http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/ Notes of a Software Developer in Tokyo, Japan who still has a soft spot for C#, Java and Python en-us 2005-08-11T02:08:22+09:00 2006-07-10T09:27:05+09:00 I was using XP tonight and got really fed up with how long it was taking when right clicking on a folder for the menu to pop up. After a quick Google search for xp right click slow I found an article called "Right-click is slow or weird behavior caused by context menu handlers" which suggested using ShellExView to remove "context menu handlers". It took just a few minutes to find that it was PGP that was the problem. Once I disabled PGP's menu, XP's right click menu popped up instantaneously. The next step was to uninstall PGP altogether. After... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000416.html Some time ago I mentioned that I was having problems with Vim and using it on Japanese XP. Well, I thought I had solved them but I still have a few issues. If I open Vim from the Program Files menu and choose Easy Vim, it comes up in the Japanese language. If I open it elsewhere then it has the English menus as specified in the _vimrc file in my home directory. I wonder why it ignores it in this case. More annoying is that, when I type normally I get ascii by default (because of the iminsert=0 command... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000410.html I have always felt that the spell checking engine and grammar checking engine should have just been an open API in Windows1. During the desktop suite feature war of the 1990s, when I worked on the Lotus suite in Japan, every new version of Word (and the other suite applications) brought more and more sophisticated spell checking and grammar checking. That has now stagnated and while Word has great spell checking, Internet Explorer and other basic applications do not. Moreover, many other applications come with their own spellchecker built in which means that you have to enter those words which... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000400.html Both of the following tools are useful for finding what is eating the space on a drive and they or their equivalents should be in every sysadmins toolbox. WinDirStat is another Windows tool to give you a Treemap display of the contents of your disk. DoubleKiller searches out duplicate files on your disk and lets you delete them.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000398.html Notepad users pile in on, Microsoft insider, Raymond Chen's blog about the new features in Notepad and Calc. Just about everyone (who is too lazy to download a better freeware one) wants Notepad to be better and Raymond explains why it won't change.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000395.html Just a note to myself. To start the X server on Cygwin simply type: startx Check on the remote machine that the DISPLAY setting is pointing back to your local machine when the Cgywin X server is running. For some reason I thought it was going to be much more difficult. When the X terminal window comes up you can check the permissions of your local machine by typing xhost + Issues: Cutting and pasting between X and Windows Caveats: Don't kill the terminal machine or all of your X applications will die.... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000392.html How to Run VBS Scripts on Remote Computers using the WshController Object. Now that is useful/scary... schtasks also allows you run stuff remotely. Also rcmd.exe from the Resource Kit can be used... http://www.stuartwoodward.com/tech/archives/000275.html