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Fix Windows 7 not booting due to missing AHCI drivers

29/01/2012 – 15:26

If you change mobo and chipset Windows might not boot due to loading the wrong AHCI drivers at boot time. To speed up booting it only loads the ones it thinks it needs, and once set is not designed to change. To enable them all again go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci and change the Start key value to [...]

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Scheduling uTorrent on Windows

03/12/2011 – 19:12

Sometimes I close uTorrent and forget to open it again before going to bed for overnight downloading. It cannot be scheduled via the Task Scheduler in Vista/Server 2008 and above because scheduled tasks can no longer display a GUI. This is a security feature designed to prevent shatter attacks which are a form of privilege [...]

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Fix for Aero dropping out on Windows 7

19/06/2011 – 16:37

Sometimes when my machine resumes from sleep mode Aero doesn’t work and I lose transparency etc. It seems to be related to nForce chipsets… Remind me never to get another one of those, they are buggy as hell. If you check the application event logs there is an error 0x8898009b from DWM. The fix is [...]

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Deleting files with very long names

09/01/2011 – 10:33

In Windows there is a maximum 255 character path name. You can create files and folders with longer paths but they will become inaccessible and undeletable. Sometimes this happens if you extract an archive containing long file/directory names. Actually it is a pretty good way to frame someone; just make them extract an archive with [...]

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Miranda IM automatic update script

28/08/2010 – 18:45

Found a useful script to auto-update Miranda IM. They really should create an update system for it. I modified the script to work on my system and with newer releases in 7zip format. chdir /D update c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe http://code.google.com/p/miranda/downloads/list -O data.txt type data.txt|findstr /i unicode.7z 1> data1.txt del data.txt ren data1.txt data.txt c:\portable\gnu\wget.exe –force-html -c -i [...]

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Windows 7 Tweaks

16/08/2010 – 20:34

Finally got around to installing Windows 7 on my main machine. As usual there are a lot of tweaks that need to be made. The Start Menu has some nice features but I really don’t like the way the All Programs section works now. Fortunately you can bring back the old cascaded menu and keep [...]

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Making the Umax PowerLook 2100XL scanner work on Windows 7

15/06/2010 – 14:56

I had an interesting challenge at work a few weeks ago. A customer wanted a new PC running Windows 7 but he needed to keep using his rather old A3 scanner, a Umax PowerLook 2100XL. Umax only provide Windows XP drivers and installing them on Windows 7 stops the system starting up. Something about the [...]

By mojo | Also posted in hardware, software | Comments (26)

Making a one session temp folder in Windows

30/05/2010 – 17:16

Back in the Amiga days we had a RAM disk. It was perfect for storing all kinds of temporary files as it was extremely fast and would be cleared every time the system rebooted. Windows doesn’t have anything like that. I found a way to make something similar. I use a temporary folder on a [...]

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USB devices in VirtualBox

31/03/2010 – 23:15

Getting USB devices to connect to the guest OS in VirtualBox can be a bit tricky. I run it on Windows so it might work differently on Linux, but anyway… The key is to understand that in order for the device to be detected it has to be connected while the guest OS is running. [...]

By mojo | Also posted in software | Comments (0)

Comparison of PDF viewers

16/09/2009 – 23:14

I have been using Sumatra PDF for a while now, and while I’m mostly happy with it, I would like something with a few more features. Everyone seems to suggest Foxit, to the point where it is now the first result on Google for “pdf viewer”. Unfortunately, the rendering quality of Foxit is well below [...]

By mojo | Also posted in software | Comments (4)
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