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Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:17 pm ]
Post subject:  GeoShell R4.11.10.0

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http://www.geoshell.com/index.asp

A really great revision highly customisable, low resource usage, speedy response and if you use it in conjunction with an explorer shell replacement (I recommend Directory Opus, although some people love Total Commander), you won't ever see explorer.exe again :)

The new version they've been working on the tray mostly, so you get much more functionality there (hide icons works a lot better than it does in explorer, and it rescues them on a crash [so I read, I wouldn't know because its yet to crash, probably because I killed off explorer altogether :) ])

Some stuff that isn't covered in the documentation, or is, but given that no real man in existance would ever read a manual, here's some stuff I figured out.

To add a new plugin to a geobar, you click second button right on the left side, and you go to load plugin. To configure the plugin itself, hold down CTRL and right click. Right clicking normal just comes up with options, but holding control lets you select what exactly you want the plugin to do. You'll also need to do a little bit of registry editing, since it reads all its settings from there.

So here's a some tips on that note:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\geo\GeoShell\Services\Plugins
On each geobar, set the snapto to -3 if they don't quite snap to the side of your screen


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\geo\GeoShell\ShellUI\Desktop
You can adjust the monitor viewing size here, so you can make sure if you want to make a start menu type bar, you can adjust the maximise to only fill the viewable part of the screen. You can do this for each monitor if you run many. ~-25 is the size of a bar.

There's a few skins lying around too :)

Author:  fierysky [ Mon Feb 28, 2005 2:04 am ]
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Looks really neat, I might give it a shot. I just started using my first shell, Aston, a few days ago and it's really nifty and has served me well so far.

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Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:31 am ]
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I loathe ashton myself, tried it way back when. Its about as sharp as a airplane knife these days :lol:

It was one of the ones I tried when i stumbled across geoshell a year or so back. There was another one, but I can't recall the name... I believe ashton was just the better of the two.

There's a solid plugin system for geoshell nowadays (seems weather/calanders/etc are all the rave), but given that its open source you can have a fiddle if you know c :)

Still anythings better than explorer :lol:

Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Mon Feb 28, 2005 10:32 am ]
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oh wait, they* started calling plugins "widgets" these days I gather for some bizarre reason, despite the fact they are plugins and have no special purpose or reside in beer cans :lol:


* <insert marketing monkey here>

Author:  PC_Arcade [ Sun Mar 06, 2005 12:32 pm ]
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(I recommend Directory Opus, although some people love Total Commander), you won't ever see explorer.exe again :)


mmm, I tried dopus and it was excellent, BUT it's cpu usage will sometime go up to 99% and just stay there, so it got uninstalled :(

Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Sun Mar 06, 2005 6:26 pm ]
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never done that with me

Author:  video-man [ Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:00 pm ]
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where's dead donkey shell hehe

Author:  PC_Arcade [ Sun Mar 06, 2005 7:40 pm ]
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spudthedestroyer wrote:
never done that with me


Lucky you, I'm not alone with that bug though it's been reported in a few places :(

Author:  spudthedestroyer [ Sun Mar 06, 2005 8:05 pm ]
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you sure you didn't do something silly like leave it reading avi file settings and then open a directory full of avis? :lol:

You can turn stuff like that off, I don't think they really expected people to have folders full of several hundred avis :lol:

Author:  PC_Arcade [ Sun Mar 06, 2005 9:13 pm ]
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I am sure, I'd switched it to disable in folder type.

Like I say, it's happening to a few people, not just me.

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