Windows 7 : Java Glossary

32 or 64 bit

8.3 legacy short file names

To turn off the creation of new 8.3 legacy short shadow file name entries:

If some ancient program stops working, you can turn them back on again with:

To actually remove existing 8.3 filenames from the directory, you need:

where Z: is the drive you want to strip. Fsutil not only strips the 8.3 filenames, it renames all legacy references in the registry. Unfortunately, this expands the registry and you cannot undo this. The ideal time to make this change is before you have installed any apps.

In the DOS days, filenames were limited to 12 characters in the 8.3 format. Even today every file is registered under its actual name and a DOS-compatible equivalent name such as TEXTFI~1.TXT for TextFile1.Mine.txt. Programs can look up files by either name. By turning this feature off, you shrink and speed up the directories. However, this just stops the creation of new shadow legacy names. It does not get rid of existing ones. For that you must strip existing 8.3 files.

After you have done this, run a defragger to compact your directories.

Account Control

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click User Accounts and Family Safety
4. Click User Accounts
5. Click Change User Account Settings
6. slide to never notify

Change Account Name

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click User Accounts and Family Safety
4. Click User Accounts
5. Click Change your account name

Anti-aliasing

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Appearance and Personalisation
4. Click Adjust ClearType Text
5. Turn on ClearType.

Associations

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Programs
4. Click Default Programs
5. Click Associate a file type or protocol with a program

Certificates

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet
4. Click Internet Options
5. Click Content
6. Click Certificates
7. Click Other People
   [or other category]
8. Select certificate of interest
9. Click View
10. Click Details

1. log on as administrator
2. At the command prompt, type:
   mmc.exe certmgr.msc
3. Follow your nose.

Let you view or add digital certificates used for SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encrypted Internet links. Java code-signing certificates do not appear here. Editing certificates is not for novices. You might want to turn off OCSP revocation checking, for example.

If you do this often, set up a short cut of the form:
C:\Windows\windows32\mmc.exe certmgr.msc
Ignore C:\Windows\sysWOW\mmc.exe.

Clear Event Log

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Click Administrative Tools
5. Double click Event Viewer
6. Click Windows Logs
7. right click clear log on type of log you want to clear, on the left.

clean junk files off your disks

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Under Administrative Tools, Click Free up disk space

Clock Setting

1. right click time in bottom right of screen.
2. Click Adjust Date/Time.
3. Click Internet Time
4. Click Change Settings
5. Click Update Now

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Clock Language and Region
4. Click Region and Language Options
5. Click Additional Settings
6. Click Date tab
7. You can select the format or write in your own, e.g. yy-MM-dd or yyyy-MM-dd

Don’t use this to adjust daylight savings. If you have the time zone configured properly the leaping forward and back should happen automatically. Using it to adjust for DST (Daylight Saving Time) will screw up your file dates which are based on invariant GMT/UTC.

Synchronises with Microsoft atomic clock, time.windows.com. It is quite unreliable, so I suggest replacing it with another from this list of timeservers. If that does not work, try SetClock. I have mine set to ca.pool.ntp.org

Colours and Fonts

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Appearance and Personalisation
4. Click Personalisation
5. Click Window Colour and Appearances

Correct Problems

Country

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Clock, Language and Region
4. Click Region and Language Options
5. Click Formats
6. Click Format
7. Click Select your country
8. Click Location tab
9. Click Current Location
10. Click Select your country
11. Click Administrative tab
12. Click Copy Settings
13. Click OK
14. Click Change System Locale
15. Click Current System Locale
16. Click Select your country
17. Click OK
18. reboot

Defender

Defrag your Disks

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Under Administrative Tools, click Defragment your hard drive

Desktop

Device Manager

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Under System, click Device Manager

Dial the Internet

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet
4. Click Network and Sharing Centre
5. Click Set up New Connection or Network

Dialer Default

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet
4. Click Network and Sharing Centre
5. Click Manage Network Connection
6. Click Advanced
7. Click Advanced Settings
8. Click Adapters and Bindings Settings

Dialer Disabling

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet
4. Click Network and Sharing Centre
5. Click Manage Network Connection
6. right click connection
7. Click disable

Dialing Rules

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet
4. Click Network and Sharing Centre
5. Click Set up New Connection or Network

DNS (Domain Name Service)

To clear the DNS cache:

1. Run the command interpreter (command prompt) as administrator.
2. Type ipconfig /flushdns.

If you use DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol), your router or IAP (Internet Access Provider) will provide the IP (Internet Protocol) of the DNS servers automatically, so you don’t have to configure them. Typing ipconfig at the command prompt will display the names of the DNS servers. If you suspect one of your DNS servers is not working properly, you can use ipconfig /renew to ask your IAP to resend the list.

