I installed TortoiseHg (Mercurial) in my Vista 64-bit and the context menu is not showing up when I right click a file or folder.
Is there any workaround for this problem?
Update: TortoiseHg 0.8 (released 2009-07-01) now includes both 32 and 64 bit shell extensions in the installer, and also works with Windows 7. The workaround described below is no longer necessary.
A workaround to getting the context menus in Windows Explorer is buried in the TortoiseHg development mailing list archives. One of the posts provides this very handy tip on how to run 32-bit Explorer on 64-bit Windows:
TortoiseHG context menus will show up if you run 32-bit windows explorer; create a shortcut with this (or use Start > Run):
%Systemroot%\SysWOW64\explorer.exe /separate
(Source: http://www.mail-archive.com/tortoisehg-develop#lists.sourceforge.net/msg01055.html)
It works fairly well and is minimally invasive, but unfortunately this doesn't seem to make the icon overlays appear. I don't know of any workaround for that, but file status can still be viewed through TortoiseHg menu commands at least. All other TortoiseHg functionality seems intact.
The icon overlays are now working with TortoiseHg 0.6 in 32-bit explorer! Not sure if this is a new fix or if I had some misconfiguration in 0.5; regardless this means TortoiseHg is fully functional in 64-bit Windows.
In order to be able to use an extension in Explorer, the "bitness" of the extension needs to match the bitness of the operating system. This is because (at least under Windows) you can't load a 32-bit DLL into a 64-bit process -- or vice versa. If there's no 64-bit version of HgTortoise, then you can't use it with Explorer on a 64-bit Windows OS.
I upgraded to Windows 7 RC and the 64bit workaround seems to have stopped working
You could always install the command line hg and use it in a pinch. It's a bit faster, too.
I can verify that xplorer2 does show the HG tortoise context menu in 64bit Vista.
As detailed in the TortoiseHg FAQ, you need to run a 32-bit Windows Explorer instance for the context menu and overlays to work under 64-bit Vista.
My personal preference is to create a shortcut similar to the following for each project I'm actively using with TortoiseHg:
%windir%\syswow64\explorer.exe /separate /root,C:\projects\frobnicator
This launches explorer with the C:\projects\frobnicator folder already opened. (You can omit the /root option and just use the same shortcut for all projects if you don't mind clicking your way to the target folder every time you launch it.)
According to the TortoiseHg FAQ the context menus will work in 64-bit Vista if you start a 32-bit instance of explorer by creating a shortcut with the following settings (as suggested in the answer above):
Target: %windir%\syswow64\explorer.exe /separate
Start In: %windir%\syswow64\
I've just noticed that the context menu and icons work from a file open dialog from some apps (on Vista). I now just use Notepad++'s file open dialog, since I use Notepad++ all the time.
It seems to have to be the simple open dialog, not the new one Notepad has, for example.
Maybe someone can check if this trick works in Windows 7.
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I have the 4.0.3 Octave version on my machine.
and I would like to upgrade my version using windows.
Can someone tell me please the steps to follow?
Thanks.
If you want to remove v4.0.3, the complete answer will depend on how you installed that version in the first place.
If you used an executable installer, then there should be an 'uninstall' option available. On Windows 10, you can sometimes right click on the shortcut in the startmenu and an Uninstall option will appear. Otherwise you can follow the directions at this link to navigate through the Settings to the Apps & Features window, which lists everything installed and will provide an Uninstall option.
If you used a zip package to 'install' Octave 4.0.3 just by unzipping it to a folder on your hard drive, then no uninstall process is necessary. you can just delete the folder and shortcuts manually.
You can have multiple octave versions installed next to each other, the folders will have version numbers to prevent them from overwriting themselves.
To install the latest version (5.1.0 as of this answer, although 5.2.0 will be released very soon):
You can find the installation files for Windows by going to the Octave download page and clicking 'Windows'. There will be several file options there. Most people choose the first one (octave-5.1.0-w64-installer.exe) for 64bit systems. You can just download that or one of the other .exe versions, execute that program, and follow the prompts. If for some reason you would rather download a zip package and do a manual setup, I suggest you follow the instructions at the Octave for Microsoft Windows Wiki page to make sure everything is configured correctly.
