Category: Windows and Beyond

Windows so far has been a forte of ours. We have worked with it for a lot of years already. But as the versions go up, a lot of the “we used to see it here before” is a common occurrence. Let’s journey together into the magical windows world.

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Windows cannot find “c:\…..\AcroRd32.exe”. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and try again.

This was recently a problem that I encountered and the first thought that came to my mind was to uninstall and re-install acrobat reader.

Try as I might, the error message persisted. Then I tried to look at the shortcut settings and still no answer.

Finally, I found the solution:

1- Close Reader

2- Hold down Windows key and press R on your keyboard, this will bring up Run dialogue box.

3- Type regedit in the run dialogue box and hit Enter, click Yes when User Account Control pop-up appears.

4- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Image File Execution Options, delete the key AcroRd32.exe

5- Relaunch Reader

Note : just in case you are like me who didn’t find the Image File Execution Options, what I did in regedit was to use the ‘Find’ command.

After a few skips, I finally found it. I also removed an additional folder in the registry with the _info extension. True enough, after that, Acrobat reader is now working.

Hope you enjoyed

Coffee Cup

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Windows 10 : How to switch from VGA to HDMI on the same PC

On a windows 10 computer, sometimes you have an HDMI port and a VGA port. Normally, you only have 1 monitor. When you try to plug both ports together, windows guesses you have 2 monitors so when you scroll to the right, the mouse disappears.

Now if you remove the VGA cable you will see a black screen. The secret is the Windows+P key. When you press this button, the system automatically switches to HDMI port. Please note that this step would take around 10 seconds to kick-in.

At first I thought it did not work. But patience is truly a virtue.

Coffee Cup

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Teamviewer : Activated the black screen feature but is not working on windows 10

Recently, I have tried to combine both the portable version and the installed version. If you are an IT guy and you need to update a PC on your office mates office remotely, you need to hide what you are doing by clicking the black screen feature.

And as an experiment, I tried to remotely connect to my laptop using the portable version. And as it turns out, it is not working on the client side. It seems that when you activate it on the portable version, the installer for the video card does not kick in thus, people on the client side can see what you are really doing although on the server side (where the IT guys is working, he can see the tick box activated).

In this post I will include the picture on how to activate the black screen on Teamviewer.

Teamviewer Black Screen Opion
Settings that show how to set the black screen on the client side

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Laptop : ASUS X455L What does expansion up to 8 GB SDRAM mean?

Right now, I have my laptop ASUSX 455L, under the memory section it says…

DDR3L 1600 MHz SDRAM, 1 x DIMM socket for expansion up to 8 GB SDRAM

The laptop already came with 4GBs of RAM. And I’m guessing you can expand it because i saw youtube video that a guy jut slided a ram chip in the slot.

For the softwares that i run, adding windows update (which i tried to disable for a few times already) on the mixture, it seems to be slowing down. So does this mean I can put 4GB more to make it 8GB or can I put 8GB on the expansion to have 12GB of RAM?

As it turns out, you cannot inject more than 8GB or ram. Comon reasons could be due to chipset limitations or max width of copper traces to the DIMM socket.

So the next move for this one is to get a 4GB ram to add to my current 4GB ram to have a maximum of 8GB which is still at the maximum level.

Hope this helps

Coffee Cup

 

 

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Delphi : Date and Time Format from ddd-mm-yy to mm/dd/yyyy

i had a case a few weeks back of a problem where the computer needs to have a date format of dd-mmm-yy which in today’s date is 21-Feb-18. What i need is for the program to act the same as it was with the format 02/21/2018.

