The Kitchen Sink Collection [discontinued]

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Latest version of the take-it-all-with-you software collection is available via deposit files: http://depositfiles.com/en/files/8001626

Home Page
http://kitchensinksoftware.blogspot.com

So far this has been enormously successful with an estimated 500+ downloads. This has been developing over time thanks to a lot of feedback:

http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... php?t=3835

... and many updates here are directly thanks to many members here on the forums including Ameri-CAIN, redgum, and especially m^(2).

Changes since the last release

Keeping all the programs up-to-date, a lengthy, customized CAFE (file associations) setup, as well as tons of visual updates as well as changing out old programs for better ones. Aiming for a better, cleaner release.

Once again, I'm still trying to shake out the bugs so please e-mail me, give me feedback, help me make it better. I have a long to do list but need to know both what I'm missing and what has priority.

Thanks!

[m^(2)]

How about torrent download?
For slow connections it's better as you can resume it. For starting the download late too.
I guess that for very fast connections it's better too, because you don't have to wait 60 seconds to start downloading.

[joby_toss]

Took me 5 hours to download it from deposit (30kB/sec limit) ...

[m^(2)]

More troubles with downloading. It stopped at 3.92 MB. When I noticed I gave it a while and cancelled the download. When I try to start it again, I get a message that I'm already downloading a file.

I've had such problem with df once before. It's gonna last hours at least.

I saw your blog post on updater: Good idea. There's a lot of tools for in on http://programmerstools.org/. Search the "patchers" section.

[webfork]

> More troubles with downloading. It stopped at 3.92 MB.

I've contacted a few friends to see if someone can help get this going -- I don't currently have a 24/7 connected computer to seed a torrent with. If that doesn't materialize, I'll see about getting the file out in 50 meg chunks. Maybe have better success with that.

Thanks for trying and thanks for the update idea.

[m^(2)]

OK, I got it. It took like 8 trials.

You have a bug in your starter script.
Your "compiler" modified it a bit, that's how it looks:

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@shift
@start "" "%~dp0pstart210\pstart.exe"
@set path=%~dp0dll;%path%

And it's called like:

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cmd.exe /c C:\DOCUME~1\M\LOCALS~1\Temp\~2C.bat E:\tmp\kitchensink-0.9.8.6\StartKitchenSink.exe

Environment is inherited by your child processes, but it happens when they are spawned, changing environment afterwards has no effect. set should be before start.

What batch "compiler" is it? It's smart. It's the first that I know that works correctly with references to %0. That's because of this shift.
It's still wrong with %*, but that's a huge improvement over the previous ones anyway.

Also, some programs don't work on x64 OSes.
-OpenedFilesView
-PeerGuardian
-RootkitRevealer
-sophos anti-rootkit
Possibly more.

ADDED:

I think you should implement some kind of autostart.

Bug: CAFE doesn't work with FreeCommander. I guess that it neither does with 7zFM.

ADDED2:

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---------------------------
Clipboard Recorder
---------------------------
Your trial period of Clipboard Recorder Professional is ended.
If a valid license key is not entered, it will be downgraded to Clipboard Recorder Standandard.
Do you want to enter a license key?
---------------------------
Yes   No   
---------------------------

ADDED3:
I see that you removed some useless launchers. Good. But some left:
-JkDefrag
-Shellfish
-Toucan

[webfork]

Lots of good notes, thank you -- and thanks for working so hard to download all 520 megs. I'm sorry that's such an issue. Future releases will be in smaller chunks if I can't get the torrent thing going.

I had some issues on my side with OpenOffice and I'm trying to figure out what went wrong with that. I'll try to iron that out as well as throw in your changes.

> What batch "compiler" is it?

I'm using http://www.battoexe.com/ and so far its the better of the two software tools I've tried.

> I see that you removed some useless launchers. Good. But some left:

Gotcha. Will get that cleaned up.

> I think you should implement some kind of autostart.

That's on its way -- I'm going to start using a clean copy of XP to test all this with. My current system is configured too carefully to do any of that.

> Bug: CAFE doesn't work with FreeCommander. I guess that it neither does with 7zFM.

No -- I've been having some difficulties with CAFE and I'm not sure what's causing that. No other program does what CAFE does so I've got to figure it out. Hopefully that doesn't require a whole bunch of reconfiguration or tweaking.

> Also, some programs don't work on x64 OSes.

Not sure what to do about this one. Its obviously going to become more of a problem as time goes on. These tools aren't very portable if they can't work across architectures.

...

Thanks again!

[m^(2)]

> Also, some programs don't work on x64 OSes.

Not sure what to do about this one. Its obviously going to become more of a problem as time goes on. These tools aren't very portable if they can't work across architectures.

Yes, but you can tweak it yourself. At least PeerGuardian has x64 version. So you need a launcher that checks OS version and starts the correct one.

You can do this with a batch that checks whether there is "Program Files(x86)" environment variable. Also, I created a C++ launcher which does this some time ago, I can find it if you want.

[webfork]

> You can do this with a batch that checks whether there is "Program Files(x86)" environment variable. Also, I created a C++ launcher which does this some time ago, I can find it if you want.

Absolutely -- that would be fantastic

[webfork]

Next release is out ...

Since a lot of people have had problems with depositfiles, I'm trying another provider:
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/66946/kitchensink-0.9.8.7.7z

Also a new deposit files link:
http://depositfiles.com/files/8jntdrkjq

Torrent doesn't look like its going to happen. If anyone can help out with that, please msg me.

As always, feedback is greatly appreciated.

--
http://kitchensinksoftware.blogspot.com/

[webfork]

Got a torrent up! Grab it here:

http://drop.io/hidden/qmnovyeug3yhyb/as ... 10b3JyZW50

Should offer at minimum between 30 and 50 k/sec download speeds.

[webfork]

Update: Major bugfix was necessary. Version 1.1.1 is here:

https://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dmg8ntv_85fx4b8dgr&hl=en


The latest one is out thanks to encouragement and assistance from many PFCers. Please take a look and see what you think. Feedback, thoughts, and criticism are all very welcome.

CHANGELOG

* CAFE program updated -- will now open 658 file formats just by double-clicking
* Switched default CAFE graphics viewer settings over to FastStone Image Viewer
* Approximately 50 program updates
* Enabled autosave settings for many included programs
* Added Xenu Link Checker, TestDisk, Photorec, Foobar2000, Starter, PeaZip, SearchMyFiles, KiTTY, Core Temp, Artweaver, Everything, Universal Extractor, Xinorbis,
* Removed Q-Jot, checkdsk, PuTTY, ArtRage, old File Recovery tool, EasyCleaner
* Modified settings in Q10 to be cleaner and more minimalistic
* Moved entire archive under a /data/ subfolder so that the root directory wasn't so cluttered.
* Refreshed plugins for Universal Viewer and irfanView
* More security plugins for Firefox - Secure version
* Lots of organization, modifications to the menu system
* FIX - autorun.inf file to work correctly.
* FIX - nexusfont - I deleted one too many language files in the last version and broke it
* FIX - updated firefox so that it started with the base EXE file -- the main EXE underneath all the subfolders would just launch the default browser.

Known problems

* An older version of Winamp is included because the program would not decompress using universal extractor. It remains because this is the only audio program that works with HotKeyz. If this remains a problem in the next release, Winamp will be removed. This was sort of touched on in this article: http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... ght=winamp

[joby_toss]

downloading ...

Forgot to say Thank you!

[webfork]

> Thank you!

Glad to help out.

[joby_toss]

I'll keep seeding as long as possible!