DNS Suffix

Your IAP may ask you to configure a DNS domain suffix. This will let you for example type shawmail in place of shawmail.glb.shawcable.net or shawnews in place of shawnews.glb.shawcable.net. Here is how you do it:

1. Click Control Panel
2. Click Network and Internet
3. Click View Network Status and Tasks
4. Click Connection e.g. LAN/Wireless
5. Click Properties
6. Select Internet Protocol Version 4
7. Click Properties
8. Click Advanced
9. Click the DNS tab.
10. Click append the suffixes in order

DOS box command prompt

1. Click Start
2. Click All Programs
3. Click Accessories
4. Click Command Prompt

This is where you can run old DOS programs or BAT (Batch) files to automate running Windows files. If you use BAT files extensively, you probably should using tcc/TakeCommand instead.

16 bit DOS and Win 3.1 programs no longer work under Windows 7. You need 32 or 64 bit version of them.

Drive Letters

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Click Administrative Tools
5. Click Computer Management
6. Under Storage on the left, click Disk Management.
7. right click Change Drive Letter and Paths the drive you want to change. Removable drives are at the very bottom. You will probably have to scroll down to see them.

It is a bit like one of those sliding square puzzles. You can’t change a partition to S: if there already is a partition or device S: even if you plan to change S: to something else soon. You must first change it to something else. If you are doing a major reshuffle, assign all the partitions to temporary drive letters that will not be the permanent set, e.g. X: Y: Z:. Then you can change them to their final letters in any order because all the letters you want to use will be free.

You can also use

1. Click Computer
2. Click Tools at the top of the window on the tool bar.
3. Click Map Network Drive to map a drive letter to shareable directory on a local or remote drive.
4. To map your entire E: drive so you can also access it as J:, right click E: share with.
5. click advanced sharing
6. share this folder
7. ok
8. Click My Computer
9. right click E:
10. open
11. tools
12. map network drive
13. Choose J: as the drive and type in the name // roedy/E$ as the share name where roedy is your computer’s name. Infuriatingly, you can’t simply browse to the E:\directory.

You can use subst X: Y:\ to define alias drive letters for existing drives, or subst X: Y:\somedir to create shortcuts to commonly used directories. However, Windows forgets your settings after every reboot. To get around that problem you need to compose a bat file to do the SUBST and install it as the login script. SUBST is quicker and does not fail when other network connections fail. See J Drive for details.

Eject

1. Press the eject button on the drive.
2. Right click the drive in My Computer and select eject.
3. Type ejectmedia V: at the command prompt.

Environment Variables

1. Click Control Panel
2. Click System and Security
3. Click System
4. Advanced System Setting
5. Environment Variables

To more rapidly get to the deeply nest environment variables, set up a shortcut or bat file to C:\Windows\System32\SystemPropertiesAdvanced.exe which does not get you all the way there, but at least most of the way. The icon looks like a LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) screen with a big check mark on it.

Format

1. FORMAT command line utility
2. Control panel:
   1. Click Control Panel
   2. Click System and Security
   3. Click Administrative Tools
   4. Click Computer Management
   5. storage
   6. Click disk management
   You can then format partitions.
3. Pop-up. When you insert a blank DVD a dialog box pops up.
   1. Click burn files to disc
   2. Click show formatting options
   3. click Live File System or Mastered. See the DVD entry for which to choose.

Host/machine Name/workgroup

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Click System

Change Icon Size

1. Right click on an empty part of the desktop.
2. Select view.
3. Select Large Icons, Medium Icons or Classic Icons for small.

Install a Font

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Appearance and Personalisation
4. Install or Remove a Font
5. Click File. If you don’t see File, click Alt.
6. Install New Font
7. In the Add Fonts dialog box, under Drives, click the drive where the font that you want to install is located
8. Under Folders, double-click the folder containing the fonts that you want to add
9. Under List of fonts, click the font that you want to add. Infuriatingly, you can’t select multiple fonts. You have to install them one at a time..

   You can also install a font inside a zip:

   1. Open the zip with WinZip.
   2. Double click the font file.
   3. Click install.
10. click Install

IP configuration

1. Click Start
2. Network
3. Network and Sharing Center
4. Manage Network Connections
5. right click connection
6. Internet Protocol version 4
7. Properties

IP display

1. in a DOS box, type IPCONFIG.

Java Control Panel

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Programs
4. Click Java

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Lost Icon Recovery

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Appearance and Personalisation
4. Personalisation
5. Change Desktop and Icons (in the left panel).
6. Then make sure all the icons you want to see are clicked, e.g. restore computer, network, user and the recycle bin.

