WinBubble Spams the Web

WinBubble 1.73 spam's the internet. Thousands of users all over the world downloaded and learned about my 'Not Just For the Geek' utility which surprisingly reached 1 million++ Google results in its peak. Thank you very much guys for all your efforts to help me share my utility.

Anyway, What is WinBubble? WinBubble will help everybody to Tweak and Customize Windows Vista easily. It is like a ease up tool to make Windows Vista look, feel, use and act the way you want it to.

Read about the features of WinBubble here at NotebookReview.com

June 12 2008 - 99,800 Google Results
June 13, 2008 - 195,000

June 19, 2008 (Surprise)



June 29, 2008 - 10 days after...

See the Screenshots and detail here

Geeks gone Wild?

Thank you very much NotebookReview.com and all the forum users that give feedbacks at the beginning, Calvin and Eyecon82, harpreet1988, Stalin, nizzy1115, Freelancer332, htwingnut, Mr.bobharris, nic., BlackRussian, deathstick, Jabe, Crash, arjunned, theZoid, Shadowfate and others.

What's next in WinBubble 1.74? Soon...
1. More on Taking the Ownership (Secret for now...)
2. GUI updates (simple spacing etc...)
3. Some Simple Customization updates...
4. Code updates.

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I'm going to provide a link back in the source, so that
My visitors can Explore the world of NOTEBOOKREVIEW.COM... please wait.

 

Good to hear Lawrence.

 

Glad to have helped Lawrence. "simple spacing" sounds very useful . Can't wait for 1.74

 

Hey harpreet1988, It's been a Long time. sorry I'm too busy and i forgot my old msn account.

haha...everyday... I am learning in programming so, an update is good.
it will optimize the code and i hope a 1-2kb addition only.

VB scripting will help me accomplish that.

I have an update to taking the ownership...seems no website in the internet
published this command. I HOPE SO...

 

What license are you using?

 

I am giving my program free so, I am using a free IDE.
I want to buy the Visual Studio 2008 but i'm 300 dollars NEGATIVE

My blog and WinBubble hits doesn't earn much. But If I will work for it,
for about 5 years or more... maybe, It will earn money. $1.00

 

So, is this FOSS, or..?

 

No, he doesn't have it under an open source license. I've been trying to coax him into it so maybe soon.

 

I don't see why not.
Go with GPLv2, Lawrence .
What's holding you back?

 

He may want to make some profit from this because it's only costing him money and not giving him any. He might start selling this or something.

 

I clicked on a couple of your ads for you, Lawrence.
Hopefully that'll help.

In any case, the Visual Studio Express editions really aren't bad at all.

 

Some users wants installer. Anybody wants to donate Visual Studio 2008? That will REALLY HELP...
Legal copy only. My Computer Software's are 100% legal.
Thanks in advance.

Hey Swarmer don't say that... Google Adsense will be angry with me.

Since most of the visitors of my page are Geeks. They don't do that thing.
Anyway, since I already learned many lessons about the internet.

I will focused on how to increase the profits or make money out of it.
About the GPL thing.

Alright, I will release one Software for the open source guys. Please wait,
Tomorrow is my last day of work so Currently, I'm studying more in programming.
I want to be ready before I release my softwares as GPL.

Please give me some time to study first.

 

And still, the application makes all these changes without documenting a single thing it does. We are asked to trust a novice programmer with making substantive changes to our operating systems on the hope that he knows what he is doing, because he won't tell us and won't place his source into a open environment so other folks can look to see if it is safe. Despite numerous suggestions to make the application more transparent in what it is doing, Lawrence continues to stonewall and be secretive about the app.

Sorry if I sound negative, but I am. I have asked many times for Lawrence to DOCUMENT what WinBubbles does. He refuses. There is no way I will EVER trust my development environment to a person who by his own admission is just learning to program and refuses to document what his program ACTUALLY does.

Gary

 

Gary, I agree with you in principle, but... there are some free Sysinternals tools to watch registry changes in real time, so... it should be easy enough to reverse-engineer, I would think.

Me... I don't really need much in the way of tweaking apps anyway. Vista's defaults are well thought-out in my opinion. So there's not very much I need to tweak other than what's in the control panel. I got Vista Shortcut Manager to make the shortcut icon overlays less obnoxious... I'm sure I could've used WinBubble, but whatever.

