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
Category: Windows
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
Opening an explorer window from the folder select dialog
Ever used a program that showed one of the folder select dialogs and you wanted to open a normal explorer window showing that folder? There is no button for that and no entry in the popup menu, but you can add one: Create a new shortcut in C:\Users\≶yourname>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo Enter "Explorer" as the location and name … Continue reading Opening an explorer window from the folder select dialog
Problem accessing a Windows XP share from a Windows 7 PC
Today a problem drove me crazy: I tried to map a share on a PC running Windows XP from another computer running Windows 7. I kept getting the error that the username or password are invalid. On the other hand, accessing a share on the Windows 7 PC from the Windows XP PC worked fine. … Continue reading Problem accessing a Windows XP share from a Windows 7 PC
WinHlp32 for Windows 8.1
Microsoft dropped support for the old WinHelp (*.hlp) file format in Windows 7 (or was it in Vista?). They provided a download that added the missing WinHlp32.exe (and probably quite a few other files) back so we could display .hlp files again. Today I had the need to do that on Windows 8.1. Unfortunately I … Continue reading WinHlp32 for Windows 8.1
Creating animated GIFs from screenshots
I have posted two animated GIFs lately to show features of GExperts or the popup menu entry for Windows Defender. These GIFs were created using ScreenToGif which is an open source tool written by Nike S. Manarin. One feature of it that I particularly like is that it is a "Portable App", that is, it … Continue reading Creating animated GIFs from screenshots