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I like my font to be monospace like below for my Freeplane document. To change Freeplane's defualt font, do Format | Manage Styles | Edit styles Then change Font of whole core | Font Family to say Consolas

TightVNC is a graphical-sharing software that works in many platforms like Windows, Linux or OSX. To install TightVNC on Windows using Chocolatey, do: c:\> choco install tightvnc -y --installArguments "VIEWER_ASSOCIATE_VNC_EXTENSION=1 SERVER_REGISTER_AS_SERVICE=1 SERVER_ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1 VIEWER_ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1 SERVER_ALLOW_SAS=1 SET_USEVNCAUTHENTICATION=1 VALUE_OF_USEVNCAUTHENTICATION=1 SET_PASSWORD=1 VALUE_OF_PASSWORD=p@$$w0rd SET_USECONTROLAUTHENTICATION=1 VALUE_OF_USECONTROLAUTHENTICATION=1 SET_CONTROLPASSWORD=1 VALUE_OF_CONTROLPASSWORD=p@$$w0rd" Where: p@$$w0rd - the administrator password that will be used for the TightVNC application References: https://www.tightvnc.com/ https://chocolatey.org/  

When you download a zip file or an executable file from the internet using IE, Edge or Chrome on Windows, more likely than not the file will have it zone identifier in the alternate stream of the file. This information is used by Windows to determine if the file was downloaded from the internet and it can apply certain level of security precautions for the user. In some instances, files/installers with zone identifiers will not install properly. There are multiple ways to check if the file have zone id. You can use streams , like so: c:\> streams64.exe tightvnc-2.8.27-gpl-setup-64bit.msi And this would spit out something like: streams v1.60 - Reveal NTFS alternate streams. Copyright (C) 2005-2016 Mark Russinovich Sysinternals - www.sysinternals.com C:\temp\tightvnc-2.8.27-gpl-setup-64bit.msi: :Zone.Identifier:$DATA 163 Or just plain PowerShell, like: PS c:\> Get-Content -Path .\tightvnc-2.8.27-gpl-setup-64bit.msi -Stream Zone.Identifier Which will actu

Download TightVNC and then run the command below where the file is located. In the example below, it is assumed that the file is located in C:\ and that the file was unblocked after downloading. c:\> "tightvnc-2.8.27-gpl-setup-64bit.msi" /quiet /norestart ADDLOCAL="Server,Viewer" VIEWER_ASSOCIATE_VNC_EXTENSION=1 SERVER_REGISTER_AS_SERVICE=1 SERVER_ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1 VIEWER_ADD_FIREWALL_EXCEPTION=1 SERVER_ALLOW_SAS=1 SET_USEVNCAUTHENTICATION=1 VALUE_OF_USEVNCAUTHENTICATION=1 SET_PASSWORD=1 VALUE_OF_PASSWORD=p@$$w0rd SET_USECONTROLAUTHENTICATION=1 VALUE_OF_USECONTROLAUTHENTICATION=1 SET_CONTROLPASSWORD=1 VALUE_OF_CONTROLPASSWORD=p@$$w0rd Change p@$$w0rd to the desired password Reference: https://www.tightvnc.com/

If you are trying to access a project in SourceForge using an SVN client and you see something like "Could not open requested SVN filesystem" then it is possible that the project's SVN access is not enabled. See this link on how to enable SVN. Note that you need to have admin privileges to a particular project to enable SVN. ~TS

SVN repository is not enabled by default when creating a project in SourceForge . To enable SVN is easy. Go to the summary page, see below for sample screen shot, then hover to Admin tab. You should see the screen below, then just enable "The following box should be checked to enable Subversion" and Update and off you go. Enjoy! TS

Some useful links for SourceForge users. Quickstart Guide to Subversion on SourceForge Recommended Software Configuration - this includes how to configure SVN clients, cvs and many more. ~TS

