Thursday 4 January 2007

My Defrag Application

The Defrag Application allows the user to defragment each of their hard drives, including USB flash drives, through the Windows® command line automatically without the need to input drive name.

Known Issues

At the moment this app doesn't work with RAID arrays, I'll fix it soon

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System Requirements

Screenshots



The default view of the program.



The programs options, you can select which drives you which to defragment, and you can chose if you want the computer to shutdown when the last drive has finished.



The label at the bottom of the program refreshes the list of drives, if you plug in a external hard drive or flash stick which you want to include in the defragmentation run, click this label to add it to the list



The programming running


Command line automation


Some users may find it useful to run this program automatically, for instance, if they wish to schedule the defragging task for after office hours.
To do this pass the command "auto" to the program and it will defrag each hard drive without user intervention.

E.g. Run >"C:\Program Files\Tony Hunter\Defrag App\DefragApp.exe" auto


Including "shutdown" in this line will tick the "Shutdown when done" checkbox and the computer will turn off when it is finished.


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System Requirements

Windows® XP/2003 Server/Vista with .net Framework Version 2

Case Changer

My first program to add to this blog, Case Changer allows the user to convert text from upper to lower case and the reverse. Although this sounds mundane, it can be quite useful, for instance, if you type a long important sting without realising caps lock is on

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System Requirements

Screenshots



The Default view of the program



You can stretch the lower textbox out to view the output easier


Program Options

The user has three options when converting text:
- Automatic
Using this option does a number of things. If 'FULLY UPPER CASE' text is inputted 'fully lower case' text will be outputted and visa versa. If text made up of a combination of upper and lower case letters the output will be the string converted to the majority case, for instance 'HEllo' becomes 'hello'.

- From caps to lower
This option forces the text to lower case

- From lower to caps
This option forces the text to upper case


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System Requirements

Windows® Windows® XP with .net Framework Version 2
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® Windows® 2003 Server with .net Framework Version 2

Wednesday 3 January 2007

About me and this blog

I'm a first year Computer Science student and I wanted a place to publish the programs I have written, and so, here we are. I was considering using a wiki but I decided against it as this blog system seems pretty good.


When downloading any programs the user must be aware that he/she downloads at their own risk and that they may not redistribute the applications under the pretence that they belong/were created by them.

Other than that I hope you enjoy what I upload to this blog, please feel free to leave comments or email me with problems and suggestions.

Tuesday 2 January 2007

First Post

Hi, this is my first post, expect more to come soon