Microsoft Windows

• Tips & Tricks for Windows 95
• Windows 98 Annoyances
• General, keyboard tips, etc.
• Citas interesantes sobre Micro$oft
• Ordinadors sense MS Windows preinstal·lat
• TornarElUindous (Paco Rivière)
• How to get a Windows tax refund
• Windows Tax Refund (Free Software Foundation)
• Racketware
• Devolución de Windows
• Dell me descuenta el importe de la licencia
• Bons constructeurs ordinateurs
• Microsoft licenses
• Dell general conditions
  
• Windows NT tips
• Windows NT/2000 FAQ
• Ethek & Friends (pon tu PC al 100%)
• Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows
• Windows RG ;)
• Optimizando Windows 2000 (Hugo Rodríguez) 
• Customizing and Automating Installations 
• WindizUpdate (Internet Explorer)
• How to receive your Windows 7 upgrade
• Dell
• Llicències / Licenses
• License terms (Microsoft)
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• How to test-drive Windows 8 for free in VirtualBox
• Virtual machines
• Download a Windows virtual machine
• Software Download

• Final reality
• DirectX

• Internet.com
• Stack Overflow
  
• CodeGuru
• The Code Project 
  • CPOL: Code Project Open License
    
  • XBrowseForFolder
  • XFileDialog
  • Spying a file system
  • CDirectoryChangeWatcher - ReadDirectoryChangesW all wrapped up
  • Correct buffer handling bug
  • How to get a notification if change occurs in a specified directory (CNotifyDirCheck)
  • Protecció de programari / Software protection
  • Protecting Your Software Using Simple Serial Number/Activation Key Pair
  • License key generation
  • How to retrieve the real hard drive serial number
  • Get Physical HDD Serial Number without WMI
• Fitxers modificats / Modified files
• CfileDialog 
  • CFileDialog Tutorial Step by Step
  • OPENFILENAME Structure
• Environment variables in Windows XP
• Reduce EXE and DLL Size with LIBCTINY.LIB
• Memòria / Memory 
  • mpatrol
    • mpatrol und VisualStudio
    • mpatrol Yahoo group
  • HeapCheck
• MFC
• MFC Tutorials (CodeGuru)
• FAQ VC++ et MFC
• Active-X
• Creating ActiveX controls with MFC
• A Complete ActiveX Web Control Tutorial (CodeProject)
• ActiveX - FAQ VC++ et MFC
• Comment mettre une boîte de dialogue dans un ActiveX ?
• GUI
• wxWindows (C++)
• XMLGUI (CodeGuru)
• Compiladors / Compilers / Toolchains
  
• Microsoft Visual C++ Toolkit 2003
• MinGW
  
• Run-time libraries (CRT)
• link options
• find out link option for an object
• MS Visual deployment
• Registre / Registry 
• Windows registry (Wikipedia)
• Drivers 
• Driver development kit
• MS Windows: WDK, DDK
• Cygwin: 
• /usr/lib/w32api/
• /usr/include/w32api/ddk/
• Device Installation: Design Guide
• Using SetupAPI Functions
• UpdateDriverForPlugAndPlayDevices
• example (PC review)
• mingw example (zedbot) (MinGW)
  
• serial example (gammu)
• ScanForHardwareChanges
• Serial ports and devices
• Signing
• Driver Signing Registry Values Cannot Be Modified Directly in Windows
• Change the Driver Signing Options
• Unsigned Windows 2000 Patches
• DWORD HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Driver Signing/BehaviorOnFailedVerify = {0,1,2}
• Installation
• Trunk / tcpusb / install (no-cygwin, dlltool)
• Makefile:

CC = gcc
RM = -rm -fr
TARGET = install_driver
OBJECTS = $(TARGET).o
CFLAGS = -O2 -Wall -mno-cygwin
LDFLAGS = -mwindows -mno-cygwin -L. -lsetupapi -lnewdev -lcfgmgr32
.PHONY: all
all: $(TARGET).exe
$(TARGET).exe: $(OBJECTS)
# create an import library for newdev.dll, mingw is missing this
	dlltool --dllname newdev.dll --kill-at --def newdev.def --output-lib libnewdev.a 
	$(CC) -o $@ $(OBJECTS) $(LDFLAGS) 
%.o: %.c
	$(CC) -c $< -o $@ $(CFLAGS)

• System.Security.Cryptography Namespace (Microsoft)
  

• Using Multiple Resource Files and Header Files with Visual C++
• XDialogImport - How to share dialogs between projects

• Inno
• OnceClick (*.application)
  

• Release mode debugging with VC++
• XCrashReport

• MinGW (wp)
• Eclipse integration
• Eclipse 4.2 (Juno) for C/C++ Programming - How To Install Eclipse CDT 8.1.0 and Get Started
• 5.1  C/C++ Software Development Using GCC
• How to install C++ plugin to Eclipse?
• Eclipse, CDT & MingW Setup Guide
• ...
  

