Newbie here. I've been playing with geek.menu for a week and am embarrassed that I haven't yet discovered the answers to these 'easy' questions. Any and all suggestions accepted (even RTFM!).
1) My USB has a Label, and my geek.menu has a customized Title. But at the Computer drives level, "geek.menu" seems hardcoded when the app is installed. If I remove the app framework, the disk Label reappears. No way to get the Label to override the geek.menu app name?
2) Any way to disable the links/buttons to Locations such as Documents, Videos, etc? I'm looking to create an app-only stick.
3) The PAM library, TrueCrypt, etc have relative paths, but not so with the Eject script? If I add geekEject when I'm building on E:, the reference stays on E: even when the USB gets mounted on another machine as F:…
4) Here's my most embarrassing… Any secrets to get TrueCrypt automount working? I have the "Volume" set in TrueCrypt options (with no key file). Doesn't seem to matter whether I use preferred drive letters or not. I have tried with "running menus on TC volume" and without. Doesn't seem to matter what my "known computers" or default-action settings are. TrueCrypt simply never auto-fires. I get no prompt for password, no UAC alert. This is Win7 with local Admin but AutoRun disabled. (I'm expecting TC to kick in when StartGeekMenu is first run…)
FWIW, I have tried both the 1.4 stable and the 1.5 experimental…
-bill
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1) The "geek.menu" label is inside the autorun.ini, which can be edited to say what you'd like. I'd guess this edit is not preserved across upgrades though…
2) Still "no" to the disable/remove question, as far as I can tell. Also no action when mapped to $TRUECRYPTDRIVE$. Even when TrueCrypt volume is (manually) mounted, that variable is not getting set, or rather, the remapped buttons don't go there. May be related to my vexing #4…
3) If you browse to add GeekEjector to the configuration, it puts the drive letter in the field and thus is locked to a particular config. But you can edit the field to remove the drive letter and make the path relative. It sticks, it works. Portably.
4) Grrr. Still no luck. Even if I make TrueCrypt start in tandem with the menu, my drive is not getting automounted. How do I kick those geek.menu preferences into gear? I'd imagine I can make a new menu item with appropriate TC parameters, but I thought that was what the pref settings were for?!?
-bill
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a crude way to "remove" in a way documents etc is to open geekmenu.exe in a resource hacker like PEexplorer and find the following
TFRMMENU
frmMenu: TfrmMenu
pnlRight: TPanel
find the relevent img location eg "imgMusic: TImage" or "imgDocuments: TImage" then where it says Width and Height (usually 24) change those values to "0" zero
then find and do the same for sbtn eg "sbtnMusic: TFlatSpeedButton" or "sbtnDocuments: TFlatSpeedButton"
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Newbie here. I've been playing with geek.menu for a week and am embarrassed that I haven't yet discovered the answers to these 'easy' questions. Any and all suggestions accepted (even RTFM!).
1) My USB has a Label, and my geek.menu has a customized Title. But at the Computer drives level, "geek.menu" seems hardcoded when the app is installed. If I remove the app framework, the disk Label reappears. No way to get the Label to override the geek.menu app name?
2) Any way to disable the links/buttons to Locations such as Documents, Videos, etc? I'm looking to create an app-only stick.
3) The PAM library, TrueCrypt, etc have relative paths, but not so with the Eject script? If I add geekEject when I'm building on E:, the reference stays on E: even when the USB gets mounted on another machine as F:…
4) Here's my most embarrassing… Any secrets to get TrueCrypt automount working? I have the "Volume" set in TrueCrypt options (with no key file). Doesn't seem to matter whether I use preferred drive letters or not. I have tried with "running menus on TC volume" and without. Doesn't seem to matter what my "known computers" or default-action settings are. TrueCrypt simply never auto-fires. I get no prompt for password, no UAC alert. This is Win7 with local Admin but AutoRun disabled. (I'm expecting TC to kick in when StartGeekMenu is first run…)
FWIW, I have tried both the 1.4 stable and the 1.5 experimental…
-bill
I guess I just needed a few more hours…
1) The "geek.menu" label is inside the autorun.ini, which can be edited to say what you'd like. I'd guess this edit is not preserved across upgrades though…
2) Still "no" to the disable/remove question, as far as I can tell. Also no action when mapped to $TRUECRYPTDRIVE$. Even when TrueCrypt volume is (manually) mounted, that variable is not getting set, or rather, the remapped buttons don't go there. May be related to my vexing #4…
3) If you browse to add GeekEjector to the configuration, it puts the drive letter in the field and thus is locked to a particular config. But you can edit the field to remove the drive letter and make the path relative. It sticks, it works. Portably.
4) Grrr. Still no luck. Even if I make TrueCrypt start in tandem with the menu, my drive is not getting automounted. How do I kick those geek.menu preferences into gear? I'd imagine I can make a new menu item with appropriate TC parameters, but I thought that was what the pref settings were for?!?
-bill
a crude way to "remove" in a way documents etc is to open geekmenu.exe in a resource hacker like PEexplorer and find the following
TFRMMENU