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twm’s blog » Blog Archive » 3.5 gigabyte text file – meet LargeTextViewer

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/16

Cool tool: twm’s blog » Blog Archive » 3.5 gigabyte text file – meet LargeTextViewer.

Posted in Power User, Windows | Leave a Comment »

Map WebDAV Drive tool: works in Windows 8 and Windows 7

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/15

Wow, I wish I had found this tool a lot earlier: Map WebDAV Drive.

–jeroen

via: windows – Mapping a Network Drive with Delphi WITHOUT WNetAddConnection2 – Stack Overflow.

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

How to Set the /3GB Startup Switch in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/08

Hardly needed any more, but since we are migrating some systems away from Windows Server 2003 x86 but before that need to resolve some capacity issues (and need to get PAE working): How to Set the /3GB Startup Switch in Windows.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Disabling the Microsoft Security Essentials service by commandline: MsMpSvc

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/01

There are (rare and offline) occasions where you want to want to stop/start the service that provides Microsoft Security Essentials.

A few notes first:

  • Only do this when you are off-line
  • Be sure to enable the Microsoft Security Essentials by starting its service as soon as possible
  • You need to be Admin (and on Vista and up with UAC using elevated security)

This is how: Read the rest of this entry »

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

START: Start a program, **even if it is not on the PATH** ideal to start various versions of apps from DOS

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29

A while ago, I had to adapt a DOS app that used one specific version of Excel to do some batch processing so it would support multiple versions of Excel on multiple versions of Windows.

One of the big drawbacks of DOS applications is that the command lines you can use are even shorter than Windows applications, which depending you how you call an application are:

This is how the DOS app written in Clipper (those were the days, it was even linked with Blinker :) started Excel:

c:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\excel.exe parameters
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890
          1         2         3         4

The above depends on 8.3 short file names that in turn depend on the order in which similar named files and directories have been created.

The trick around this, and around different locations/versions of an application, is to use START to find the right version of Excel.

The reason it works is because in addition to PATH, it checks the App Paths portions in the registry in this order to find an executable: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Encoding, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Unicode, 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 »

AkelPad Editor: tiny, and functional. Too bad it steals the Alt-letter keyboard shortcuts

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25

Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.

It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.

Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.

Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.

They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.

So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.

–jeroen

Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, 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 »

Microsoft Office Communicator: error message with ID 504 means “you think the other party is on-line, but it is off-line”

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17

Every once in a while, Office Communicator indicates a contact is not off-line and allows me to send messages to him/her, but then gives an error 504.

The reason is that the off-line status replicates slowly, so you were not aware your contact went off-line while typing the message.

The Error ID 504 is just an unfrienly way of saying “your contact went off-line, but you didn’t know that when sending the message, and I don’t have a friendly way of telling you this”.

–jeroen

via: Communicator 2007 R2 Help on Error ID 504.

Posted in Communicator, Office, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Mid 2013: Lenovo IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC supports 10-finger, guesture, multiple-user & 2 hr battery life.

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17

In the past you have seen my interest in multi-touch Windows devices (for instance the Dell’s S2340T 23″ Multi-touch monitor and Microsoft Surface 2.0).

This year a I expect vendors to deliver Windows 8 based computers that resemble a lot of the Microsoft PixelSense (formerly “Microsoft Surface”) technology:

  • 10 or more finger touch
  • guesture support
  • multi-user
  • capability to see more than just fingers (i.e. tags, or mobile controllers)

Lenovo seems the first to announce, with an expected availability in June 2013: IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC, with support for 10-finger, guesture, multiple-user, and two-hour battery life.

–jeroen

Posted in Development, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

in light of the zero-day Java exploits: JRE removal/install tool JavaRa from SingularLabs

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17

Even though the JavaRa tool is Windows-only, it is a tremendous help scraping old vulnerable versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from your systems and keeping only the fixed versions.

Regular JRE installs from Oracle/Sun will keep the old-and-vulnerable JRE versions.

(note that it seems the recent JRE update did not actually fix the vulnerability, just the exploit, and that a new Java vulnerability might already be exploited. Be sure to keep a watch upcoming Java updates for these).

JavaRa

JavaRa is an effective way to deploy, update and remove the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Its most significant feature is the JRE Removal tool; which forcibly deletes files, directories and registry keys associated with the JRE. This can assist in repairing or removing Java when other methods fail.

JavaRa 2.1 (released 20130116) Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Development, Java, 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: , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Some links on using a LSI MegaRAID SAS/SATA 9260-8i controller with BBU using RAID 5/6 in VMware ESXi5

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/14

So I won’t forget:

–jeroen

Posted in ESXi5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, Windows | 1 Comment »

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