Windows on David Cumps

HOWTO: Set up NTP on Windows Vista

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

By default, Windows Vista synchronizes once every 7 days with time.windows.com along with every other user out there. Let’s change this to sync every half day with several NTP servers to get a more reliable time. First of all go to the NTP Pool Project and browse to the page of your country, I’ll use the Belgium NTP Pool as an example.

HOWTO: Setup IPv6 Tunnel on Windows Vista

Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0200

I used to have an IPv6 tunnel on my old machine, but since I moved to a new desktop I didn’t get around to setting it up again. That’s gonna change today. First of all, why would you want it? Well, here’s a start, as well as the fact that it’s geeky and lets you learn more about IPv6.

Explorer Bug, Long Path, damaged directories

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Long ago, I found something strange in Windows Explorer, which I wanted to retry on Vista today.

Daemon Tools - The Disk Image Emulator

Sun, 19 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Ever wanted to install something but couldn’t be bothered to burn it to a disc first? Like the Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 discs for example. Daemon Tools is the answer!

XP SP2 using Alternate Data Streams for Security Warnings

Sun, 24 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0200

A while ago I blogged about <a href="/archive/2005-01-04-blogcast-alternate-data-streams/"">Alternate Data Streams and how they are hidden from the users.

BlogCast - Alternate Data Streams

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 00:00:00 +0100

Some time ago I saw something about Alternate Data Streams, but I can’t find the source anymore to give credit :(

The Invisible Administrator

Thu, 02 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Today something very weird happened and I doubt something this weird will ever happen again.

Hacking Uxtheme.dll - Watercolor Theme

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

One thing I immediately do on a new pc is get it personalized. This includes changing icons and wallpapers, but also resource hacking the run box and hacking the uxtheme.dll to support custom themes.

Random Wallpaper through Scheduled Tasks

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

With my new laptop I got a screen with a 1920x1200 resolution, so I went out looking for wallpapers for the resolution, because my existing ones degraded in quality with that size.

Windows XP Pro and IIS5 - Multiple Sites

Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:00:00 +0200

I recently got a new laptop (Dell Inspiron 8600) and installed Windows XP Pro on it (with SP2 installed already, yes :p).

Custom Run Box (Resource Hacking)

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200

It’s time for a new article, but not about C# this time. I’ll tell you how to modify Windows, we’ll change the Run box and make it look like this:

Tweaking the Run Box (Windows Resource Hacking)

Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Time for a new article, but not about C# this time.

Unable to launch notepad from 'Run' or view HTML source

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Today I experienced something weird.

Normally I run a lot of files just from ‘Run’ (Win+R), but today I did ‘Run’, ’notepad’, and nothing happened…

FrontPage Server Extensions - IIS Metabase

Fri, 09 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Currently I’m playing around with IIS and C#, and something I discovered is the following:

Visual Basic 6 - DBGrid, Empty Cells AllowSizing Bug?

Thu, 01 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Something not .NET related, regarding VB6.

Here is some strange behaviour: