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The Evolution of Windows Search | Windows Search Platform

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/01/03

Great post [WayBack] The Evolution of Windows Search | Windows Search Platform, covering some 3 decades of search:

  • 1991 (Cairo with WinFS)
  • 1996 (Windows NT 4.0)
  • 2000 (Windows 2000)
  • 2001 (Windows XP)
  • 2007 (Windows Vista)
  • 2009 (Windows 7)
  • 2012 (Windows 8.x)
  • 2015 (Windows 10)

It is part 1 of a series of 4 posts by [WayBack] Brendan Flynn, Author at Windows Search Platform:

  1. The Evolution of Windows Search  👈  You Are here
  2. Windows Search Configuration and Settings
  3. What’s in my index?
  4. How to make the most of search on Windows

When grabbing them, only the first two parts were available. Part two was about [WayBack] Configuration and Settings | Windows Search Platform with an in depth coverage of both the old style Control Panel applet as the new Windows 10 Settings page.

Via: [Archive.is] Immo Landwerth on Twitter: “If you like Raymond Chen’s The Old New Thing, then you might love this new developer focused blog too. It starts with an interesting history of Windows Search, by @brflynn_ms. Enjoy & subscribe!”

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 8, Windows, Windows Server 2000, Windows 8.1, Windows NT, Windows 10 | Leave a Comment »

Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/09/30

[WayBack] Use the System File Checker tool to repair missing or corrupted system files:

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Posted in Software Development, Development, Power User, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Digging Through Event Log Hell (finding user logon & logoff) – Ars Technica OpenForum

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/31

This helped me big time finding failed logon attempts: [WayBack] Event Log Hell (finding user logon & logoff) – Ars Technica OpenForum

Alternatively, you can use the XPath query mechanism included in the Windows 7 event viewer. In the event viewer, select “Filter Current Log…”, choose the XML tab, tick “Edit query manually”, then copy the following to the textbox:

Code:
<QueryList>
  <Query Id="0" Path="Security">
    <Select Path="Security">*[System[EventID=4624] and EventData[Data[@Name='TargetUserName'] = 'USERNAME']]</Select>
  </Query>
</QueryList>

This selects all events from the Security log with EventID 4624 where the EventData contains a Data node with a Name value of TargetUserName that is equal to USERNAME. Remember to replace USERNAME with the name of the user you’re looking for.

If you need to be even more specific, you can use additional XPath querying – have a look at the detail view of an event and select the XML view to see the data that you are querying into.

Thanks user Hamstro!

Notes:

Related:

–jeroen

Posted in Software Development, Development, XML/XSD, Power User, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 8, Windows, Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows 10 | Leave a Comment »

Windows 10: quickly view Settings -> Printers no matter the installed language

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/23

From Windows 8 on, Microsoft has been pushing more and more stuff to the App UI (sometimes called Immersive User Interface).

By default they are only easily accessible from the search feature from the “Start” button or “Search” pane in the task bar.

This is cumbersome or even problematic when you have to remember the correct terms over many localisations.

In the past you could run this from the command prompt or Windows+R keyboard shortcut “Run” pop-up:

control printers

This does not work however in either of the two:

settings printers

This works from the Windows+R keyboard shortcut “Run” pop-up:

ms-settings:printers

This works from the command prompt:

start ms-settings:printers

The difference is that with control , it will eventually find control.exe on the path, but ms-settings: is the scheme bit of an URI. The start command can handle this, the plain command-line cannot.

What in fact happens is that the URI scheme handler, will have a Windows Service (which runs under NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM) start "C:\Windows\ImmersiveControlPanel\SystemSettings.exe" -ServerName:microsoft.windows.immersivecontrolpanel under your current user.

List of Settings URIs

Next to a List of applications behind the various control panel links – via “Stop user access to control panel”, below is a list of Settings URIs.

The below list is from [WayBack] The list of Settings pages URIs (ms-settings) in Windows 10 , but misses ms-settings:printers.

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The Windows key has no Unicode equivalent, so use ⊞ like Wikipedia and many others do

Posted by jpluimers on 2021/08/23

lFor Mac keyboard keys, almost all (except the old solid and open Apple logo’s) have a Unicode code point, see for instance the modifier keys from the [WayBack] List of Mac/Apple keyboard symbols · GitHub (the “Alt” column has a solid Apple logo in the bottom right; on non-Mac systems it will look differently as it is in the Unicode private range: [WayBack] Unicode Character ” (U+F8FF): ‘<Private Use, Last>’):

Sym Key Alt
⌃ Control
⌥ Option
⇧ Shift
⌘ Command

These are the code points for the “Sym” column:

Keys on many platforms

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