Maybe some of you already know this trick, but if you don’t… here it is I’ve been running a Vista x64 as my main machine in office for a few months now, and when I had to analyze a Process Monitor trace received from a customer, but if the log was coming from a x86 machine (that’s still the most common for customer calls we see today) I was not able to open it on my desktop, and always had to rely on my laptop (where I run Windows XP Pro) or on my second desktop (Windows 2003). I took this for granted for a while, but then this morning I thought to have a look at the command line options (procmon /?) and got a nice surprise: Tried it, and (of course) I was finally able to open the 32bit trace on my 64bit machine.. ? Carlo Quote of the day: It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. – Jerry Seinfeld
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SyncToy not working on Vista x64?
I’ve been using SyncToy for quite a few months to keep in sync some folders between my laptop and the other two machines I have in office, and it always worked just great for me (I know, I should be using Groove instead but I’m not happy to have services and programs running when they want, instead of when I tell them to run… ?). When I switched my primary desktop in office to Vista x64, I very quickly discovered that SyncToy was crashing immediately after running it, with no error messages or clues about what is going wrong… I didn’t had much time to spend debugging it and try to figure out what was going wrong (it’s not a must have tool for my work, after all…) so I simply used the laptop to synchronize folders between the two desktops, too… Until this morning, when I had a few minutes free and decided to get back to this problem and try to fix it once for all (and write a blog post on it, too ?); anyway before even opening WinDbg, a research on the Internet brought me to this blog: http://joshmouch.wordpress.com/2007/03/27/synctoy-14-and-vista-x64-error-fixed/. I tried, and it works like a…
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Free Download Manager
As I did in a previous post, here is another nice tool I’ve been using for a few weeks now, which I find very helpful when it comes to large downloads such as the recently released Visual Studio 2008 beta 2 (but now I’m using it for every download larger than 5 Mb): Free Download Manager. I short, FDM allows you to resume your interrupted downloads (if the server supports it, of course), limit the downloading speed (handy if you’re browsing the Internet while downloading in background), schedule your downloads and perform some actions when done (scan for viruses, suspend/shutdown the computer, close the connection etc…), find and use mirror servers, split the download into several section to increase download speed (they say up to 600%: I’ve not measured it, but for sure it’s faster), html spider, download entire sites etc… (here are some screenshots). The idea is not new (GetRight for instance does almost the same), up to you decide what you like most ? Carlo Quote of the Day: Nature has given to us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. –Lucius Annæus Seneca
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Google uses .NET…?!?
Have a look at this link: https://survey.google.com/wix/p0986235.aspx Uhm… let’s have a look at the source HTML of the page, and we’ll not find the “_VIEWSTATE” hidden field (it should be there also if we disable the viewstate in the @Page directly and for every control in the page) and the “__DoPostBack” Javascript method to submit the form… ? I may be completely wrong, they could have removed the unused _viewstate hidden field on the server right before sending the html stream to the client, but why? Just to save 2-3 Kb? Don’t know… sounds like a “trick”… maybe they just wanted to check the reaction about the file extension… ? Just to be clear: I don’t find anything wrong with it, just fun ? What do you think? Carlo
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Cool File Manager: Servant Salamander
I started to use this tool almost 6 years ago, in my previous life before Microsoft because it was quite widely used in my former Company; at the beginning I didn’t like it very much, I was used to Windows Explorer and at that time the Salamander’s capabilities where not as refined as they are in the current version. But since I’m quite curious I decided to for with it for a while as an experiment, and guess what? I’ve never returned back from that experiment and to Windows Explorer 😊. As the time and releases went by, new features where added (and still more are being developed), the user interface refined and performance and reliability improved… So, what I like most of this tool? Well, quite a few things, actually… I’m a keyboard shortcut addict, and almost anything you can do with the Salamander has a shortcut key (and this is probably it main strength, in my opinion) The two resizable panels have easily customizable views (Brief, Detailed, Icons, Thumbnails etc…) You can browse your File System, your System Registry, open and navigate archives (like .zip, .rar etc…), ISO files and more inside the panels, like if you are still…
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CSSVista and IE Developer Toolbar to easily customize how your site/blog looks
While working to customize a bit my blog (and you can easily see I’m not a graphic designer! 🤔) I struggled trying to understand and sort out the tangle of CSS styles I can override to change how these pages look (at this is still “work in progress”). Luckily in our internal blogger discussion list someone (don’t remember exactly who, sorry…) suggested to use CSSVista, a cool tool which allows you to edit your CSS styles and have a “live” preview of what the results are. If you use this in combination with the IE Developer Toolbar, which allows you to easily inspect the DOM in your page and find which CSS style is applied to every element (among many other things you can discover with the toolbar) and with some experience with CSS editing, it should not be that hard to restyle your page. The only problem left is how it will look like at the end… 🤞😏 (I definitely need some graphic advices…) Cheers