Keep Flash open Full Screen on 2nd Monitor

Windows: With hardware-accelerated Flash 10.1 final now available, it's a good time to try out some full-screen Hulu or other videos. But click anywhere else, and the window-filling frame goes away. Here's how to keep videos playing full screen using Flash 10.1.

We've previously pointed to a fullscreen Flash fix, but the post that covered the fix offered up specific file-copy fixes for particular Flash builds. Now that Flash has updated to 10.1 final, and is changing rapidly due to security fixes, a more general sense of how to change Flash's behavior so it doesn't close down on clicking elsewhere is called for.

Luckily, Andrew Brampton provides the answer. His fix requires doing some hacking in a particular configuration file: NPSWF32.dll for most Windows systems, but gcswf32.dll for Chrome users. And it requires using a hex editor to pin down a particular string and change two values.

How do you pull that off? First off, download the free XVI32 hex editor. Once you have it installed, hunt down the file you need to edit, make a copy of it, then drag another copy to the Desktop. Brampton provides the locations:

On win32 open
C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll

On win64 open
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll

or if using Google Chrome (as Chrome now comes with the Flash plugin) open
C:\Users\Andrew\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\6.0.408.1\gcswf32.dll

Now right-click on the .dll file, select "Open With," tell Windows you'll "Select from a list" to open it, then point to the XVI32 executable contained in the package you downloaded. As Brampton explains, the exact two-character code you'll need to change will differ between Flash versions, but there's a basic string you can search for. As of the latest version of Flash for Chrome (10.1.53.64), you'll hit the Search menu and select Find (or hit Ctrl+F), then search for this string of hex bytes:

74 39 83 E8 07 74 11 83 E8 05 75 13 8B

The 74 and 75 "bytes" will likely always stay the same, and some of the characters between them, but other nearby bytes may change. Your job is to change the first two bytes in that string ("74 39" in this case) to "90 90". Before you try to save your changes, make sure that you've got a backup copy of the original, and then close down all your browser windows before saving, or you'll encounter a "sharing" error of some sort. If you have successfully saved your changes, copy the file back to its original location, then re-launch your browser.

As noted, these specifics will change—the Flash version, and the exact byte string you're searching for. Using Brampton's guide, though, you should be able to update your Flash builds whenever you lose the ability to catch the worthwhile bits from Saturday Night Live while, um, totally working really hard on a Friday.

Via: Lifehacker

Windows 7 Shares (Not Resolved)

Try this 1st:
Rightclick on the Drive you want to share.
Go to properties->Sharing->Advanced Sharing
Under permissions make sure you add the user AND the group "Authenticated userss" and give both full permissions.

There you go, now you can share your drives and you do NOT have to chose "Everybody" =)

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If not working then go here:

click the start button and type secpol.msc in the search function.

Browse to "Local Policies" -> "Security Options". Now look for the entry "Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level" and open it. Click on the dropdown menu and select "Send LM & NTLM - use NTLMv2 session security if negotiated". Apply the settings.

In the Advanced sharing settings page of Network and sharing center, you need to have it set as Work/Home profile. Try

-Enable network discovery
-Turn on file and print sharing
-Turn off password protected sharing
-Use user accounts and passwords to connect to other computers

The other settings such as encryption I have set as use 128 bit encryption.

Please check related policies.

1. Enter “gpedit.msc” in the Start Search box.
2. Open “Computer Configuration”/Windows Settings/Security Settings/Local Policies/Security Settings.
3. In the right pane, enable the following policies:

Network access: Allow anonymous SID/name translation
Network access: Let Everyone permissions apply to anonymous users

Also please disable the following policies.

Network access: Restrict anonymous access to Named Pipes and Shares
Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts
Network access: Do not allow anonymous enumeration of SAM accounts and shares

VMware Extend Disk

There comes a time when the size of your VM disk isnt enough for your purposes. Here is how extend the partition.

In the VM Settings locate the HD on the right side select Expand.

Set the size of the HD you would like to expand it to and click Expand.

Now I have been toying with the next part quite a bit. Within the VM you can create a new HD and use it as secondary space. If you would perefer to extend the primary partition then grab a copy of Gparted.

VMware likes to starts its host operation system pretty fast so we will need to edit the settings:
(Wordpad worked for me)
Close the VM and open the vmx-file in an editor.
Add this line
bios.bootDelay = "5000"
save file and start the VM.

Mount the CD or ISO to boot from. Select your CD drive and load Gparted. GP is a pretty simple program to use so follow the menus once you have it loaded.

Good luck!

Civilization V

Cant wait for Civ V

RDP Dual Monitors

Ive been trying to figure out how to use RDP while having a two monitor setup. Finally I found the trick.

To have the remote computer's desktop span two monitors, simply type 'mstsc /span' at a command prompt (i.e. Start, Run, cmd.exe, mstsc /span). This feature is sometimes called continuous resolution. To toggle in and out of full-screen spanned mode, press Ctrl+Alt+Break.

Source: Remote Desktop Dual Monitor Support tip