From the post-USSR wisdom.

links - windows

If getting an error Please install Apple Application Support (or something similar) when launching QuickTime (and presumably other apple shit on windoze), extract AppleApplicationSupport.msi from the corresponding install file (e.g., QuickTime.exe, for example, just renaming it to .zip), and install it separately.
Hiren's BootCD - bootable rescue windows xp (and more) USB image
to get boot menu (safe mode etc.), press F8 on startup
To install/upgrade Windows XP, run i386/system32/winnt32.exe (from the Windows environment), or ../winnt.exe (from the DOS environment) from the installation set of files.
Microsoft keyboad layout creator: version 1.4 malfunctions; to install version 1.3, one should first install .net version 1.1 (and uninstall before that all higher versions); after that, one should again upgrade .net to higher versions.
former sysinternals, now part of microsoft.
To disable laptop's build-in keyboard, install incompatible driver as suggested here.
programs automatically running each time the user is logged in (as opposed to system startup) are listed in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
A (better) way to start cygwin X server: C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe XWin -multiwindow (or just XWin -multiwindow 2>/dev/null & from the command line). To make it work with Windows Subsystem for Linux, add -listen tcp option.
how to disable updates in Windows 10 pro
config file for windows xpdf

batch files

examples of batch files
cmd.exe returning error code from programs: %ERRORLEVEL%
how to read from stdin in a batch file:
```
SET /P OUTPUT="yoyo"
echo %OUTPUT%
```

Visual C++ etc.

MSDN docs: win32 API

common build problems:

An error "This is not a Visual C" project file (or something like that) could be caused by that file being in Unix format. Convert to DOS one.
A linker error about duplicate symbols in different run-time libraries (MSCVRT.lib, LIBCMT.lib, etc.) is caused by mix of different linker flags; see relevant visual studio doc.

how to change file extension association in Windows 7

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.pdf\UserChoice:
Progid REG_SZ Applications\xpdf
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\xpdf\shell\open\command :
(Default) REG_SZ c:\bin\run-cygwin-exec.bat xpdf "%1"
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\xpdf\DefaultIcon :
(Default) REG_SZ c:\var\ico\pdf.ico
PROFIT!

If this does not work, delete any other relevant association data which may lurk in registry, e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\.pdf

Windows 7 DHCP problems

As suggested here: If the default gateway (incorrectly) begins with 169.254., then the network adapter fails to get response from DHCP server. Reset TCP/IP settings (netsh int ip reset) and/or network adapter (netsh winsock reset).

XKeymacs

registry config file
XKeymacs stores configuration in the registry. As noted here, "Import" and "Export Properties" do not work in Windows 7, so do that manually from regedit (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Oishi\XKeymacs2), and even after that it may require some manual tweaking. On Windows 10 "Import" seemingly works.

Created: Fri Mar 24 2006
Last modified: Thu Nov 7 2024 14:47:49 CET