The other day I was playing the excellent Dwarf Fortress in a window on one monitor, whilst browsing the internet on another. I found myself constantly having to switch back and forth between windows as the focus was switched whenever I used the browser window.

What I'd love to have is something where you could designate a particular window as the primary one, so that if I were to click on another window (say a link in my browser), it would automatically shift focus back to the primary window, saving me from having to play tennis with my mouse or pressing alt-tab all the time. I hope this is something that is doable!

I made a small AHK script I thought you might want to use: AltTab Fingertips. Many thanks to ak_ for creating "menu at cursor" idea with FileDraft, which inspired this. It's like alt-tab but quicker. A lot of code comes from my PutAside script.

-DC Member Justice

Press a configurable hotkey (F10 by default), and get a menu at the mouse with all the current windows on it. You can exclude processes using the tray menu.

Ever wonder when your copy of Windows was installed?  Me neither.

But, today I was poking around in the registry and stumbled across this key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\InstallDate

Which is a dword value holding the number of seconds since that fateful day you reinstalled windows last.

So naturally I had to write a little applet to pull the value and display it in an easy-to-read format.  As a bonus, you get a real-time update, for those of us with compulsive disorders.

Please download your copy today, and report back the oldest living Windows installation.  The winner will get a hearty thumbs-up and a stern reminder to knock-on-wood.

Thanks,
Ralf

After having lost months of work on various projects(ironically one of them was a backup tool) due to HD crashes and such, I wrote a little Bash shell script that will automatically archive a directory (and all it's sub-folders) and upload it via secure copy (scp) to a remote shell account. I figured I would share this with my dc buddies in case any one can use it.

It reads a simple configuration file in which you can configure a few things, including files to EXCLUDE from the backup. (for example: object files and other garbage files generated while compiling a program).

I will post step-by-step instructions on how to use this, but first, here is the script:

Years ago I found a program that allowed you to use the scroll lock LED as a hard drive light indicator.  I have not been able to find it again after numurous pcs and HD crashes. I tried searching the net and have not found a replacement either.

This was WAY before motherboards had integrated hard drive controllers. I think they were intercepting hardware int15.

There is a software version that sits in the task tray but I find that one annoying.

Hey guys,

I was wondering if one of you would know a way or know of a program or would like to create a program that would run or do something upon the machine unhibernating.