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Archive for the ‘Windows 8’ Category

Windows Metro Style Apps Developer Downloads: very early version of Windows 8

Posted by jpluimers on 2011/09/14

The download page states

The Windows Developer Preview is a pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers.

But of course this is also interesting to designers and regular users: getting a hands-on impression of what Metro will bring to Windows 8.

–jeroen

via: Windows Metro Style Apps Developer Downloads.

Posted in .NET, Delphi, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 8 | 2 Comments »

batch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com)

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/09/01

From a batch-file I recently had to start Windows Explorer, at the same time select a specific file or directory.

This turned out pretty easy: use the /select command-line switch from Windows Explorer.

In fact, Windows Explorer has a few command-line switches, and the “explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com query will find quite a few topics about it: Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »

Windows 7/Vista: How to access Administrative Shares (C$, IPC$, …) via PaulSpoerry.com

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/05/13

A while after installing a new copy of Vista or Windows 7, I usually want to be able to access the administrative shares (like C$, Admin$, IPC$, etc).

On Windows 7 and Vista, those are by default not enabled.

To enable them, import this enable-windows-7-vista-server-2008-administrative-shares.reg file into the registry:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy"=dword:00000001

You need to reboot your system once after this registry change.

Or from a batch file as Administrator:

reg add "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System" /v "LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy" /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Later I name the files like this:

enable.windows-vista-and-up.administrative-shares.bat
enable.windows-vista-and-up.administrative-shares.reg

–jeroen

via [WayBack] How to access Administrative Shares on Vista C$ | PaulSpoerry.com

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

Windows 7 has lots of ‘GodModes’ (exclusive) | Beyond Binary – CNET News

Posted by jpluimers on 2010/01/14

Some more GodModes in Windows 7.
Note that some might work in Vista too, but note that Vista-64 users have problems with the original ‘GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}‘ folder name (in fact any name before the dot will work: ‘Thor.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}‘ is fine too.

You can also run ‘explorer shell:::{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}‘ from the command-line or from a batch file (like thor.bat).

Via:

–jeroen

Posted in GodMode, Pingback, Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »