Proposed Budget i3 PC under £200https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/proposed-budget-i3-pc-under-200.html?catid=116&Itemid=165

26 January 2013 workstation upgrade running Windows 7 So another year gone and our workstations running Windows 7 are somewhat lagging when opening too many apps. The recent release of Windows 8 has led to a review of our developer's equipment and the verdict is that...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: IT Support
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Transferring Apps (purchases) from iPhone 4s to 5s on a Windows PChttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/app-dev/ios/transferring-apps-purchases-from-iphone-4s-to-5s-on-a-windows-pc.html

03 November 2013 to: Apple iOS 7 Apple iTunes 11.1.3.8 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional What? Just so many articles out there that did not help me. This article is how I finally did mine. Why? I had paid for some apps on my old phone and realized that if I didn't do a...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: iOS
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Fix Oracle Tnsping 3511 without Windows Registryhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/database/oracle-pl-sql/fix-oracle-tnsping-3511-without-windows-registry.html

04 March 2013 to: - MS Windows 7 Enterprise What? So I can ping the server the Oracle 11g database sits on. I've installed the Oracle 11g client tools and can connect using sqlplus. But if I tnsping any oracle database, I get something along the lines of: Message...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Oracle PL/SQL
• Language: en-GB

AutoHotkey: Get Media Information and Displayhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/autohotkey-get-media-information-and-display.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

07 August 2020 To: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional v6.1.7601 32-bit AutoHotkey v1.1.33.02 What? This is a copied article just to store a permanent reference for if I ever need to build an app similar to the file explorer in the Microsoft Windows OS. Why? I had an app...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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MS-DOS: Copy folders without overwriting fileshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ms-dos-copy-folders-without-overwriting-files.html?catid=51&Itemid=165

23 February 2014 being, the archive is 4 terabytes and backing up only the changed files would speed things up). Applies to: Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows 8 for Vista and Windows 2008 without XCOPY, try ROBOCOPY. How? We're going to use...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
• Language: en-GB

SSIS Script: convert UPPERCASE to Mixed-Case using TitleCasehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ssis-script-convert-uppercase-to-mixed-case-using-titlecase.html?catid=74&Itemid=165

04 October 2013 to: Microsoft Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS) Visual Studio 2008 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 Microsoft Visual C# 2008 What? So like lots of people on the net, I've been given a datasource with names and addresses all...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server Integration Services
• Language: en-GB

Windows OShttps://joellipman.com/component/content/category/articles/microsoft/windows.html?Itemid=165

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Windows OS: Alt Codes / Symbols / Special Charactershttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/windows-os-alt-codes-symbols-special-characters.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

03 June 2021 What? This is a simple article to demonstrate how to type special characters not found on your keyboard or on a Qwerty UK/US keyboard layout. Why? Being able to type international characters from other alphabets is necessary when dealing with languages...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
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Android: Keytool and Google Maps displaying greyhttps://joellipman.com/articles/else/app-dev/android-os/android-keytool-and-google-maps-displaying-grey.html

31 October 2014 To: Microsoft Windows 7 Pro Android Studio v0.8.6 beta Java Development Kit v1.8.0_20 What? The article below serves as a checklist to ensure I don't release an app that only displays maps to myself (again). Why? This took me a while to figure out so...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AndroidOS
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Connection Strings for SQL Serverhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/connection-strings-for-sql-server.html?catid=78&Itemid=165

05 January 2011 It is the port value of -1 that tells the driver to use named pipes network protocol. This is available on Windows only. The value is ignored if Unix socket is used. Multiple servers Use this to connect to a server in a replicated server configuration...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: SQL Server
• Language: *

Administrator Program Shortcut without Prompthttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/administrator-program-shortcut-without-prompt.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

25 February 2013 to: - Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise - User with Local Administrator Privileges (required for setup) Why? Our work has group policies and two of our programs, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (VS2010) and Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS),...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
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Win32 Constantshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/win32-constants.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

05 July 2011 ;// ;#region Peek Message Flags Const PM_NOREMOVE = 0 Const PM_REMOVE = 1 Const PM_NOYIELD = 2 ;#End Region ;#Region Windows Messages Const WM_NULL = $0000 Const WM_CREATE = $0001 Const WM_DESTROY = $0002 Const WM_MOVE = $0003 Const WM_SIZE = $0005...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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Joe's CSV Chart Generator (JCG)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joellipmans-csv-chart-generator.html?catid=53&Itemid=165

26 May 2010 TESTED ON: - Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 7 SCREENSHOTS: LICENSE: These scripts are offered freely and in good faith. Please do not pass this off as your own work or try to sell it without due credit. Check back with us at joellipman.com...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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Add "Command prompt from here" to right-click context menuhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/add-command-prompt-from-here-to-right-click-context-menu.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

27 January 2010 to: Microsoft Windows XP How? I keep having to do this every year as I reghost all my machines (=restore to sorta factory settings), so instead of googling it and going through other websites that work and don't; I thought I might as well post the way I...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
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Increase Recent Documents Number in Windows XPhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/increase-recent-documents-number.html?catid=80&Itemid=165

28 July 2011 it's doing. I'm putting a note here just for me: Start > Run > Regedit > OK Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer Create New DWORD Value Name it "MaxRecentDocs" Double-click on the new DWORD Set value...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Windows OS
• Language: en-GB

Autohotkey - Chrome Profiles in Alphabetical Orderhttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/autohotkey-chrome-profiles-in-alphabetical-order.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

07 January 2020 To: MS Windows 10 Pro v10.0.18362 Build 18362 (64-bit) Google Chrome Browser v79.0.3945.88 (Official Build) (64-bit) AutoHotkey v1.1.30.01 What? This is an article to create a standalone application which lists all the Google Chrome Profiles on your...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
• Language: en-GB

Prefix Line Numbers in a Text Filehttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/prefix-line-numbers-to-a-text-file.html?catid=51&Itemid=165

18 July 2012 Prefixing lines with their respective line number in a text file using a Microsoft Windows Operating System... I've just googled this as I couldn't remember how I did this last time and a number of people showing off their MS-DOS batch skills have...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: MS-DOS
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AHK Countdown Tooltiphttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/ahk-countdown-tooltip.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

17 July 2014 to: Microsoft Windows 7 Enterprise AutoHotkey (see code for AHK version) What? Someone suggested an app that counts the days I have left serving my notice. I thought I'd go one better and have it calculate to the nearest second. I call this latest app...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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AutoHotkey: App GUI Listview to Rename Fileshttps://joellipman.com/component/content/article/autohotkey-app-gui-listview-to-rename-files.html?catid=48&Itemid=165

08 July 2020 to: Microsoft Windows 7 Professional - Service Pack 1 AutoHotkey v1.1.33.02 What? So this is the documentation for a snippet of code that will list files of a directory using an AutoHotkey GUI and display what it will name them. The app needs to rename...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: AutoHotkey
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Joe's Unduplicater (JUD)https://joellipman.com/component/content/article/joes-unduplicater.html?catid=53&Itemid=165

12 July 2010 then this tool asks which folder has the files it will keep and which ones it will send to the Recycle Bin. TESTED ON: - Windows XP, Windows 7 SCREENSHOTS: LICENSE: These scripts are offered freely and in good faith. Please do not pass this off as your...

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• Author: Joel Lipman
• Category: Product Documentation
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