If you are running an x64 version of Windows then when you try and run an old 16-bit Windows 95 application you will see an error screen saying “This app can’t run on your PC”: To solve this:

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Visual Studio has an integrated terminal and by default on Windows this loads cmd.exe – the standard, and fairly rubbish Windows command prompt. I normally use cmder as my default terminal on Windows – this is basically the excelle...

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I am using Git on the command line in Windows via msysgit. As with all msys installs whenever you press backspace and there is no more text to delete or you press TAB for auto-complete when there are multiple options, your speaker utters an horrendous, ugly beep. To disable this, load msys and find o...

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The Windows Vista sidebar has two display methods: Always there – in the mode it blocks up a couple of inches at the right-hand edge of the screen and all your applications be...

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I don’t know anything about configuring or using Windows installers. Seriously. From January to February, my contact form was broken, since I fixed it, I’ve had four messages from people asking for help fixing their installers. I was completely baffled, but a quick web search later showed that my namesake is a Microsoft MVP who wrote

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Running a CVS server on Windows Last week I started an attempt to convert our work VCS from Microsoft Sourcesafe to CVS. The first thing to do was get a CVS server up and running. We’re a completely Microsof...

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