Application, Security and System log files - where are they located

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Fri said:
However, no earlier version was readily available at downloads.com
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It didn't occur to you to go right to the Autohotkey site?
Both failed attempts were installed with ZERO programs running in the
background
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In Windows, it's impossible to have zero programs running in
background.
 
This has been an extremely informational thread; I've followed it since
the beginning up to today where it seems fairly well exhausted. I've
actually moved this thread to a mailbox in fact, for easy
retrieval/reference.
I seldom see so many useful and articulately concise threads as this
one. IT's a real pleasure to have watched it develop. It shows that
patience and perseverence definitely can pay off big time in excellent
results.

Thus, mostly as a lurker, I'd like to say thanks to all the participants
and congrats for the whole thing.

For me, I've found quite a few links in the vaious posts I want to
check out but mostly the AutoHotKeys program is very interesting. I
downloaded it and went through the Help file and tutorial; Very Good,
actually!
Normally, for automating web site updates, etc., I use RemoteKeys
from http://www.freewarehits.de/RemoteKeys.htm, which was written for
museum management and then released to the public, which does
essentially all the same things AutoHotKey does, but differently. It
looks like each may have its own significant set of strengths and I'm
going to be pleased to have this addition to my arsenal of tools, I
think.
So, to whomever it was introduced it, a great big Thanks Much!

And KUDOS to all for a job well done,

Twayne
 
PS

Quick followup re AutoHotKeys: Ymmv, but beware; it botches things up
pretty good on my system at least: XP SP3, P4, 2.7GHz, 1.5 Gig RAM, lots
of drive space.

Anything I download is always scanned during the download, after it hits
the disk, and after it's unzipped (if it's a compressed file). Nothing
was found & they're all up to date so I don't think it's malware.

Historically the program has apparently been around and periodically
updated since 1991, so it's not a fly by nighter if the info is true.
The only think I can think of besides a scarily coincidental bit of
file corruption is SP3 or one of its updates may not like it somehow.

Symptom: AFter running autohotkey everything (including autohotkey)
starts but never finishes loading. In win Explorer: Right-clicking a
file to get the Context Menu instead brings up the menu you'd get if you
clicked on an empty space in the right pane, instead of the correct one.
In ANY folder, not just the autohotkey folder. And other oddities occur
too but I quit there.
Oh; a Restart allows everything to reconfigure OK and straightens it
all out, so it's apparently not permanent damage of any kind.

Suffice to say its life on my machine is now history and shall remain so
for the foreseeable future. Too bad; it looked like good stuff. Hope
your experiences were better.

Anyway, FWIW.
 
Hi ya, Twayne!

You changed your ID from Twayne to Pop`.

I almost didn't read your post, but I am glad I did.

Thanks for the KUDOS - it was GREAT FUN mixed in with minor software
aggravation (no surprise there).

I am having a FANTASTIC time creating AutoHotkey shortcuts - I am up to 7,
and for now I feel that I have reached my limit.

One thing I have discovered with mouse clicks, sometimes the AutoHotkey
script execution places the mouse outside the coordinates associated with
the last mouse click position. Sometimes, meaning every time with, in my
case, one specific set of mouse clicks associated with a freeware program,
that I really love, Free Internet Window Washer 2.3.1 - - if interested, you
can find the author's website at www.eusing.com

In my case, after recording my mouse clicks with AutoScriptwriter II, naming
and saving my *.ahk file, then creating a shortcut to this file, and
modifying the properties to open with AHK, the last mouse position (whether
on the X (close) or the Exit (radio button), the mouse icon flies off to a
position not close to where I ended (when I recorded my mouse clicks). If
there is an icon at the same point, AHK clicks on it, instead of clicking on
the X or Exit.

As a workaround, I simply chose to end my record session with the last mouse
click on Free Internet Window Washer's Wash Now (radio button), and then I
manually click on the End (radio button). This approach has an added bonus,
it removes the Free Internet Window Washer icon from the System Tray - I
like that because it keep my system a lean 'n mean performance driven
machine.

Hey, good to hear from you again Twayne!

Thanks again for the KUDOS too!!

Cheers,

AM
 
Thanks for the heads up, Twayne.

Sorry to hear you are experiencing problems with AHK and SP3.

I have intentionally stayed FAR, FAR away from SP3 and have no plans on
executing its update (via Windows Update) any time soon.

My SP2 system is running extraordinarily smooth and I would like to keep it
that way.

Hope there is a simple solution for you, as there was for me with AHK.