Google Chrome on my machine recently got updated to v44.
I'm working with Selenium WebDriver on Chrome and as soon as I updated Chrome, all my tests went dead. I use Chromedriver v2.16. My partner's PC has Chrome v42.0.2311.90 and Chromedriver v2.16. And tests run fine on his machine. Now, based on this I'm pretty sure the problem is probably not with Chromedriver.
So, how can I downgrade to Chrome 42.0.2311.90?
I've tried using an offline installer from here:
Google Chrome Alternate Offline Installer
But this always gives me the latest version to install i.e. v44.
The release that I need can be found here:
Google Chrome v42.0.2311.90 Stable Channel Update
Uninstall your current chrome version.
Remove all Chrome data for current version from: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome
Download your particular version from chrome_installer.
Disable chrome updates using instructions given on this link.
Following steps help you to install your desired google chrome version :
1 - Uninstall your current google chrome version.
2 - Download your desired google chrome version from here : Google Chrome Download
3 - Restart PC once so if any registry or temp file stored of previous google chrome then it will get refresh.
4 - Install your downloaded google chrome. And then turn off automatic chrome update.
I struggled with this same problem on Mac, trying to downgrade, and stay downgraded from Chrome 53 to 52 due to a serious bug affecting webaudio.
None of the other recommendation appear to apply any more (or on Mac OS X at least). The app attempts to upgrade itself and there doesn't be a way to configure that in a "Chrome-friendly" way.
Eventually I resorted to force...
Close and uninstall Chrome
Edit your /etc/hosts file to prevent update checks from working by overriding the DNS entry:
0.0.0.0 tools.google.com
Find and download an old release. This is left as an exercise, this was actually hard and fraught with fear of bad binaries. I was able to cross-reference MD5s from one site that didn't have downloads with another that had downloads.
Install and run the older version
Important: Check the "About" page, and point and laugh at Chrome's attempts to check in.
This is how you can use an older chrome version "in general":
Uninstall your current chrome
Install the chrome version you desire
DO NOT open chrome!! after installation
Instead disable auto-updates like here or here
Only then may you work with your desired chrome browser version
As for how to get a specific older version:
You need to google, search forums or try sites like this. It's just "grunt work" to find the version you are looking for. If you're extremely unlucky, the very version you need might even not be around any more.
If you are running on a windows machine you can leverage the package manager chocolatey, this is how we I'm doing it from Jenkins, we call a powershell that uninstalls a previous version and install a specific one: From a powershell ide script window, you need to have installed the modules for chocolatey that is a small price to pay for a lot of benefit:
choco install googlechrome --version 62.0.3202.94 -y
Then to prevent Chrome to self update I am performing this steps:
1. Verify Chrome's current version.
(Get-Item (Get-ItemProperty 'HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\chrome.exe').'(Default)').VersionInfo
Install the version I'm aiming for:
choco install googlechrome --version 62.0.3202.94 -y
You can look for available versions here:
https://chocolatey.org/packages/GoogleChrome
(Find Version History Section)
Kill GoogleCrashHandler.exe in any of its variants 32 or 64 bits or both.
Delete the Directories
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Update and
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\CrashReporter
You will loose the ability to auto update (which is the whole purpose right) and
you will loose the ability to send crash reports and piggy back on that executable to update against your will whenever google deems convenient.
5.Disable Chrome Services
I have PHPStorm, but when I'm writing native function (for example str_poss, return, parent...) it very often freeze for about 10 seconds. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. But it happen to me on Windows7 and on Ubuntu also. Has anyone same trouble? Thanks.
PHPStorm used to "lag" for me before quite often too... but I managed to fix it in the following ways (It did take a bit of tweaking/experimenting though to get it to work! But now it is blazing fast once again!)
Here is what I did to optimize it:
1) If you are on Linux - Make sure you are using Oracle Java on your system, not Open JDK
From: https://intellij-support.jetbrains.com/entries/23455956-Selecting-the-JDK-version-the-IDE-will-run-under it says:
On windows: "JDK is bundled with all the product installers and it's recommended that you will use the provided JDK version unless there are any specific issues.
