Category: win

Manage virtual memory / move pagefile.sys

Windows 7
Computer > Properties
– or –
Control Panel > System and Security > System

Advanced System Settings > Advanced tab > Settings (under Performance) > Advanced tab > Change (under Virtual memory)

Reboot

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Terraria vs Mumble Conflict

There is currently a problem starting Terraria when you also have Mumble running.

Apparently that a lot of people have problems starting the game, but no one seems to be sure of the issue. Some say it’s because of the .NET or XNA framework and others say it could be a conflict with creative sound cards.

Of course, you should check if you have the latest .NET and XNA framework installed. Be sure to have the latest Creative drivers for your card (mine installed automagically with Windows Update optional updates). You could try verifying Terraria game cache integrity under Steam.

I was getting a “Terraria stopped working” window with the following details:

Problem signature:
   Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
   Application Name:    Terraria.exe
   Application Version:    1.0.4.0
   Application Timestamp:    4eea0a07
   Fault Module Name:    RTSSHooks.dll
   Fault Module Version:    0.0.0.0
   Fault Module Timestamp:    4d4fb7eb
   Exception Code:    c0000005
   Exception Offset:    0000a5f2
   OS Version:    6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
   Locale ID:    3084
   Additional Information 1:    0a9e
   Additional Information 2:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
   Additional Information 3:    0a9e
   Additional Information 4:    0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

A workaround is to stop Mumble, start Terraria, then restart Mumble. This conflict could very well happen with something else than Mumble. I have a Creative sound card (good old Audigy 1), but I don’t know how to fix this issue so I am unsure if it’s related.

What kind of sound card do you have? Did you have the same issue using another sound-related software?

EDIT: Not just Terraria! Grand Theft Auto 4 also crashes on start if Mumble is open.

hidden scheduled task

When running a batch file or ruby script (even .rbw) or anything that does not have a GUI, a cmd window normally pops up. This is surely unwanted when scheduling a task with those kind of programs. Sadly, I don’t see any checkbox to hide the window at runtime in the scheduled task wizard.

The best way I found is posted at http://serverfault.com/questions/9038/run-a-bat-file-in-a-scheduled-task-without-a-window.

Schedule a .vbs script containing something like:

Set WinScriptHost = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WinScriptHost.Run Chr(34) & "C:\Scheduled Jobs\mybat.bat" & Chr(34), 0
Set WinScriptHost = Nothing

There are other tools like hstart and cmdow that lets you do pretty much the same thing, but I prefer using built-in tools a lot more.

SSHFS on Windows

or secure file sharing, a replacement for samba (windows client, accessing files on *nix server).

DokanInstall_0.6.0.exe Dokan library (http://dokan-dev.net/en)
dokan-sshfs-0201226.zip for installer and explorer context menu
dokan-sshfs-0.6.0.zip take DokanNet.dll and DokanSSHFS.exe and replace in 0201226.

Advantages secure, read/write, easy to install.
Drawback easily bottlenecks at a few MBps on slow CPU. Not multi-core. Shows bad size information. Unstable?

delete service in windows 7 / 2008

To remove an entry from the list of services in windows 7 / 2008 (and maybe others), first get the full name of the service (win+r, services.msc).

Then, in a command prompt (win+r, cmd, run as administrator), type

sc delete servicename

where servicename is the full name of the service. If it contains spaces, put double quotes around it.

It may be necessary to reboot for the service to be completely removed from the list.