Vitrite is a tiny utility written by me,  Ryan VanMiddlesworth , that allows you to manually adjust the level of transparency for almost any visible window. It works by utilizing a feature present in Windows 2000/XP (and all later incarnations) for variable window transparency. WinSpy++ is a handy programmer's utility which can be used to select and view the properties of any window in the system. WinSpy is based around the Spy++ utility that ships with Microsoft Visual Studio. ~ts

Debut is a simple, easy to use video recorder that lets you capture video files directly on your PC using a webcam (video camera), or capture device (from video). This software can also capture and record almost anything that can be played or displayed on the computer screen. The program saves the video on your hard drive as avi, wmv or many other file types. ~ts

Freemind is a mind mapping application. Latest version can be found in http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page , it was at version 0.9.0 beta 14 when I wrote this document. I really like this application and the design is quite intuitive. Since this program is still in beta there are rough around the edges. Like say setting the keyboard shortcut for removing the last icon for a node is not working. What I am going to do here is to document how to get this one functionality working. By default (at least for 0.9.0 beta 14) "Remove Last Icon" is assigned to "BACK_SPACE" key. But for some reason it is not working. Here are the steps on getting this guy working: 1.) Extract a copy of mindmap_menus.xml. For zip installation, this can be found in <Extracted_Dir>/lib/freemind.jar. I used 7-zip to extract the file. Tough 7-zip's website didn't mention that it supports jar files it is capable of handling the file type successfully. Jar is p

Windows application icons normally used in an application is a multi-page icon. One is 16x16 at 4bpp and 32x32 that can be set as high as 32bpp. Creating an icon in GIMP is a easy a creating a new graphics document. Set the background to transparent and size to 32x32. On the first layer, add 16x16 and on the second layer add 32x32 picture. Save the file as .ico and select 4bpp for 16x16 image and 32bpp for 32x32. That should be it and off you go, you know have a nice looking Windows icon.

ZSoft Uninstaller 2.3 is the better and easier way to uninstall programs on your computer. Location and uninstalling a program with ZSoft Uninstaller 2.3 is as easy as clicking a button.

Favorite: Cryptainer LE o Easy to use o Haven't tried other products yet. Cryptainer LE is software that can create multiple encrypted containers. It functions like any other drive (C: or D:) on your computer. Just drag and drop any file into the Cryptainer. It is automatically encrypted. It's that simple! Cryptainer files can only be viewed, accessed, browsed or modified by the user who has the key to open it. At other times it remains invisible. TrueCrypt - Free open-source disk encryption software for Windows XP/2000/2003 and Linux.

Favorites: VMWare Server 1.0.x o When I need LPT1 and/or USB support o Runs virtual machines compared with Virtual PC (except Vista) o Need lots of network switch or to bridge more than one interface o For cases where I need Linux on virtual machine Virtual PC 2007 SP1 o When I need to run Windows Vista as guest OS with LPT1 support on Windows XP/W2k3/Vista hosts Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V o When I need to run Vista guest without a need for LPT1 nor USB support o When I need to run Windows XP SP3 guest without a need for LPT1 nor USB support o This virtualization product is pretty fast but need to run on 64bit capable machines and on Windows Server 2008 64bit installation. Virtual Box o When I run on slow host machines o When snapshot/revert is a must for my work o Does not support more than one bridge in Windows. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bochs is a highly portable open source

TortoiseSVN is a really easy to use Revision control / version control / source control software for Windows. Since it's not an integration for a specific IDE you can use it with whatever development tools you like. TortoiseSVN is free to use. You don't need to get a loan or pay a full years salary to use it.

Bart PE - create bootable XP cds with networking support. DriveImage XML - Image and Backup logical Drives and Partitions. SystemRescueCd - is a Linux system on a bootable CD-ROM for repairing your system and recovering your data after a crash. It aims to provide an easy way to carry out admin tasks on your computer, such as creating and editing the partitions of the hard disk. It contains a lot of system utilities (parted, partimage, fstools, ...) and basic tools (editors, midnight commander, network tools). It is very easy to use: just boot the CDROM. The kernel supports most of the important file systems (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, reiser4, xfs, jfs, vfat, ntfs, iso9660), as well as network filesystems (samba and nfs) ~ts