TheSaint

Just a little program I whipped up today. If like me, you connect to the web via LAN, but don't always like your PC to be connected all the time, especially at boot up, then you might find my script handy. Basically I use it to turn my Ethernet connection off. A fairly simple affair, and the state persists after shutdown. BIG THANKS to jguinch for the Network configuration UDF. My script uses and requires the Network.au3 include file from the first post of that topic. My script runs with Admin Rights, as per the first line of the script. Show Adapters.au3 NOTE - On my system, some adapters have a CRLF in the middle of the returned entry. My script changes that, within program, to a backward slash (\) for ease of use etc. As can be noted in the screenshot, the second portion, after the backslash, is the actual adapter name used for ENABLE and DISABLE and getting INFO. To work with the same adapter by default, you can SAVE a selected entry as the one, which can appear selected at startup after first being checked. Enjoy!

Thanks for that. Has come in handy. In fact I used it in the following.

Latest v1.9 update now available, see the first post. This involves several changes and improvements since my last (v1.4) update upload. I've held off until I've done a reasonable amount of testing, especially with the new CLONE approach. [Tuesday 6th May 2025] (v1.5) [Monday 21st July 2025] (v1.6) [Wednesday 23rd July 2025] (v1.7) [Friday 15th August 2025] (v1.8) [Tuesday 26th August 2025] (v1.9)

@thedemons Nice seeming project, that I have just discovered ... seems (seemed) quite promising. So for what it is worth, and although it now seems abandoned, I have added it to the following, in the first post. AutoIt GUI Creators (Designers) Thanks for sharing.

One we overlooked, and have just discovered, has been added to the first post. July 6, 2020 - ImGui in AutoIt - Advanced UI by thedemons P.S. A very interesting project, that appeared to have much potential, but sadly the author seems to have disappeared not long after providing.

Updated to v1.3, a much improved version. See first post.

I discovered a bug and have fixed and re-upped. This would have been present in the first version as well, and somehow I overlooked.

Updated to MD5Compare v1.2 I decided to add a couple more basic features to make it more complete ... even though I do use other software for those.

Goodo. I remember having issues once upon a time (some years ago) with surround sound (multiple channel) wav files not being recognized as such, due to some header issue etc.

And you can also use other methods, especially if this is just a text file. A very simple approach if you know your insertion point, and it is based on unique text, is to FileRead your file, then use StringSplit with the unique text, then add all three parts together and then FileWrite back to the file with that, overwriting it. The only tricky bit, is if you are not familiar with an array, which is what StringSplit creates. But as suggested, back your file up first, just in case. Have a play, and any further questions, keep asking here.

Just a little project of mine, that I thought I would share. Basically, I have a scenario sometimes, where two files have the same size, but have somewhat different file names, but I suspect them of being the same file, one renamed. An example of that, would be something like a pdf file in a zip file, that is a game manual, and the game got updated to v1.1, and that zip file was renamed to suit, and is the same file size, but could possibly be different. I have that happen a lot with downloads from the ZOOM Platform game website. So rather than relocating a copy to another folder (as I have so often done), and renaming it to match the other file, and then testing with something like TeraCopy, I eventually decided to build my own simple MD5 checker that compares the MD5 value of two files, which it has calculated. You populate the source fields by drag & drop, preferably to the GREEN and BLUE 'Source' labels. Version one of the program was a simple affair, but then I decided to play around with progress bars, because I'd had it mind for a while, to develop my own for the Hash Encrypt function, which I use in several of my programs. The speed of incrementation of the progress bar, is tied to the previous calculation (file size & time), so at best is only approximate, so not much more than a guide, but hey, something is better than nothing. The first thing I needed to do, was create a separate command-line based EXE file (MD5checker.exe) for doing the checksums. It records the file size and time taken and checksum values in a 'Setting.ini' file, shared with the calling program (MD5 Compare.exe). That calling program uses the AdLib commands, to check on the progress of the hashing, while waiting for it to complete for each file being compared. MD5 Compare v1-3.zip (29 + 1 + 17 previous downloads) Enjoy! P.S. If you want to use an algorithm other than the MD5 one, be my guest. I know we can use better ones, but as I sometimes use my program for other scenarios, that involve a recorded MD5 value, I've just stuck to MD5, which is reliable enough.

Yeah, tell me about it. And my usage essentially hasn't changed, from the first 18 months, where I had no real issue, until now. What has changed, is updates to my device, so clearly they screwed something or the number of ebooks on my device is a factor ... though to be sure, my Kobo device still has much more space free than used. And as usual, I always treat my devices and drives well, which is carefully. I also never charge my devices, until almost flat ... be that ereader or phone or tablet etc. I eject properly, store and transport properly, etc etc. My money is on nerdy coders and flawed management as being the real issue ... and I've seen that across many devices.

Latest v1.4 update now available, see the first post. Some more improvements came to mind. Latest Changes Been busy, so missed doing the v1.3 upload. For Your Interest I finally managed to fix all the images on my Kobo device. This involved the images for the newest ebook additions to my device (around five), plus all the side loaded ebooks, where the images were either black & white instead of color or were badly sized, or in many cases, both. I then double checked the lot to be doubly sure all were now present & acceptable. I did that last with my program, and also with my Kobo device. A Rehash Of My Situation Latest News So anyway, I finally had the image situation on my Kobo device, like I wanted. But then of course, I needed to do a sync, to get my latest ebook purchase. On this occasion a surprise waited for me ... Sync appeared to be working and actually completed ... WTF ... Why? The first inkling I had of this, was my latest five acquisitions at Kobo, automatically went into 'Pending' status after the list was updated. They then proceeded to download, one after the other, then the device went into the 'downloading covers' state, which always takes a while to complete, but after several minutes did finish, then it did 'Annotations' etc and then the Sync completed. WOW ... I could not believe it. Reflections So that's it for now, and going forward I will probably only reply further if new revelations come to light, or in response to posts from others. I will finish up by saying how nice it is to see all the cover images on my Kobo device, when browsing or when putting the device to sleep. It had been too long since that was regularly the case. Fingers crossed.

Latest v1.2 update now available, see the first post. Some more improvements came to mind, and I discovered a rare file name issue. Latest Changes Some of this will come in handy when I get around to addressing (fixing) black & white and wrong size cover images, next time the battery in my Kobo device is flat.

A note about the new orange row entries. I've discovered, that some ebooks share the same sub-folder numbers. Three ebooks worth of images (9 in total) in the same folder, is the most I have seen so far, so the numbers on many occasions are not unique to just one ebook. Mostly though, when it occurs it is just images for two ebooks (6 in total). The new right-click 'Mismatch' option is great for revealing all such cases. And now a reminder, that it isn't just images for ebooks on your Kobo device that can appear in the number sub-folders. It appears that some other images show up, that are either advert related or related to a specific author or ebook. So in some cases, the extra or additional ebook(s) in the number sub-folders are that type. This occurs even more in the device sqlite file.