I recently installed Notepad++ on 2 PCs, and noticed that on one of them the “Edit with Notepad++” context menu entry was missing in Explorer.
After some digging I found that Notepad++ and SciTE register the same CLSID under
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers.
Steps to register Notepad++ in the context menu:
Works 
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I recently noticed a problem with Microsofts Remote Desktop Client (mstsc): it starts a terminal session in full-screen mode, but once I resize it to work in a local application, I cannot get it back into full-screen by double-clicking on the title bar, if the local screen resolution is higher than the server’s screen resolution.
I found the solution in Jeff Atwood’s Remote Desktop Tips at Coding Horror: it’s Ctrl+Alt+Break. Visit his page to find more helpful key combinations.
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This article describes the installation of Bugzilla 3.0.3 on Windows Server 2003 R2.
The installation needs to install several Perl modules. The ActiveState ppm manager invokes a GUI application; however I found it easier to use the ppm-shell command to issue the commands in the section “Install Modules”.
Installation of Bugzilla on IIS is described here.
The Perl CGI Extension is not active if IIS is in lock down mode. If that is the case, you will find 404s in the IIS log file, with sub-error code 2, indicating lock down.
On my systems, simply allowing the Perl CGI Extension in IIS Manager was not enough. I had to allow All Unknown CGI Extensions to make Bugzilla work.
Finally, you should bear in mind that Bugzilla writes all configuration data to files in the application directory and its subdirectories (such as ./localconfig, data/params). Therefore you have to grant the IUSR account full access to the application directory (= the directory where the bugzilla virtual directory in IIS points to).
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Recently I needed to demo a ticketing application, and I chose to give Trac a try. However, I soon ran into version and compatibility problems, but after selecting the correct versions of the Trac components, I finally got the application to run.
You need:
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You may have noticed that the .Net framework does not cover every aspect of Windows programming. Sometimes API calls or whole features are simply not accessible when programming in .Net.
However I found that there’s a lot of interfacing code available on the net that makes WinAPI calls and structures available as static methods of static classes, using the DllImport feature.
The static class is usually called NativeMethods, and googling “NativeMethods” plus the API call or DLL you’d like to call, should deliver results quickly.
