Remove displaying weather on your lockscreen?

Some people out there are not as Android savvy as I am. So I decided to just post how to remove the weather info from the lockscreen.

First look-up your Settings icon (Dutch: instellingen)
Scroll down to the Personal section (Dutch: Persoonlijk).




Select Lockscreen (Dutch: Vergrendelscherm).


Select Lockscreen Options (Dutch: Vergrendelscherm opties)
At the Lockscreen Options, you'll find the option to turn on/off,  wether you want to display the weather information on your lockscreen.

If you just click on the description beneath Weather, you will go to another screen, where you will be able to change the temperature unit from Celsius to Fahrenheit. You can also stipulate the interval to renew to weather info.



 

Pin Items to the Start Menu

If you wanna Pin a shortcut to the Start Menu, you can do this by rightclicking on the shurtcut and clicking on the "Pin to Start Menu". This doesn't work when your Windows Vista/XP/7 is NOT in Classic Mode.

If you want to do this via a script you can use the following vb-scripts:

Const CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS = &H17
Const CSIDL_PROGRAMS = &H2
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objAllUsersProgramsFolder = objShell.NameSpace(CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS)
strAllUsersProgramsPath = objAllUsersProgramsFolder.Self.Path
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(strAllUsersProgramsPath & "\Accessories")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("Calculator.lnk")
Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs
For Each objVerb in colVerbs
If Replace(objVerb.name, "&", "") = "Pin to Start Menu" Then objVerb.DoIt
Next

If you are using a Windows with a language pack, you don't have to change "\Accessories" (line 6), line 7 shows the link you want to pin (again keep this the original Englishname when using an Englisch Windows with a language pack).

In line 10, you have to change "Pin to Start Menu" to the Windows language or when using a language pack, the language of the pack.

Dutch: "Aan het menu Start vastmaken"

Const CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS = &H17
Const CSIDL_PROGRAMS = &H2
Set objShell = CreateObject("Shell.Application")
Set objAllUsersProgramsFolder = objShell.NameSpace(CSIDL_COMMON_PROGRAMS)
strAllUsersProgramsPath = objAllUsersProgramsFolder.Self.Path
Set objFolder = objShell.Namespace(strAllUsersProgramsPath & "\Accessories")
Set objFolderItem = objFolder.ParseName("Calculator.lnk")
Set colVerbs = objFolderItem.Verbs
For Each objVerb in colVerbs
Wscript.Echo objVerb
Next

You can use the above (second) vb-script to see which rightmouse-clicks are available for the shortcut calculator. Please ommit the "&".

Source links: http://blogs.technet.com/b/deploymentguys/archive/2009/04/08/pin-items-to-the-start-menu-or-windows-7-taskbar-via-script.aspx

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/40866-pin-to-start-menu-solved/

Low colors on Terminal Server/Citrix/2X sessions

Have you just bought a very high-resolution monitor or have attached two or more hi-res monitors to your Terminal Server/Citrix/2X Client, than you may experience a degradation in color depth on the monitorscreens.

For this to happen, you need Terminal Server 2003

- with Service Pack 2

or - a Terminal Server with hotfix 918679 is installed.

To request the hotfix to fix is issue:

- Go to http://support.microsoft.com/hotfix/KBHotfix.aspx?kbnum=942610&kbln=en-us

You will have to select the appropiate Windows 32/64-bit version ,the right language and fill in your e-mail. The downloadlink will be send to you shortly.

After installling the hotfix, you need to restart the server and

afterwards you have to change the value of AllowHigherColorDepth (reg_Dword) located at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server from 0 (zero) to 1 (one).

If the key doesn't exist, please create it at the correct registrylocation.

The Micorosoft KB-article has the following title:

The color depth is unexpectedly changed to 8-bit when a high screen-resolution setting is used in a terminal-server session that is connected to a Windows Server 2003-based computer.

and can be found here.

Disable Java Update for Windows 7

I just discovered that disabling the Java update from the Java-control panel didn't stick in Windows 7. This is because you need administrative rights to make it "stick".