What else can you do with WinBub? Turn Aero on/off? Control panel. Take ownership of files? Bah... use the command prompt's "takeown" command. Or better yet, adjust permissions in Explorer... changing permissions is usually more appropriate than changing owners anyway. UAC tweaks? Well, if you have Vista Business, as I do, they're in the control panel... not that I need to adjust it anyway. Hack your WEI score? Nifty but not too useful. Customizing icons? This isn't really breaking new ground. Still, WinBubble looks like a cool app that gathers a lot of tweaks in one place... I'll give it that.

Oh, I see WinBubble lets you easily add commands to Explorer's right-click context menu. ok... now that is cool... it's the one useful thing here that I don't yet know how to do otherwise.... oh wait, now I do... because it's explained on the WinBubble site: http://unlockforus.blogspot.com/2008/02/adding-entries-to-computer.html ...thanks for the tip!

 

Hey ScuderiaConchiglia, OK THANKS for your suggestions.

I'll keep that in my mind. Thousands of programmers around the world are really good. "LIKE YOU" Gary. I know your very good in programming, "EVERYBODY KNOWS".

Just give me some time and I CAN BE LIKE YOU...
1. I'm writing programs for VB6.0 for 5-6years before I shift to .NET
2. Since High School, I'm writing and using Computer already
3. Please Respect the decision of a person and give him some time to think.

About the GPL thing. Currently, I'm coordinating with my friends around the world and ask their help about the next software i'm currently working. There must be a way to have a GOOD START.

Also I'm considering the license like GPL by Microsoft, any suggestions? which is better?

 

Hello Gary, I'm sorry for being so straight.
You've always do this... Anyway, Your very good
in programming right?

So, Let us Create the Next Generation of Tweaking.
I have the design now... "Tweaker For Geeks 1.0"

MIND+GREAT PROGRAMMER LIKE YOU=CHANGING THE WORLD

That would be Great! I will leave the credit of programming to you.
Just give me a credit in making it possible or failure

What do you think?

 

Hey Lawrence.. how did u learn all this stuff?

In college or by yourself? ..

WinBubble sounds cool..will give it a try ..

Regarding profit.. why dont u make a Full version of it? .. i mean like Objectdock does.

 

Hello nocturnal310 thanks...also to swarmer.

I began writing softwares from VBDOS,
my brother is very good in quickbasic and he
introduced to me VBDOS.

It all began with a problem:
We had a very old computer (386) I don't know much about it.
Windows 95 is popular already and win98 will be release soon...

When I saw the start menu of Windows, Wow... pretty cool.
My problem is we can't afford yet to buy a new pc.

So, it's fine. I started using VBDOS... and created a menu
like Windows Startmenu. I saved it in my diskette, add to "autoexec.bat" and showed it with my friends... Cool right?

Our computer lab is using a network pc without hardisk, only a diskette is used. it will connect to NT Server for login and start running dos.

That's all I can remember...
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"Whatever you findeth doing, Always Do your might"

 

hey lawrence!
glad to hear!
WinBubble is definitely a must-Have application for me!

 

Hey arjunned, Thank you so much for the feedback!

Anyway, most of the users, I Asked them again...
Please help me share again my utility...

Next time let us make 2 million Google Results!
Anyway, As I have said to other Websites:
GREAT JOB TO "US" not only me!

Thanks in Advance...

 

This is not about being given "time to think" it is about building trust. The issue in my mind is very simple. Any application that plays behind the scenes with the operating system needs to be totally transparent. This is not only true of WinBubbles, it is true for ALL tweaking apps. But it is especially true when an admitted novice programmer is the one turning the knobs of the operating system. Look, Lawrence I am NOT trying to say you are a bad programmer. My suspicions are that you actually are quite good. But if you want to gain the trust of folks who make a living with their machines every day, so that they will use your application, then they need to know what it does. Not just the results, but what is being changed in the OS. We have had this conversation numerous times already. Every time we have it you assure me that "all will be revealed in time". Well time has passed, nothing has been revealed. It is clear nothing will ever be revealed.

I never claimed to be a "great" programmer, only a very experienced one. I wish I had the time to take you up on your offer about the next generation tweaker app. Because if I did, it would be absolutely transparent as to what it does. Every single bit change would be clearly shown. But alas, I do not have the time to partake in such an endeavor. I really wish I did.

In closing, I highly encourage you to put WinBubbles source into a open source library. Which one? I don't care pick one, any one. Just allow other folks to vet the work, that has been my entire point since we took up this conversation many many months ago.

