To put it straight, ProgramData contains application data that is not user specific.This data will be available to all users on the computer. Any global data should be put in here. AppData folder contains configuration settings, downloaded information/files for a particular user. So, for example any user specific preferences and profile configurations can be stored … Read more
In Skype: Go to Tools → Options → Advanced → Connections and uncheck the box use port 80 and 443 as alternative. This should help. As Salman Quader said: In the updated skype(8.x), there is no menu option to change the port. This means this answer is no longer valid.
VB6 Installs just fine on Windows 7 (and Windows 8 / Windows 10) with a few caveats. Here is how to install it: Before proceeding with the installation process below, create a zero-byte file in C:\Windows called MSJAVA.DLL. The setup process will look for this file, and if it doesn’t find it, will force an … Read more
Copied from Right click on Windows folder and open with Visual Studio Code Create file vsCodeOpenFolder.reg with this content (If you didn’t choose the default installation path then you need to adjust the paths in this file): Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 ; Open files [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell\Open with VS Code] @=”Edit with VS Code” “Icon”=”C:\\Program Files … Read more
Aha! OK, so it turns out that my issue is NOT with ReportViewer, but rather with RSClientPrint. Once I did a google search for that I quickly found that the answer is: Upgrade to Sql Server 2008 R2 SERVICE PACK 2. The version of RsClientPrint you get with R2/SP2 is 10.50.4000, while the version I … Read more
Make sure you set the web server to use a MIME type video/mp4 for .mp4. I accidentally set .mp4 to use MIME type video/mpeg, the video plays in Chrome, but not in IE11. Also you need to make sure the video uses H264 video codec and AAC audio codec
Make a shortcut pointing to cmd.exe somwhere (e.g. desktop) then right-click on the copy and select “properties”. Navigate to the “Shortcut” menu and change the “Start in:” directory.
Perhaps you want to use the .net System.Speech namespace instead of SAPI? There is a very good article that was published a few years ago at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163663.aspx. It is probably the best introductory article I’ve found so far. It is a little out of date, but very helfpul. (The AppendResultKeyValue method was dropped after the … Read more
This can be done through a lot of Win32 API calls. I have managed to get a program with a GUI onto the Winlogon desktop (before anyone asks, it’s not an interactive GUI). Basically you need to run a loader process as SYSTEM, which will then spawn the new process. Since you most likely want … Read more
The default generator for Windows seems to be set to NMAKE. Try to use: cmake -G “MinGW Makefiles” Or use the GUI, and select MinGW Makefiles when prompted for a generator. Don’t forget to cleanup the directory where you tried to run CMake, or delete the cache in the GUI. Otherwise, it will try again … Read more