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Why was this X-posted to win-98? (was: Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions)
| Why has it all of a sudden become a common practice of cross-posting
| between a win-98 group and XP / Windows7 groups? | I actually borrowed the link from the earlier post about Firefox, but.... | | Will this tool run on windows 98? | ...yes, it does run on Win98. It was originally written for Win98. It runs on any Windows version that can run an HTA, which is anything with IE5 or later. (It could even run on Win95 with IE4 if the file extension is changed to HTML, but IE4 on Win95 has very few problems, with the notable exception of ISP advertising on the IE GUI.) Some of the settings are not relevant to Win98/IE5, but many of them are. Though I should note that there isn't any Win9x-specific help included. I'm assuming that anyone still using Win9x is quite handy and knows the issues. (For instance, you'd need to install WMI for the IE MD code to work as written, while WMI is pre-installed post-98.) I didn't intend to clog the group or post spam. I'm just trying to share a potentially handy tool, so that others don't have to reinvent the wheel. But I will think twice next time. I had no idea that so many people would get so angry about being offered free code and utilities. |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
"Mayayana" wrote in
: | Small ding here, but *every* browser is just a fancy | DOWLOAD MANAGER itself. | I'm talking about actual download manager software. That's not the same thing as a browser. (An email program downloads files. That doesn't make it a download manager.) In general download managers are not necessary in the first place. I find that the typical download manager behavior is to download 2 or 3 full copies of everything. It doesn't make any sense. The programs are supposed to help speed up downloads and ensure they don't get cut off. But they jump in on 1 MB downloads and download 3 copies! PEBKAC Although I will not deny DL managers is a very fuzzy category, and when they first started becoming popular, they were stupid bloated crap which was often full of adware and spyware. Mine, FileHound, is neither, and it works great, and it only DL's more than 1 copy of anything IF I TELL IT TO. Then there are the "scraper" variety. People go to a website and auto-download everything in sight. They're busy hoarding website content that they could never possibly use. In fact, they don't even take the time to figure out what the downloads are before grabbing them. (I'm not talking about personal opinion here. I can see how the software works in my own server logs.) Yes, dl'g your site WOULD BE a sign of insanity. Some download managers are much worse than either of those two cases. I first decided to start blocking them when I saw in my website server logs that someone had downloaded 36 MB worth of a 300 KB file. I'm not certain, but I think the program used was GetRight. Famed for its being refried rat ****. It just kept calling for the same file, over and over again every 6 seconds, 100+ times in all. It's a lot like browser toolbars: Very little value. I could not agree more. But excellent for adware and spyware. Potentially spyware. Sorry, I don't read the posts in their entirety first, I just reply as I go. It's torture enough as it is. And often badly written. But download managers look techy and sophisticated to the uninformed. Unfortunately, blocking such software is not 100% reliable because while some identify themselves, some others use spoof UA strings. So occasionally someone like thanatoid causes a "false positive". I sincerely apologize for ever having arrived on this planet,. I certainly did not ask to be born, and I very much regret /having/ been born. Regards. And, gang: Keep on using IE, the BEST and SAFEST browser in the world, straight from the nice folks who brought you BOB, BOB v.2 (Vista), and "Our Own Spyware Update Monday". -- There's nothing here to attract existing fans of either bands. Instead, all [Rhino's compilation] "Total" does is to reinforce the idea that Joy Division/New Order was a hugely exciting source of music between 1978 and 1990 and New Order has been a pitiful shadow of their once-visionary selves ever since. John Meagher, The Irish Independent |
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thanatoid wrote in
: FileHound Nice. I'll try that. I hated ReGet, etc. I usually use WGET now, commandline... Or, when I need something that is not only polite and ruthless, like Edward Woodward in the Equaliser, but acts a bit more Daniel Craig's James Bond, I use Net Transport, that can do multisegmented downloads for best speed where individual lines are limited in bandwidth by the server, or where a line keeps breaking down. In these cases, WGET will always get there, no matter what, but not fast. FileHound looks like it might not do multisegments, but it does look nice, and might replace WGET for me if it works as clean as it looks. |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
From: "Lostgallifreyan"
thanatoid wrote in : FileHound Nice. I'll try that. I hated ReGet, etc. I usually use WGET now, commandline... Or, when I need something that is not only polite and ruthless, like Edward Woodward in the Equaliser, but acts a bit more Daniel Craig's James Bond, I use Net Transport, that can do multisegmented downloads for best speed where individual lines are limited in bandwidth by the server, or where a line keeps breaking down. In these cases, WGET will always get there, no matter what, but not fast. FileHound looks like it might not do multisegments, but it does look nice, and might replace WGET for me if it works as clean as it looks. WGET will work as fast as the bandwidth allows. It also can emulate any User-Agent and Referrer string. Nothing can replace WGET. I use... GNU Wget 1.13.1 built on mingw32. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in
