One of my favorite tools under windows OS is Servant Salamander – a two-pane file manager, network client, archive manager, etc, etc. I definitely recommend you have a look, it is like the swiss army knife of file handling. The closest linux alternative I’ve seen so far is krusader.
However, the latest version at time of writing is 2.5 beta10a, which includes an annoying 3-second splash screen on startup, as well as an even more annoying 30-second splash screen once it has expired.
So, armed with my knowledge from the hackr.org challenges I did in an obsessive haze after seeing the link on karnaugh.za.net and getting hooked, I tried my hand at removing the splash screens.
The end result is available here: Servant Salamander 2.5 beta10a no-splash exe
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I decided against sharing the “cracking” method, since I don’t want it to be distributed on a large scale. Basicly, I used a debugger to skip the function that creates the annoying splash-screen dialogues.
Also, in my opinion it is much better than total commander (as krusader is better than midnight commander). Almost not comparable.
And in case you were wondering, I have a legally licensed version of Servant Salamander.
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Interested in your method used on servant salamander ..want to try on the latest ver 2.5 beta 11
I’ll get to it as soon as I have time.
better than Total Commander in windows?
Or Midnight Commander in linux? (‘mc’)
yup, best I’ve seen so far, and I’ve looked at a lot of alternatives.
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