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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/15
taskkill /f /im explorer.exe
del %LOCALAPPDATA%\IconCache.db /a
start explorer
Source: Inno Setup: Program Folder not showing up In Start > All Programs. I’ve been… (A Google+ post not archived in the WayBack machine)
It will kill explorer.exe, delete the IconCache.db, then starts explorer which will rebuild IconCache.db.
–jeroen
Posted in Development, InnoSetup, Installer-Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/26
I just made this little batch file to start the dialog that allows changing the Windows Profile type:
"%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe" sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/09
When you’re not a frequent iTunes user, and recycle computer systems, then every once in a while you will get you in to a situation where you have Music on your iPod, but not on your PC any more.
Whereas iTunes is great at putting music on an iPod, it cannot get it back.
There are numerous paid tools to get the music from your iPod, but doing it manually is not that hard. Below are a few links to get you started, but they all come down to this:
The steps to copy them back
Music and Music/F* folders inside it using this chflags trick from Unhiding Unix Directories | Apple Support Communities:
chflags nohidden Musicchflags nohidden Music/F*Some links explaining this in more detail:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/02
This applies to at least these versions when you run them under at least VMware Fusion or Workstation:
Often this folder get huge: %windir%\Logs\CBS (normally C:\Windows\Logs\CBS)
I’ve successfully compressed the content, but even though it is text, they don’t compress that well.
Some reports indicate you can safely delete them when there is nothing wrong with your system nor with Windows Update:
So that’s what I’m going to try next.
Later: done the below on an UAC (Administrator) command prompt.
Cleanup CBS via [WayBack] Gin answering at [WayBack] windows 8 – Why is CBS.log file size 20 GB – Super User::
net stop TrustedInstaller
del %windir%\Logs\CBS\CBSPersist*.*
net start TrustedInstaller
Then I did this to cleanup the C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb file via [WayBack] Gin at [WayBack] windows 8 – Why is CBS.log file size 20 GB – Super User:
net stop wuauserv
net stop bits
esentutl.exe /d %windir%\SoftwareDistribution\DataStore\DataStore.edb
CleanMgr
reboot
The reboot will restart the stopped services.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/21
A while ago I asked compression – How to automate Adobe Acrobat XI Standard to re-compress a lot of PDFs? – Super User.
Back then it saved about 80% of the total file size. Very substantial.
Recently I needed to convert another (smaller, but still substantial) bunch of PDF documents and saw I forgot to post the solution here:
Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Adobe, Adobe Acrobat, Everything by VoidTools, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/09/18
Thanks to the answer by Kevin Richardson on How to open ports on Windows firewall through batch file, I wrote this batch file that uses the add command of the Netsh AdvFirewall Firewall Commands which requires Admin privileges to run:
| :: open port (first argument passed to batch script, second argument is description) | |
| :checkPrivileges | |
| net file 1>nul 2>nul | |
| if '%errorlevel%' == '0' ( goto :gotPrivileges ) else ( goto :getPrivileges ) | |
| :isNotAdmin | |
| :getPrivileges | |
| echo You need to be admin running with an elevated security token to run %0 | |
| goto :exit | |
| :isAdmin | |
| :gotPrivileges | |
| netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Open Port %1 for %2" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=%1 | |
| :exit | |
| ::pause | |
| exit /b |
–jeroen
via: How to open ports on Windows firewall through batch file – Stack Overflow
Posted in Firewall, Infrastructure, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/06
For a long time, I’ve persuading people to install English versions of their operating systems (especially on server side) at least for some parts of their environment.
The main reason is that searching for English error messages gives you a much bigger chance of finding the cause than non-English ones.
I’m still standing by that recommendation, but life has become a bit easier because of these two sites that offer quite good translations of Windows Error messages in many languages to English:
I like the latter a bit more because of the overview, but the former more because of the catalog.
The way I landed there was because of a search for “Cannot SetData on a frozen OLE data object” which I bumped into for one of my C# .NET projects.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/31
Thanks to Sebastian Gingter for pointing me at Logparser:
Logparser […] powerful, versatile tool that provides universal query access to text-based data such as log files, XML files and CSV files, as well as key data sources on the Windows operating system such as the Event Log, the Registry, the file system, and Active Directory. The results of the input query can be custom-formatted in text based output, or they can be persisted to more specialty targets like SQL, SYSLOG, or a chart.
Common use:
$ logparser [options] [SQL expression]
–jeroen
via logparser – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Posted in Development, IIS, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/24
Two tricks when creating MSC files that contain the snap-in configuration of the MMC (Management Console).
Normally you do this once:
And then when you need that particular configuration, each time:
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Microsoft Management Console
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Save console settings to [filename].msc?
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Yes No Cancel
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The trick around this last question is:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/07/13
Older Windows versions than 8.x will not correctly expand %APPDATA% or %LOCALAPPDATA% in environment variables: User variables are not resolved correctly in Windows..
This even happens when the registry storage of the environment variables are marked as REG_EXPAND_SZ under these keys:
Basically there are four categories of Windows versions:
–jeroen
via: User variables are not resolved correctly in Windows.
Posted in Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
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