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A day before Christmas, a friend of mine called me telling me that one of his notebook didn’t start anymore. A glorious BlueScreen pops up giving an error 0xC000000E because a device isn’t accessible anymore. We downloaded the latest Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to create a bootable USB Windows 10 image from where to try to fix the problem. Naturally, the automatic recovery didn’t … Continue reading HOWTO restore inaccessible boot disks
Occasionally I use assembler to squeeze processing power from my programs. A cheap solution was C inline assembler sections, but VS2019 doesn’t support them into a 64-bits program. Other compilers use other more or less complex solutions (IBM assembler, …). This forced me to consider to have & link .asm files in my projects. I can split them with 32 and 64 bits code and … Continue reading HOWTO integrate NASM with VS2019
Several days ago, I started Performance Monitor, and I tripped the following error: Unable to add these counters: \Memory\Available MBytes \Memory\% Committed Bytes In Use \Memory\Cache Faults/sec \Memory\Cache Faults/sec \PhysicalDisk(*)\%Idle Time \PhysicalDisk(*)\Avg. Disk Queue Length \Network Interface(*)\Bytes Total/sec Looking around, I found and followed this article. The Solution I fixed the problem by executing the following command from an administrative Command Prompt window: lodctr /r … Continue reading HOWTO fix Performance Monitor ‘unable to add counter’ errors
In windows 10, the firewall blocks PING command messages by default. I presume that this setting is to improve the security of our PCs, but sometimes we need it because we have to investigate about network problems, … Since I find that wandering into hundreds of firewall rules quite annoying, then I found the command lines to enable/disable the related firewall rules from an Administrative … Continue reading HOWTO enable/disable PING on Windows 10 firewall by command prompt
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Up to now, there are different ways to install a device driver: by a dedicated setup file by the manufacturer. by using Device Manager to update it of a previously installed device. by File Explorer right-click menu. … by script or command line This last option can be useful if you need to include in a script the driver installation, or in a troubleshooting phase … Continue reading HOWTO install a driver .INF by command line
I am rewriting a VCL program using MFC, and I have converted many functions of this kind: CString MyFunction () { return L”Sample test”; } This kind of function declaration is comfortable, but the question is: is it also convenient? The answer I found is that it might not be so convenient, especially if used inside a loop. When we call this function, we … Continue reading Few Considerations About Functions Returning an Object
Open a Command Prompt with administrative access rights, and execute the following commands: netsh winsock reset catalog netsh int ip reset reset.log Then, a reboot is needed.
It happened that the usual compact disk from Hyper-V Console doesn’t seem to be effective on one of mine .vhdx file. Looking around on the web, I discovered that it is a quite common problem. The solution is to open a Powershell window with administrative access rights, and use the following command: optimize-vhd <offline Hyper-V disk file> -mode full For further details about this command, … Continue reading HOWTO compact vhd/vhdx Hyper-V files
Into my previous post, I wrote about using GIT with a SVN server pathing across different processes. One of these was cloning a SVN repository. This topic can be used to convert a SVN repository to GIT one with all its revision history. The Process We can use the cloning command to set up the starting revision of our new GIT clone, by the following … Continue reading HOWTO Convert SVN repository to GIT