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Comment on Wallpaper Changer Command Line Utility by phong

phong — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:53:13 +0000

Sorry for the long delay! I downloaded the latest build today. All works fine! I really appreciate it. I use it with nircmd to hide command prompt window (nircmd.exe exec hide WallpaperChanger.exe …), just for your information.

Comment on Wallpaper Changer Command Line Utility by phil

phil — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:00:08 +0000

phong, I have received that request before and finally got around to adding that functionality! You can now specify a third parameter which should be a complete path to a directory for storing the generated bmp file. If you don’t specify that parameter it defaults to the temp folder.

Comment on Wallpaper Changer Command Line Utility by phong

phong — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:29:48 +0000

This is the one that I have been looking for. But one thing…. I personaly set my temp folder on a RAM disk volume so that the temp folder is all cleared at boot time. Could you add an option to locate the converted bmp file to another place, or make an alternative build?

Comment on Wallpaper Changer Command Line Utility by Justin Swanson

Justin Swanson — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 19:41:25 +0000

Just wanted to stop by and say thanks! I had a Java Program in mind to change wallpapers and I stumbled upon your article. Thanks for sharing your work, as it is going to make my life much easier.

Comment on Wallpaper Changer Command Line Utility by phil

phil — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:31:11 +0000

You can set it as a scheduled task in windows, but it is annoying how command line programs pop up a little program window when run from the scheduler.

The best solution for keeping the window hidden seems to be using a VB script. Check out this page for more info http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/8bbed56f-a7aa-491f-a296-687dd96098a3/

I put that code into a file with a .vbs extension (this makes it a vb script file which windows can execute). For the main line I used this:

errReturn = objProcess.Create(”C:\wallpapers\WallpaperChanger.exe c:\wallpapers”, null, objConfig, intProcessID)

You have to include the command line argument which would work ok if you are using a directory containing wallpapers. When I used the vbs file with Windows task scheduler it remained hidden and did not flash any window on the screen.

Comment on Wallpaper Changer Command Line Utility by ddf

ddf — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 03:34:02 +0000

I cant make it work as scheduled task

Comment on Wallpaper Changer Command Line Utility by Dmitry

Dmitry — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:55:42 +0000

Thanks for awesome utility dawg! Been looking for something like that for ages.

Comment on Add and remove email aliases (forwards) from CPanel with php (specifically on bluehost) by Teddi B

Teddi B — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:28:09 +0000

Hi,

This page was really helpful. I did want to add something I found about the fwdopt option. It’s used in the advanced options to do something extra with the email. I’m using it to forward my emails to a script, which then uses them to post a new blog to my db. The values for that are:

fwdopt=pipe
pipefwd=relativepathtoscript.php

-Teddi B

Comment on Seagate hard drive makes weird noise and stalls by phil

phil — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 09:13:17 +0000

Jacobo, thanks for sharing about your experience and I’m glad I could be of some help! My guess is that power supply problems occur more often than people realize.

In my current computer I decided to spend more and get a nice name-brand power supply. I didn’t get as many watts as I could with a cheap no-name brand, but I decided I would rather have a 550 watt unit from a reputable company. I’ve heard people say that for a no-name brand power supply you need to subtract 100 watts and figure that’s what the power supply will actually perform as. So if you’re buying a cheap 650 watt unit, it may perform the same as a nice 550 watt power supply.

Comment on Seagate hard drive makes weird noise and stalls by Jacobo

Jacobo — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 03:23:27 +0000

My friend: I was about to assume that my ST325031 hard drive was dead (mechanical issues, I supposed) and that I had lost all my files when I gave Google a try… when I found your site. Thank you very much for sharing your research with the Internet! I was having the exact same symptoms: two hard drives -although they were different- and suddenly, after years of use, the second one (the ST325031) began to make some strange noises and to not work properly (no access to files and O.S. freezing), although my O.S. seemed to detecte the hard drive correctly. So I disconnected every other important device (the primary hard drive and the two DVD readers), rebooted with a system disk and… no more strange noise; there they were my files!

Thank you once again. For sure I’ll be buying a new PSU tomorrow in the morning…