Archive for the ‘Windows 7’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/17
Sometimes I get messages like the below No Disk error on virtual machines, mainly in Windows XP and lower, but sometimes in more recent Windows versions too.
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Windows - No Disk
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Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf7c 4 75b6bf7c 75b6bf7c
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Cancel Try Again Continue
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The 0xc0000013 is a No Disk Exception.
Every time the solution has been to uninstall the floppy drive device from the VM image.
I never had it on physical hardware, but for that, disabling all unused removable and USB disk devices seem to work.
Somehow, lots of software thinks it should scan ALL media, even the removable ones that might not have media inserted.
–jeroen
via: A Consuming Experience: Windows – no disk Exception Processing Message c0000013 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf9c 75b6bf9c – fixed!.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/05/08
Lucida Console Sample (thanks Wikimedia!)
I’m in search to see if there is a better programmers font than the monospaced Lucida Console mainly to be used in Visual Studio, Delphi, the Windows console, Xcode and Eclipse. What I love about Lucida Console design is the relatively large x-height combined with a small leading (often called “line height”). This combines very readable text, and a lot of code lines in view. Lucida has two small drawbacks, see the second image at the right:
- The captial O and digit 0 (zero) are very similar.
- Some uppercase/lowercase character pairs are alike (because of the large x-height)
But, since the font hasn’t been updated for a very long time, lots of Unicode code points that are now in current fonts, are missing from Lucida Console (unless you buy the [Wayback] most recent version that has 666 characters from Fonts.com) Well, there are dozens of monospaced fonts around, so I wonder: which ones do you like? In the mean while, I’m going to do some experimenting with fonts mentioned in these lists:
A few fonts I’m considering (I only want scalable fonts, so raster .fon files are out):
I have tried Adobe Source Code Pro about half a year ago. That didn’t cut it: problem with italics in Delphi, and not enough lines per screen. [Wayback] New Open Source monospaced font from Adobe: Source Code Pro.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, Adobe Source Code Pro, Apple, Delphi, Delphi 2007, Delphi XE3, Development, Encoding, Font, Lucida Console, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Power User, Programmers Font, Software Development, Typography, Unicode, Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows XP, xCode/Mac/iPad/iPhone/iOS/cocoa | 43 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/29
This works for Windows XP and Windows Vista too:
Wolfie2k6
Just tested out installing a few T1 fonts. There are two general rules for how to do this.
- Drag/drop both the PFM and PFB files (the INF and AFM files aren’t important nor needed) to C:\Windows\Fonts
- Open each font by clicking on the PFM and clicking the Install button at the top of the font preview window.
#2 is slower, but it works as well as any other with any font type that Windows 7 supports:
Note: If you drag/drop Type 1 fonts (PFB/PFM) to the Windows\Fonts folder, Windows 7 may complain when copying the PFB saying that it’s missing the PFM and that you should install using the PFM.
Either way – both methods work tho #2 is preferred when dealing with a T1 font.
–jeroen
via: Type 1 fonts and Windows 7.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/26
Found a while ago that Brian Long wrote a few nice pages and posts on Windows keyboard shortcuts:
Thanks Brian
–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 | Tagged: blong, jeroen, software, technology, windows keyboard shortcuts, windows shortcuts | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/19
PSUBST:
Associates a path with a drive letter and extends the standard SUBST command allowing to create persistent substituted drives between startups.
It is the “maintained” version of scripts like these:
–jeroen
via: psubst – Persistent SUBST command – Google Project Hosting.
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 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/05
Interesting answer on SO, not only for developers:
You can check out the wavesurfer program:
WaveSurfer is an Open Source tool for sound visualization and manipulation. It has been designed to suit both novice and advanced users. WaveSurfer has a simple and logical user interface that provides functionality in an intuitive way and which can be adapted to different tasks. It can be used as a stand-alone tool for a wide range of tasks in speech research and education. Typical applications are speech/sound analysis and sound annotation/transcription. WaveSurfer can also serve as a platform for more advanced/specialized applications. This is accomplished either through extending the WaveSurfer application with new custom plug-ins or by embedding WaveSurfer visualization components in other applications.
It can perform many different types of analysis, I have only used it for practicing Chinese tone pronunciation.
Thanks hlovdal!
–jeroen
via delphi – component or code for wave analyzer – Stack Overflow.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/25
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/18
Thanks to Joe Klemencic, TSListUsers is a great little console tool that shows you the currently logged on users and which session they use:
List Terminal Services Users
TSListUsers is a command line utility to list both the currently connected and disconnected users, hostname, IP address and RDP session number on either the local or a remote Windows Terminal Server/RDP Server
To list the users, you need to have the following abilities:
- NetBios access to the server
- Permissions allowing you to Query RDP session information (if you can log into the TS, you should have this by default)
- Terminal Services/RDP should be running on the target host
Usage:
TSListUsers.exe /? to get the Help text
TSListUsers.exe to query a target Terminal Server
TSListUsers.exe with no paramters to query the local host
You can download TSListUsers from here.
Example output of remote session:
C:\Windows>TSListUsers.exe
Active Connections:
Username, HostName(IP), SessID, RDP-Port
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jeroenp, W701UJPL (192.168.71.34), 2, RDP-Tcp#92
Disconnected Connections:
Username, HostName, SessID
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Example output of local session:
C:\Windows>TSListUsers.exe
Active Connections:
Username, HostName(IP), SessID, RDP-Port
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jeroenp, 1, Console
Disconnected Connections:
Username, HostName, SessID
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–jeroen
via List Terminal Services Users.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/15
First a warning: when you have found the process holding open a file, and you want to forcibly close the handle, read this post why you should not: Windows Confidential: Forcing Handles Closed.
In fact:
if you forcibly need to close a handle to salvage something, you should reboot shortly afterwards.
Back to the question at hand:
One thing that annoys me no end about Windows is the old “sharing violation” error. Often you can’t identify what’s holding it open. Usually it’s just an editor or explorer just pointing to a relevant directory but sometimes I’ve had to resort to rebooting my machine.
Any suggestions on how to find the culprit?
All of the below solutions require you to run with Administrative privileges.
On current Windows versions, if you run them without UAC elevation, they will miss a lot of processes. And still: under some secured environments you won’t see all processes anyway.
My preferred answer is not on the list:
Quit the application that holds the handle
All the tools that show you the handles will indicate which process holds the handle.
Often, you can just quit that process, do your job on the affected file, then relaunch that process.
When the process is Explorer, there is a neat little trick that works for Windows Vista and up:
For explorer, btw, hold ctrl-shift and right-click a blank area of the start menu, and you’ll get “Exit Explorer” – ps, not quite Jeff’s answer.. – Mark Sowul
Another answer I like is to use Handle, as it is both a command-line tool, and allows for wildcard searching: Read the rest of this entry »
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