Powerpro power tip

[Guest]

Although Powerpro has been voted as pricelessware, it is lumped in with
toolbars which belies the power of this freeware. It is a true Windows
enhancement program and I could write a weekly column on the many ways this
program could be adapted for a wide variety of purposes. For this message
though I will limit myself to one.

I don't use Opera, but I gather that the free ad-supported version gives up
screen real estate to ads that update or refresh. I came across a freeware
program that someone had written that covers up the ads with a useful
toolbar. (BTW if someone writes a freeware program designed to overcome the
limitations of an adware program, does that make the original adware now
unrestricted freeware? Or does the freeware program become "quasi-adware",
since it functions in a symbiotic relationship with the adware? Points to
ponder. . .)

That same principle can be extended to ANY similar adware program with
Powerpro. (www.windowspowerpro.com) This program will let you design
toolbars that will only appear when a specific program is open. Furthermore,
you can size them and place them anywhere on the screen you like. Each
toolbar can be made up of as many buttons as you please. Using Powerpro's
built in macro/ keystroke capability, you can design each button so that it
executes a program command with one mouse click, rather digging down through
menus to find it.

Design a toolbar to appear exactly where the ads appear in the adware
program and you can put that wasted screen space to good use. . .

Powerpro has a bit of a learning curve, but once you start to use this
program you start to discover increasing clever ways to use it. If people
are interested, in the future I'll drop off more ideas on how to use it to
enhance your Windows experience. . .

 

[javalab]

I don't use Opera, but I gather that the free ad-supported version gives up
screen real estate to ads that update or refresh. I came across a freeware
program that someone had written that covers up the ads with a useful
toolbar. (BTW if someone writes a freeware program designed to overcome the
limitations of an adware program, does that make the original adware now
unrestricted freeware?

imho it makes it crackware.
f.i., changing the cd_clint.dll keeps or kept the ad off flashget.
but i preferred to just register flashget.
if i use a program rather often, i think it fair to pay for it if requested.
maybe because i know somehow what programming means.
ciao, j.

 

[George R. Young]

Although Powerpro has been voted as pricelessware, it is lumped in
with toolbars which belies the power of this freeware. It is a true
Windows enhancement program and I could write a weekly column on the
many ways this program could be adapted for a wide variety of
purposes. For this message though I will limit myself to one.

I don't use Opera, but I gather that the free ad-supported version
gives up screen real estate to ads that update or refresh. I came
across a freeware program that someone had written that covers up the
ads with a useful toolbar. (BTW if someone writes a freeware program
designed to overcome the limitations of an adware program, does that
make the original adware now unrestricted freeware? Or does the
freeware program become "quasi-adware", since it functions in a
symbiotic relationship with the adware? Points to ponder. . .)

That same principle can be extended to ANY similar adware program with
Powerpro. (www.windowspowerpro.com) This program will let you design
toolbars that will only appear when a specific program is open.
Furthermore, you can size them and place them anywhere on the screen
you like. Each toolbar can be made up of as many buttons as you
please. Using Powerpro's built in macro/ keystroke capability, you can
design each button so that it executes a program command with one
mouse click, rather digging down through menus to find it.

Design a toolbar to appear exactly where the ads appear in the adware
program and you can put that wasted screen space to good use. . .

Powerpro has a bit of a learning curve, but once you start to use this
program you start to discover increasing clever ways to use it. If
people are interested, in the future I'll drop off more ideas on how
to use it to enhance your Windows experience. . .

I second that, powerpro is a very general application, the only voluntary
resident program I keep. My favourite powerpro app is to trap the shutdown
window, execute a backup (with synchback) then allow shutdown. But it also
allows keystroke mapping (e.g. right click on window to center or push to
back) and probably other things I've never thought of.

Here are the commands for the shutdown/backup:
*Script If (not pproflag(1))
*Script RunFile "C:\Program Files\PowerPro\keep\syncdown.txt"

and syncdown.txt looks like:
; run the backup
"C:\Program Files\SyncBack\SyncBack.exe" All
*wait done
; prevent looping
*flag set 1
*shutdown dialog

 

[Roger Johansson]

I second that, powerpro is a very general application, the only voluntary
resident program I keep

I use powerpro together with litestep shell, to replace the standard
explorer shell.
I gain some megabytes of memory and I can create my own interface as I like
it.

Powerpro gives me a taskbar and a launcher bar for my most used
applications, both are autohiding and I bump a side of the screen or a
corner to get them to show.
I also use powerpro as a notes program and for a couple of other special
functions.

It can be used for very advanced purposes as it has a script language and
loads of possible plugins.

Mostly it is used to get a user customized interface instead of the
standard interface you get from windows.

 

[WhItE RaBBiT]

Powerpro has a bit of a learning curve, but once you start to use this
program you start to discover increasing clever ways to use it.

You will also discover that it presents a fairly significant performance
drain upon your system, if you keep track of such things. ;-)

 

[Guest]

You will also discover that it presents a fairly significant performance

drain upon your system, if you keep track of such things. ;-)

The author claims it has a small memory footprint. I used to run a memory
checker periodically, and I don' recall it as being anything extraordinary.

 

[EA]

The author claims it has a small memory footprint. I used to run a
memory checker periodically, and I don' recall it as being
anything extraordinary.

It uses about 600k Ram on my machine with no effect on performance....