Archive for the ‘Windows’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/30
More than 4 years ago, I wrote about the Windows filename search replacement: Everything. Since then, Everything has even gotten better: though the “stable” 1.2 version dates back to 2009, a new series of 1.3.x betas has appeared since early 2013 that are just as stable, are faster and have far more features.
Some new features I like a lot:
- Support for Recent Changes, for instance searching for rc:today gives you files that have changed today.
- The extended search syntax now includes the ability to search for attributes (even compressed, offline or encrypted) and timestamps (even relative ones like dm:last10minutes) for datecreated (dc), datemodified (dm) or recentchanges (rc).
- Allow for boolean operators ! (NOT), & (AND) and space (OR) and grouping them with < and >.
- These search prefixes: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Everything by VoidTools, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/28
Figured using Instant Online Crash Analysis that mfefirek.sys is causing a DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL BSOD.
Well done McAfee!
This is what I did:
- As admin, copy %windir%\Minidump\*.dmp %temp%
- Uploaded these to http://www.osronline.com/page.cfm?name=analyze
- Compare the results with Beyond Compare 4 for patterns.
The result for all *.dmp files is a pattern like this:
DRIVER_IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL (d1)
An attempt was made to access a pageable (or completely invalid) address at an
interrupt request level (IRQL) that is too high. This is usually
caused by drivers using improper addresses.
If kernel debugger is available get stack backtrace.
Arguments:
Arg1: 000000000000000d, memory referenced
Arg2: 0000000000000002, IRQL
Arg3: 0000000000000000, value 0 = read operation, 1 = write operation
Arg4: fffff8800....d70, address which referenced memory
Debugging Details:
------------------
TRIAGER: Could not open triage file : e:\dump_analysis\program\triage\modclass.ini, error 2
READ_ADDRESS: GetPointerFromAddress: unable to read from fffff800032..100
GetUlongFromAddress: unable to read from fffff800032..1c0
000000000000000d Nonpaged pool
CURRENT_IRQL: 2
FAULTING_IP:
mfefirek+19d70
fffff880`0.....70 8a400d mov al,byte ptr [rax+0Dh]
–jeroen
via: Instant Online Crash Analysis.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/28
Thanks Shay Erlichmen for answering this on SO why the Beep function does not bell the speaker any more on x64 systems:
Beep has been removed as a native function from all x64 platforms (so no managed version of course), there is a connect issue that petition to return it.
We use a different trick to discover servers, we remote eject the dvd drive, and the drive with the tray open is the one were looking for :)
Larry Osterman has a great article about this: What’s up with the beep driver in Windows 7.
In the mean time, the connect issue has been removed as well.
The good news however (if your hardware still has an Intel 8254 compatible PIT in the South Bridge connected to a PC speaker):
Ludwig Ertl wrote the BEEPx / BeepXP driver that interfaces to the speaker through the 8254. Note it has a (German) changelog, but you can respond in English.
–jeroen
via: windows – .Net WinForm System Beep on a 64 Bit OS – Stack Overflow.
Posted in Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/26
I hadn’t monitored Notepad++ in a very long time, so I was glad that User Thomas Owens mentioned that it can show you the CR and LF codes:
With Notepad++, you can show end-of-line characters. It shows CR and LF, instead of “\r” and “\n”, but it gets the point across. […]
To use Notepad++ for this,
- open the View menu, open the Show Symbols slide out, and
- select either “Show all characters” or “Show end-of-line characters”.
I needed this because many development environments get confused when you have text files using a mix of line-break kinds (in my case LF, CR and CRLF).
–jeroen
via Text Editor which shows \r\n? – Stack Overflow.
Posted in *nix, Apple, Linux, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, SuSE Linux, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/15
Hopefully it is not a coincidence that Steve Streeting left the SourceTree team four years after the first SourceTree release and shortly after the first release of SourceTree 1.6. version, but the SourceTree 1.6.x versions suck: it often hangs and is (often extremely) slow. This apart from numerous NullReferenceExceptions. I find this odd, as 1.5.x is far more stable in that respect, hence my hope it is not about Steve Streeting.
Even though many people complained about 1.6.x. being bad (read the comments on the release page), and quite a few ask for a way to downgrade, a downgrade option isn’t provided there.
A SourceTree downgrade itself is not that difficult. Ensuring the embedded versions of Git and Mercurial/Hg are up to date is more difficult. Getting that right is especially important on Windows: hgflow works much better with the embedded Mercurial/Hg. More importantly: both Git and Mercurial/Hg recently had a very nasty security issue.
So here are steps on how to downgrade, then upgrade the embedded versions of Git and Mercurial.
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Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Mercurial/Hg, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, SourceTree, Windows | 7 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/09
Process Hacker is on my research list:
A free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software and detect malware.
–jeroen
via: Overview – Process Hacker.
Posted in Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/01/06
Thanks Brett Wilton for sharing this.
This would have saved me quite some time, as I re-did the phone registration two weeks ago in order to get a few development VMs working again.
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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/25
On my research list:
I knew about the TrueCrypt file system for Windows, but it looks like encfs provides something similar for *nix.
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/12
I had some excessive CPU usage (30% on a 4-core system) inside WheaAttemptPhysicalPageOffline when using an Intel HD graphics 2500 GPU.
At first I thought I needed to convince IT to update the drivers: Intel HD graphics causing high CPU utilization | Intel Communities.
Then I closed all Visual Studio 2013 instances and the CPU usage went to normal.
So I’m suspecting a WPF issue somewhere.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2013, Visual Studio and tools, Windows, Windows 7 | Tagged: CPU usage, CPU utilization, excessive CPU usage, Intel Communities, Intel HD graphics | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/12/12
OSvirtual is a collection of virtual images of operating systems.
It’s a resource for those who want to recall some operating system/distribution, to try unknown OS or just to play with the virtual toy :)
–jeroen
via: OSvirtual Virtual images of operating systems.
Posted in *nix, Power User, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98 | Leave a Comment »
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 