Ramen Software

Nowadays it’s a reality that many software installations are bundled with potentially unwanted programs, such as toolbars or scareware system cleaners. If you’re a power user, you probably know that you have to be very careful while installing software, because if you miss a checkbox you might spend hours afterwards cleaning up the mess. If you’re an average PC user, you possibly leave everything by default, thus installing lots of additional unwanted programs without even knowing it.

I always thought that it’s wrong to provide these potentially unwanted programs by default, but the reason for this is clear: the more users install these, the more money the setup owner makes, usually at the expense of your privacy. Well, it doesn’t have to be that way anymore, thanks to Unchecky!

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7+ Taskbar Tweaker v4.4 is out.

• New option: Hide the Start button.
  The option works for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
  To open the Start menu in Windows 7, you can click on the corner where the Start button was located.
  To open the Start screen in Windows 8.1, you can click the lower-left corner of the screen.

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• New option: Show Start menu/Start screen by double/middle clicking on the empty space.
  7+ Taskbar Tweaker allows you to assign an action to double middle clicking on the empty space of the taskbar.
  Now there’s one more option to choose from.

• Advanced Options Editor.
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7+ Taskbar Tweaker v4.3 is out, which finally introduces support for Windows 8.1.
In addition, the new version contains some bug fixes and small improvements, so it’s a recommended update even for non-Windows 8.1 users.

MinHook is a Windows API hooking library originally written by Tsuda Kageyu.
It’s probably the best free WinAPI library out there which supports both x86 and x64.
But it’s not perfect, and didn’t completely fit my needs, so I created a fork on GitHub which addresses some of its limitations.

Below you’ll see how the fork improves upon the original MinHook library.
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This article was written by Mr. eXoDia about the usefulness of the Multiline Ultimate Assembler Library, which is a (dis)assembler library with similar functionality to the Multiline Ultimate Assembler OllyDbg plugin.
Kudos to him!

The Multiline Ultimate Assembler Library
Multiline Ultimate Assembler library.zip (525.6 kB)

Article files (with the library included)
multi_asm_lib_test.zip (116.81 kB)

Alright, so what’s the use of the Multiline Ultimate Assembler Library? In my case it was useful as backend for a ‘generic’ API hooking tool. The tool was used to hook various APIs to prevent CRC checks and then the idea was to hook an API (VirtualProtect for example) that was accessed just before the OEP of the protected file was reached.
In our case we will not deal with a real protector, but just with a simple file that mimics a protector. Our protected file must have VirtualProtect in the import table.
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Here is an experimental version of 7+ Taskbar Tweaker which mostly works on Windows 8.1 Preview:

Removed. 7+ Taskbar Tweaker now officially supports Windows 8.1.

Options that currently do not work:

• Thumbnails: Left click on the active thumbnail minimizes the window.
• Combining: Combine grouped buttons.
• Other: Don’t show jump list when dragging a taskbar item towards the desktop.

Technical information

So, why did the options above stop working? Not much was changed about the taskbar in Windows 8.1, after all.

Short answer
Because Microsoft uses better code optimization, it became more difficult to control the code functionality.

Long answer
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Did the above ever happen to you?

I sometimes encounter the issue, which is not critical, but may be very annoying at times.
I’ve also received a couple of bug reports about it, so I decided to take a closer look.
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Quick Folder Menu is a tiny application that opens a menu of the folder you specify as a command line parameter.

It’s mostly based on an AutoIt script by LarsJ.

It has a couple of bugs I don’t know how to fix, e.g. it doesn’t always close when you click away (Update: fixed in v1.1).
I hardly know how it works at all. But it works, and I find it handy, so in case you might make use of it, grab it below.

qfmenu.zip (3.73 kB)

The source code is available on GitHub.

7+ Taskbar Tweaker v4.2 is out.

• New option: Display seconds on the tray clock.

  

• New option: Don’t show jump list when dragging a taskbar item towards the desktop.

  By default, when you drag a taskbar item towards the desktop, the jump list appears. This option disables it.

• Simplified Chinese translation of the help file.

  Translated by horan. Thanks!

• Better injection method.

  I’ve got several reports about an issue where the tweaker showed the following message: 7+ Taskbar Tweaker: Could not load library.
  I don’t know what might cause this, and it seems to be quite random, e.g. a user told me he could solve it by installing the tweaker to a different path.

  In this version, I improved the injection method, so this issue may be solved.

  Another thing I did is adding an identifier to the error message, which will give me a clue about the cause of the error.
  If you encounter an error similar to the screenshot below, please contact me, providing the exact message. Thanks.

  

• Other small fixes.

7+ Taskbar Numberer (formerly known as 7 Taskbar Numberer), the program that numbers your taskbar items, now supports Windows 8.

In addition, it has the option to display the numbering only when the Windows key is down.