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Posted by jpluimers on 2013/02/01
There are (rare and offline) occasions where you want to want to stop/start the service that provides Microsoft Security Essentials.
A few notes first:
This is how: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/29
A while ago, I had to adapt a DOS app that used one specific version of Excel to do some batch processing so it would support multiple versions of Excel on multiple versions of Windows.
One of the big drawbacks of DOS applications is that the command lines you can use are even shorter than Windows applications, which depending you how you call an application are:
This is how the DOS app written in Clipper (those were the days, it was even linked with Blinker :) started Excel:
c:\progra~1\micros~2\office11\excel.exe parameters
01234567890123456789012345678901234567890
1 2 3 4
The above depends on 8.3 short file names that in turn depend on the order in which similar named files and directories have been created.
The trick around this, and around different locations/versions of an application, is to use START to find the right version of Excel.
The reason it works is because in addition to PATH, it checks the App Paths portions in the registry in this order to find an executable: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Encoding, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Unicode, 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 »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/25
Just found out about the AkelPad Editor.
It is tiny, has a lot of functionality.
Too bad that Alt+V does not go to the View menu, but is bound to a kind-of-past functionality.
Similar for other Alt+letter combinations in their keyboard shortcuts.
They should have used Ctrl+Alt+letter combinations for it.
So I continue my search for a good, tiny, syntax highlighting and multi-encoding capable NotePad alternative.
–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 | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
Every once in a while, Office Communicator indicates a contact is not off-line and allows me to send messages to him/her, but then gives an error 504.
The reason is that the off-line status replicates slowly, so you were not aware your contact went off-line while typing the message.
The Error ID 504 is just an unfrienly way of saying “your contact went off-line, but you didn’t know that when sending the message, and I don’t have a friendly way of telling you this”.
–jeroen
via: Communicator 2007 R2 Help on Error ID 504.
Posted in Communicator, Office, Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/17
Even though the JavaRa tool is Windows-only, it is a tremendous help scraping old vulnerable versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from your systems and keeping only the fixed versions.
Regular JRE installs from Oracle/Sun will keep the old-and-vulnerable JRE versions.
(note that it seems the recent JRE update did not actually fix the vulnerability, just the exploit, and that a new Java vulnerability might already be exploited. Be sure to keep a watch upcoming Java updates for these).
JavaRa is an effective way to deploy, update and remove the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Its most significant feature is the JRE Removal tool; which forcibly deletes files, directories and registry keys associated with the JRE. This can assist in repairing or removing Java when other methods fail.
JavaRa 2.1 (released 20130116) Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Development, Java, Power User, Software Development, 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: commandline arguments, internet, java jre, java runtime environment, java updates, java version, java vulnerability, software, technology | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/01/07
Experimenting with ESXi5, I accidentally got a GPT formatted USB stick that no XP systems could handle.
I used Convert GPT Disk to MBR Disk – Windows 7 Forums to convert it back to MBR.
I needed to perform these DiskPart steps on a Windows 7 machine, as
–jeroen
Posted in ESXi5, Power User, VMware, VMware ESXi, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/31
A lot of scripts you find on the internet have hardcoded Windows account names or groups, for instance BUILTIN\Administrators
Those don’t work on many localized Windows versions, as part of the account names have been translated as well. Not only Administrators is translated, but BUILTIN can be translated too. Basically, expect everything in Windows to be translated as part of the localization process.
Some people keep translations lists, but that is not the real solution.
The real solution is that each such group, account or other identifier stems from a SID or Security ID.
Many of those SIDs are the same on any machine, or structured the same within a domain.
Microsoft has a list of these called Well-known security identifiers in Windows operating systems.
That list isn’t in a format most Windows tools use it, so I generated the list below that is more suitable.
The list below is based on a Windows 7 machine. Other versions or editions give slightly different results, but it is a good start.
At the bottom is the batch file that I used to generate this table. That file is adapted from the Microsoft list above.
The batch file depends on a few tools and tricks: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, 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 | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/21
Interesting; is on my research list to see if the installation process gets easier and more standardized.
SQL Server FineBuild Introduction
FineBuild provides 1-click install and best-practice configuration of SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008, and SQL Server 2005.
–jeroen
via: SQL Server FineBuild.
Posted in Database Development, Development, Power User, Reporting Services, SQL Server, SQL Server 2005, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2012, 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 »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/19
I knew that 2>&1 was needed to redirect both stderr and stdout, but for piping, it cannot be at the end of the line. This works in the categories shown at the bottom of the post.
Rob van der Woude again to the rescue in redirection:
(4) Redirecting both standard output and standard error to the same file or device is done by adding
2>&1to the command line. This will only work in OS/2 and NT, not in MS-DOS.
Where you put2>&1is rather critical. It will only do what it is supposed to do when placed at the end of the command line (as Jennie Walker pointed out to me) or right before the next pipe (|).
Example: batch file that checks if a few NarrowCast machines are indeed on-line and logged on with the right user.
It uses PsLoggedOn to verify who is logged on, and Explorer to show a hidden share.
The pipe is needed to verify there is indeed a domain user logged on.
@echo off for %%m in (Machine1 Machine2 Machine3) do call :show %%m goto :pause :show echo %1 %~dp0PsLoggedOn -L \\%1 2>&1 | find /I "MYDOMAIN\" start explorer /e,\\%1\NarrowCast$ goto :end :pause pause :end
–jeroen
Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/12/17
Interesting: namebench – Open-source DNS Benchmark Utility – Google Project Hosting.
It runs on Mac, Windows and Linux, comes with a GUI and a console version.
–jeroen
Posted in *nix, Apple, 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, 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 »
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