Showing posts with label Windows 7. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Windows 7. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

How to open chm file in Windows?



For many years, I cannot open CHM file in Windows. I never knew why. I thought, the CHM file was old or outdated or generated with old compiler or wrong encoding.

Until one day I am so fed up, I search for solution. Surprisingly, there are some softwares offer to open CHM file, including a plug-in in Firefox to open CHM file. However, the Firefox plugin still cannot open some CHM file correctly, there are missing pages or images.

Finally, I come across this simple solution:

I read somewhere, for security reason, Windows cannot open downloaded CHM file automatically. We have to right click the file -> Properties -> General tab -> [Unblock] button.

Monday, September 13, 2010

IIS on Windows 7 / Vista / XP Pro

A project may propose using Webservices. So here I find how easy it is to enable IIS on Windows.

For Windows 7 / Vista, it is a build-in feature:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/28/installing-iis-7-on-windows-vista-and-windows-7/
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/how-to-install-iis-on-windows-vista/

For Windows XP Pro, it can be installed free:
http://www.webwiz.co.uk/kb/asp_tutorials/installing_iis_winXP_pro.asp

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Windows 7 and Java JDK 1.6 Timezone issue

Same piece of Java program running on Windows 7 and JDK 1.6, the date time related routine returns TIME ZONE :Greenwich Mean Time, which is wrong.

Insteads of going into source code level to add in timezome "GMT+8" routine, we can alter the timezone properties at command line level.

java -Duser.timezone="GMT+8" .....
or
java -Duser.timezone="Asia/Singapore" .....


Reference:
http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=6456628