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Windows > Disabling time sync on a Virtual PC

Gabi — Wed, 26 May 2010 08:42:13 +0000

I’m running a virtual PC under Windows 7 and wanted to simulate a situation 3 months ago – resetting time in the VPC to a former date did not work. It was reset every 10 seconds or so.

After making sure that automatic time sync in the Virtual PC itself was switched off (third page in the time setting dialog) and disabling the W32time service, time was still reset to the current date and time.

I found a hint saying that you have to add some lines to your .vmc file but that did not work either. Another hint stated that this works only for Virtual Server, not Virtual PC.

What finally did the trick was stopping the “Virtual PC Integration component service” that of course controls also other features, but at least for the time being the time stays where it is supposed to…

have fun

Windows > Unload DLLs

Gabi — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:44:41 +0000

Windows does not unload dll files a program has used after it has been closed, to speed up a possible restart of the program.

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer

Add the DWORD value named:

AlwaysUnloadDLL

and set it to 1

WinXP > IE

Gabi — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:15:19 +0000

Word oder Excel Dokumente nicht im IE öffnen:

  Explorer -> Extras -> Ordneroptionen -> Dateitypen ->
  DOC file auswählen -> Erweitert ->
  "im selben Fenster durchsuchen" abwählen

WinXP > Zwischenablage

Gabi — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:14:21 +0000

Symbolleiste für die Zwischenablage abschalten:

Die Symbolleiste für die Zwischenablage erscheint dauernd “wie von selbst”. Wer das nicht will, dem hilft (für Office 2000) folgender Registry Eintrag:

  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\9.0\Common\General
  "AcbControl"=dword:00000001

zugehöriger Microsoft Knowledgebase Artikel

WinXP > Explorer

Gabi — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:12:58 +0000

Explorer mit Startverzeichnis “Arbeitsplatz”

  C:\WINNT\explorer.exe /e,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}

WinXP > Registry

Gabi — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:08:28 +0000

like: root from here, new explorer window, open Doxbox…

Regedit – HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shell
neuer Key: root
- (Default) – Root from here
- Sub-Key: command
- (Default) – explorer /e,/root,%1
neuer Key: dosbox
- (Default) – DosBox
- Sub-Key: command
- (Default) – cmd /k