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How to Mount and Unmount ISO Files in Windows 8+ (via: TheUnlockr)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27

Sound of facepalm hitting my head, as I totally by accident found out that as of Windows 8 (un)mounting of ISO files is built into Windows.

Mounting

  1. Open the folder where you’ve stored your ISO file.
  2. Right-click on the ISO and select Mount
  3. You’ll now see the ISO mounted inside your Computer.
  4. That’s it!

Unmounting:

  1. Open Computer on your PC.
  2. Right-click on the virtual drive that was created while mounting ISO file and select Eject.
  3. The drive disappears after the ISO image is “ejected”.
  4. That’s it!

–jeroen

via: How to Mount and Unmount ISO Files in Windows 8 | TheUnlockr.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

Windows CSC reset: How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database (via MS Support)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/27

Every once in a while, the local synchronization of offline files mismatches the actual files.

Time for a CSC reset.

Note: you need to be Local Administrator on the machin in order to reset the CSC cache.

Use Reg.exe

You can also automate the process of setting this registry value by using the Reg.exe command line editor. To do this, type the following command in the Reg.exe window:

REG.EXE. REG ADD "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\NetCache" /v FormatDatabase /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

–jeroen

via: How to re-initialize the offline files cache and database.

Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | 2 Comments »

Computer History Museum Makes Historic MS-DOS 1.1+.20 and Word for Windows 1.1a Source Code Available to the Public (via: Computer History Museum | Press)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/25

Cool: now for download at the Computer History museum:

  • We are today releasing the source code of MS-DOS version 1.1 from 1982, and of version 2.0 from 1983.
  • We are today revealing the technical magic by releasing the source code to version 1.1a of Word for Windows.

–jeroen

via: Computer History Museum | Press | Computer History Museum Makes Historic MS-DOS and Word for Windows Source Code Available to the Public.

Posted in Development, Office, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Word | Leave a Comment »

How to install/upgrade to Windows 8.1 RTM without a Microsoft account (via: Super User)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

I’ve bitten by this too many times, so here is the link: How to install/upgrade to Windows 8.1 RTM without a Microsoft account.

And the steps:

  1. Almost af the bottom of the “Sign in to your Microsoft account” screen is a seemingly disabled “Create a new account” clickable area.
    Click it!
  2. Then you get into a new screen with a deceiving “Create a Microsoft account” title, but also a “Sign in without a Microsoft account” clickable area.
    Click there.
  3. Now create a new local account that is not bound to any email address.

Thanks magicandre1981 for the pictures in the linked post: very helpful!

–jeroen

via: How to install/upgrade to Windows 8.1 RTM without a Microsoft account – Super User.

 

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

Windows command-line: Finding default routes and setting their metric

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

When you have multiple network connections, sometimes you want to prefer one to be used as “default” (i.e. because it has higher speed or lower latency).

Windows already tries to accommodate for that by assigning “metrics” to your network connections. They depend on the kind of network (wired over wireless) and speed of the connection.

To see the current default network routes and their metrics, you use the route print command and filter it with findstr like this:

route print | findstr /C:"Metric" /C:" 0.0.0.0"

The “0.0.0.0” string is to filter out the default routes, and “Metric” includes the header line.

For one of my XP machines, the result is this:


Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.71.1 192.168.71.28 10
0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 192.168.171.1 192.168.171.140 10

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Now, even though both metric are 10, my 192.168.71.1 gateway is much slower than my 192.168.171.1 gateway, so I want to prefer the last one. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Tagged: , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

Gosh I hate it when on a Windows machine your printer list is like a 100 when visiting a couple of clients and friends.

Disable this seems easy How to disable automatic search for network printers and folders in Windows XP, but note there is no “Advanced” button so better follow the steps at Windows XP – How do I Disable the auto Network Printer Ins.. – Network Printer – Windows XP.

Now lets find out how to do that in Windows versions beyond XP (:

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

ESXi: for high speed copying from ESXi 4.1 to ESXi 5.1 use @Veeam FastSCP 3.0.3, not Veeam Backup and Replication 6.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/23

I had to move a bunch of stuff from an old ESXI 4.1 server to a newer ESXi 5.1 server.

For that I used a Windows XP VM on the new ESXI 5.1 server that had two different 1 gigabit network connections so it could run full speed.

Speed comparison for 60 gigabytes of VMs:

I used both settings for both tools: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in ESXi4, ESXi5.1, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, Windows, Windows XP | 6 Comments »

WinSCP installer error because WinSCP site thinks wget can parse JavaScript.

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22

If your downloaded WinSCP install ever throws this error, and you cannot find the cause on the WinSCP forums, then this is probably the reason:

The caption of the error message should be enough: Windows thinks it is a 16-bit MS-DOS program, not a Windows installer.

This means that the install download went wrong. In my case, I downloaded it through this wget command:

wget -m -np http://winscp.net/download/winscp552setup.exe

At first I thought that WinSCP has a referrer check, so this is the command that would work (similar to wget direct download with referer: SpeedFan):

wget -m -np --referer=http://winscp.net/eng/download.php http://winscp.net/download/winscp552setup.exe

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Posted in *nix, Power User, wget, Windows, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

KB2934207 A notification about the end of Windows XP support

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/22

Just in case you need to stay with XP for a while (for instance because you have hardware where the vendor still has no drivers for more modern Windows versions), you might want to block KB2934207 A notification about the end of Windows XP support.

As of March 5th, this “high priority” KB2934207 update installs a notification screen remembering Windows XP will be End of Support at 20140408 (about 2 weeks from now).

If you do keep Windows XP, then make sure you have good protection for it (even watch that closer than you would on more current systems).

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Steps for adjusting a whiteboard photo in Paint.NET

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/03/21

Based on a few links, these are the steps I used to enhance the photo of a whiteboard using Paint.NET:

  1. Auto-Level
  2. Reduce-Noise=Max
  3. Duplicate-Layer
  4. Gaussian-Blur=20
  5. Invert Colors
  6. Layer-Blend-Mode=Color Dodge
  7. Reduce-Noise=Max

These are the links I used to come to this list:

Below are the steps on an image I got from The collective awareness | Idea By Window. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Image Editing, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »

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