Category: Windows

Windows software

XMLSpy Home Edition 2004

Nicole has used XMLSpy Home Edition for a few years. When I went to install it on her new laptop, I realized that Altova has discontinued the free home edition. I did however, manage to locate it on this Chinese site. Get it now...

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Recover from a ‘Library is locked’ iTunes error

Ran into this on Nicole's new laptop. The reason was because I had used cygwin rsync to copy over our documents from the old laptop and the iTunes Library.itl file ended up getting marked as read-only. macosxhints.com has this...

Windows

Vista Junction Points

Nicole has a new laptop with Windows Vista and it's been a bit of an adjustment. One thing that has been a bit confusing is that Vista has changed some of the familiar folders like "Documents and Settings" ("Users" is the new...

Windows

Solving rsync hangs with Cygwin

I was using Cygwin rsync on our two Windows laptops to copy our files over from the old laptop to the new laptop. Invariably, the rsync would copy a handful of files and then hang. Restarting the rsync would copy a few more files...

Windows

Shup

From http://www.shup.com/: Shup is a free multi-host file uploading, image editing, and collaboration tool for Windows. With it, you can quickly share your screenshots, images, and other files by turning them into web links. Not...

Windows

Photos of installing ReactOS in a VM

ReactOSÂ® is an advanced free open source operating system providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft WindowsÂ® XP compatible operating system. ReactOS aims to achieve complete binary compatibility with both...

Windows

Mounting an .iso file in Windows

As a frequent Linux user, I take for granted that I can take a .iso file and mount it and poke around in the contents. The so-called loopback mount, despite its confusing name, is nonetheless incredibly useful and available "out...