Archive for the ‘Windows XP’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/30
Too often I see quesions like the one below on software that people distribute:
The Program can’t start becuase MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
I am getting follwing error when i am trying to open Computer management in windows 7,the error is as follows ,
The Program can’t start becuase MSVCR100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
Where can i found this dll file, and help me to download and install.
The reason is that many programmers and companies still fail to ship the correct Visual C++ run-time.
Even for a one-off, you should need to get your installation set right. And writing stuff in a version of Visual C++ almost always means you need to ship the run-time for that particular version of Visual C++ with your application (though sometimes you can get away by putting the DLLs in the directory of your application, this is not recommended, as that way you won’t receive security updates).
User Marilyn O was so kind to sum up most of the download locations (I did a bit of post-editing, added all the non-“FamilyID” links, all naming differences are from the MS site):
I would install the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable dll that is needed for projects built with Visual Studio 2010.
Download the files below depending on your operating system version. […] Check in Programs and Features, do you show that you have installed Microsoft Visual C++ … Redistributable? If not, download from the links here.
- 2005: msvcr80.dll
- 2008: msvcr90.dll
- 2008 SP1: msvcr90.dll
- 2010: msvcr100.dll
- 2010 SP1: msvcr100.dll
- 2012: msvcr110.dll
–jeroen
via: The Program can’t start becuase MSVCR100.dll is missing from your – Microsoft Answers.
Posted in C++, Development, Power User, Software Development, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio and tools, 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 | 3 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/13
I already knew about WinCDEmu, and recently found out there is a portable version of it too:
Portable WinCDEmu is a special build of WinCDEmu that does not need any installation and can be used out-of-the-box.
- unlike WinCDEmu, the Portable WinCDEmu does not preserve mounted drives after a reboot, so some software installs that require a reboot and the CD to be available after reboot – for instance Visual Studio 2010 – require WinCDEmu.
- all virtual CD software requires administrative privileges to install their virtual CD driver. WinCDEmu and Portable WinCDEmu are no different.
Having relied on Daemon tools more recently and Nero ImageDrive in the past (back when Nero 5.5 was a great tool and not the bloatware it has become; Nero ImageDrive has been discontinued since Nero 9).
I will probably switch to WinCDEmu for a new install of my development system: it is extremely light, and now portable too. Better than the ever increasing Daemon tools (of which I don’t use the copy protection features, nor the adware ones).
Unless I find a tool that allows me to mount an NTFS folder as if it was the base for an ISO image (and watches that folder for changes, then remounts the image). That would be tremendously useful in a development environment.
If you don’t know WinCDEmu:
WinCDEmu is an open-source CD/DVD/BD emulator – a tool that allows you to mount optical disc mages by simply clicking on them in Windows Explorer
Another tool on the shortlist is ImDisk; this is why:
The ImDisk driver supports forwarding I/O requests to third-party image file format handlers or to services on other computers on the network. This makes it possible to boot a machine with NTFS partitions with a Live-CD and use the included devio tool to let ImDisk on another computer running Windows on the network mount the NTFS partition on the machine with a faulty NTFS partition. This way you can recover information and even run chkdsk on drives on machines where Windows does not boot. There are also instructions about how to use devio under Windows on Claus Valca’s blog.
–jeroen
via:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/08/06
I’ve seen this happen on various brands of hardware, and various flavours of operating systems:
over time (usually a few days or even weeks of use) suddenly your WiFi connection doesn’t want to connect to some or any of your wireless networks. Most often this happens when you wake up your machine from sleep.
What doesn’t work is flipping the Wireless LAN device off and on using a physical switch.
What usually works for Mac, Windows and even Android is either of these (from least intrusive to most intrusive): Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/30
On the research list (wow, Google Translate is very accurate this time!): Tonido
More and more programs allow users to cut the cord of cloud providers like Google and Dropbox. The Tonido software is suitable for example for users who want to make sensitive customer or patient data accessible on multiple devices without outsourcing it to an external server. “Once you have installed Tonido on your PC and create an account, you can in the local network, but also on the move access to a PC or mobile devices on the complete data set”
Original German text from the mid December 2011 issue of c’t Magazin:
Immer mehr Programme ermöglichen es Anwendern, sich von Cloud-Anbietern wie Google oder Dropbox abzunabeln. Die Software Tonido eignet sich beispielsweise für Nutzer, die sensible Kunden- oder Patientendaten auf mehreren Geräten zugänglich machen wollen – ohne sie auf einen externen Server auszulagern. “Sobald man Tonido auf dem eigenen PC installiert und ein Konto angelegt hat, kann man im lokalen Netz, aber auch von unterwegs mit PC oder Mobilgeräten auf den kompletten Datenbestand zugreifen”
Thanks Noud van Kruysbergen for translating the German c’t article into Dutch.
