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Quick & Dirty PHP Devel Setup on Windows

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:23:00 +0000

Here’s a quick tip if you’re developing a really simple PHP site and need a development setup on Windows with minimal fuss. Don’t bother with a full LAMP stack like XAMPP, which requires you to run a batch file that will rewrite its Apache and PHP configuration files. PHP version 5.4.0 and above comes with a handy built-in webserver. Simply download the binaries for Windows and unzip it into a directory of your choice.

GNU patch and Windows UAC

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:15:00 +0000

If you’re looking for the GNU patch on Windows, you would probably have found the GnuWin32 project. If you try to run this program on Windows Vista or 7, you will be prompted with the UAC dialog, asking you to run the program with administrative rights. Windows Vista, when they introduced the User Access Control (UAC) feature, tried not to break existing programs by detecting which ones require administrative access. The usual suspects are installers that are probably named *setup.

Copying files between users in Windows 7

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 18:17:00 +0000

I’ve recently installed Windows 7 on my desktop and I’m trying to migrate files from the laptop’s hard disk. Whenever I try to copy files from a folder that I do not have permissions to, it asks me if I want to gain “permanent access” to the folder and its contents, which means to alter the folder permissions to take ownership of the folder & files. Why would I want to do that?

Drag & drop in Windows 7 doesn't work

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:53:00 +0000

I reformatted my computer yesterday and installed Windows 7. I installed 2 apps - Winamp and Mp3tag, both of which cannot accept files that have been dropped onto them. Hmmm… that’s strange. It turns out that this is a security feature, part of UAC. Instructions on how to fix it is detailed here. In the Control Panel item “Administrative Tools”, under Local Policy, disable this item called “User Account Control: Only elevate UIaccess applications that are installed in secure locations”.