I just moved a Windows 8.1 installation in Virtual Box from one computer to another. When booting up, Windows told me: This 64-bit application couldn't load because your PC doesn't have a 64-bit processor The host computer is an Intel Xeon CPU which definitely is a 64 bit CPU (the previous computer was an older … Continue reading VirtualBox and Windows 8.1: This 64-bit application couldn’t load because your PC doesn’t have a 64-bit processor
Category: Windows
Adding a Windows 8.1 computer to a SAMBA domain
Note to self: If adding a Windows 8.1 computer to a SAMBA domain fails with the error "The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted" the following changes to the Registry might help: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] ; Enable NT-Domain compatibility mode ; Default: ; [value not present] ; … Continue reading Adding a Windows 8.1 computer to a SAMBA domain
SyncThing for Android
I blogged about SyncThing before, when BitTorrentSync started to annoy the hell out of me. SyncThing is an open source tool for synchronizing directory trees between different devices without requiring a cloud service (it needs a discovery server though in order to actually find these devices). There is also an Android app for it as … Continue reading SyncThing for Android
Creating a window without a title that can be moved with the mouse
For my dzComputerInfo tool I created a window without a title that can still be moved with the mouse. This is quite easy to do: To remove the title, set BorderStyle to bsNone. To let the user move it with the mouse, add the following message handler: [delphi] type TMyForm = class(TForm) private procedure WMNCHitTest(var … Continue reading Creating a window without a title that can be moved with the mouse
Configuring FTDI USB serial converters
USB serial converters from FTDI are quite popular. We also use them at work quite a lot because they do not have the problem of the competing products (like Prolific): Windows does not detect devices on them as Microsoft ball point devices. These converters can be configured interactively using a dialog accessible from the hardware … Continue reading Configuring FTDI USB serial converters
dzEditorLineEndsFix 1.0.3 released
I have released a new version of my dzEditorLineEndsFix tool for Delphi 2006 to 2010. There is only one change: I removed the balloon hint it used to show at startup. It started to annoy the hell out of me (and I'm probably not the only one). The tool also now has its own page … Continue reading dzEditorLineEndsFix 1.0.3 released
Enable Hibernate on Windows 8.x
Note to self: If Hibernate is not available on the shutdown menu and doesn't show up in the configuration either, it can be enabled via the command line: powercfg -h on
Filter multiple criteria in Windows Explorer
Note to self: It is possible to filter on multiple criteria - e.g. extensions - in Windows Explorer by combining them with OR: .txt OR .doc The OR must be written all upper case (AND is also possible). *.txt will not work It will search recursively A semicolon (as in file filters) does not work. … Continue reading Filter multiple criteria in Windows Explorer
Force “unidentified networks” to be private or public in Windows 7
Windows 7 has got an annoying feature that categorises network connections to be public, home or work networks. This might work for others but it has never worked for me. Even worse, for some reason the link that usually allows the user to change the network type sometimes is not available. Microsoft even has got … Continue reading Force “unidentified networks” to be private or public in Windows 7
Getting the system boot time in Windows
Today I needed to get the system boot time of my computer. You can either open the system log and look for the entries a Windows start up writes there, or you can let a tool do the work: @echo off systeminfo | find "System Boot Time" pause In my case the result looks like … Continue reading Getting the system boot time in Windows