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Type 1 fonts and Windows 7/Vista/XP: 2 ways for installing them

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.

  1. Drag/drop both the PFM and PFB files (the INF and AFM files aren’t important nor needed) to C:\Windows\Fonts
  2. Open each font by clicking on the PFM and clicking the Install button at the top of the font preview window.

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 is preferred when dealing with a T1 font.

–jeroen

via: Type 1 fonts and Windows 7.

Posted in Power User, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Windows 8 and Windows 7 keyboard shortcuts (via: Brian Long, a blong, blong, blong road…)

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: , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

psubst – Persistent SUBST command – Google Project Hosting

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 »

WaveSuffer: tool for sound visualisation and manimpulation

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.

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 | Leave a Comment »

On my research list: mounting FTP or HTTP location as drive in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/04/01

Need to research this if it works for both FTP and HTTP: How can I mount an FTP to a drive letter in windows? – Server Fault.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Why don’t the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show up in the Favorites menu? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/25

Why Internet Explorer does not use these two for showing shortcuts:

  • CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES
  • %ALL­USERS­PROFILE%\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

–jeroen

via: Why don’t the shortcuts I put in the CSIDL_COMMON_FAVORITES folder show up in the Favorites menu? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.

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 | Leave a Comment »

TSListUsers: great little console tool to list Remote Desktop / Terminal Services Users

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
----------------------------------------
jeroenp, W701UJPL (192.168.71.34), 2, RDP-Tcp#92

Disconnected Connections:
Username, HostName, SessID
--------------------------

Example output of local session:

C:\Windows>TSListUsers.exe
Active Connections:
Username, HostName(IP), SessID, RDP-Port
----------------------------------------
jeroenp,  1, Console

Disconnected Connections:
Username, HostName, SessID
--------------------------

–jeroen

via List Terminal Services Users.

Posted in Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, 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 | Leave a Comment »

ntfs – How do you find what process is holding a file open in Windows? – Server Fault

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:

How do you find what process is holding a file open in Windows?

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 »

Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Event, 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 | Leave a Comment »

A couple DLL Locations that Windows uses to display Icons from

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/11

This one most people know of:

  • %SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll

But these files also provide icons:

  • %SystemRoot%\system32\filemgmt.dll
  • %SystemRoot%\system32\dsadmin.dll
  • %SystemRoot%\system32\els.dll

Various versions of Windows share the icon ID in those files, but have different visual content.

A tool like IconsExtract – Extract icon/cursor stored in EXE, DLL, OCX, CPL files can be used to view or extract those icons.

IconExtract works much better at finding the Index inside SHELL32.dll that is described at How Can I Change the Icon for an Existing Shortcut? – Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs.

Copyright issues might apply…

–jeroen

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 | Leave a Comment »

New Java update available: patch all your machines for yet another zero-day fix: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493

Posted by jpluimers on 2013/03/05

It starts to be not so funny any more: almost every week a new Java security update.

Time to update again, to stay secure and install the patch: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.

On the funny side: Java 0day countdown.

–jeroen

via: Security Alert CVE-2013-1493.

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