So I don't forget: Microsoft seems to love changing the place where they hide useful configuration options. One that I always turn on is "Underline access keys when available" and in Windows 10 it is now in "Keyboard" -> "Change how keyboard shortcuts work" which is about half way down the page just where it … Continue reading Where did Microsoft move the underline menu shortcut option?
Category: Windows 10
User cannot change his Samba AD password from Windows
Note to self: If a user cannot change his password on a Samba AD Domain from a Windows (10) computer getting the following error message: Check that the user didn't already change the password on the same day because the default setting for minimum password age is 1 (day). To change that setting, use samba-tool: … Continue reading User cannot change his Samba AD password from Windows
Remember: Windows 10 will automatically restart for updates
Note to self: If you have anything important running on your Windows 10 computer for a longer time (e.g. over night), make sure to prevent Windows Update to become active. It will force a restart of your computer if it fancies so, regardless of the programs that might still be active. Guess what happened last … Continue reading Remember: Windows 10 will automatically restart for updates
Adding a Windows 10 computer to a Samba (NT4) domain
Microsoft is trying to force everybody to update from the old NT4 domain system to the "new" (as in "was new >10 years ago") Active Directory system. While that's probably a good idea for most people there are some like me stuck with a working Samba installation that for some reason needs to continue to … Continue reading Adding a Windows 10 computer to a Samba (NT4) domain
Windows 10 unidentified networks
Starting with Windows Vista Microsoft has started to take security really serious. That's a good thing. Unfortunately in typically Microsoft attitude they think they always know best and that the user is an idiot, so it's best to keep anything dangerous from him. Fast forward to Windows 10 and the issue at hand: Windows 10 … Continue reading Windows 10 unidentified networks
How to use JumpFolder to create multiple “start menus”
Even after Microsoft abandoned the stupid idea of the Windows 8 start screen and gave us back the start menu in Windows 10 there is still a lot to desire. Of course you can replace the the start menu with a tool like Open Shell (formerly known as Classic Shell) which improves it quite a … Continue reading How to use JumpFolder to create multiple “start menus”
Automatically make your PC wake up at a given time
Due the the COVID19 pandemic I am currently working from home, using Putty + ssh + Remote Desktop to log into and work on my office PC. For this to work, the office PC must be turned on and booted. So far I have let it running 24h which is really a waste of energy … Continue reading Automatically make your PC wake up at a given time
Updating to Windows 10 broke Delphi 6 and 2007 again
Since Microsoft will end the free support for Windows 7 in January 2020, we are updating all our computers to Windows 10 (I would really have liked to avoid that. Windows 7 is definitely not the best Windows ever but its annoyances are known. Windows 10 started to annoy me with new so called "features" … Continue reading Updating to Windows 10 broke Delphi 6 and 2007 again
Installing dotNet 2.0 on Windows 10
In theory it is simple to install the dotNet 2.0 framework on Windows 10: Just go to "Programs and Features", select "Turn Windows Features on or off", set the checkmark for ".NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)", press OK and let Windows download the necessary files from Windows Update. Unfortunately this only works … Continue reading Installing dotNet 2.0 on Windows 10
Blocking the Windows Screen Saver in Delphi
Sometimes your program needs to block the screen saver from automatically kicking in. My use case was that the program was recording data and whenever the screen saver was active, the data was lost (No idea why, it probably had something to do with the way HID is implemented in Windows.) So I was looking … Continue reading Blocking the Windows Screen Saver in Delphi