Gary

 

Ok. Thanks for clearing that up... WinBubble is for the beginners-intermediate.

I want the next generation of Tweaker to be useful in many ways.
And also, I want something that can be updated NOT ONLY by the programmers but the tweakers itself

thousands of Thinkers versus Thousands of Programmers

That would be Great!!! Great Thinking ne? (Right?)

 

I don't want to keep beating the dead horse, but I want to clarify one point. I do not think WinBubble is for beginners-intermediate users versus experienced users. I think as it stands right now it is for folks, beginners or advanced, who are willing to put their trust in an undocumented program to apply changes to the operating system.

I for one (and there are many other folks out there like me) will never let a program apply a tweak for me unless it spells out what it does so I can latter undo what it did without having to rely on the app to do so. Therefore, I do 99% of my own tweaks the old fashioned way, manually.

Now there is a thought that should send cold chills down the spines of thousands of systems administrators around the world. A tweak app, that can be changed by the tweakers themselves. Talk about the blind leading the blind! Or worse, this can be a great vector for the botnet army generals to exploit. If you DO this be careful with the implementation such that these changes proposed by the tweakers, actually flow back through you so you have an opportunity to weed out the virus and hacking attempts that are bound to rear their ugly heads unless this is correctly designed.

Gary

 

This is an amazing program that really helps me alot.

Signed.
A very appreciative fan!

 

I agree with you 100%. No offense, but this is how the average joe user gets spyware/malware/viruses on their computers. I always do all of my tweaks the old fashioned way, so I know exactly what's going on. That's how I haven't had any virus problems in years.

 

Lawrence, I think that what you're doing with WinBubble is quite good, but I wholeheartedly agree with Gary. If you want your program to be widely accepted, then every tweak needs to be documented as to what changes it makes to one's computer. Until said documentation is provided, I unfortunately will not be using WinBubble.

 

Hello Crash... Just wait for " Tweaker For Geeks 1.0"

No more Anti-Registry Theft. All the Registry settings will be documented and can be seen.

Tomorrow I will write the program in full time.
HOPEFULLY, It will be the start of next generation of tweaking.

and also, After I finished writing the code for 1.0,
It will be license in open source for checking, that's a promise.

WinBubble will always be around for Beginners and Intermediate.
Tweaker for Geeks Will be seen in several forms of people

 

Sounds good Lawrence. Let us know when Tweaker for Geeks 1.0 is ready and I'll take a look (provided there is documentation )!

 

I hope you don't mind if I mod your source code

 

NO PROBLEM... i'm having some programming problem in creating
a Binary settings like in the registry.

so All the Freakin' Cool Amazing Coders around the world.
Please help. To all the Freakin' Great Tweakers, Start writing
your Tweaks in papers NOW.

 

lol, what are you writing these apps in, again?
I know some C++(learning more)

 

I'm going to post the screenshot later.
It will be written in Vb.net or maybe C#?
Which is better? Sorry, We will use Visual Studio Express Edition only.
'cause It is accessible to all kinds of people, from poor to rich.

They are the same level now, so I think Which language most of you prefer?

 

I prefer C++, I suggest you learn that

 

For most applications, I'd recommend C# (or Java) over C++. But... C++ is a little more powerful... at the expense of being a lot more confusing.

VB.net is ok... I prefer C#, but VB.net is probably a bit easier to learn... it kind of depends on what you know though. If you know C, C++, or Java, you'll like C# more than VB.

C++ is a good choice for low-level stuff like drivers, or fairly low-level things where performance is very important: a web server such as Apache, for example, or a database server, or a performance-intensive utility like the sort command. Also, if you're doing lots of low-level system calls all over the place, it can be easier in C or C++ rather than dealing with the native-code interfaces found in higher-level languages.

 

And now both VB.Net and C# compile to just about identical runtimes.

Gary

 

HURRAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I anxiously await this development!

Gary

 

You deserve every bit of credit you get and more. Well done. Again!

 

Thanks potentv...Ok guys, I decided now to write the program in VB.Net.
Anyway, you can write any programs and just add it to
" Tweaker For Geeks 1.0" or maybe share it to "US" for bundling.

I hope I can finish this program as soon as possible

I will be busy for a while... Please help me again sharing WinBubble to others.
Let US make 2million google results!

Ok, I've added again new features for WinBubble 1.74
I'll post it later along with the screenshots of " Tweaker For Geeks 1.0"