Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/13
RegJump.exe is really cool, and has already there for more than a year (:
This little command-line applet takes a registry path and makes Regedit open to that path. It accepts root keys in standard (e.g.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and abbreviated form (e.g.HKLM).usage: regjump <<path>|-c> -c Copy path from clipboard. e.g.: regjump HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
–jeroen
via: RegJump.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/11
Sometimes you want to run a batch file from a Task Scheduler task. For that, the user under which the task runs needs to Logon as a batch job right. If it hasn’t, you get this nice error message:
“This task requires that the user account specified has log on as batch job rights”.
Despite being part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools, you can still use ntrights in more modern Windows versions to grant or revoke this right.
As ntrights uses a hard to remember SeBatchLogonRight name for it and I tend to forget the ntrights syntax, I wrote two batch files to grant or revoke the Logon as Batch Job rights for the specified user:
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/09
When you roll-out new machines and you get Windows Update 80072EE2 to install updates required by some installations…
If you receive Windows Update error 80072ee2 while checking for updates, the Windows Update servers might be experiencing an unusually high number of requests for updates.
–jeroen
Source: Windows Update error 80072ee2 – Windows Help
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/29
Sometimes the solution is soooo simple:
The fix for me was to:
- go into Windows Update and
- change the settings to “Never check for updates (not recommended)”,
- click OK, and
- then change it back to “Install updates automatically”.
I’m sure that switching it off this way and then choosing any option that enables windows updates would have had the same effect. As soon as I did this, windows update went from having a red X to a green check mark that said “Windows is up to date” (even though it was not – but this signified that the service was now working properly). I clicked check for updates and was successful – several updates were ready to be downloaded and installed.
Source: windows update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running window 7 HELP
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/27
Usually I use the old Borland grep.exe that still ships with Delphi. Too bad it is 16-bit app which does not recognise Unicode.
FindStr does. Though much slower and with limited regular expression capabilities, can do recursive searches too:
findstr /spin /c:"string to find" *.*
The /spin is a shortcut for these case insensitive command-line options (the full list of possible options is below):
/S Searches for matching files in the current directory and all
subdirectories.
/I Specifies that the search is not to be case-sensitive.
/N Prints the line number before each line that matches.
/P Skip files with non-printable characters.
Sometimes I leave out the /P to include binary files.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/11
After updating a Windows 8.1 machine that had Hyper-V running, none of the VMs could access any networking: Windows 10 build 1511 completely broke the vSwitch infrastructure.
This is what I had to do:
This was the umpteenth time Hyper-V let me down, so in the future I’m back to VMware or Virtual Box.
Windows 10 also broke Everything Search Engine and UBCD4Win. I could not get UBCD4Win to work again, but a reinstall of Everything made it to work again.
And Windows 10 moved a lot of things away from the Control Panel, which means that things that basically worked for more than a decade are now gone. For instance, Windows updates now must be run with a shortcut like this:
%LocalAppData%\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\nl-NL\AAA_SystemSettings_MusUpdate_UpdateActionButton.settingcontent-ms
Note that’s for a DUTCH system. For a US-English system of course the shortcut is different:
%LocalAppData%\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\en-US\AAA_SystemSettings_MusUpdate_UpdateActionButton.settingcontent-ms
This feels like “1998 wants its VBA translated languages back”.
Of course I could get around this by building a table translatingto a text language code from the numeric language code* from the below command, but that’s not the point: Windows 10 makes life harder.
reg query “hklm\system\controlset001\control\nls\language” /v Installlanguage
returns codes like 0407, 0409, 040D, 0413, etc.
–jeroen
*: Heck if Microsoft cannot even update their 2002 Table of Language Culture Names, Codes, and ISO Values Method [C++] and has trouble keeping the various .NET version pages updated**, how could I?
**: these are the only .NET versions the table is documented
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/04/04
This week I needed the trick below, so I was glad that a long time ago, Danny Thorpe Shared publicly on G+:
[Wayback/Archive] VirtualBox: Clone VM without Re-activation of Windows
Follow these steps to clone a VirtualBox VM in a manner so that the Windows 7 Activation in the guest doesn’t have to be re-activated in the clone.
–jeroen
via: Danny Thorpe – Google+: VirtualBox: Clone VM without Re-activation of Windows 7.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/25
Apart from the obvious “use less tables” and “break tables apart”, these can also help big time:
If it is still too slow, I might look into these:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/14
TeamViewer Portable (and its cousin TeamViewer QuickSupport) is a great tool for the occasional helping out of friends, but both Portable and QS don’t play well with UAC:
Your partner’s desktop is no longer accessible.
Probably you used a program that requires additional permissions.
Please wait until your partner has granted these permissions.
Many suggest to install the full TeamViewer client, but that is a bit against the point of occasional helping.
A practical solution is much easier: start either Portable or QS with using Run As Administrator once, and it works perfectly fine.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/02/26
It’s obvious if you have seen this once, but it wasn’t clear to me how to play only individual songs from a playlist. Luckily my search got this step by step guide as the first hit:
- Create the playlist.
- Uncheck all of the check boxes in the playlist (In iTunes for Windows, ctrl click one of the check marks to uncheck all of the checkboxes at once)
- Now double click (or select and press spacebar) a song to play it. It will stop when finished because there is no other song checked to be played next.
- If you want to change back to normal sequential play, ctrl click one of the check marks again to change all of the checkboxes back to the checked status.
The tip works for both Mac and Windows.
I needed this as part of a pub-quiz so I could finish the questions and answers before moving on to the next track in the playlist.
Thanks hiker1251!
–jeroen
via: Tip: How to play a playlist one song at a time … | Apple Support Communities.
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