file handling

Just last week, more than 5000 people attended the very first online PWA Summit, and learned about topics such as bringing PWAs to app stores, new web capabilities, accessibility, offline authentication and much more. If you missed out on the event, you can watch the full recording here. With...

We’ve just published an update to the Console UWP App project templates on the Visual Studio marketplace here. The latest version (v1.5) adds support for C#. The C# template code only works with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 or later. In a previous post, I described how to build a simple...

In IE, Firefox etc, when a user clicks on a playlist file which the server requires the browser to download (eg: m3u, pls etc), the browser downloads it but nothing happens. I have checked in both the control panel and IE itself that the correct MIME type and file handler (VLC but have tried...

Assume I exported the current events into an external *.evtx log file. Afterwards I cleaned all active event log entries. However it could be that I want to re-check some particular events from the past (=from the exported event logfile). For´better view I would like to import them again into...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: The Windows Virtual Hard Disk Driver improperly handles user access to certain files. An attacker can manipulate files in locations not intended to be available to the user by exploiting this...

This initially may sound like Facebook or Firefox issue - but it isn't, on W10 I access Facebook via Firefox For past couple of week I have been unable to attach any pictures to Facebook .... using normal method of clicking on camera icon (photo/video) on the FB status update. I use...

Hello, Im trying to read a notepad that is in hex format in normal text. I have downloaded the program notepad++, but cant follow the tutorials very well. I tried typing the exact words from the title and couldnt find a tutorial to match, nor do I necessarily wish to learn too much about hex...

A bug exists for some where Excel files take close to 20 seconds to open. Here's the fix. read more Continue reading...

Hi, As the title suggests, I often receive the following error message when renaming folders: "Folder In Use. The action can't be completed because the folder is open in Adobe Acrobat" However that is not the case. I even restart my computer to make sure nothing is accidentally left open in...

Hello, I would like to save for further processing all the output of a .bat file. This .bat calls wget and if i call the .bat with >test.bat > test.txt the .txt file is filled with whatever dos prints to the screen but NOT the output from wget Thanks in advance for your help

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Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (May 14, 2013): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted file or previews a specially...

I would like to Querying the Index Programmatically (Windows) and I found this link that shows several ways to do it. Basically, I have hundreds of ten-digit numbers and about 300 excel documents. I want to know which documents contain which numbers. I don't care if the output goes to a terminal...

Every time I download pictures from my digital camera while in the Desktop mode, the METRO Photo App pops up. I need to manually stop it from Task Manager, but... A few minutes later, I see that METRO Photo App is running again. When I want to save my edited picture, my the computer freezes...

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Fixes an issue in which a file that is embedded in a Word document becomes corrupted after you drag the file from the Word document and then drop the file onto a desktop. This issue occurs when you have Office 2003 or a later version of Office installed... Link Removed

Hi Forums, I am getting this error all the time with Windows 7. I open a text file I want to edit, then go to save my changes and I get this error: "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" I have full admin rights, running Win7 Ultimate x64 SP1. From...

I have been scanning, editing and saving photographs for several weeks. Initially if I inadvertently selected an existing file name I received the Windows 7 version of the old Windows warning "File xxxxx already exists, Do you want to overwrite it?". Suddenly today I found I was not getting that...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (March 13, 2012): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves one privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Expression Design. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a legitimate...

Resolves a vulnerability in Windows that could allow remote code execution if a user opened a specially crafted fax cover page file (.cov) by using Windows Fax Cover Page Editor. More...