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These days, we migrated our SVN server to a cloud VM, and one of the needed tasks is to switch also my GIT repositories. An easy approach is to rebuild them, but it has one major drawback: it is possible only if your GIT repositories don’t include uncommitted revisions. In these cases, you will lose them all. Since I have several unaligned GITs, I needed … Continue reading HOWTO set new SVN server in git-svn
I was debugging a new feature when I discovered that every time VK_F12 is pressed, the debugger triggered an exception. After some investigations, I found this forum thread, and I discovered that it is a kernel debugger reserved key. The Solution To fix this annoying problem, we can remap this hotkey going into the registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AeDebug and editing the following value: UserDebuggerHotKey Setting it … Continue reading HOWTO remove F12 exceptions during debugging sessions
[oem drivers repository] improved removal procedure with soft & forced attempts. [oem drivers repository] added an exception for Intel Bluetooth drivers in the automatic selection to avoid removing updated items. added new option for component store health restore. minor tweaks and enhancements. compiled with the new VS2022. link
I am in need to frequently use remote desktop sessions, and I was struggling to increase the font size. I finally I discovered an easy way to complete the task. open the Settings window (by pressing <windows_key> + I) type the following string in the search bar: make text size bigger click the suggested topic The program will take you into the Display Settings page … Continue reading HOWTO to tune remote session font size
updated: 09/10/2021 Powershell is indeed a very powerful tool, and sometimes we may need to commit several similar operations that we can quickly organize in a script. By default, you cannot execute any unsigned PowerShell script. This can be a problem if we don’t know how, or you need to do a quick maintenance task. We can update this setting, by opening a Powershell … Continue reading HOWTO enable Powershell script execution
Several weeks ago, while I was working on the next version of Horodruin, I was optimizing the multithreaded file copy engine. This optimization phase pops up an unexpected event on the standard event object processing. It seems that frequent uses of SetEvent() API are not exactly processing-resources free. This is probably caused by some code overhead needed for a system object… During these evaluations, I … Continue reading A custom EVENT object for lighting fast thread synchronization
The new version took me about 2 years to be completed. The main focus was to rip off VCL framework, in order to switch to MS Visual Studio compilers. This point forced me to reorganize and rewrite the whole Interface code, but it also triggered tons of internal improvements and optimizations. Finally, there will be 32 and 64 bits versions…
Sometimes you may need to restore the default Windows Power Plan, because you deleted them or because they were hidden by preloaded settings or by a preloaded utility, … The first option is the following command from an administrative Command Prompt: powercfg -duplicatescheme <Power Plan GUID> where the known Power Plan GUIDs are: Friendly Name GUID Power Saver a1841308-3541-4fab-bc81-f71556f20b4a Balanced 381b4222-f694-41f0-9685-ff5bb260df2e High Performance 8c5e7fda-e8bf-4a96-9a85-a6e23a8c635c Ultimate … Continue reading HOWTO restore hidden or deleted power plan
[oem drivers repository] added support for new pnputil command line params. minor tweaks and enhancements. link
Sometimes it is useful to recover a password from its Windows stored WiFi profiles. We can do this by opening an administrative Command Prompt and typing this command to list all stored profiles: netsh wlan show profile Then type the following command with the proper profile name: netsh wlan show profile name=<profile_name> key=clear You can find it in the Security Settings section in the listed … Continue reading HOWTO Recover a stored WiFi password