Recently I had Windows Update giving me a 13EC error when installing KB2858725: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 that got release lated last November on various virtual machine systems.
It appears that a lot more people suffer from the Windows Update 13EC issue, and most of them have to to with .NET 4, .NET 4.5 and .NET 4.5.1.
My conclusion is that various Microsoft updates now require 3 gigabytes of disk space.
This seems to be the case with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 KB 2858725 update, and probably more future updates. I tried installing the KB 2858725 update with slightly less than 3 gigabytes of space (and after the 3 gigabyte reserve.tmp appeared), and I was still getting error 13EC. But with slightly more than 3 gigabyte the update would install.
Like usual, the Windows Update help on Error 13EC is useless, see the below screenshot.
Great move Yahoo (which I only use for Flickr): telling me that Yahoo can improve performance by moving my data to another country without telling which country the data is stored now, and which country Yahoo wants to transfer my data to.
Since then, I learned that since Windows Vista and up has timeout command that just waits:
timeout /t 600 /nobreak
Two parameters are used:
/nobreak
does not stop waiting when you press a key
/t #
waits # seconds
(the example is 10 minutes, I use it to regularly run FlushFileCache.exe or FlushMem.exe to empty the Windows file chache and release memory – often more than a gigabyte – back to Windows)
There is also sleep.exe, but that requires the Windows Resource Kit or Windows Server 2000/2003.
TIP: I got a 2nd screen with touch (on Win7), however default when touching the second screen it “clicks” on the main (1st) screen. Using “Tablet PC Settings” I got this switched to the correct 2nd screen.
if exist PostBuild.bat call PostBuild.bat $(Platform) $(Config) $(OutputDir)
And then the PostBuild.bat script calls a Python script so that I can write my scripts in a real language.
I actually impose the build actions in a shared option set that I reference from all of my projects. That way I enforce consistency and predictability.
I know others use tools like FinalBuilder but building is so important that I feel it’s worth my effort in rolling my own tooling.
– David Heffernan Feb 14 at 20:24
Hopefully this command (ran as administrator) will fix the high CPU usage of TiWorker.exe on one of my Widows 8 machines:
DISM /online /cleanup-image /restorehealth
It took almost an hour to run…
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One of the easy things in *nix is to set the value of an environment with the output of a command.
Something like this is possible in Windows too, but you have to instruct Windows to keep an empty set of delimiters to capture the full first line.
There is also a small but important difference between Windows and *nix upon command failure: *nix will always return an empty value, but in Windows you must make sure to empty the value first.
Recently I had Windows Update giving me a 13EC error when installing KB2858725: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 that got release lated last November on various virtual machine systems.
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