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Category Archives: Updates

Indicates that a new release of any of my open-source software.

Aucun version 1.4 released : bug fixes, fail safe and debug support

I just put online version 1.4 of my replacement Gina ! Thanks to everyone who gave me a break while I was spending more time house shopping, buying and renovating. This release is very good, thanks to everybody who wrote me about problems they were facing… Here is what’s new :

Fixed a bug where registry [...]

Notifu supports concatenation of parameters

This Notifu update allows you to concatenate multiple /m and /p switches. It is usefull when a paramater to Notifu is feed by a program you have no control over.
For example, this command line now works :
notifu /p Concatenate /p ” this” /m “Hello” /m “, ” /m “World”
Nothing is added to your parameters. If [...]

Notifu supports embedded quotes in parameters

I fixed a bug in notifu that made it ignore quotes that were escaped with a backslash. For example, this command line works now :

notifu /m “\”Theo Est\” test@example.com”

Thanks to Sof for the heads up !

Notifu updated, now with Vista support

Here is just a little update to my Notifu utility. It is a drop-in replacement (no new command-line switches) that features

Vista Home Premium and Vista Business support (same binary works on XP and Vista)
Better error handling on platforms that don’t support IUserNotification
Option to specify pop-up delay in seconds (/d 5 or /d 5000 will give [...]

Remplacement GINA now allows force logoff, administrator exclusion

I was a little overwhelmed by the reaction to my custom GINA. The good thing about it is that it motivated me to put a better version out that addresses all the comments I had so far, namely :

Allow force log off without being a member of the administrator group
Allow an arbitrary group to be [...]