Re: I've rediscovered PureText!

"John C." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.comp.freeware
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
p-0 0-h wrote:
> 
> So, I was playing with Powertoys, yeah, complete bloat

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xp89dcgq3k6vld?hl=en-US&gl=US

I went over the list of included utilities, and for the life of me I
don't see anything that's of the slightest interest to me except
"Shortcut Guide" and "Text Extractor". However, it's not worth having to
install all the other stuff just to be able to use those two (if in fact
that is the case.)

> but the Image
> Resizer is magic and there was a utility that reminded me of PureText
> but it has a four key hot key combo to activate, I nearly spat my coffee
> out, I mean I do 2 paws max unless I'm playing naked twister with Dolores.
> 
> What a feline. Ah!... Where was I. Oh yeah, PureText.
> 
> I gave up with PureText at v2.0 because it stopped working. I'm guessing
> because of hot key combo conflict.
> 
> Anyway, I did the nostalgia thing and there it was on Windows Store,
> loads of updates, now 6.2.
> 
> Yay, I changed the hot key combo to Win + Y < good for desktops and Voila!
> 
> So, I thought, am I the only one out of the loop.
> 
> https://stevemiller.net/puretext/
> 
> So excited, I used to use this every day.

I don't understand. What does it do that Ctrl-Shift-V doesn't?

https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/c/ctrl-shift-v.htm

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