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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/17
This post summarises it nicely: [Wayback/Archive.is] Push a solid colored background to a Windows Server 2012 or later | Tidbits of Information from Virot.
I already knew about the one below, but the post above gives a more complete picture with:
These I already knew:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Colors” Background.HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop” Wallpaper.–jeroen
Posted in Agile, Color (software development), Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/13
RegJump.exe is really cool, and has already there for more than a year (:
This little command-line applet takes a registry path and makes Regedit open to that path. It accepts root keys in standard (e.g.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and abbreviated form (e.g.HKLM).usage: regjump <<path>|-c> -c Copy path from clipboard. e.g.: regjump HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
–jeroen
via: RegJump.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, 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 Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/11
Sometimes you want to run a batch file from a Task Scheduler task. For that, the user under which the task runs needs to Logon as a batch job right. If it hasn’t, you get this nice error message:
“This task requires that the user account specified has log on as batch job rights”.
Despite being part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools, you can still use ntrights in more modern Windows versions to grant or revoke this right.
As ntrights uses a hard to remember SeBatchLogonRight name for it and I tend to forget the ntrights syntax, I wrote two batch files to grant or revoke the Logon as Batch Job rights for the specified user:
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/03/25
Apart from the obvious “use less tables” and “break tables apart”, these can also help big time:
If it is still too slow, I might look into these:
–jeroen
Posted in Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Office, Office 2007, Office 2010, Office 2013, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Word | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/01/04
Bad bad TaskMgr: showing less information than before.
Many people regard the task manager introduced in Windows 8 not as a big success. Of course there is Process Explorer, but you need to download that and it’s quite heavy.
A long thread with a lot of complaints is at The new Task Manager is stressing me like crazy, so if you miss something, look there if it is covered.
The thread also mentions where the TaskMgr stores its settings. Which is important as TaskMgr destroys its in-memory settings when windows auto-update restarts your system. Which it does very often. This is the scenario:
What Microsoft expects to be the normal scenario is this:
This also happens in many other scenarios (for instance when logging off, Windows only waits a short while for all applications to stop voluntarily, then just kills them).
This queries the content:
reg query HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TaskManager
This saves the settings once:
reg export HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TaskManager "%APPDATA%\TaskMgr8.settings"
This imports when needed:
reg import "%APPDATA%\TaskMgr8.settings"
Note that the files is a traditional .reg file, but I use a different extension to you cannot accidentally import them.
If you really want, you can install the Windows 7 TaskMgr and have it act as Debugger over the new one (this doesn’t overwrite it, just replace the behaviour) with a registry script. See How to restore the good old Task Manager in Windows 8
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/12/11
I will need this one day when doing some migration of jobs written as cmd scripts that are now ran occasionally by end-users into a scheduled fashion.
–jeroen
via: “Logon as batch job” script – Google Search
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/11/24
A while ago, I had this error on BitBucket:
Running git.exe with arguments "fetch --prune" failed with return code 128 and error output: "fatal: unable to access 'https://%account%@bitbucket.org/%user%/%repository%.git/': Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443
A quick search for “Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to bitbucket.org:443” pointed me to a comment by Ludwik Trammer on an answer by Jordfräs:
I resolved the issue by upgrading from git 1.8 to git 2.0.
Which reminded me this was a Windows system, where there is no package manager that verifies how far your non-system software is behind.
One day, I will write a script that finds out about the git version history and inform me of major/minor versions I’ve skipped.
Some notes for that:
Probably I will need to do something similar for Mercurial/hg in the future as well.
–jeroen
via: git – Unknown SSL protocol error in connection – Stack Overflow
Posted in Development, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, git, Power User, Software Development, Source Code Management, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/26
I just made this little batch file to start the dialog that allows changing the Windows Profile type:
"%windir%\system32\rundll32.exe" sysdm.cpl,EditUserProfiles
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2015/10/09
When you’re not a frequent iTunes user, and recycle computer systems, then every once in a while you will get you in to a situation where you have Music on your iPod, but not on your PC any more.
Whereas iTunes is great at putting music on an iPod, it cannot get it back.
There are numerous paid tools to get the music from your iPod, but doing it manually is not that hard. Below are a few links to get you started, but they all come down to this:
The steps to copy them back
Music and Music/F* folders inside it using this chflags trick from Unhiding Unix Directories | Apple Support Communities:
chflags nohidden Musicchflags nohidden Music/F*Some links explaining this in more detail:
–jeroen
Posted in Apple, iPod, iTunes, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, MacBook, MacBook Retina, MacBook-Air, MacBook-Pro, MacMini, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9 | 2 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/08/06
For a long time, I’ve persuading people to install English versions of their operating systems (especially on server side) at least for some parts of their environment.
The main reason is that searching for English error messages gives you a much bigger chance of finding the cause than non-English ones.
I’m still standing by that recommendation, but life has become a bit easier because of these two sites that offer quite good translations of Windows Error messages in many languages to English:
I like the latter a bit more because of the overview, but the former more because of the catalog.
The way I landed there was because of a search for “Cannot SetData on a frozen OLE data object” which I bumped into for one of my C# .NET projects.
–jeroen
Posted in .NET, C#, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
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