how to delete unneeded or old projects?

[chipfryer27]

Hi

Both Defender and Norton got very unhappy (not unexpected)

Defender allowed with my consent but Norton decided it should be removed without my consent. It may be quarantined somewhere but as it is late O'clock I've lost interest for the evening. What I did see before Norton did it's worse did look quite interesting and useful.

Regards

[medelec35]

Yes, I am aware about the false positives.

Norton decided it should be removed without my consent.

That is the default settings to be over cautious and take over, whether you like it or not!
Kaspersky was the same, I had to change the settings to 'let me decide, not you, as I'm a grown up '!
The reason being its an exe that writes to the registry.
I have contacted Kaspersky as I have their AV an asked than to add it to the safe list, which they agreed to do.
With AV's you can add the exe to the white list.
The exe app I created myself and as I work for Matrix I would be silly to add any form or spy/malware.
The only other way of getting this to work without any AV's moaning at at altering the registry is by downloading and installing the free Autohotkeys v2, And I will upload the source code to run, which av's ignore as its not an exe.

[chipfryer27]

Hi Martin

Don't get me or my email wrong. I completely understand why they both interjected. I know the tedious process to allow a program never been released into the wild and even then used by few (in global terms) permissions.

Just didn't fancy that tonight.

Regards

[medelec35]

Hi Iain, no worries.
I'm going to try and get it signed if I can, that should stop the AV's from objecting.

[Steve-Matrix]

There is an alternative if anyone wants to remove old projects from the "recent files" list without using an app or editing the registry directly:

1. Locate the Flowcode project and delete, rename or move it
2. Try to open the file from Flowcode's "recent files" list
3. Flowcode will report that the file cannot be found
4. Repeat the above for any other files you wish to remove
5. Finally, open an existing file you want to keep

The last step is important as this resets the "recent files" list within Flowcode. The files you removed using this process should no longer appear on the list.

This is not as convenient as Martin's app, but will not cause anti-virus apps to complain.

Another alternative is to manually remove the entries from the registry. This should only be done if you are comfortable editing the registry. It should also be done when Flowcode is not running (otherwise it will rewrite the list when it closes). The entries are listed in the following registry location and each entry ("File1", "File2", etc) can be removed as required:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MatrixTSL\FlowcodeV10\Recent File List

[medelec35]

Hi all. attached is a signed version, so Hopefully it's now AV friendly.
I ran another scan since it has been signed.

Kaspersky scan on exe.png (18.52 KiB) Viewed 103 times

Can you give it a go and let me know how you get on with it please.

[chipfryer27]

Hi Martin

No problem on my W1o running Norton. It wasn't initially happy but did allow it.

Regards