Converting Virtual PC virtual machines to VMware

The most reliable way to convert your Virtual PC/Virtual Server/Hyper-V virtual machines to VMware is to use the "VMware vCenter Converter" (available free of charge).

The History of Microsoft

See how it all started on Channel 9…

• The History of Microsoft - 1975
• The History of Microsoft – 1976
• The History of Microsoft – 1977
• to be continued

You can subscribe to this episode here.

Unable to print or preview in Windows Vista

Problem description:

When trying to print or print preview a page in Internet Explorer you receive an permission error about the Temp\Low folder.

Solution:

Equipped with administrative privileges change the integrity level of the "Low" subfolder %Temp% to low (as explained here):

icacls Low /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

Unable to save to favorites folder in Windows Vista (Unspecified Error in IE7)

Problem description:

When attempting to add a favorite in Internet Explorer you receive an "Unspecified Error".

Solution:

Equipped with administrative privileges change the integrity level of your favorites folder to low (as explained here) by typing:

icacls favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low

Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager: what's the user name to log on?

After launching Dell SAS RAID Storage Manager it asks you for enter a username and password combination.

What it expects is the username and password of a Windows account with administrative privileges.

Welcome to my new Treasury

After over 5 years I really had to leave dotnetjunkies for several reasons and moved my "Treasury" to this new and beautiful place.
I now maintain three blogs – you can reach them consistently at www.nenoloje.de/blogs:

• Neno Loje's Treasury [RSS]
  My primary weblog about diverse topics that make the life of a developer easier: .NET, ClickOnce deployment and Windows Development. In English.
  
• TFS & Visual Studio ALM Blog [RSS]
  My technical blog exclusively about Microsoft's Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform: Visual Studio (VS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). In English.
  
• Neno Loje’s Futterkiste [RSS]
  My German language blog with information specific to the German-speaking area, like local events and conferences.

Enjoy reading!

ERROR: Your client does not support opening this list with Windows Explorer

When trying to switch to "Explorer View" or open a SharePoint document library in Windows Explorer and receive the following error message:

How to fix

Install: Software Update for Web Folders (KB907306)

More information: KB907306

Shortcuts for Full Screen Mode

Full screen, please! But how? Well, it depends...

Program	Shortcut
Remote Desktop Terminal Services Client Hyper-V VM Connection	[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Break]
Visual Studio	[Shift]+[Alt]+[Enter]
Internet Explorer & Windows Explorer	F11
Windows Media Player	[Alt]+Enter or F11
VMware Workstation	[Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Enter]

Tip: A process using a lot CPU time? Suspend it.

Did you know that you can suspend a running process temporarily so you can focus on something different and resume it later, so that it doesn't steel your CPU time while you are working on something else?

You can use Process Explorer (by sysinternals) to suspend and resume processes easily.

Download or run online: Process Explorer

[Remote Desktop] Quickly copying files when using Remote Desktop

  Did you know that you can copy files from:

• a remote computer to your local computer or
• a remote computer to another remote computer

using Remote Desktop (Windows XP or higher) by simple right-clicking the file and selecting Copy and then selecting Paste on your local machine/the other remote computer?

From the Microsoft KB article 300698:

Copy and Paste Files

You can copy and paste the files between the remote session and local computer, or vice-versa, by using the Copy and Paste feature.

Read the full article at: TechNet

Caution: You should not use the clipboard while a file is being copies using this method, otherwise the file transfer will be cancelled immediately. Additionally you should know that this is not a very fast way to copy large files over the network.

Undelete Files with the free Undelete Plus

You urgently need a tool to undelete files you accidentally deleted?

I had the situation and was quite happy with Undelete Plus. It's free and you don't need to install it.

Save space: Remove the Vista SP1 uninstallation files

Start » Run » Vsp1cln.exe

Vsp1cln.exe is the Windows Vista SP1 File Removal tool.

Warning: You won't be able to uninstall Vista SP1 anymore after this operation.

IFilter for enabling PDF full-text search on 64-bit Windows Vista

Not Microsoft. Not Adobe. But Foxit.

Read about it: here.

Download it: here.

Nokia Software Updater: 'Sorry, Microsoft Windows Vista is currently not supported.'

If you update your version of Nokia Software Updater the most recent version quits working by displaying this message:

"Sorry, Microsoft Windows Vista is currently not supported."

One could think that large companies like Nokia would be able to support the Windows Vista operating system since it's around for over a year now.

Error on ClickOnce install: Application download did not succeed. Check your network connection, or contact your system administrator or network service provider.

Error when trying to install ClickOnce application

Application download did not succeed. Check your network connection, or contact your system administrator or network service provider.

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