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Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/27
Regression tests are useful, especially before release.
Clearly someone forgot to regression test the Issue 47714 – chromium – maximize bug while loading webpage on windows 7, as after a while of absence, Chrome 12 reintroduced this issue (it is present in all versions of Chrome 12 I tested, until at least 12.0.742.100).
Workarounds:
–jeroen
Posted in Chrome, Power User, Web Browsers, Windows, Windows 7 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/06/16
Sometimes when you want to release a network drive you get an error message that something still uses it:
C:\>net use h: /d
The device is being accessed by an active process.
More help is available by typing NET HELPMSG 2404.
Finding out about that something is the trick.
Luckily, Process Explorer allows you to search for handles pointing to resources that start with \device\lanmanredirector, as ASK-LEO explains.
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/27
Sometimes you want to know the Windows Version and Service Pack number.
A GUI version is very simple: run winver.exe, it will give you dialogs like these ad the Microsoft Knowledge Base article 310104 explains.
A console version can be done in several different ways:
–jeroen
via: [WayBack] windows command line: can I tell Service pack number? – Super User.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/13
It looks like when you install Windows Media Player in Window 7, it will expose your media library for DLNA access by default for any user that chooses “quick” settings.
This even when you have not turned on media streaming, or not enabled the “Automatically allow devices to play my media” (this link has some screenshots on those settings).
I know few users who go the whole nine yards around those “quick” settings, so pretty much any Windows 7 user has their media library exposed as DLNA in your Home or Work networks (DLNA seems disabled on Public networks by default).
This is both a pollution of your DLNA space (for instance making it more difficult from your digital TV to to select the correct DLNA source), and an exposure. Any malware in your network might so some discovery (and yes, truckloads of PC’s in Work or Home networks have such malware running).
Though searching for “Winodws 7” “Disable DLNA” returns few good results, the actual trick is easy:
–jeroen
via: Media Streaming with Windows 7 – Engineering Windows 7 – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
Posted in Power User, Windows 7 | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/05/02
Most external USB HDDs you buy are way bigger than 32 gigabyte, and factory formatted with NTFS.
Nowadays, many devices (TVs, modems, routers, etc) support attaching HDDs, but not all of them support NTFS, but most of them support FAT32.
My brother has such a TV. He has mental retardation (they have euphemisms for that; he basically has an IQ < 50, which in his means he can live on his own but needs daily visits from people that help him with the more complex things in life).
I’m his legal guardian (Dutch: curator), so my wife and me take care of some of those things.
This included getting his TV to recognize a USB HDD so he can watch his favourite TV series I recorded for him (Knight Rider, Top Gear, etc).
Windows NT and beyond cannot format FAT32 in an easy way.
They can from the commandline using the format command: use FOMAT X: /FS:FAT32 for that, it is slow and as soon as you add the /Q parameter to speed things up, it imposes the 32 gigabyte limit.
Microsoft suggests botting Windows 98 or Windows Me, but those have too many limitations (lack of USB support, no 48-bit LBA, imposing 137 gigabyte HDD limit, etc).
Luckily, Ridgecrop Consultants Ltd has a FAT32FORMAT tool and accompanying GUI wrapper. They format any HDD using FAT32. Their tools work at least in Windows XP and up (I haven’t tested Windows 2000 and NT 4).
Problem solved: my brother can happily watch his favourite TV series I recorded for him :)
–jeroen
Posted in About, Personal, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/29
I’m hesitating to install Windows 7 SP1 on my development machines.
I do use the MUI language packs, and people doing that get BSODs after installing SP1.
Michael S. Kaplan (one of Microsoft’s nicest i18n people), wrote it like this: Lack of confidence in a feature can keep me from installing it. Oh yeah, a BSOD can, too (in a reaction to Why am I receiving “Error C000009A” after installing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1)?)
Two weeks ago, I had two co-workers that got a C00000034 too on difference machines; those could be resolved (not to complete satisfaction, but they could work) and cost a couple of hours work.
Opinions, anyone?
–jeroen
Posted in Opinions, Power User, Windows, Windows 7 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/18
This is how you view the underline character for Alt and other keyboard shortcuts in Windows 7 (the link shows you how to do this with the mouse, but we are keyboard lovers, are’t we?):
Done!
So far for accessibility (:
–jeroen
via: Underline keyboard shortcuts and access keys.
Posted in Keyboards and Keyboard Shortcuts, Power User, Windows, Windows 7 | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2011/03/11
A few tools for mounting ISO CD/DVD images:
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 2 Comments »
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.
–jeroen
via
Posted in Clipboard, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 2 Comments »
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:
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 »
Posted in *nix, Power User, VMware, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
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