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Old 04-22-2017, 04:49 PM   #9
BetterRed
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Going straight to the PM it is! I haven't been here for a long, loooong time .
Thanks for answering my PM - finally

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Would you still reveal its name? I'm just being curious.
It's a feature of the no longer available CoolFocus Inc ShellToys swiss army knife shell extension. They went bust in 2012, as a result of the Lehman Bros event.

Shelltoys was payware with a hardware specific key. When they closed shop they emailed registered users with the wherewithal to remove the lock. For reasons related to USA national security I never received the email, and I never found anyone willing to give me the recipe to remove the lock.

So when this rig finally dies I'll have 45 days to find replacement functions - snippets and clipboard managers will be the hardest.

There should be a scheme that encourages entities that abandon the software they created to put the source into the public domain.

BR
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