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Accessing Mac Hard Drives from Windows 7/8: Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/07

If you want to read  a Mac HFS+ formatted disk from Windows 7/8 then you can use the Boot Camp Support Software 5.0.5033.

It is a large download (about half a gigabyte, uncompressed 800+ megabyte) of which you need only this file:

  • BootCamp5.0.5033.zip\BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\BootCamp.msi

When you want to write HFS+, then MacDrive works fine and has a 5-day fully functional trial (so you can verify really large files transfer fine).

The other way around is built in, but not enabled by default. To have a Mac read and write NTFS volumes, you have to edit your /etc/fstab file as explained in will mountain lion read/write to an…: Apple Support Communities to which I added some hyperlinks. Note there are also NTFSFree and OSXFuse (which is the successor of MacFuse). Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Apple, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: , , | 1 Comment »

Outlook + Outlook express: email received from Outlook sender does not have any attachment in Outlook Express

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/03

A friend of mine uses Outlook Express because that has been with Windows since very early on, and before that with Internet Explorer from version 4 till version 6.

He is the kind of person that does use a computer, but doesn’t like change. No wonder, as he is well into the retirement age and the systems he has used in the past all lasted for a very long time.

So it is going to be a big change for him when he needs to upgrade from Windows XP – that he used for over 10 years – to something else. Probably more on that in a later stage (if Windows Live Mail exists by then).

Back to the problem at hand: he couldn’t see attachments from certain Outlook users, though those users insisted .

I hadn’t used Outlook nor Outlook Express for a long while but it was fairly easy to track down the cause by viewing the message source in either of these two ways:

As soon as you see the full message source, there is a ms-tnef encoded Winmail.dat attachment in the affected messages. You find it by searching for a line that starts with “begin” followed by 2 spaces, “666” or “664” (it is one of the means to fake UUencoded attachments and hide text from Outlook Express).

Winmail.dat is known to cause all sorts of problems, even the NY Times devoted an article about it. It basically encapsulates the content of a message including any attachments into RTF: a Microsoft proprietary – but documented – standard of encoding formatted text.

Outlook Express does not cope with Winmail.dat well: it is a typical example of the one hand doesn’t know what the other is doing.

The “trick” is to configure Outlook for using HTML to format text (or use plain text without formatting) instead of RTF. You can do this either globally, or per recipient in the address book:

So when you use Outlook Express, ask the sender not to use RTF.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 2 Comments »

rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client (open source, runs on X, hosted on sf.net)

Posted by jpluimers on 2014/01/02

Very interesting, especially since rdesktop.org works with Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 as well, and is stable on x64.

It provides three tools: rdesktop, rdpproxy and seamlessrdp.

Researching this, I also found about TSWindowClipper which allows you to seamlessly integrates remote apps on your client by integrating a DLL inside the MSTSC software using the official virtual channels.

Back to rdesktop: I really wish the documentation was better, but it contains some very interesting source code.

rdesktop is an open source client for Windows Remote Desktop Services, capable of natively speaking Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in order to present the user’s Windows desktop. rdesktop is known to work with Windows versions such as NT 4 Terminal Server, 2000, XP, 2003, 2003 R2, Vista, 2008, 7, and 2008 R2.

rdesktop currently runs on most UNIX based platforms with the X Window System, and other ports should be fairly straightforward.

rdesktop is released under the GNU Public Licence (GPL), version 3. Please send feedback, bug reports and patches to the appropriate mailing list. Patches can also be submitted to the SF patch tracker.

rdesktop is a project. See the Sourceforge rdesktop project info and the Wiki for more information.

Status

The latest stable version of rdesktop is 1.7.1 (edit: this was at the time of writing, for the current latest, check here). This versions solves major issues with 64bit version and smartcard support among a few minor fixes.

–jeroen

via rdesktop: A Remote Desktop Protocol client.

Posted in *nix, Development, Linux, Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Software Development, SuSE Linux, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Retina MacBook Pro: with VMware Fusion 5: setting resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (via: Ask Different)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/27

(Originally scheduled for 20130930, so it made it to the Missed Schedule list as well)

On my research list, as I want to do this in Windows 7 as well as windows 8: retina macbook pro – Resolution 2880 x 1800 not available in Windows 8 (VMware Fusion 5) – Ask Different.

–jeroen

Posted in Apple, Fusion, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Pro, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, VMware, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands (via: Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/24

For my own reference, especially since setting the network profile in Windows 8 from the UI got much more difficult.

