I'm using this RAR IFilter from the IFilterShop.com (free for non-commercial users) and my RAR files are now indexed including the contents.
They also offer interesting IFilters for ASPX, CHM, MSG, MS Project, Mind Manager, and many more other file types.
The new Windows Search 4.0 offers:
Windows Search 4.0 includes the following improvements:
- Support for indexing encrypted documents of local file systems
- Reduced affect on Microsoft Exchange when you index e-mail in online mode, and there is no local cache (.ost)
- Support for indexing online delegate mailboxes
- Support for client-to-client remote query to shared indexed locations
- Improved indexing performance
- Faster previewer updates for Windows XP
- Per-user Group Policy settings
- Windows software updates for Watson errors
- Support for the following new enterprise Group Policy objects:
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Information from the author, Brandon Paddock:
Features:
- Monitor the current state of the indexer
- See how many items need to be processed
- View the total count of indexed items
- Stop and start the indexing service
- Open the Indexing Options control panel
- View the installed Windows Search version number
- Multiple backgrounds / color combinations
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If you experience the error message:
The 'Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0' provider is not registered on the local machine
this is caused by the Jet provider not being available in native 64-bit.
You will have to target x86 with your .NET apps to make it work.
Since EPSON Status Monitor does not work properly under Windows Vista I recommend extracting the installation files and simulate an old operating system (Windows XP SP2) by using the compatibility tab for all EXE files in the folder.
Then install and enjoy!
P.S. You can force a cartridge change on a EPSON Stylus Color printer even without using the EPSON Status Monitor software. Read here.
Prerequisites:
Situation:
- After "optimizing" the VM the file grows (in my case from 13 GB to 100 GB, which is the maximum size of the dynamic disk)
Workaround:
- Create a full clone of your VM (this copies all the linked disks + your VM into a target disk). You are not using the base disks from that moment on. But the resulting VM will be nice and small and in the future you can use PerfectDisk again to optimize and shrink your VM.
Background:
- VMs with linked disks are not available for SHRINK operations.
- WIthout linked disks this works perfectly.
Situation:
- You have a linked clone.
- You do not have any snapshots, just the current state.
- You want to create a full clone out of the base image(s) and the current state using the VMware Wizard.
- You get the error message that you need (3.5 GB) of free hard drive space.
- Freeing space on the source and target drive does not seem to help.
Solution
- Just create a snapshop and re-try the full-clone-creation.
Enjoy!
.REG files can not only add and modify but also delete keys and values from the Windows registry.
To delete a registry key
[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test]
To delete a registry value
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Test
"TestValue"=-
Enjoy!
You need to open the item "View 32-bit Control Panel Items". And there it is. :)
Enjoy!
... and even resetting the normal.dot won't help you there.
But it's soo simple. A double click between the border between your document and the rulers will display them. Read the full story here.
You need to make a registry change to make it work.
Thanks to Shad, I have now found Vista 64-bit drivers for my network card as well as a generic driver for the touchpad for my Dell XPS M1330.
If you get the message that the access for "C:\Users\<Username>\SendTo" is denied it doesn't mean you don't have the necessary permissions - but rather that you are looking at the wrong place since the SendTo folder was moved to:
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
At the old location there is a NTFS junction which redirects read/write access to the SendTo folder. Unfortunately Windows Explorer won't follow this link and doesn't show you want's in there (stating the access was denied).
You need to turn off the computer completely (restart won't work). Vista should start now and you need to install "Intel Matrix Storage Manager" (provided by Dell) and after the next restart everything worked fine for me.
Another tip would be to turn off ACHI in your BIOS.
A nasty one, you will probably realize in front of customers.
The workaround can be found on the Windows SDK blog.
Enjoy!
Run the command (using admin privileges):
powercfg /hibernate on
Read more about it.
If you try to drag tables from the Server Explorer of Visual Studio 2008 to the designer surface of the Link-to-SQL designer you'll probably be surprised to see the error message stating:
"The selected object(s) use an unsupported data provider"
However you can use SqlMetal.exe to generate the .dbml file manually (obviously: command line instead of drag & drop).