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DebugView is an application to monitor debug output.

From Microsoft TechNet:

DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don't need a debugger to catch the debug output your applications or device drivers generate, nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers to use non-standard debug output APIs.

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Windows Vista, Tools, C#

To enable the Japanese characters (Shift-JIS) the operation system needs to install the fonts.

This is how to do it in Windows Xp:

1. Install the fonts. This is done in the Regional Options under languages
2. Select the Install files for East Asian languages. The windows cd is needed.
3. After this a restart is needed.
4. In Eclipse select properties of the file which contains Japanese characters and select Test file encoding.
5. Chose: UTF-8 and click ok.
   
6. Now you can open the file with any editor in Eclipse and it should show the file correctly.

Here is a link to a site which describes how to do the same for other operation systems.

Eclipse, Windows Vista

Windows Vista has again shown a funny feature. It can turn of the components which makes VPN connections work without giving you any valid description other than VPN connection problems.

So if you have a VPN connection on your vista machine which suddenly stopped working and where you know the server still is working this might be a solution. It worked for me anyway:

1. open a command prompt in administrator mode and continue to step 2 or run the batch file below
2. uninstall miniports
   1. netcfg -u ms_l2tp
   2. netcfg -u ms_pptp
3. install them again
   1. netcfg -l %windir%\inf\netrast.inf -c p -i ms_pptp
   2. netcfg -l %windir%\inf\netrast.inf -c p -i ms_l2tp

Windows Vista

Here is a Theme for Windows Xp in black that looks like Windows vista.

http://klauskjeldsen.dk/2007/05/02/windows-xp-vista-theme-black/

Royale Noir.zip (429.68 kb)

Just place the folder in:

C:\Windows\Resources\Themes\

and klick the style file.

Windows Vista

It is possible to make a shortcut to directly open the network connection dialog.

Just link to this file:

explorer.exe ::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}

You can save it as an shortcut since its a little difficult to remember the GUID.

See how to here

Windows Vista

I use a Microsoft VPN connection to make connections to my school and home. But I discovered some problems, when I need the connection I can not use it because it says:

The connection requires an active Internet connection

But what is all that about I have a working Internet connection and can surf the net. I discovered that the problem isn't the Internet connection but the GUI in vista.

The solution is to go to the Management networks window

The connect from inhere instead

When you have connected the Connect to network window should change accordantly:

Yes that's it, it would be nice if they corrected things like this or just removed the connect to network window it it's to much trouble to update the window.

I read other post about this topic and like these posts I have a loopback adaptor installed.

Windows Vista

There have been a number of people reporting that when they start a virtual machine - they get the following error:

The network adapter with address "00:00:00:00:00:00" of virtual machine "...." failed to initialize because the address is a null address.

To fix this problem you should use REGEDIT to:

• Examine the key value at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002bE10318}\<nnnn>\DriverDesc to locate the desired host adapter where <nnnn> is a four digit number.
• Look at the GUID value for the NetCfgInstanceId key value.
  Add the DWORD key at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VPCNetS2\Parameters\Adapters\<guid>\Flags and set the value to 0 where <guid> is the GUID found in step 2.
• Restart the computer.

This registry value was added in Virtual PC SP1’s Virtual Machine Network Services driver. It is supposed to be setup during installation by the driver’s notify object. However, under certain circumstances the notify object of the old version is used during the installation of the new version and this registry value is never created. It is used by the driver to determine if a particular host adapter can be used in the MAC address generation algorithm. If the key is not present, we assume that the host adapter cannot be. In the case you experienced, none of your adapters appear suitable as a basis for MAC address generation and the driver returns a NULL MAC address which causes VPC to report the error.

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Tools, Windows Vista

This program will do the job.

AnyDVD link to site

Windows Media Center, Windows Vista

If you would like to set windows vista back to handle zip files again you should ensure that the key in the registry looks like this:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.zip]

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.zip\OpenWithList]
"a"="ieuser.exe"
"MRUList"="a"

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\FileExts\.zip\OpenWithProgids]
"CompressedFolder"=hex(0):

If any other sub keys are present delete them. Restart windows if needed and your done.

 Regedit keys: Windows Vista enable Zip handling.zip (2.31 kb)

Windows Vista

I can recommend Avas! anti-virus home. Its free and runs with a minimal amount of resources.

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Tools, Windows Vista