• MS Visual
• Deployment of applications:
• vcredist
• Redistribution of the shared C runtime component in Visual C++ 2005 and in Visual C++ .NET
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable Package (x86): vcredist_x86.exe
• Bootstrapper for the VC++ 2005 Redists (with MSI 3.1)
• Service Packs
• CRT (C Run Time) link options
• What are the C and C++ libraries my program would link with? (Microsoft)
• How to link with the correct C Run-Time (CRT) library (Microsoft)
• Linker options:

  include	single-threaded /ML[d]	multithreaded /MT[d]	multithreaded DLL /MD[d]
  	libraries (libc_[D].lib)	libraries (libc_mt[D].lib)	libraries (msvc_rt[D].lib)	dependencies (msvc_[r][t,##][D].dll)
  -	libc.lib	libcmt.lib	msvcrt.lib	msvcrt.dll msvcr[80,71,70].dll
  Standard C++ / STD <use_ansi.h> (eg. <iostream>) (infix: p)	libcp.lib	libcpmt.lib	msvcprt.lib	msvcp[80,71,70,60,50].dll
  Old IOStream * <useoldio.h> (eg. <iostream.h>) (infix: i)	libci.lib	libcimt.lib	msvcirt.lib	msvcirt.dll
  <boost/X>	libboost-X-vc[71,80]-s[gd].lib	libboost-X-vc[71,80]-mt-[gd].lib libboost-X-vc[71,80]-mt-s[gd].lib (static runtime)	boost-X-vc[71,80]-mt[-gd].lib	boost-X-vc[71,80]-mt[-gd].dll

  *: deprecated in MSV2002; deleted in MSV2003, MSV2005
  
• Versions:

  IDE				.net				directories
  name		ver	free version	ver	Windows Forms	ASP.net	compact framework	dlls for deployment
  Visual Studio		6.0				-		C:\WINDOWS\system32
  	.net (2002)	7.0				1.0
  	.net 2003	7.1	Visual C++ Toolkit 2003	1.1		1.1		C:\WINDOWS\system32 ...\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\SDK\v1.1\Bin
  	2005	8.0	Express Edition	2.0		2.0		...\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC80.CRT\ ...\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\redist\x86\Microsoft.VC80.MFC\
  	2008	9.0		3.5
  	2010		Express

• Problems and solutions:
• "...already defined in...":
• libraries and executables that use them must be compiled with the same run-time option (single-threaded / multithreaded / multithreaded DLL):
• Properties / C/C++ / Code generation / Runtime Library
• std::string accross DLL crashes ("Send to Microsoft" / "Unhandled win32 exception") in release mode:
• solution: check that both dll and application are linked to the same run-time library (see previous point)
• another solution: change to char*
• Using std::string across DLL boundaries crashes program in release mode
• How to export an instantiation of a Standard Template Library (STL) class and a class that contains a data member that is an STL object
• MSDN: search "std::string across DLL boundaries"
• Boost for Visual C++ developers / Smart pointers
• ..."be sure to set the code generation runtime library option (/MD[d])"...
• STL problems with MSVisual 2003
• Problems with Xerces and wchar
• "Could not delete temporary file", "Cannot open ... .rsp" (in computers with more than one core/processor)
• set 1 parallel process (Tools / Options / Project and Solutions / Build and Run / Maximum number of parallel project builds: 1)
• "The operation could not ne completed": 
• check the target architecture
• (Windows Scripting Host)
• (vshost)
• Problems with Web Services
• Visual 2005 exclude folders
• Exclude Folder from Website in Visual Studio
• hide unwanted directories
• Tips
• Adding a path to PATH environment variable
• Visual 2003
• Visual 2005
• Properties / Configuration Properties / Debugging (added to ...vproj_MACHINE_USER)
• Environment: PATH=c:\toto\bin
• Merge Environment: Yes

• Adobe PostScript Generic printer
• CUPS for MS Windows
• Postscript
• GSView
• PDF
• Trucs / Tips
• PDF Creator

• Microsoft
  • INFO: Loading Multilingual Resource on Windows 2000
  • Code Pages Supported by Windows
  • Table of Language Identifiers
• RC Localization Tool (LocalizeRC)
• Translator

• Networking Setup for Windows 95 PC's (Samba)
• Talk
  • Internet Talk
• Telnet
  • NetTerm
  • PuTTY (Telnet/SSH)
• FTP
  • WS FTP32
  • GuildFTPd
  • FileZilla (client + server)
  • Wiki
• Ping, trace
  • WS Ping, trace
• Browsers
  • El Navegador
  • Internet Explorer en català
• WinOpen