Take it easy,

AM
 
AnnaMarie said:
Hi ya, Twayne!

You changed your ID from Twayne to Pop`.
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ULP! Sorta, but not permanently and not on purpose. One of the
apparent side effects of AHK seemed to have been to wipe out my
newsgroups so I did a Restore, but ... used an old, OLD restore file
set!! Right date, wrong YEAR. I haven't been Pop for a couple years
now. Apologies to all; I never noticed the change! It should be back
to Twayne now.
I changed it because quite awhile ago, over time three people asked
me if I used that name because I lked talking to kids online. Rather
than argue or worse attract perverts, I just changed my nick.

Best of luck,

Twayne
 
AnnaMarie said:
Thanks for the heads up, Twayne.

Sorry to hear you are experiencing problems with AHK and SP3.

I have intentionally stayed FAR, FAR away from SP3 and have no plans
on executing its update (via Windows Update) any time soon.

My SP2 system is running extraordinarily smooth and I would like to
keep it that way.

Hope there is a simple solution for you, as there was for me with AHK.

Take it easy,
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Hi Anna,

Yeah, remember, I'm only theorizing SP3 had anything to do with it. I'm
kind of waiting to see if anyone else with SP3 tries it out and has the
same problem to confirm it. Or not.
I do have another such tool, RemoteKeys from remotekeys.de, but AHK
was the first one I've come across with equivalent power and I hoped it
would work for me. I'm always watching for tools that might be better
than I currently have even if I end up using both of them. My main
gripe with RMK is you have to have a small chart onscreen to use it, and
it can get in the way. The .de site is the only place you can get it,
should you decide to look at it. There are other RemoteKeys programs
but they are not this one.
And I also have a programmable Cherry keyboard with 24 programmable
keys with ten levels or sets of 24 macros possible. I love being able
to put the CTRL key back where it belongs too<g>!!

All the best,

Twayne
 
JS said:
Wasn't sure if you changed you ID because you
became a brand new Papa or you turned 65 ;-)
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LOL! Well, one's a few years away and the other would probably get me
some noteriety as a dirty old man, but ... unfortunately not.

Twayne
 
Yeah, remember, I'm only theorizing SP3 had anything to do with it. I'm
kind of waiting to see if anyone else with SP3 tries it out and has the
same problem to confirm it. Or not.
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I will remember. Sometime around May 2008 I started reading a variety of
critiques associated with SP3, and not one was favorable. Since then, I
have run across a few freeware programs that required it - and I saved them
to my HDD - but never installed them. I suppose that I allowed myself to be
easily influenced by what I read, but those folks were notably more learned
than me. I suppose I could share the various articles and there associated
websites here, but perhaps that is left for another day and a new post.
I do have another such tool, RemoteKeys from remotekeys.de, but AHK was
the first one I've come across with equivalent power and I hoped it would
work for me. I'm always watching for tools that might be better than I
currently have even if I end up using both of them. My main gripe with
RMK is you have to have a small chart onscreen to use it, and it can get
in the way. The .de site is the only place you can get it, should you
decide to look at it. There are other RemoteKeys programs but they are
not this one.
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If and or when I discover that AHK is causing problems, I will be FIRST in
LINE to try RMK. :o)
And I also have a programmable Cherry keyboard with 24 programmable keys
with ten levels or sets of 24 macros possible. I love being able to put
the CTRL key back where it belongs too<g>!!
NICE!!!

All the best,
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From me too!

AnnaMarie
 
AnnaMarie said:
I will remember. Sometime around May 2008 I started reading a
variety of critiques associated with SP3, and not one was favorable.
Since then, I have run across a few freeware programs that required
it - and I saved them to my HDD - but never installed them. I
suppose that I allowed myself to be easily influenced by what I read,
but those folks were notably more learned than me. I suppose I could
share the various articles and there associated websites here, but
perhaps that is left for another day and a new post.

If and or when I discover that AHK is causing problems, I will be
FIRST in LINE to try RMK. :o)


From me too!

AnnaMarie
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Just to be clear, I am NOT saying SP3 is bad. Now that things have
pretty well settled out and MS has the necessary work-arounds for
certain PC models and problems that crop up, the situation is much
improved. I waited a long time before I installed it because of the
ongoing problems, but I did finally install it one day, right after a
complete backup was completed, just in case I needed to recover from the
install.
There are still some little funnies that crop up from time to time
though, so it's worth doing the reading and being cautious. My desktop
and laptop accepted it fine, a dual-Xeon server didn't like it and
refused to accept it the first time but a second try it installed fine;
I might have forgtotten to turn off my AV during the install; I wasn't
sure at the time but I had it off for the second try. By far it works
on a lot more machines than it fails on; remember, you're going to hear
a lot from folks who have problems with it; the ones with no problems
have little reason to be writing posts about it.

