning lnks, that's pretty extensive. Makes
this a fun toy to roll out.

http://omega5.port5.com/clips/golden...dersDelete.png
In addition to working with lnks, Shortcutter will also hunt down your
empty files and folders, if you wish it to. I'd never delete blindy,
and found it very useful to let me sort first, for delete decisions.


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omega wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:

>> Windoctor checked the registry and shortcuts
>
>For purpose of maintenance of shortcut (.lnk) files, a neat utility
>is Goldenfrog's Shortcutter.
>
> http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils4.html
> ftp://ftp.ee.ncku.edu.tw/pub/cpatch/...ter/srtcut.zip

Dead link it seems, or maybe just temp offline.F ound it here
<ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/.disk0/filepilot/windows/tools/srtcut.zip>

Readme.txt says ShortCutter for Windows95 version 2.0 by
GoldenFrog AT msn.com

DIR of zip content (size=bytes):

28.10.1996 10:25 345 readme.txt
28.10.1996 09:50 447 ShortCutter.cnt
01.03.1998 09:51 332.800 ShortCutter.exe
06.11.1996 09:01 46.686 ShortCutter.hlp

Same?

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen

Bjorn Simonsen <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> omega wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> >For purpose of maintenance of shortcut (.lnk) files, a neat utility
> >is Goldenfrog's Shortcutter.
> >
> > http://www.sover.net/~wysiwygx/WinUtils4.html
> > ftp://ftp.ee.ncku.edu.tw/pub/cpatch/...ter/srtcut.zip
>
> Dead link it seems, or maybe just temp offline.F ound it here
> <ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/.disk0/filepilot/windows/tools/srtcut.zip>

Thank you!

> Readme.txt says ShortCutter for Windows95 version 2.0 by
> GoldenFrog AT msn.com

Quick note re OS compatibility. Extent of what I can factually
provide on that is that J44xm gave it a run on XP and reported no
problems. If somehow someone finds otherwise, hopefully they'll post.

> DIR of zip content (size=bytes):
>
> 01.03.1998 09:51 332.800 ShortCutter.exe
[...]
>
> Same?

Yes. Those dates and sizes all match what I have. The freenet URL you
found is definitely the superior long-term link for this program. Even
had not that .tw one been broken. A fruitful foraging trip.


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omega wrote:

> Quick note re OS compatibility. Extent of what I can factually
> provide on that is that J44xm gave it a run on XP and reported no
> problems. If somehow someone finds otherwise, hopefully they'll post.

I'm running it here on WinXP SP1, and it seems to work , except that it
does one very annoying thing. Whenever it finds a broken shortcut, it
pops up a confirmation box asking if you want to delete the .lnk file.
The box contains a "Do not show this message again" checkbox, which if
checked, presumably, should not display this confirmation dialog for any
more broken shortcuts that it finds. However this option seems not to
work, and it keeps popping up the confirmation box for each broken
shortcut it finds.

There is an option (View -> Options under the General tab) to "Confirm
Actions". If I uncheck this, the confirmation dialog is not displayed,
but then every broken shortcut is automatically deleted.

What I want is a listing of all broken shortcuts, without being prompted
for each broken shortcut found, and without automatically deleting any
of the shorcuts. This doesn't seem to be possible.

Seems like you have tried ShortCutter. Are you experiencing the same
behaviour?

Bjorn Simonsen <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> omega wrote in <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> >is Goldenfrog's Shortcutter.
> >
> <ftp://ftp.freenet.de/pub/.disk0/filepilot/windows/tools/srtcut.zip>

You know, one result for me when running this program, it's that it
caused me to realize that there is an item I don't quite get, about
lnk files.

I noticed it when viewing the "descripton column." That which I
suppose corresponds to a tooltip-type display when hovering over
particular lnk. A number of the externally-created lnk files on my
drive, they have a variety of description fields. In example, the
lnk for msft's media player: "Plays local and streaming..."

The thing is, my properties dialog for lnk files, I have no applicable
field for editing that. Must require some sort of specialized software?
Or am I missing something?


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On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 01:49:50 +0530, Mario Alvares
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I'm running it here on WinXP SP1, and it seems to work , except that it
>does one very annoying thing. Whenever it finds a broken shortcut, it
>pops up a confirmation box asking if you want to delete the .lnk file.
>The box contains a "Do not show this message again" checkbox, which if
>checked, presumably, should not display this confirmation dialog for any
>more broken shortcuts that it finds. However this option seems not to
>work, and it keeps popping up the confirmation box for each broken
>shortcut it finds.

I gave it a quick spin - SP1 also - and found behaviour like Mario
describes, except that in my case it identified every directory in the
root as being a zero-byte file. Well, yes, maybe, in an extremely
tenuous sense a directory _is_ a zero-byte file but most of them have
handy contents - like the entire operating system, f'rinstance, so
deleting them would not be the best of ideas.

The "delete" option did not actually work. I had one very temporary
directory that I'd expanded an installation zip into, and I allowed it
to try to delete that one, but it didn't.

So - non-working confirmation box
Mis-identification of zero-byte files
Deletion doesn't delete.

Not for XP, methinks.
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Mario Alvares <(E-Mail Removed)>:
>
> I'm running it here on WinXP SP1, and it seems to work , except that it
> does one very annoying thing. Whenever it finds a broken shortcut, it
> pops up a confirmation box asking if you want to delete the .lnk file.
> The box contains a "Do not show this message again" checkbox, which if
> checked, presumably, should not display this confirmation dialog for any
> more broken shortcuts that it finds. However this option seems not to
> work, and it keeps popping up the confirmation box for each broken
> shortcut it finds.

Here's settings I have:

Actions
[X] Show Results
[ ] Confirm Actions

Delete
[ ] Broken files
[ ] Empty files (etc)

Under the Advanced tab, I have Autorun unchecked (don't like the sound
of that).

> There is an option (View -> Options under the General tab) to "Confirm
> Actions". If I uncheck this, the confirmation dialog is not displayed,
> but then every broken shortcut is automatically deleted.

Confirm Actions unchecked works out for me; no auto-delete from that.
When I am in the results pane, and want to delete, there is not a nag;
that's the only difference unchecking it makes, I think.

> What I want is a listing of all broken shortcuts, without being prompted
> for each broken shortcut found, and without automatically deleting any
> of the shorcuts. This doesn't seem to be possible.

That's how I want it too, and it's working that way here, with the settings
I have. Perhaps it's a matter about that second area in Options, the
Delete settings section. Have you tried running with those boxes unchecked?

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Semolina Pilchard wrote in
<(E-Mail Removed)>:

>So - non-working confirmation box
>Mis-identification of zero-byte files
>Deletion doesn't delete.
>
>Not for XP, methinks.

Maybe filesystem dependent perhaps, FAT32 vs NTFS?

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen