Windows

With Corsair’s iCUE (latest version) on my Windows 10 (all updates installed) I got an error dialogue on every shutdown/reboot from iCUE. It was something like the following: The instruction at 0x000000005FC4030B reference memory at 0x000000003ED0860. The memory could not be read. Taken from the Corsair forum this especially effects systems with ASUS soundcards. I […]

You can use softlinks (linux: ln -s source target) under windows. The example mklink /D jdk11 jdk-11.0.7.10-hotspot will create a softlink with name jdk11 to folder jdk-11.0.7.10-hotspot in the same directory.

Open a terminal and cd to the directory with the folders. Then run the following command: for /f “tokens=* usebackq” %G in (dir /b /a:d “%cd%”) do “c:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe” a -r -tzip “%~G.zip” “%~G Make sure you have 7z installed under default installation target. Otherwise it won’t find the 7z.exe.

See the following link from msdn. There you find commands to cleanup the WinSxS folder: http://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/library/dn251565.aspx You will need admin rights for doing this ;-)

There is a simple way to start/stop postgresql without any need to open the services dialogue: NET START postgresql-x64-9.3 NET STOP postgresql-x64-9.3 Just replace the version in the statements (you only need major and minor). Just skip the -x64 if you still have a 32bit version.

My outlook 2010 always wants to save Normalemail.dotm when I close it. To fix this i created a .reg file with the following content and double clicked it: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftOffice14.0WordOptionsWordMail] “ATUserAdded”=dword:00000001 After that the problem was fixed.

I recently deleted the folder “Favoriten” in the home directory of my Windows 7. This broke the explorer feature as the folder was not recreated. To do this simply open a command prompt (cmd) cd to your home directory and use the following statements to recreate the folder and restore the explorer functionality: mkdir Favorites