From a selfish standpoint, I like SP3 because it negates the just over a
hundred updates that SP2 requires and if you're getting your machine up
and running, well SP3 lets it spend a lot less time updating and it's a
lot fewer files to categorize for when they're not available anymore.
On top of that support is ended, and eventually the updates won't be
easily available anymore either, so SP3 negates the worry of having to
get a copy of those hundred updates. I have my own catalog of updates
in process and am downloading all the updates since SP3 to go along with
it, because there wont' be anymore Service Packs. Just like win98 when
they shut it down, XP is now pretty stable and getting more stable every
day. I don't intend to go to Vista or version 7 unless/until MS
somehow forces the issue on me: They offer me nothing that I need and
some things I don't want. Maybe version ten will be something useful,
who knows<G>?
Hopefully by the time MS manages to force XP into oblivion, I'll have
moved on to a flavor of Linx and won't care anyway. Then I will be
finally free & clear of Microsoft and their expensive, planned
obsoletion and forced upgrade paths. I was the victim of their
development tool obsoletion and forced updates twice; once I totally
leave MS I'll never have another single-sourced piece of software on my
machine again if I have my way. They have badly mistreated me and
millions of other developers like me so I don't want anything to do with
them if I can manage it. XP is the only microsoft product I have on my
machine now, and it's a good OS too, so ... replacing it isn't easy.
IMO enough people agree with me that XP will live for quite a few years
yet unless hardware changes faster than I think it will.
Linux will do the job eventually but the availability of drivers
keeps me still a prisoner of MS so far. That will change though.

Cheers,

Twayne
 
Why didn't you just buy a MAC? Write your own OS?
Twayne said:
Just to be clear, I am NOT saying SP3 is bad. Now that things have pretty
well settled out and MS has the necessary work-arounds for certain PC
models and problems that crop up, the situation is much improved. I
waited a long time before I installed it because of the ongoing problems,
but I did finally install it one day, right after a complete backup was
completed, just in case I needed to recover from the install.
There are still some little funnies that crop up from time to time
though, so it's worth doing the reading and being cautious. My desktop
and laptop accepted it fine, a dual-Xeon server didn't like it and refused
to accept it the first time but a second try it installed fine; I might
have forgtotten to turn off my AV during the install; I wasn't sure at the
time but I had it off for the second try. By far it works on a lot more
machines than it fails on; remember, you're going to hear a lot from folks
who have problems with it; the ones with no problems have little reason to
be writing posts about it.

From a selfish standpoint, I like SP3 because it negates the just over a
hundred updates that SP2 requires and if you're getting your machine up
and running, well SP3 lets it spend a lot less time updating and it's a
lot fewer files to categorize for when they're not available anymore.
On top of that support is ended, and eventually the updates won't be
easily available anymore either, so SP3 negates the worry of having to get
a copy of those hundred updates. I have my own catalog of updates in
process and am downloading all the updates since SP3 to go along with it,
because there wont' be anymore Service Packs. Just like win98 when they
shut it down, XP is now pretty stable and getting more stable every day.
I don't intend to go to Vista or version 7 unless/until MS somehow forces
the issue on me: They offer me nothing that I need and some things I
don't want. Maybe version ten will be something useful, who knows<G>?
Hopefully by the time MS manages to force XP into oblivion, I'll have
moved on to a flavor of Linx and won't care anyway. Then I will be
finally free & clear of Microsoft and their expensive, planned obsoletion
and forced upgrade paths. I was the victim of their development tool
obsoletion and forced updates twice; once I totally leave MS I'll never
have another single-sourced piece of software on my machine again if I
have my way. They have badly mistreated me and millions of other
developers like me so I don't want anything to do with them if I can
manage it. XP is the only microsoft product I have on my machine now, and
it's a good OS too, so ... replacing it isn't easy. IMO enough people
agree with me that XP will live for quite a few years yet unless hardware
changes faster than I think it will.
Linux will do the job eventually but the availability of drivers keeps
me still a prisoner of MS so far. That will change though.

Cheers,

Twayne
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It is an indication of your complete lack of knowledge of what it takes to
develop ANY program let alone an OS.
And, I might add, the business of program development. (costs, schedules,
etc.)
 
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