A few tools for mounting ISO CD/DVD images:
- Daemon tools
- Slysoft Virtual Clone Drive
- MagidISOs MagicDisc
- WinCDEmu
- Pismo File Mount
- Gizmo Drive
- Microsoft Virtual ISO CD-ROM (works on Vista and newer with some gotchas)
–jeroen
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ISO CD/DVD image mounting tools for Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/11
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ClipName from the PC TimeWatch people – Freeware
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/18
Every once in a while I need to copy a bunch of filenames to the clipboard.
This is where the freeware tool [WayBack] ClipName comes in action: it can copy them in various formats (and works much better than the similar [WayBack] ClipPath, which can only copy them as CSV)
Quote from the ClipName page:
ClipName is also a Context Menu extension copying the full pathname of the right-clicked file to the clipboard. This new version supports copy of multiple filenames either as a space separated list or as a CRLF separated list. DOS filenames (8.3) can now also be copied as well as the URL encoded name and the UNC name for remote files. Clipname supports a Copy command for filenames without including any path, URL Encoding for multiple selections and style encoding for Microsoft Word, Microsoft OneNote,… A version running under Windows Vista 64-bit is now available. It also allows to copy the UNC name for local files and folders. Version 1.3 adds the capability of copying the target URL for Internet Shortcuts from Windows Explorer and from within the IE Favorites bar.
It comes both in 32-bit x86, and in x64 versions.
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Increasing your Windows XP NTFS disk size under VMware Workstation 7
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/11
Searching how to increase your Windows XP NTFS partitions of Virtual Machines running under VMware Workstation 7 gets you a truckload of links trying to get you to do all sorts of command-line like vmware-vdiskmanager and such.
That was indeed the case up till VMware Workstation 6.5, but from version 7 on, it has become much easier.
But the links with difficult steps keep appearing at the top of the search queries.
Hence this blog entry: increasing the NTFS partition size in a Windows VM is easy!
The increase is a two step process:
- In VMware Workstation, increase the size of the physical disk
- Increase the NTFS partion on that physical disk
Step 1 has become much easier since VMware Workstation version 7, you can do it from within VMware Workstation now.
Dinesh describes this small process very well in his Expand Disk in VMware Workstation 7 blog post. Read the rest of this entry »
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How to disable Chrome PDF Viewer in Google Chrome and reenable the Acrobat Reader plugin
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/02/07
Google Chrome integrated a PDF viewer that is far less functional than Adobe Reader.
In fact: if you had Adobe Reader as PDF viewer, Google Chrome will just use their own.
One of the things I use a lot is the multi-page view (2 page next to each other; fits nicely on a 1920×1200 screen).
It is actually pretty easy to switch back: Read the rest of this entry »
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batch file scripts to get current date and current time in sortable ISO 8601 format
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/01/10
ISO 8601 is a great format for date and time (and combined) values.
It allows for both interchange of information, and ease of sorting values.
Recently, I had to create some backup and logging scripts for a 3rd party turn-key installation at a client.
You know: the kind of installation where the 3rd party manages to break their own scripts, but at the mean time close the system so much, that you cannot do anything but standard batch-file scripts.
The system runs partially on a Workstation that is based on a Dutch version of Windows XP, and a server that runs an English version of Windows Server 2008.
Recipe for some twiddling in order to keep the scripts working on both systems, and not to get bitten by localization.
This answer to a StackOverflow question got me a nice head-start: it was said to work in both the English and Portugese versions of Windows.
This post is the process to get correctly function batch-files towards the end of the post.
Of course, we Dutch are persistent enough to have yet different output for the %date% pseudo variable and the date and date /t commands.
The same holds for the %time% pseudo variable and the time and time /t commands.
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Windows XP: changing the HAL to support multiple cores (actually: two CPUs)
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/10/14
A while ago, I moved a single CPU Windows XP VM from VMware Workstation to ESXi 4.1 using the standalone VMware vCenter converter.
In ESXi, I increased the CPU count from 1 to 2, and wanting to to for 4 (since I had been running Windows on a quadcore CPU before).
Well, that turned out to be harder than I thought… Read the rest of this entry »
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Windows filename search replacement: Everything
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/13
When searching for files, I almost exclusively search for filenames.
This becomes easier when naming files carefully (like “20100525 – PSO – KONING en HARTMAN – Windows Embedded Standard 7 Seminar – WES7.pdf”, “The Delphi Developers Guide to C#.zip”, “20090226-Jeroen-Pluimers-BASTA-Shoot-M-Up” or “bo.Windows.Forms.SendPololuCommands.csproj”).
I know those filenames are long, and sometimes you bump into tools that suffer from MAX_PATH pathname length issues, but most built-in Windows functionality is OK with this, and the quality tools are too.
Finding files that I know is crucial for me, regardless of the file attributes (hidden, system, et cetera) or filename extension. Read the rest of this entry »
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batch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com)
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/01
From a batch-file I recently had to start Windows Explorer, at the same time select a specific file or directory.
This turned out pretty easy: use the /select command-line switch from Windows Explorer.
In fact, Windows Explorer has a few command-line switches, and the “explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com query will find quite a few topics about it: Read the rest of this entry »
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StarTeam 2005 on Windows 2003 Server using MSDE: service dependencies
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/24
Recently, I had to restore StarTeam 2005 on a Windows 2003 Server.
An out-of-the-box install using MSDE 2000 does not want to run as a service.
This post shows you how I solved that problem. Read the rest of this entry »
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RDP to VMware host running an XP guest: Invisible Mouse Cursor on Text Editors
Posted by jpluimers on 2010/08/06
Scenario is this;
- RDP into a host running VMware
- Use the VMware client to run XP as guest
- Hover the mouse over a text editor
- The mouse cursor becomes invisible
I have seen it happen under these circumstances: Read the rest of this entry »
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