Working With Windows
Windows Logo 1992--2000
Perhaps a better title for this section might be “Working Despite Windows!” If you listen to me long enough, you may suspect I have a bit of an anti-Microsoft sentiment. Well… truth is, I use Windows nearly every day (probably more than 350 days per year); though my reasons for doing so are dwindling. It’s probably more a matter of inertia and laziness than anything else that’s keeping me from switching to Linux on my home computer. As it is, I use cygwin (Linux on Windows) to backup, maintain, and develop this website: I just can’t do anything useful without bash, emacs, find, grep, xargs, ssh, rsync, tar, even cp and mv! The website logo (top left corner of every page) was created using the GIMP (though, truthfully, I probably used GIMP for Windows).
But I digress. This section is about Windows, or more accurately, ways of fixing things in Windows. I’ve gained every one of these nuggets of experience the hard way. They are recorded here because I tend to forget things; they are readable by you because I figured I won’t be the only one to come up against these obstacles and annoyances.
Also in this Windows section, there are tips, tricks, and tweaks for various applications that run on Windows.
Contents
- Windows Tips and Tricks
- Vista Tips and Tricks
- Microsoft Office Tips and Tricks
- Getting Back the Folders Sidebar
- Customizing Your Open Files Places Bar
- Windows Registry Tweaks
- Dealing with Win2K/XP Services
- Fixing the MBR
- Windows Scripting
- Creating a Custom 64bit XP Install CD
- System Information, Benchmarks, Stress Tests
- Web Services using Tomcat, Axis, and XMLBeans
- Web Services with Axis and XMLBeans Example
- Getting rid of Nero Scout
Other Useful Sites
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