–jeroen
via: Bei sensiblen Daten lieber eigene Cloud-Lösung – c’t – PresseBox.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/07/16
I love the long lead time between some proposals in the suggestion box and the actual answer. A lot longer than my blog queue (:
I Commenter Adam S wonders why holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager will open a command prompt.Its a rogue feature.
I didn’t even know this was possible. It seems one of the fastest ways to start the console!
–jeroen
via: Why does holding the Ctrl key when selecting New Task from Task Manager open a command prompt? – The Old New Thing – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/06/07
On Windows, the keyboard shortcut [WayBack] Windows-L will lock your workstation and when [WayBack] Fast User Switching is enabled – and when your (corporate) policies allow it – shows your Switch User screen.
First of all, there is [WayBack] TSDISCON (which I found thanks to [WayBack] this thread). It is meant to disconnect a terminal services session, but when you are logged in on the console, it just locks your workstation.
It is small (about 20 kilobyte) and [WayBack] has been there since Windows 2000.
Then there is the [WayBack] LockWorkStation function that does the same.
Lot’s of people think you can call LockWorkStation using rundll32.exe. As per Raymond Chen: [WayBack] (404) Don’t do that: it has a different parameter count and different calling convention than [Archive.is] rundll32.exe expects (note that in Raymond’s article, the last link is broken).
So now you all go upvote [WayBack] the TSDISCON answer and downvote the ruldll32.exe LockWorkStation answers on this [WayBack] SuperUser.com question.
–jeroen
PS: [WayBack] Rob van der Woude published a list of Terminal Server commands including TSDISCON.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/14
A few tools to prevent your screensaver to run:
Windows (most seem to work with Windows 7 too)
Note: on Windows 7 this will not prevent the inactivity timer on an RDP connection!
Mac OS X
–jeroen
via: windows xp – How to prevent screensaver – Super User.
Note: no need to write it yourself :)
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/11
The “route print” command in Windows will show you some “On-link” entries in the gateway column. This is from Windows Vista and up. Before that, you would see “127.0.0.1”.
While creating Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, Microsoft built a “Next Generation TCP/IP Stack” (Wikipedia link) that – apart from adding IPv6 – added many new features and performance improvements.
Since traffic routable through the local machine can have multiple IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, it is not called ” 127.0.0.1″ any more, but “On-link” as the answers to the windows 7 – What does “On-link” mean on the result of “rout print” command? on SuperUser nicely point out:
They are addresses that can be resolved locally. They don’t need a gateway because they dont need to be routed.
and this:
Yep, the other three answers are correct: it’s just a route thats directly reachable the NIC is in direct contact with it; on the same subnet. To explain a little further though: by contrast, the routes that have a gateway IP listed must be contacted through that gateway.
Note that sometimes the new TCP/IP stack needs some arm wrestling in order to have it do what you want (for instance to have it honour TCP metrics).
Note that the “default gateway” line is also missing, as it is in the 0.0.0.0 network destination.
A few examples of what route print shows: Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by jpluimers on 2012/05/09
A few notes on TLIST.EXE:
- Lots and lots of articles mention it.
- Not all versions of TLIST.EXE will work on all Windows versions (I found a 40k version 3.51 at a client that clearly hangs on their XP systems, where the version 3.50 works fine but is more limited).
- It is hard to find an actual download.
This is what I downloaded as I prefer ISO files prefer web-installers:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/A/2/4A25C7D5-EFBE-4182-B6A9-AE6850409A78/GRMWDK_EN_7600_1.ISO
I got there through these pages (in reverse chronological order)
–jeroen
Posted in Debugging, Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP | 1 Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2012/04/23
Someone forgot to kick the VDI instances in the farm to perform an automatic reboot.
Patch Tuesdays only work when you make sure that mandatory reboots are actually being done.
That also prevents users of getting confused by these System Modal dialogs:
[System Restart Required]
A newly installed program requires this computer to be restarted.
Please save your work and restart your computer. Your computer needs to be restarted by wo 11-4-2012 2:43.
[Restart Now] [Close]
and
[Restart Alert]
A system restart cannot be completed while another software installation is in progress. Please allow the software installation to complete before attempting a system restart.
[OK]
–jeroen
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