A while back I wrote how to change the handedness (which seems to be the correct term, instead of the dreadful ‘Menu on the wrong side with a touch screen’). I got a machine in my hands which exhibited the previously mentioned problem. However Tablet PC Settings weren’t installed, so we couldn’t open the tab. After […]
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Menu on the wrong side with a touch screen?
When you’re reading this you probably have a touch screen. So, I never use my touch screen. Almost never. But I did notice that by default my menus in Windows (from a menu bar, not a ribbon) appear (when possible) on the right side of the clicked menu item. Like this: Goosebumps. Something is off. […]
Make sure unattended.xml is not encrypted!
I was playing around with Sysprep using unattended.xml when I hit a weird issue with VirtualBox and Encrypted folders on the host. Setup: unattended.xml on the host, encrypted (with Windows EFS). Virtual Machine, hosted in VirtualBox I mounted the folder with unattended.xml (and other files) inside the VirtualBox and started sysprep (sysprep+shutdown.cmd just executes the […]
Windows 8.1 Preview install: error 0x800705AA – 0x2000C
Yesterday I was trying to upgrade a VM to Windows 8.1. The VM had Windows 8 on it. The host software I used was Hyper-V from Windows 8.1 Preview By itself the VM worked fine, and I was able to install the package that allowed me to download the Windows 8.1 Preview from the store […]
Windows Server 2008 R2 domain controller couldn’t contact the outside network
Network setup: A private network (*.1, *.3, *.4, …) A public network (other range) One server in between to provide routing services (network card in both VLANs) from the private to the public (*.2 on the private) In the private network there were multiple servers whose gateway (*.2) were all set to the router. They […]
Clear all event logs on Windows using PowerShell
I was bored with the vast amount of data in the eventlogs which were really not useful for me. So, in order to improve readability on my machine I decided to look for something to clear all of the eventlogs. Easy. Since I always use the Administrative Events filter to view every warning and error […]
Windows Phone 7 TextBox, binding and ApplicationButton
Consider a Windows Phone 7 application with a textbox and an ApplicationButton. UI: <Canvas x:Name="ContentGrid" Grid.Row="1" Height="545" Width="480"> <TextBlock Text="Enter text here" Canvas.Left="6" Canvas.Top="187" /> <TextBox x:Name="myTextBox" Text="{Binding Test, Mode=TwoWay}" Height="69" Width="480" Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="209" /> </Canvas> Backend: namespace WindowsPhoneApplication1 { using System; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Windows.Controls; using Microsoft.Phone.Controls; public partial class MainPage : PhoneApplicationPage, […]
Windows Phone 7, adding and displaying icons.
Hi all, I tried to display an icon in my Windows Phone 7 application: <shell:ApplicationBarIconButton x:Name="appbar_button1" IconUri="/Images/appbar.feature.settings.rest.png" Text="Settings" /> By default, when you add an image to the solution folder it sets the build action as Resource, as shown below: But when you run the application with the Build Action as Resource you will get […]
Small update on enabling shares in Windows 7.
Execute this line in the CMD as Administrator (start > type ‘cmd’ > hit control+shift+enter) and paste this line (rightmousebutton > paste). reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System\ /v LocalAccountTokenFilterPolicy /t REG_DWORD /d 1 Be sure to DISABLE your Homegroup and to enable file sharing in the Network & Sharing Center
Format after BitLocker.
So yesterday I reinstalled my laptop because some beta driver was acting up, no big deal. I had both of my partitions secured with Bitlocker (and a BIOS password set up) so that my laptop is secure. After formatting I noticed that my C drive wasn’t encrypted anymore (which is obvious, it was formatted). But […]