After digging data, i came across these gems of a find. It’s so short and so obvious, i hope this code can help somebody out

Enjoy

Coffee Cup

 

 

 

{
CurrencyString, CurrencyFormat, NegCurrFormat, ThousandSeparator,
DecimalSeparator, CurrencyDecimals, DateSeparator, ShortDateFormat,
LongDateFormat, TimeSeparator, TimeAMString, TimePMString,
ShortTimeFormat, LongTimeFormat

//Change COMPUTER date and time
SetLocaleInfo(GetThreadLocale, LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, ‘MM/dd/yyyy’);
SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0, 0,
SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG, 1000, PDWord(Nil)^);

//Change formatting from within the APPLICATION
DateSeparator := ‘/’;
ShortDateFormat := ‘MM/dd/yyyy’;

SetLocaleInfo(DefaultLCID, LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, ‘m/d/yy’) (short form) and
SetLocaleInfo(DefaultLCID, LOCALE_SLONGDATE, ‘mmmm d, yyyy’) (long form)

SetLocaleInfo(GetThreadLocale, LOCALE_SSHORTDATE, ‘MM/dd/yyyy’);
SendMessageTimeout(HWND_BROADCAST, WM_SETTINGCHANGE, 0, 0,
SMTO_ABORTIFHUNG, 1000, PDWord(Nil)^);
}

// Change the display formatting
DateSeparator := ‘/’;
ShortDateFormat := ‘MM/dd/yyyy’;

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Borland Database Engine (BDE) Config Disappears

Being a programmer for so many years, i have been accustomed to a adapt to different circumstances and scenarios. Here are my top reasons why Borland Database Engine (BDE) profiles seem to dissapear.

* Windows User Account Control Settings
Now this one is the first one on the list. When you modify the security level from medium to low, this is the first one in my list.

* Deepfreeze Software or Any Software that Restores Back Windows
This one is quite obvious. deepfreeze is a software that when you restart your pc, it reverts back to the way it was. Yeah, who knows, you might be a victim of one.

* Windows 10 Update
Now this one beats the cake. So far, when Windows downloads an update to yur pc, be sure that he meddled with the settings. Well, it’s a bit off topic but my system date and time, Windows keep setting it to automatically update. This feature i usually turn off because i set the time minutes advance.

I created a youtube video to show some pictures of what i mean

Enjoy

Coffee Cup

https://youtu.be/sAamLzyf_yk

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Hyper Threading to Single Thread

If you are looking for a software that will bridge your delphi application and your interbase application that is freeware, look no further. I found this program while researching since i cannot install delphi during deployment because it needs a serial key. Now, you don’t need to.

Here are the links. Please try only one. They all link to the same file. But just in case one of the links fail, at least you have other options to reach them.

http://www.indishare.me/79wawf5nnord

http://verified-download.com/file/36L9866

https://uploadocean.com/4r1mzjqiz7fw

https://dailyuploads.net/8uksbvfx4apm

https://www.megaupload.us/1NlH/20180218_Interbase_Hyper_Threading_to_SIngle_Thread.7z

http://agileurbia.com/CVW

 

 

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Interbase Server 6.01 IBServer601

If you are looking for a software that will bridge your delphi application and your interbase application that is freeware, look no further. I found this program while researching since i cannot install delphi during deployment because it needs a serial key. Now, you don’t need to.

Here are the links. Please try only one. They all link to the same file. But just in case one of the links fail, at least you have other options to reach them.

http://www.indishare.me/crwiuhtl4orc

http://reliablefiles.com/file/36L9867

https://uploadocean.com/4gc6yik3rkk3

https://dailyuploads.net/xiusw41u9hs2

https://www.megaupload.us/1NlI/20180218_Interbase_Server_6.01_IBServer601.7z

http://agileurbia.com/CX4

 

 

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Interbase : IB Client Freeware

If you are looking for a software that will bridge your delphi application and your interbase application that is freeware, look no further. I found this IB client program while researching since i cannot install delphi during deployment because it needs a serial key. Now, you don’t need to.

Here are the links. Please try only one. They all link to the same file. But just in case one of the links fail, at least you have other options to reach them.

http://www.indishare.me/r56pgf38bysj

http://filerack.net/file/36L9865

https://uploadocean.com/04pdw1dr0nxw

https://dailyuploads.net/h38drei09qth

https://www.megaupload.us/1NlG/20180218_Interbase_Client_IB.7z

http://agileurbia.com/CUh