This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP0, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 (build 10586). Instructions and source code included. Download: Source code: https://github.com/wj32/PatchPae2 Before using this patch, make sure you have fully removed […]
Continue reading →In this article we’ll look at how to memoize a general function f : (‘a -> ‘b) -> ‘a -> ‘b in F#, along with some interesting applications. Generic version Most versions of this code that you can find online only deal with the simple case ‘a -> ‘b, which doesn’t allow the function to […]
Continue reading →Note: An updated version for Windows 10 is available. This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP0, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. Instructions and source code included. Download: Before using this patch, make sure you have […]
Continue reading →Note: An updated version for Windows 8.1 is available. This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Vista, 7, 8, has been tested on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP0, Windows 7 SP1 and Windows 8 SP0. Instructions and source code included. Download: Before using […]
Continue reading →If you’re writing a backup program, you need to be able to read and access files that are in use by other programs. The proper way to do this is to use the Volume Shadow Copy Service. The MSDN pages cover a lot of material that is unnecessary for a simple backup program, so here […]
Continue reading →OK, Visual Studio 2012’s new user interface isn’t that bad. But you need to get some serious work done, and you don’t want to be forced to hover your cursor over each monochrome icon to get a tooltip explaining what it’s for. NOR DO YOU WANT THE MAIN MENUS SHOUTING AT YOU ALL THE TIME. […]
Continue reading →In the final release of Windows 8, the EnumWindows function no longer lists Metro/Modern UI windows: Note For Windows 8 and later, EnumWindows enumerates only top-level windows of desktop apps. This change was made some time around the consumer preview release. I’m not sure why Microsoft did this, but there is a simple workaround. Instead […]
Continue reading →**** Update: **** Microsoft is now aware of this bug. Here’s some output from WinDbg on Windows 8 while I was debugging a driver: These two UNICODE_STRINGs are from the OBJECT_TYPE structures of the Section and TmTx (transaction) object types. Can you spot the difference between these two strings? The Section string’s MaximumLength includes two […]
Continue reading →Recently I became frustrated with Cobian Backup. It was the only free software I could find that: supported incremental backups, supported Volume Shadow Copy, and didn’t install a bunch of extra, useless startup entries and services. However, two things sucked: Incremental backups only seemed to work properly when it used the “archive” attribute. This meant […]
Continue reading →Note: An updated version for Windows 8 is available. This patch allows you to use more than 3/4GB of RAM on an x86 Windows system. Works on Vista and 7, has been tested on Windows Vista SP2, Windows 7 SP0 and Windows 7 SP1. Instructions and source code included. Download: Note: I do not offer […]
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