At least on Windows 7, it seems that attempting to open a volume handle without FILE_SHARE_WRITE sharing permissions causes the file system cache to be invalidated, even if the creation fails. Thus I made a program that simply calls CreateFile to this end. Download the program* from its Base64 version here: <!– Click “Run Snippet”, … Read more
Use sess.run(hello).decode() because it is a bytestring. decode method will return the string. Your print statement must look like print(sess.run(hello).decode())
You can programmatically set the “Run this program as an administrator” flag (the option you find in the Compatibility tab of an EXE’s properties), by setting a simple registry key. You need to create a string value (REG_SZ) under one of these keys (if you want the setting to be per user or per machine, … Read more
Try: git config –system core.longpaths true This will allow it to checkout the files even with longer filepaths. The issue with this would be when you try to delete it, as Windows will not allow to delete a path longer than it’s allowed threshold. The workaround to that is to rename the folders in the … Read more
As far as I’m concerned, the single most important thing about porting C/C++ code to 64-bit Windows is to test your application with MEM_TOP_DOWN allocations enabled (AllocationPreference registry value) as described in 4-Gigabyte Tuning: To force allocations to allocate from higher addresses before lower addresses for testing purposes, specify MEM_TOP_DOWN when calling VirtualAlloc or set … Read more
Turns out you can also do this with Gimp, as described here: Open the largest of the icon images in The GIMP. Right-click on the image and select File->Open as Layers… and select all the other icon images. This will create a single image with a layer containing each of the other icon images. Save … Read more
This answer is a PowerShell translation of an excellent answer to this question How can I use JScript to create a shortcut that uses “Run as Administrator”. In short, you need to read the .lnk file in as an array of bytes. Locate byte 21 (0x15) and change bit 6 (0x20) to 1. This is … Read more
you can use the command prompt: javaw.exe -jar yourfile.jar Hope it works for you.
For allowable key and value names, see the MSDN page on Structure of the Registry. In particular: Each key has a name consisting of one or more printable characters. Key names are not case sensitive. Key names cannot include the backslash character (\), but any other printable character can be used. Value names and data … Read more
After using Spy++ to inspect Steam’s window (its window styles, how it replies to window messages) and trying to match everything it does, combined with the DWMAPI calls from this C# borderless window behavior, I believe I figured it out. To hide the window’s border, handle the WM_NCCALCSIZE message in your WindowProc: case WM_NCCALCSIZE: { … Read more