• You can recover Windows Update by creating a shortcut with:
  target: %SystemRoot%\system32\wuapp.exe
  start in: %SystemRoot%\system32
  comment: @%windir%\system32\wucltux.dll,-2
• You can recover Program Updates by creating a shortcut with:
  target: C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\isuspm.exe
  start in: C:\Program Files\Common Files\InstallShield\UpdateService\
  or with target: C:\Windows\System32\control.exe /name Microsoft.WindowsUpdate
  start in: C:\Windows\System32
• You can recover your C++ Visual Studio Icon with:
  target: "\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\ IDE (Integrated Development Environment) \VCExpress.exe"
  start in: "F:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\ IDE \"
  comment: Launch Microsoft Visual Studio 2009

Sometimes Windows 7 will display old versions of icons. To clear its cache:

1. Stop any browsers.
2. At the command prompt type CD %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local
3. type attrib -h IconCache.db
4. type del IconCache.db
5. Reboot

Memory Test

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Administrative Tools
4. Memory Test

Menu

Mouse Configuration

pagefile.sys

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Click System
5. Advanced System Settings
6. Click Advanced
7. Performance
8. Settings
9. Click Advanced
10. Virtual Memory
11. Change

Performance Monitoring

1. Click Start
2. Type perfmon

Printer Sharing

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Hardware and Sound
4. Printers
5. Right click the printer of interest on Printer Properties not Properties
6. Click Sharing tab.
7. Check Share this printer

Program Data

QuickLaunch

ReadyBoost

To turn it off/on:

1. Click Computer
2. Select the read/write flash drive letter.
3. Right click properties.
4. Click ReadyBoost.
5. Select use this drive on or off.
6. Click Ok
7. Reboot

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Click Device Manager
5. Click disk drives
6. Select the read/write flash drive letter:
7. Optionally right click Update Drive Software
8. Right click policies
9. Click ReadyBoost
10. Click quick removal for safety or click performance for higher speed,
11. Click Ok
12. Reboot

It allows you to use up to 4 gigabytes of a flash drive for speeding up hard disk access. You use the rest of the drive (if any) for storing, transporting and backing up files.

If you select quick removal, data corruption is less likely. Nothing bad will happen if someone yanks the flash drive out of its slot with the power on.

If you select performance it turns on write caching (procrastinating writes to the disk by temporarily staging them on the flash drive). If someone yanks the flash drive out with the power on your files, including your hard disk files, will be badly corrupted. You can use CHKDSK /F to repair some of the damage, but the recovery will not be perfect. Cheapie flash drives do not support write caching. Write caching is disabled by default.

Restore Point

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. System
5. System Protection
6. Select drive
7. Configure

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. System
5. System Protection
6. Create

Run

1. Click Start
2. All Programs
3. Accessories
4. Run

Schedule a Task

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Click Administrative Tools
5. Click Task Scheduler
6. Click Task Scheduler Library
7. To edit an existing task, right click properties

Search Indexing

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Under Programs, click Uninstall a program
4. On the left click Turn Windows features on or off.
5. Uncheck Indexing Service.

Sharing a disk over a LAN

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Click Administrative Tools
5. Click Computer Management
6. System Tools
7. Shared Folders
8. Shares
9. Action
10. New
11. File Share

Sharing A Printer

1. Click Start
2. Click Devices and Printers
3. Right click the printer of interest on Printer Properties not Properties
4. Click Sharing tab.
5. Check Share this printer

Shared disk accessing over a LAN

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet
4. Under Network Sharing Centre, click View Network Computers
5. Click the desired computer
6. (wait, wait, wait)
7. right click the desired disk
8. Click share

Security Essentials

Show File Extensions

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Appearance and Personalization
4. Click File Options
5. Click view
6. Check show hidden files, folders and drives

Show Hidden Files

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Appearance and Personalization
4. Click File Options
5. Click view
6. uncheck hide extensions for known file types

Startup Programs

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Programs
4. Change startup programs

You can also get at them via:

1. Click Start
2. Click All Programs
3. Click Startup

The short cut files themselves are stored in: C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\ and C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup. You can manipulate them directly with copy/paste/delete.

Stopping a Program

1. Click Ctrl-Alt-Del holding all three keys down.
2. Click Start Task Manager
3. Right click on the Program you want to stop
4. Left Click end process

Task Bar

1. Unlock the task bar by right clicking it and deselecting lock tool bar.
2. Left click an unused part of the task bar and drag it to the bottom. It will suddenly jump to the bottom, not move smoothly as with other dragging, so it looks as if nothing is happening.
3. Right click an empty region of the quick launch bar on the task bar just to the left of the dotted bar.
4. Click view
5. Select task bar icon size.

Transparency

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click System and Security
4. Performance Information and Tools
5. Adjust Visual Effects (on left)
6. Uncheck enable transparent class.

Themes

1. Right click anywhere on open space on the desktop.
2. Click Personalize
3. Click the theme you want
4. If you don’t want transparent borders, click window color and deselect transparency.

Unsharing a folder over a LAN

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Click Network and Internet
4. Click Network Sharing Center : View Network Computers and Devices
5. Click your computer
6. Right click the folder you want to stop sharing
7. Click share with
8. Click Advanced Share
9. Click Advanced Share again, but this time the one with a shield
10. Untick Share this folder

Uninstall

1. Click Start
2. Click Control Panel
3. Under Programs, click Uninstall a program

Version

1. At the command prompt, type winver.

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