Reopen accidentally closed programs with GoneIn60s

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Reopen accidentally closed programs with GoneIn60s

by Brad Linder Dec 7th 2007

We can't count the number of times we've accidentally closed a web browser, word processor, or other application without saving our data first. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't have an undo key. But thanks to GoneIn60s, you can add a slowdo button. (Yes, we're going to trademark slowdo, you can't have it).

What GoneIn60s does is delay the shutdown of your applications. When you hit the close button, the application is hidden, but it won't actually close for another 60 seconds. You can adjust that time, but then the name of the program looks all silly.

So say you close your web browser when you had meant to close Outlook. You now have 60 seconds to look for the lightning arrow icon in your taskbar, right-click it, and select your closed browser session. It will pop right back up.

If there are some programs that you'd prefer to shut down immediately, you can create a whitelist of apps to close every time. GoneIn60s is tiny at just 205KB, and it's free to boot.

[via Lifehacker]

Tags: donationcoder, gonein60s, recover

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

James said 2:31PM on 12-07-2007

Wow, this should really be part of... well, pretty much ever OS. If you ever read Jakob Nielson's AlertBox feature (usability and design advice), I think one of his current "core principles" is that you should never prompt "OK/Cancel" when you can just provide Undo. The corollary is that modern computers should aways be able to provide the Undo, if we lazy programmers will just implement it.

I'm not sure I'll actually get around to *installing* this, but it's a damn fine idea.

John said 2:46PM on 12-07-2007

Went to download the exe and my antivirus showed it infected with a Keylogger. Such a disappointment, sounds like an excellent tool. Now if there was something like this without infection.

hazard said 8:38AM on 12-08-2007

that's not a big surprise as this kind of functionality requires the app to hook into the shell or possibly even the kernel events and effectively delay the close/quit messages by the given interval.

it's very cool functionality .. however, if you're worried about this kind of thing get a good firewall and even contact the developer and ask for a "please explain"

dish said 4:03PM on 12-07-2007

2John:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Back-Up-and-Recovery/GoneIn60s.shtml

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