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Originally Posted by Joanna
Going straight to the PM it is! I haven't been here for a long, loooong time  .
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Thanks for answering my PM -
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Originally Posted by Joanna
Would you still reveal its name? I'm just being curious.
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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