It is doable though, but not in logic places; I like the secpol.msc way most: windows 8 – How do I set my wireless network to be private instead of public? – Super User.
Same for renaming the network, which also has a secpol.msc way that is easy:

  1. Press Win+R, then type secpol.msc
  2. Click on “Network List Manager Policies”
  3. Double-click on your network
  4. Optionally give your network another name
  5. Click on “Tab Network Location”
  6. Set “Location Type” to “Private”

Go back to Network and Sharing Center to check the result.

To start the Network and Sharing Center:

control.exe /name Microsoft.NetworkAndSharingCenter

Top 10: Windows Firewall Netsh Commands | Windows Server content from Windows IT Pro.

including:

  • Checking if the current profile is set to private/public/domain:

netsh advfirewall show currentprofile

Posted in Network-and-equipment, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

Link Shell Extension: for hardlinks, junctions, volume mount points, etc.

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/20

Interesting as a complement to fsutil and mklink and FindLinks and Junction: Link Shell Extension and ln.exe.

It allows you to create and maintain “Hardlinks, Junctions , Volume Mountpoints , and Windows7/8’s Symbolic Links, (herein referred to collectively as Links) a folder cloning process” and more.

Note that Link Shell Extensions require NTFS5 or higher (NTFS.sys version 5, which corresponds with NTFS v3.1)

–jeroen

via: Link Shell Extension.

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 »

Error 13EC when installing The .NET Framework 4.5.1 means you need to free more disk space. 3GB that is.

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/15

Recently I had Windows Update giving me a 13EC error when installing KB2858725: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 that got release lated last November on various virtual machine systems.

It appears that a lot more people suffer from the Windows Update 13EC issue, and most of them have to to with .NET 4, .NET 4.5 and .NET 4.5.1.

Running many virtual machine systems on an SSD based host machine, so I’m always pressed with disk space (hence cleaning the various temporary files directories often). I wasn’t glad with Windows 8 update KB 2821895

Note there are some Microsoft tips to make the size of the C:\Windows\WinSxS smaller, but those still do not remove the Reserve.tmp file.

My conclusion is that various Microsoft updates now require 3 gigabytes of disk space.

This seems to be the case with the .NET Framework 4.5.1 KB 2858725 update, and probably more future updates. I tried installing the KB 2858725 update with slightly less than 3 gigabytes of space (and after the 3 gigabyte reserve.tmp appeared), and I was still getting error 13EC. But with slightly more than 3 gigabyte the update would install.

Like usual, the Windows Update help on Error 13EC is useless, see the below screenshot.

–jeroen

via: The .NET Framework 4.5.1 and its corresponding language packs are available on Windows Update.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Tagged: , , | 15 Comments »

When your 2nd (touch) screen “clicks” on your 1st (non-touch) screen (Windows 7 tip,via André Mussche – Google+)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/12/13

Glad I found back this G+ post by André Mussche:

20130206, 09:12 –  Public

TIP: I got a 2nd screen with touch (on Win7), however default when touching the second screen it “clicks” on the main (1st) screen. Using “Tablet PC Settings” I got this switched to the correct 2nd screen.

http://ava.co.uk/support/faq/general/touch-screen-show-as-not-supporting-touch-how-to-install-a-2nd-touch-screen-on-windows-7.aspx

I had exactly the same problem, and this solved it.

–jeroen

via: André Mussche – Google+ – TIP: I got a 2nd screen with touch (on Win7), however….

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Windows Vista/7/8 and up: setting the user environment variables as regular user (non-administrator)

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/10/14

As a non-administrator, as of Windows Vista, you are not allowed to change the environment variables the regular way.

Various people have quoted the official Microsoft way of changing the environment variables as a regular user on Windows Vista and up (including Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows Server 2008 and up).

It means going through the account settings doing half a dozen steps or so.

Quickest way however is to put this in a batch file to set/edit those environment variables like PATH:

"C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe" sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables

Whereas for the full sysdm.cpl you need Administrator privileges, you don’t for this specific rundll32 call.

The cool thing is that Windows will automatically merge the user and system environment PATH in this format:

system-PATH;user-PATH

–jeroen

via: How can I set user environmental variables such as PATH from a non-administrator account on Windows 7 – Super User.

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »

Speedup Youtube Playback: Watch Lectures In Half The Time with YouTube’s HTML5 Player

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/09/13

I wish I had kept an eye on it after it was announced (which was 3.5 years ago, but not very stable): The Youtube HTML5 viewer trial.

It has come a long way since then. Full screen it is still not as good as the official one, but the main attraction introduced since is: configurable playback speed!

Yes, you can choose playback at 25%, 50%, 100%, 150% or 200% of the original speed. Ideal for lectures or watching replays of conference sessions.

Quote from the life hacker post LifeHacker on this:

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Posted in Apple, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, Opera, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8 | Leave a Comment »

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