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Windows library search order (EXE/DLL/module) (via “The Old New Thing”) and max PATH length

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/27

From The Old New Thing:

Recall that the library search path searches directories in the following order:

  1. The directory containing the application EXE.
  2. The system32 directory.
  3. The system directory.
  4. The Windows directory.
  5. The current directory.
  6. The PATH.

Note that the PATH environment variable has a limited length, which can be impacted by the installation programs you use and the Windows versions you use.

To be on the safe side, use 1024 or 1920.

I found various limitations: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Software Development, 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 | Leave a Comment »

Paint.NET v3.5.11 is now available (via: Paint.NET Blog)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/17

Programmers scale: time versus project completeness

Programmers scale: time versus project completeness

I totally agree that Paint.NET is the best free image and photo editor on Windows.

Writing quality software takes time, not only when writing it in spare time like Rick Brewster does. Getting things “right” is a tedious process and often will set you back: just watch the graph on the right.

So I’m not surprised that it took a very long time after the first Paint.NET 4.0 idea in 2008 to get “close” to a release.

And indeed, it looks like Rick has become much closer which will please many people waiting for Paint .NET 4.

I’m really glad with the announcement that Paint.NET v3.5.11 BETA is now available – Paint.NET Discussion & Questions – Paint.NET Forum.

Edit: while writing this, the final Paint.NET v3.5.11 came out.

It paves the way for Paint .NET 4.0 update in the future, and fixes/improves quite a few things.

A few quotes from it:

This is probably not the update you were expecting I need to push out an update to v3.5 in preparation for the eventual release of v4.0 […] releasing a “beta” today […] I’ll be pushing out the Final/RTM in a few days.

The primary goal of this update is preparing for the v4.0 release: v3.5.10 will not be able to offer the v4.0 update, but v3.5.11 will. […]

Here are the changes for this release:

  • Fixed: The Gaussian Blur effect was incorrectly calculating alpha values for non-opaque pixels. (http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/18483-gaussian-blur-mistreats-alpha/)
  • Improved performance of the Sharpen effect by about 25%
  • Improved performance of the Median effect by about 30%
  • Improved performance of the Fragment effect by about 40%
  • Improved performance of the Unfocus effect by about 100%
  • Reduced memory usage when many selection manipulation operations are in the history/undo stack (the undo data is now saved to disk)
  • The built-in updater now supports upgrading to paint.net 4.0 (once it’s available)

There have been rumors floating around that Paint.NET is “dead.” This is not true!

–jeroen

via: Paint.NET Blog | The best free image and photo editor. By Rick Brewster..

Posted in .NET, .NET 3.5, .NET 4.0, Algorithms, Development, Floating point handling, Power User, Software Development, 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 | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

CmdKey.exe can be used to save passwords for MSTSC.exe

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/16

You can use CmdKey.exe to save a username/password combination to be used by MSTSC.exe

CmdKey allows you both to store and delete these credentials.

–jeroen

via: c# – Run mstsc.exe with specified username and password – Stack Overflow.

Posted in Power User, Windows | 4 Comments »

Reminder to self: Unspecified Error in Delphi 2007 on Windows 8 (via: ACMer)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/15

I might need this for some really old stuff, so here is a reminder: Unspecified Error in Delphi 2007 on Windows 8 | ACMer.

It does work on Windows 7: Problem installing Delphi 2007 on Windows 7 64 Bit Enterprise – Stack Overflow.

–jeroen

Posted in Delphi, Delphi 2007, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Mouse Jiggler – MouseJiggle.exe will (virtually) move your mouse cursor so the screen saver does not start

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/12

Ideal to prevent unwanted screen savers: MouseJiggle.exe

  • Required .NET framework 2.0.
  • Commandline parameter -j or –jiggle will autostart it.
  • Works on all Windows versions I tried (including Windows 7 and up)
  • Does not prevent RDP/MSTSC idle detection imposed by the Session Time Limits group policy.

–jeroen

via: Mouse Jiggler – Documentation.

Posted in 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 | Leave a Comment »

Must Read: Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense? – Scott Hanselman

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/10

Scott Hanselman wrote a Must Read post on Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense?

The first comment says it all:

Nuts, maybe marketing should put out more stuff like this. I have looked at Azure in the past and learned more from this post than then reading through all the pages of pricing on the Azure site. Thanks

Be sure to also read the comments, for instance this one, as they cover some more in depth explanation.

–jeroen

via: Penny Pinching in the Cloud: When do Azure Websites make sense? – Scott Hanselman.

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

How to access DSA.msc in windows 7: “Active Directory Users and Computers”

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/02

When you do not have DSA.msc installed in Windows 7, you cannot perform the “Active Directory Users and Computers”, which is a very valuable tool to browse/edit a Windows Active directory.

The How to access DSA.msc in windows 7 explains on how to install it, but when your Windows installation is not allowed to add/remove Windows features, you need to download it the .msu, then install it.

The download depends on your Windows service pack. For Windows 7 SP 1, it is here (it is about 230 megabyte):

Download Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 with SP1 from Official Microsoft Download Center.
You can download both an x86 (32-bit) and x64 (64-bit) version.

–jeroen Install Group Policy and AD Tools on Windows 7.

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Windows XP SP3: fix when .NET updates do not install (error 0x643 / 0x80070643)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/08/01

On an old Windows XP machine srunning SP3, the .NET framework updates provided by MicrosoftUpdate.

One of the affected updates was An update is available for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003: June 2013.

It would throw errors 0x643 (also known as 0x80070643) when installing, even after a clean reboot. Read the rest of this entry »

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

Tunngle – P2P VPN, now would this work over plain HTTP?

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/29

On my research list: Tunngle – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

I hope it works over HTTP, and does not require something like Your Freedom – Bypass firewalls and proxies, stay anonymous.

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Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/22

I always forget this one:

The keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a report-mode (also known as Details mode) list view control to fit the current content width is Ctrl+Num+. That’s the + key on the numeric keypad.

–jeroen

via Keyboard shortcut for resizing all columns in a listview control to fit – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

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