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

Determine if a MSI-installation is running

Did you know only 1 MSI (Windows Installer-file) can be running at a time?
So if you are already installing a MSI-file and you try aonother install you'll probably get the following message:
Error 1618 or Error 1500 "Installation already in progress"
But how can you determine a MSI is running before you run your installation?
It's easy! Just monitor the following registry-key for its's presents:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Installer\InProgress
If this key doesn NOT exist, you are save to start a Windows Installer-installation.

One way to use this if an user logs in for the first time ever. Often al sorts of MSI-repairs are triggered. So installing software while these MSI-"repairs" are running is not a good idea if you are installing some software at login.

I made a routine to check for 5 seconds (loop) if a MSI was running. If that was the case within those 5 deconds, I would make my installationwrapper wait for 10 seconds and then check again. To protect my wrapper against an infinite loop, the max. wait time was 20 loops (20x 10 = 200 seconds). That should do it when an user is logging in for the very first time!

Sources: http://www.appdeploy.com/messageboards/tm.asp?m=9119&mpage=1&key=&#9119
http://www.installsite.org/pages/en/msifaq/error/1618.htm

Installatie H-Base op server en client

Bij het installeren van Hbase als Server/Client moet op de Server DEP worden uitgeschakeld voor Hbase.exe (In Nohau en HBSWin folder) en Update.exe (Nohau).
Ook moet her een share gemaakt worden naar de rootfolder waarin Hbase wordt geïnstalleerd.

Bij het installeren van de client vraagt zegt de setup dat je administrator moet zijn (DLL updates naar Windows-folder) en of je wil stoppen, deze vraag komt altijd ongeacht of je localadmin bent of niet.

De client moet een netwerk-koppeling hebben met de Hbase-Share.
Wanneer de Setup deze snelkoppeling ziet, zal de optie vrijkomen om i.p.v. de volledige versie, de client versie (zonder dbase en plaatjes) op de werkstation te installeren.

Op Windows Vista/7 wordt het detecteren van de Hbase of de netwerkschijf tegengehouden door UAC, waardoor alleen maar de volledige installatie mogelijk is.
De oplossing is om tijdelijk UAC uit te schakelen en na de installatie van HBase UAC weer aan te zetten.

Wanneer DEP goed staat, Hbase op de server wordt opgestart en er komt een Visual Instance Debug melding, dan lijkt het verwijderen van "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for applications 2.0" te zorgen dat Hbase toch werkt.

Microsoft Handy Office Links

Office 2010 OEM Preinstallation Kit (OPK)
The images to install Office 2010 OEM if you have an OEM key.
http://oem.microsoft.com/script/contentpage.aspx?pageid=566244
http://oem.microsoft.com/script/contentpage.aspx?pageid=566203 (NL)


Office Starter 2010 and is included in the OPK-image.
http://www.microsoft.com/oem/en/products/office/pages/office_2010_pc_essentials.aspx

Click 2 Run Cleanup Tool - Trust me if you have problems you will need it.
Office 2010 Cleanup Tool - Works for C2R and Full Versions


If you want to install Microsoft Starter 2010 without ISO, then:

1. Download following files (at the end you will have 21 files):
Note: make sure all the files are in the same folder otherwise setup
will download all the files to a temporarily location again to complete the installation

• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/85e110c8-36c2-44cf-be26-9cd15c6826a2.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/3144a390-6c02-4061-aa13-504ca30b6008.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/ef1f433f-6b77-4d7c-a3c1-e491b196da50.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/17d8f43d-5d9e-4fe9-bfe6-f35ee52db5ad.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/934131f7-7fbc-4e5a-84bf-690585111dd5.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/4a68c605-cebb-44cc-9621-74e0a2279771.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/769f21c2-d661-4f2d-9dcb-94dccb4439e3.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/932412ab-86dd-4b01-9080-5ded1867db5f.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/6a45aa64-4f34-47eb-9491-45dd36fea2a5.dsft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/51305001.cab
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/autorun.inf
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/click2run64.msi
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/click2run.msi
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/ConsumerC2R.nl-nl_14.0.5130.5001.fs.hmp
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/ConsumerC2R.nl-nl_14.0.5130.5001.sft
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/descriptor.xml
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/launchofficeintl.dll
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/office.exe
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/PackageProperties.xml
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/Welcomedocument.dotx
• http://c2r.microsoft.com/ConsumerC2R/nl-nl/14.0.4763.1000/SetupConsumerC2ROLW.exe

2. Execute 'SetupConsumerC2ROLW.exe' to install Microsoft Office Starter.
Basically you only need SetupConsumerC2ROLW.exe because it will download all needed files if they are
NOT in the same filder!

Remarks:
* No activation required
* Vista SP2 or higher required, the install will NOT work on any Windows Xp installation!
* For a complete basic Office Suite, you can also download Powerpoint Viewer 2010
* Make sure you don't have "Q:\" assigned as a driveletter. The installer uses "Q:\" to create a virtual drive.

Other languages:
* Available languages: ar-sa,da-dk,de-de,en-us,es-es,fr-fr,he-il,hi-in,it-it,ja-jp,ko-kr,en-us,
pl-pl,pt-br,ru-ru,sv-se,th-th,zh-cm,zh-tw
* Replace all "nl-nl" witch your language (eg "en-us-nl" for US version)

* The *.dsft files have different filenames for each language. Open descriptor.xml and search for
"<@/@DiffSftList>"
(The keyword is deleted by Blogspot (looks like HTML-coding), so I added two @. Please remove the @ for the REAL keyword )


See original sourcelink: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/21441-Office-2010-Starter

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Outlook PST Conversion Utility and more

Looking for a free PST Conversion Utility? Look no further. WinPST has a free PST converter called WinPST Ansi PST to Unicode Converter. With this utility you can convert an Outlook 2003 PST-file to Outlook 97-2000 PST-file and vice versa.
The best thing about the program: Its FREE!

WinPST offers also some other usefull utilities at some modest fees.
One is called WinPST Outlook Duplicate Remover and only cost about $19.95.

They also have a program called WinPST Share Outlook. This program allows you to create a Public folder and share Outlook PST among other users/colleges without using e.g. Exchange.
Prices range from 3 users $70, 5 users $110, and on (about $20/user) according to the Time Limited deal on their website (17/12/2010).

Handy Telecom relates links

Firmware and configuration programs for KPN (Business) ADSL modems:
http://www.kpnserviceweb.com

Tele2 VDSL modem hack (Comtrend):
http://tele2.gebruikers.eu/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=1987
http://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1369551/14



Recover Tele2 ADSL Davolink DV-201/DV-2020 configuration (username/password included!):
http://tele2.gebruikers.eu/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=919

Compare CPUs speed

In the past knowing if one CPU was faster than another was easy. You just had to look at the MHz. More was better. And Mr. AMD supplied it's processornames with e.g. 1500+ so you could reasonably compare AMD with Intel CPUs. Nowadays Intel and AMD all use cryptic semi-numerical names for their CPU and a bigger number does not automatically means faster! So what if you wan't to know if a Core2Duo 2.0 MHz is faster than a i3 1.2 MHz? The dudes at Notebookcheck.net have made a CPU-benchmarklist so you could compare some different CPU's. The faster CPU's are at the top, the slowest are at the bottom. The above benchmarklist shows that a Core2Due to be about 25% faster than the i3 CPU !