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To debug the SWT Framework a tool called Sleak can be used, it is provided by SWT itself.

Link to a guide about Sleak 

The tool can be found at: http://www.eclipse.org/swt/tools.php

Eclipse

If you can't delete a file in windows because it is locked this tool can help you unlock it: Unlocker. Link

Windows 7, Windows Vista

To make a symbolic link in Windows 7 use the "mklink" command.

Creates a symbolic link.

MKLINK [[/D] | [/H] | [/J]] Link Target

        /D      Creates a directory symbolic link.  Default is a file symbolic link.

        /H      Creates a hard link instead of a symbolic link.

        /J      Creates a Directory Junction.

        Link    specifies the new symbolic link name.

        Target  specifies the path (relative or absolute) that the new link refers to.

An example is given at this site using-symlinks-in-windows-vista

Tools, Windows 7, Windows Vista

If you cannot even start Messenger without getting the "Stopped working" message box try to reset the settings in regedit:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger

Delete the value of the keys:

• AppCompatCanary
• AppSettings

This should make messenger reset the values and start up normally.

Microsoft suggests to do this as well:

link

Delete key UTL type REG_SZ with your email in: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MSNMessenger\PerPassportSettings\<Hash Number>

After sign in remember to change your display image.

Windows 7

I found this tool at a Thinkpad wiki: Windows Password unlocker: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Maintenance#Cleaning_the_Interior

Tools

To avoid Monitor problems use the following driver:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62923

To speed up the different .Net application from Lenovo the online verification can be turned of for the individual applications:

By saving this as the application .config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?configuration>
<?runtime>
<?generatePublisherEvidence enabled="false"/>
<?/runtime>
<?/configuration>

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-73758

Windows 7

To host iTunes as a Windows Service under a User Account and not a system account this small program can be sued:

http://www.johncleary.net/2009/11/download-jtunes-here/

It enables you to install the service start/stop it and so it can run without a concrete user is logged in and have the program running. (Note: The service must be stopped to allow the GUI to be used, since only one instance of iTunes is allowed).

Tools

Tools

Here are language files for VDM:

• VDM-SL
• VDM-PP
• VDM-RT

vdm.lang (9.94 kb)

vdmpp.lang (10.15 kb)

vdmrt.lang (10.25 kb)

vdmsl.lang (9.95 kb)

vpp.lang (10.14 kb)

Tools, Ubuntu

DebugView is an application to monitor debug output.

From Microsoft TechNet:

DebugView is an application that lets you monitor debug output on your local system, or any computer on the network that you can reach via TCP/IP. It is capable of displaying both kernel-mode and Win32 debug output, so you don't need a debugger to catch the debug output your applications or device drivers generate, nor do you need to modify your applications or drivers to use non-standard debug output APIs.

Link

Windows Vista, Tools, C#