Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/18
Never new that – as an Administrator – you could log off other login sessions in Windows Vista and up through the task manager.
I only knew the Terminal Server way. Using the task manager is way more convenient!
–jeroen
via: Task Manager Users – Log Off a Local User – Vista Forums.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/13
I already knew about WinCDEmu, and recently found out there is a portable version of it too:
Portable WinCDEmu is a special build of WinCDEmu that does not need any installation and can be used out-of-the-box.
Having relied on Daemon tools more recently and Nero ImageDrive in the past (back when Nero 5.5 was a great tool and not the bloatware it has become; Nero ImageDrive has been discontinued since Nero 9).
I will probably switch to WinCDEmu for a new install of my development system: it is extremely light, and now portable too. Better than the ever increasing Daemon tools (of which I don’t use the copy protection features, nor the adware ones).
Unless I find a tool that allows me to mount an NTFS folder as if it was the base for an ISO image (and watches that folder for changes, then remounts the image). That would be tremendously useful in a development environment.
If you don’t know WinCDEmu:
WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator – a tool that allows you to mount optical disc mages by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer
Another tool on the shortlist is ImDisk; this is why:
The ImDisk driver supports forwarding I/O requests to third-party image file format handlers or to services on other computers on the network. This makes it possible to boot a machine with NTFS partitions with a Live-CD and use the included devio tool to let ImDisk on another computer running Windows on the network mount the NTFS partition on the machine with a faulty NTFS partition. This way you can recover information and even run chkdsk on drives on machines where Windows does not boot. There are also instructions about how to use devio under Windows on Claus Valca’s blog.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/06
I’ve seen this happen on various brands of hardware, and various flavours of operating systems:
over time (usually a few days or even weeks of use) suddenly your WiFi connection doesn’t want to connect to some or any of your wireless networks. Most often this happens when you wake up your machine from sleep.
What doesn’t work is flipping the Wireless LAN device off and on using a physical switch.
What usually works for Mac, Windows and even Android is either of these (from least intrusive to most intrusive): Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/30
On the research list (wow, Google Translate is very accurate this time!): Tonido
More and more programs allow users to cut the cord of cloud providers like Google and Dropbox. The Tonido software is suitable for example for users who want to make sensitive customer or patient data accessible on multiple devices without outsourcing it to an external server. “Once you have installed Tonido on your PC and create an account, you can in the local network, but also on the move access to a PC or mobile devices on the complete data set”
Original German text from the mid December 2011 issue of c’t Magazin:
Immer mehr Programme ermöglichen es Anwendern, sich von Cloud-Anbietern wie Google oder Dropbox abzunabeln. Die Software Tonido eignet sich beispielsweise für Nutzer, die sensible Kunden- oder Patientendaten auf mehreren Geräten zugänglich machen wollen – ohne sie auf einen externen Server auszulagern. “Sobald man Tonido auf dem eigenen PC installiert und ein Konto angelegt hat, kann man im lokalen Netz, aber auch von unterwegs mit PC oder Mobilgeräten auf den kompletten Datenbestand zugreifen”
Thanks Noud van Kruysbergen for translating the German c’t article into Dutch.
–jeroen
via: Bei sensiblen Daten lieber eigene Cloud-Lösung – c’t – PresseBox.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/27
About a month ago, NVidia updated their 296 series of WHQL drivers.
Does anyone know if there is a notification mechanism on new releases?
Version 296.88 current as of writing this blog entry (direct download link)
Version: 296.88 WHQL Release Date: 2012.06.13 Operating System: Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit Language: English (U.S.) File Size: 175 MB
–jeroen
via: NVIDIA DRIVERS 296.88WHQL.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/20
It runs on OS X, Windows and Linux:
JAuth is a reference desktop client for the google authenticator. Intended
as an alternative to the iPhone Google Authenticator app and similar.
And it comes with installers in addition to source code.
Interesting.
–jeroen
via: mclamp/JAuth · GitHub.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/16
I love the long lead time between some proposals in the suggestion box and the actual answer. A lot longer than my blog queue (:
I Commenter Adam S wonders why holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager will open a command prompt.Its a rogue feature.
I didn’t even know this was possible. It seems one of the fastest ways to start the console!
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/20
Somehow many software vendors seem to make it a sport to make it hard to get download URLs.
So here is a bunch of direct download URLs for the (almost new <g>) Visual Studio 2012 RC (formerly and internally known as Visual Studio 11).
There are both ISO files (big, but convenient for offline installation).
Web installers (depending on the choose install options, the total download can be a lot less than the complete ISO, but your system needs to be online during the full installation process).
You can find similar Windows 8 Release Preview download links here (they were distilled from the official download page, which now gives a 404 because of the atdmt link redirect is broken).
I use the x64 and x86 shortcuts for the x64 and x86 ISO links.
The Windows 8 Release Preview Upgrade Assistant also comes in handy.
The above links give a sustained transfer rate here of at least 3 megabit/second.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/07
On Windows, the keyboard shortcut [WayBack] Windows-L will lock your workstation and when [WayBack] Fast User Switching is enabled – and when your (corporate) policies allow it – shows your Switch User screen.
First of all, there is [WayBack] TSDISCON (which I found thanks to [WayBack] this thread). It is meant to disconnect a terminal services session, but when you are logged in on the console, it just locks your workstation.
It is small (about 20 kilobyte) and [WayBack] has been there since Windows 2000.
Then there is the [WayBack] LockWorkStation function that does the same.
Lot’s of people think you can call LockWorkStation using rundll32.exe. As per Raymond Chen: [WayBack] (404) Don’t do that: it has a different parameter count and different calling convention than [Archive.is] rundll32.exe expects (note that in Raymond’s article, the last link is broken).
So now you all go upvote [WayBack] the TSDISCON answer and downvote the ruldll32.exe LockWorkStation answers on this [WayBack] SuperUser.com question.
–jeroen
PS: [WayBack] Rob van der Woude published a list of Terminal Server commands including TSDISCON.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
(Thanks to a “Missed Post” problem on WordPress.com, this one didn’t get posted on the scheduled date. Sorry for any inconvenience)
You need to be administrator to see the output of the “net config server” command.
The inbound/outbound limit is 20:
Running ‘net config server’ at the command-line suggests that Windows 7 can support up to 20 inbound / 20 outbound incomplete connections.
–jeroen
via: Inbound TCP connection limit in Windows 7 – Super User.
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