• International keyboard and ALT+no.
• ASCII table

• Choosing the Right Disk Storage for Your W2K System (partitions)
• MBR 
• Boletín técnico: virus en sectores de arranque
• Nettoyer un disque avec une partition Linux pour mettre Windows

• Alternatives
• ReactOS
• Emulació / Emulation
• Wine
• GNU Win II (open source)
• Software del WWP
• Windows 95 software
• Freeware 32
• Software Gratis
• emm.ie - freeware - Windows PC software
• The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux
• Tucows
  • Tucows GRN
  • Tucows Generalitat Valenciana
  • Tucows Tenaria
  • Tucows Interplanet
• Completely Free Software
• Empaquetadors / Packagers
• Microsoft
  • Microsoft Office Converters and Viewers
  • DirectX
  • Windows
    • Windows embedded 
    • Windows Media Player
    • Internet Explorer
  • MS Office
    • Export formats (OpenOffice)
    • Saving Excel 2.1 Workbook (miniexcel)
    • Spreadsheet::WriteExcel (perl)
      • Spreadsheet::WriteExcel - Write text and numbers to a cross-platform Excel binary file
• Utilitats / Utilities
  • Maquinari virtual hardware
  • Task manager
  • Process Explorer (Microsoft)
    
  • Free Process Explorer: a better task manager
    
  • Sysinternals (freeware): contig, filemon, cpumon...
  • Freeware downloads System Utilities (WebAttack)
  • Who locks me
  • PC Inspector File Recovery 
  • Clear Type (WXP antialiasing fonts)
  • Roadkil
  • Data recovery
  • Disk utilities
  • Renamer
  • ReplaceEM
  • Virtual drives
  • subst (DOS command)
  • Visual Subst
• UNIX tools
• Windows Services for Windows (SFU) (wp)
  
• Sistemes de fitxers / File systems
• ext2
• ext2 IFS for Windows
• explore2fs
• Mounting ISO images in a virtual CD-ROM drive
  
• Desfragmentadors / Defragmenters
  • Autodefrag (W2k: scheduling)
  • contig (per fitxer; creació de fitxers contigus) (Sysinternals)
  • O&O Defrag
  • Diskeeper Lite (detall bloc/fitxer) (Executive) 
  • download
  • pagedefrag (pagefile)
• Modes gràfics / Grpahical modes
• PowerStrip
• X Window System
• Xming (sourceforge)
• XDMCP (remote login to a UNIX machine)
• CygwinX

• Windows Services:NT, 2000 and XP

• Windows XP fixes, tips and tweaks
• System account
• cmd.exe
• at xx:xx /interactive cmd.exe
• taskmgr (es pot matar absolutament qualsevol procés)
• gestió d'usuaris en MS Windows XP / users management
• control userpasswords2

• Virus Bulletin Web
• Secure, Virii, Labs
• Última versió antivirus (XTEC)
• Sin Virus
• Antivirus
  • AntiVir (freeware)
  • Panda Software
    • ActiveScan (online)
      
    • Desinstal·lació / Uninstall
    • Cómo desinstalar Panda Internet Security 2008 (UNINSTALLER_10.exe)
      
    • ¿Cómo puedo desinstalar Panda Antivirus 2007 de mi ordenador? (UNINSTALLER_07.exe)
      
  • Symantec (Norton)
  • Trendmicro
• Tallafocs / Firewalls 
• Agnitum Outpost (es)

• How to stop UAC from dimming screen on Vista or Windows 7

• hosts
• c:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

• ASP.NET architecture (Machine.config, Web.config)
• ASP.NET security overview
• ASP.NET Securtiy model:
• Access control (access token,...)
• IIS Authentication
• anonymous password controlled by IIS:
• on: network logon (logon type: 3) (NOT allowed to access network resources)
• off: local logon (allowed to access network resources)
• ASP.NET Delegation
• ASP.NET Impersonation
• ASP.NET Process Identity (<processModel>)
• Using Mapped Drives with IIS (KB257174)
• How to access network files from IIS applications (IIS 4.0) (KB207671) (login auditing)
• HOW TO: Run Applications Not in the Context of the System Account in IIS (IIS 5.0, 5.1, 4.0) (KB319067) 
• Application protection:
• high: IWAM_machine
• medium (pooled): IWAM_machine
• low (IIS process): SYSTEM
• Security issues (ASP.NET accessing network drives)

1. \%windows%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\Version\Config\
2. several access rights must be granted to specific directories for this user

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Darrera modificació: 1 de juny de 2023 / Last update: 1st June 2023