Neno Loje's Treasury

IFilter for enabling PDF full-text search on 64-bit Windows Vista

NenoLoje — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:58:57 GMT

Not Microsoft. Not Adobe. But Foxit.

Read about it: here.

Download it: here.

Nokia Software Updater: 'Sorry, Microsoft Windows Vista is currently not supported.'

NenoLoje — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 01:00:42 GMT

If you update your version of Nokia Software Updater the most recent version quits working by displaying this message:

"Sorry, Microsoft Windows Vista is currently not supported."

One could think that large companies like Nokia would be able to support the Windows Vista operating system since it's around for over a year now.

Nero 8 and Windows Vista 64-bit - not a dream team

NenoLoje — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:45:51 GMT

You might think that that operating systems that will certainly become the industry-wide standard and are on the market for way over a year now are supported by all major products.

From the system requirements of Nero 8:

Windows Vista® Gadgets are not available for Windows Vista® x64
Nero ImageDrive currently supports Windows® 2000 and Windows® XP (32 Bit only)

Error on ClickOnce install: Application download did not succeed. Check your network connection, or contact your system administrator or network service provider.

NenoLoje — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 14:53:37 GMT

Error when trying to install ClickOnce application

Application download did not succeed. Check your network connection, or contact your system administrator or network service provider.

[Link]

[IFilter] Indexing contents of RAR files

NenoLoje — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:12:48 GMT

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.

Increasing the speed of Windows Search indexer by updating to version 4.0

NenoLoje — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:18:46 GMT

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:

[Download]

Vista Sidebar Gadget to monitor and control the Windows Search indexer

NenoLoje — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:16:09 GMT

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

[Download]

PRB: Using Jet provider on 64-bit machines

NenoLoje — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:27:36 GMT

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.

Workaround: EPSON Status Monitor under Windows Vista

NenoLoje — Wed, 07 May 2008 05:38:50 GMT

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.

Optimizing VMware virtual machines with PerfectDisk 2008 grows, instead of shrinks, the virtual disk

NenoLoje — Thu, 01 May 2008 11:12:05 GMT

Prerequisites:

Product: PerfectDisk 2008 for VMware
VMware: Virtual Machine *with* linked disks

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.

Not enough free space to create a full clone out of a linked clone with VMware

NenoLoje — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:54:23 GMT

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!

A central place for Visual Studio hot fixes

NenoLoje — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 14:04:52 GMT

can be found here:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/ProjectDirectory.aspx?TagName=Hotfix

WORKAROUND: "Show window contents while dragging" appearance option deactivated after every restart

NenoLoje — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:39:24 GMT

You are sure a Dell user!

And you are certainly not alone:

http://www.5starsupport.com/xp-faq/1-67.htm
http://help.lockergnome.com/windows/Show-window-contents-dragging-problem-ftopict7815.html
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/9300-show-window-contents-while-dragging-option-doesnt-stick.html
http://www.softwaretipsandtricks.com/forum/windows-xp/9293-show-window-contents-while-dragging.html?highlight=dragging
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-319387.php
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=104214
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/25218-35-show-window-contents-dragging-work
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=100264&c=us&l=en&cs=19&s=dhs
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=98039&c=us&l=en&cs=19&s=dhs
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=118786&c=us&l=en&cs=19&s=dhs
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_video&message.id=106470&c=us&l=en&cs=19&s=dhs
http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=137349&c=us&l=en&cs=19&s=dhs
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/WinXP/microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics/2004-02/0411.html
http://www.tutorials-win.com/MaintainXP/Show-window/

Possible Workarounds:

Uninstall Dell Media Experience
(seems to be cause for the most of the links above, but I handn't installed it)
Use MSCONFIG to disable the services of your video and audio drivers.
(this solved it in my case on a Dell XPS M1330 64-bit)
Add this small tool to your autostart programs

HTH!

INFO: .REG files can also delete keys and values

NenoLoje — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:09:15 GMT

.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!

WORKAROUND: Mail icon missing in Control Panel of Vista 64-bit

NenoLoje — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:47:16 GMT

You need to open the item "View 32-bit Control Panel Items". And there it is. :)

Enjoy!

Neno Loje's Treasury

IFilter for enabling PDF full-text search on 64-bit Windows Vista

Nokia Software Updater: 'Sorry, Microsoft Windows Vista is currently not supported.'

Nero 8 and Windows Vista 64-bit - not a dream team

Error on ClickOnce install: Application download did not succeed. Check your network connection, or contact your system administrator or network service provider.

[IFilter] Indexing contents of RAR files

Increasing the speed of Windows Search indexer by updating to version 4.0

Vista Sidebar Gadget to monitor and control the Windows Search indexer

PRB: Using Jet provider on 64-bit machines

Workaround: EPSON Status Monitor under Windows Vista

Optimizing VMware virtual machines with PerfectDisk 2008 grows, instead of shrinks, the virtual disk

Not enough free space to create a full clone out of a linked clone with VMware

A central place for Visual Studio hot fixes

WORKAROUND: &quot;Show window contents while dragging&quot; appearance option deactivated after every restart

INFO: .REG files can also delete keys and values

WORKAROUND: Mail icon missing in Control Panel of Vista 64-bit

WORKAROUND: "Show window contents while dragging" appearance option deactivated after every restart