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Error 1402 Visual Studio 2008 installation

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 11:40:22 +0000

My Visual Studio installation was delete from a disk, so I tried to reinstall it.

In the middle of the installation i received an Error 1402 Could not open registery key .

I tried to fix it manually but without success.

Try to reset the hole registry permissions with this command:

Windows 7 and Vista:

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\inf\defltbase.inf /db defltbase.sdb /verbose

Make sure you run this command as Administrator.

IIS not showing images and CSS

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:45:43 +0000

The problem:

I loaded a ASP.NET application on my Windows 7 IIS 7.5 installation. The code compiled fine but..

When I opened the website http://localhost/myapp it didnt show me any images or CSS. Only text on a blank page.

The solution for me was to install the “Static Content” support for IIS.

Go to “Turn Windows features on or off”
Select Internet Information Services
Select World Wide Web Services
And check Static Content

Hope it will help someone

Uitzendinggemist on your TV with DLNA

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:06:33 +0000

Hey people check out the following software:

http://code.google.com/p/uitzendinggemist-dlna/

It’s still in a beta, but you can use it for watching Uitzendinggemist, RTL Gemist, Net5, SBS6 and Veronica on your TV.

Paul Wagener has started the project as a Pyton script and rewrote it to Java as a plugin for PS3 Media Server (at least build 381). I’m trying to commit good code too

Will write some more text about this later, in the meantime please test it and enjoy!

Download complete website freeware

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:55:58 +0000

This tool is freeware and works great. It lets you save/download a complete website to your local harddisk.

http://www.httrack.com/

AVI to DVD convert Open source!

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:13:40 +0000

Check out this very nice app. It was the only one, who converted my avi correctly without any errors.

Also it’s optimized for dual or quad cores!

http://www.dvdflick.net/

Freeware, open source

Windows and Office serials recovery

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:22:26 +0000

Ever tried to make a good list of all Windows and Office license keys on your network computers?

This can be a h*ll of a job.

Try this app to recovery every Windows and Office serials from the PC’s on your network. (You need domain admin rights).

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/product_cd_key_viewer.html

Open the app in the command prompt (cmd) with the parameters for scanning the whole network.

Takes a little time, but works perfect!

Multiple mouse cursors on a Windows Desktop

Job Vermeulen (admin) — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:23:18 +0000

Ever thought of two mouse cursors at the same time? After googling I found a SDK from Microsoft, to make multi mouse available WITHIN your own application. I was wondering if this can be done system width.

The answer is YES!

There’s an open source project named CPNMouse (kinda outdated, last update was in 2004) but it works!

Download the custom driver (make sure you have the binary) from this website.

Select your mouse in device manager, and update the driver to the downloaded on. Instructions

If windows tells you there is no supported hardware in this driver follow these instructions (easy to fix!):

Windows 2000/XP/2003

Open Start -> Programs -> Accessories -> System Tools -> System Information. If this is not available on your computer, you may also be able to use BusHound to obtain the information.
In this program select Components -> Input -> Pointing Devices
The information in under PNP Device Id is what you need. It is in the form USB\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY\
You need the numbers XXXX and YYYY
You must add a line to cpnmouse.inf. The line is “%CPNGroup.DeviceDesc1% = usbinst, HID\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY“, where XXXX and YYYY are the numbers found earlier. You should add the line just after the other lines looking just like it
If you send the numbers to me, I will add them to the distribution

After you successfully installed this driver (on both mouses!) download and run the ordinary-binary application. This starts two mouse pointers witch can move separated.

It works, but the scroll function is lost (after the application is starts, not by installing the driver).

Try it yourself

PS: It’s working on Windows XP SP3

Extra link:

Funny little multi mouse game:

http://www.nekogames.jp/mt/2008/01/cursor10.html