Just go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre6\bin (path my vari on x86 system) and start the folling executable with administrative rights: javacpl.exe (right-mouseclick).
No go to the tab named: Update, uncheck the "Check for Updates Automatically", choose [Never Check] (to disable autoupdates completely) and click [OK].
This is a userbased solution, so you have to do this for every user on you computer.


I you want to disable the Java-updates for all users, then you have to do somne tweaking with regedit.

Go to [Start], type Regedit and start it with Administrative rights (right-mouseclick).
Dependent of your Windows version x86/x64 you have to change different registrykeys.
Windos 7 x86:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy] "EnableJavaUpdate"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy] "EnableAutoUpdateCheck"=dword:00000000

Windows 7 x64:

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy] "EnableJavaUpdate"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\JavaSoft\Java Update\Policy] "EnableAutoUpdateCheck"=dword:00000000

The next time you start the Java-controlpanel, you will notice that the tab named Update, has been removed completely.
The get the tab and updates back, just change the registry vallues (from 0) to 1.

http://blogmines.com/blog/2011/06/23/how-to-disable-automatic-java-update-check-in-windows-7/

Scratch Notes

Routers te gebruiken met OPen WRT en Open Mesh
https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=134014


Mesh Links http://wiki-robin.meshroot.com/Links
Open Mesh UK http://www.openmesh-uk.com/
Open Mesh OM1p Router http://wifirush.com/store/products/OPEN%252dMESH-OM1P%252d-US-Professional-Router%2C-Access-Point%2C-Wi%252dFi-MESH-node.html
Open Mesh OM1p DE http://www.bettershopping.eu/de_US/shop/?groupid=&search=om1p
Open Messh OM1P Brochure: http://dashboard.open-mesh.com/datasheets/om1p.pdf

NL Providers IPad SMTP: http://www.sms-simonly.nl/ipad-email-instellingen/
Bouzide potential Webhoster: http://www.justhost.com/

Invoice Websites:
http://www.irelandsi.com/software/web-applications/3-free-invoicing-web-applications/
http://www.smashingapps.com/2009/05/21/an-open-source-and-free-invoicing-web-application.html
http://www.blinksale.com/tour/
http://invoicemachine.com/tour
http://www.google.com/search?q=invoice+web+app&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:nl:official&client=firefox-a
http://www.roninapp.com/tour
http://gigaom.com/collaboration/ronin-the-wandering-warrior-of-invoicing-web-apps/

Troubleshooting Memory/Performance Counters on Windows XP
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_mpmonperf_15.mspx?mfr=true
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/139609

Problem with Win Xp Explorer >View > Explorer Bar - Folders

You can set Explorer to view folders by going to: Win Xp Explorer > View > Explorer Bar >Folders
For Ducth users: Beeld > Explorer-balk >Mappen

If your explorer seems to be stuck into this Explorer View, then you probably have found the solution here:

• From Explorer, click on Tools, Folder Options, and then the File Types tab.


• Find (NONE) Folder in the list and highlight it.


• Click the Advanced button. (Explore will probably be bold).


• Changed it to Open, by clicking on open, then clicking the Set Default button. Open should now be bold.


• Click Ok to close the windows.

If this fixed your problem, than your problem was due to the fact, that the default folder action was set to explore,instead of open. Cheers!

Remote Desktop Managers

Do you have multiple RDP-sessions on you're computer and would you like to manage them more efficiently?
If your answer is YES!, than have a look at Remote Desktop Connection Manager 2.2 (it's a free) from Microsoft. It has some nice feautures like thumbnails from RDP-sessions, and you can switch rapidly between sessions.
Other free alternatives are: Remote Desktop Manager (standard edition) , Terminals, CoRD for Mac and RDTabs.
Non-free alternatives are: VisionApp Remote Desktop, Royal TS (10 connections free)

If you have problems connecting to the machines with these tools but not with the standard RDP-utility (Mstsc.exe), you might consider installing Microsoft's RDP 6.x and up and registering Mstscac.dll (RDP ActiveX component) with: regsvr32.exe c:\windows\system32\mstscax.dll