: WGET will work as fast as the bandwidth allows. It also can emulate any User-Agent and Referrer string. Nothing can replace WGET. I use... GNU Wget 1.13.1 built on mingw32. Hell yeah, I'd never throw it out. I use this in a batch file: SET UA="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" Never needed the referrer, though I imagine some pages demand one to match their expectations. Usually better to have none, as most just look for ANY referrer as proof of offsite linkage. I noticed that Easynews connectionc can start slowly, and if they do not rise to about 300 KB/s they'll fall to around 42 KB/s and not recover. When I'm impatient I abort, and restart WGET. (Using -c to continue, resume...) I haven't looked at WGET in enough detail to see if it can detect this problem and auto-retry to persist in seeking fast server lines, but if it can, it proves itself yet again. For some things, multisegment down load is crucial though. The problems solved by that are easily solved by any program that can download multiple files, but if ONE big file is causing trouble, multisegmenting is the only way to get multiple lines to that file. As far as I know, WGET can only do one line at a time, no matter what. But I often use up to four instances, each with its own list. That makes fast work most times on Easynews... |
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From: "Lostgallifreyan"
"David H. Lipman" wrote in : WGET will work as fast as the bandwidth allows. It also can emulate any User-Agent and Referrer string. Nothing can replace WGET. I use... GNU Wget 1.13.1 built on mingw32. Hell yeah, I'd never throw it out. I use this in a batch file: SET UA="Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)" Never needed the referrer, though I imagine some pages demand one to match their expectations. Usually better to have none, as most just look for ANY referrer as proof of offsite linkage. I noticed that Easynews connectionc can start slowly, and if they do not rise to about 300 KB/s they'll fall to around 42 KB/s and not recover. When I'm impatient I abort, and restart WGET. (Using -c to continue, resume...) I haven't looked at WGET in enough detail to see if it can detect this problem and auto-retry to persist in seeking fast server lines, but if it can, it proves itself yet again. For some things, multisegment down load is crucial though. The problems solved by that are easily solved by any program that can download multiple files, but if ONE big file is causing trouble, multisegmenting is the only way to get multiple lines to that file. As far as I know, WGET can only do one line at a time, no matter what. But I often use up to four instances, each with its own list. That makes fast work most times on Easynews... WGET is a core component in my Multi-AV Scanning Tool. I use it with KiXtart scripts for downloading malware in batch mode. Even Apple targeted malware that requires an Apple related User-Agent or those that require a Refferal string and often with a local proxy. --execute=http_proxy=http://PROXY_SERVER:PROXY_PORT_#/ I don't have an EasyNews account but multiple "other" NSP accounts and I'm not sure how you are using it with a NSP account. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in
: I don't have an EasyNews account but multiple "other" NSP accounts and I'm not sure how you are using it with a NSP account. Easynews have a web service. It's recently been erratic, and on large files, WGET would be more helpful if it could handle multi-segmented downloads, or detect a slow line and force a new connection till it was satisfied by the service it got. (Retrying up to ten times perhaps, count to be reset any time a good line was lost to another bad one, so that only if things were deparately bad would it quit flogging a dead horse). (Re referrers and user-agents, several browsers can change those, and Proxomitron is especially good. I'm going to reinstate that here after some absence because it's so much better at cookie filtering than most browsers, and is browser independent too.) |
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Mayayana embroidered on the monitor :
I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there, so I'm posting here as well. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) SNIP I have an Internet Explorer doctoring program. It's called Firefox. -- -There are some who call me... Jim "Facts are the enemy of truth." - Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha" |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:41:05 -0500, James D Andrews
wrote: Mayayana embroidered on the monitor : I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there, so I'm posting here as well. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) SNIP I have an Internet Explorer doctoring program. It's called Firefox. FYI, there's already a popular web browser by that name. -- Char Jackson |
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Tool to fix IE nags and restrictions
Char Jackson wrote in
: On Thu, 03 Nov 2011 13:41:05 -0500, James D Andrews wrote: Mayayana embroidered on the monitor : I posted this in the IE group, but not many people go there, so I'm posting here as well. Announcing: An updated version of a free tool. The IE MD (Internet Explorer Doctor) SNIP I have an Internet Explorer doctoring program. It's called Firefox. FYI, there's already a popular web browser by that name. Are you trolling, or are you really THAT humor-sense deprived? -- There's nothing here to attract existing fans of either bands. Instead, all [Rhino's compilation] "Total" does is to reinforce the idea that Joy Division/New Order was a hugely exciting source of music between 1978 and 1990 and New Order has been a pitiful shadow of their once-visionary selves ever since. John Meagher, The Irish Independent |
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