Thoughts on new features....and maybe a bug

[Charger440]

Fred

If UVK already does any of these and I have not noticed then don't beat me up too bad *kidding*

Uninstaller
If would be really good if the uninstaller had drag and drop support. For instance I have found a few apps (questionable ones) that do not show up in add/remove or UVK's uninstaller. However they do have uninstallers in the directories. It would be cool to drop them in the uninstaller and automatically do a forced uninstall.

SSDs
Since SSDs are becoming more common it would be cool if UVK had SSD optimizer section so we didn't have to do all these steps manually.

Power
I know we discussed it, I did it, then you did it to show me an easier way but the power options would still be a great addition to UVK.

Possible bug
In the system booster, I have had it several times tell me there is not disk in the drive when it gets down to junk files. Sometimes it only a couple times in a row other times I have to respond to the dialog box several times(in one case upwards of 20 times) before it finally just does it's thing. This issue is with the last stable version. I really need to start using the beta version more and quit being a knuckle head

Jim

[Fred]

Hi Jim.

I'll see what I can come up with regarding your requests. Right now I'm too busy to start working on them.

As for the System booster bug, I checked out the code, and can't seem to find anything out of the place. It would be nice if I could have a screenshot of the error's message box.

[Charger440]

Fred

As soon as it happens again I will get a screen shot and see what other info might be relevant to the issue.

Jim

[wmmiller]

I’ve had this happen once before but didn’t think anything of it because it was on a Windows Vista computer. Nothing with Vista surprises me. It was looking for something in drive D which was the DVD drive.

Bill

[Brink]

+1 on having this happen to me in windows vista. I thought nothing of it either for the same reason. Vista is crap IMHO. Never seen it in 7 or 8 though.

[Fred]

Thanks guys.

That helps a lot. You see, I don't like to rely on environment variables. So I define a global constant in the beginning of UVK's code like this:

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Global Const $SystemDrive = StringLeft(@WindowsDir,2)

So if @WindowsDir is C:\Windows, $SystemDrive is C:

As it turns out, it seems to be an AutoIt bug in some computers, where @WindowsDir is returning a path in the DVD drive instead (probably the drive Windows was installed from). No wonder I couldn't find any error in my code.

Now what I don't know is whether AutoIt gets the @WindowsDir path using SHGetFolderPath(), or GetWindowsDirectory(), or if it just expands the %SystemRoot% or %WinDir% environment variable.

If you guys don't mind helping out with this issue, when you see it happen again, please run the UVK script below, and post a screenshot with the message box that is displayed.

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 <AutoItScript>
$rn2 = @CRLF&@CRLF
$msg = '@WindowsDir = '&@WindowsDir&$rn2&'@SystemDir = '&@SystemDir&$rn2

$aCall = DllCall('Kernel32.dll', 'UINT','GetWindowsDirectoryW', 'wstr','', 'UINT',260)
If Not @error Then $msg &= 'GetWindowsDirectory() = '&$aCall[1]&$rn2

$aCall = DllCall('Kernel32.dll', 'UINT','GetSystemWindowsDirectoryW', 'wstr','', 'UINT',260)
If Not @error Then $msg &= 'GetSystemWindowsDirectory() = '&$aCall[1]&$rn2

$aCall = DllCall('Kernel32.dll', 'UINT','GetSystemDirectoryW', 'wstr','', 'UINT',260)
If Not @error Then $msg &= 'GetSystemDirectory() = '&$aCall[1]&$rn2

$aCall = DllCall('Shell32.dll', 'LONG','SHGetFolderPathW', 'HWND',0, _
'int', 36, 'HANDLE',0, 'DWORD',0, 'wstr','')
If Not @error Then $msg &= 'SHGetFolderPath(CSIDL_WINDOWS) = '&$aCall[5]&$rn2

$aCall = DllCall('Shell32.dll', 'LONG','SHGetFolderPathW', 'HWND',0, _
'int', 37, 'HANDLE',0, 'DWORD',0, 'wstr','')
If Not @error Then $msg &= 'SHGetFolderPath(CSIDL_SYSTEM) = '&$aCall[5]&$rn2

$msg &= '%WinDir% = '&EnvGet('WinDir')&$rn2
$msg &= '%SystemRoot% = '&EnvGet('SystemRoot')&$rn2
$msg &= '%SystemDrive% = '&EnvGet('SystemDrive')

MsgBox(0,'System paths',$msg)

System paths.uvk

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That will help me not only determine where the bug is, but also choose the best function to retrieve the paths.

Thanks.

[Fred]

I added on more call to the script, this time to GetSystemWindowsDirectory().

I think that is the correct function to call.

Please use the new script instead.

Thanks

[Charger440]

Fred

Will do

Jim