32-bit JDK is located in IDE_HOME\jre directory and is used by the 32-bit product executable.
To run the IDE in 64-bit mode you will need to download and install 64-bit JDK (not JRE) distribution and install it yourself. IDE will find and use it from the registry when you run the 64-bit .exe file (available only for IntelliJ IDEA right now, other products can use the .bat file to run in 64-bit mode)."
2) Disable any plugins you do not ABSOLUTELY NEED! Especially any 3rd party plugins you may have installed**
GBC from PhpStorm 7 very slow and sluggish on netbook, optimize IDE for responsiveness? also had some insties:
3) Disable language injections: File -> Settings -> Language injections. un-check as many boxes as you're comfortable with. HTML was the real killer for me.
4) Disable inspections: File -> Settings -> Inspections. uncheck as many as you don't need.
I hope this helps!
I am on a mounted VM drive and everytime I was going back to PHPStorm it freezes for 5-10 sec.
Unchecked the box "Synchronize files on frame activation", in Settings > General > Synchronization, seems to solve the issue for me.
PHPStorm 7.1 on Linux
A solution I found which drastically increased my speed without having to disable any plugins or disable inspections (because they are useful - why would you want to disable them) was to enable OpenGL.
First of all go to: path-to-phpstorm\bin\PhpStorm64.exe.vmoptions
Then add these two lines below the others:
-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=lcd
-Dawt.java2d.opengl=true
This helped me to get that 'eye' logo disappear and show a green tick on 6000 line file in 3 seconds rather than 2 minutes. Amazing how much difference it made.
If you're using JetBrains Toolbox, go into the Settings beside PhpStorm and crank up the "Maximum heap size". I find about 3000 MB is good.
If you're not using Toolbox, find and open phpstorm64.vmoptions and add this line:
-Xmx3000m
It does the same thing.
I had the same problem on Ubuntu. The IDE was freezing regularly on two different PCs (Using a desktop pc at home and a laptop at work), both have as OS Ubuntu 18. The freezing time was about 1-2 minutes.
It stopped after I restart IDE with VM-option: -Dawt.ime.disabled=true
Source: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-1923
I'm running tortoisehg 2.1.3 (and now 2.1.4) on a win7 x86 system upgraded from 2.1.2. When I click on the context menus (e.g. workbench) nothing happens.
I enabled shell debugging: [HKCU]\Software\TortoiseHg\ value DebugShellExt="1"
Which yielded: [THGx86] RunDialog: THG root is empty in DbgView.
I've manually checked that \Software\TortoiseHg\ default is "C:\Program Files\TortoiseHg" for both [HKCU] and [HKLM]. Though I'm having some problems where installing TortoiseHg seems to make these registry keys empty and unreadable and I have to manually change ownership on them to even delete them.
Anyone else having problems with these context menus in this version of TortoiseHg on windows? Anyone know if something has changed in the installer? Anyone know of something that could cause these registry keys to become inaccessible even to the application that created them?
It looks like the issues are resolved in more recent versions of TortoiseHG (2.2.1 and later). So, I'm marking this question answered.
I use the stable version of Google Chrome as my default browser on my system. I now need to work on a project requiring the development version of Chrome, yet I do not wish to replace my system install of Chrome.
Does there exist a standalone package of Chome which can be unpacked into a folder and executed entirely from there? Ie, it should not require anything to be installed, it should not touch the profile associated with my installed version of Chrome. I should be able to download different versions of this into different folders, and be sure that they do not conflict with each other..
(Ideally we could package up prototype builds complete with a copy of this version of Chrome. These packages would then be as self contained as a desktop application...)
You could download the Chromium flavour (which is the open source browser that runs Google Chrome). You can download the latest and greatest from:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/LATEST/
If you have specific dates/revision that you want to download, you can pick them from:
http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/continuous/
That will not interfere with the current version of Chrome, instead it will be using Chromium folder structure (chrome replaced with chromium everywhere).
Simply get the portable version, it does what as you need.
As an answer above, you could get Chromium (portable) which also includes chromedriver from chromium snapshots page.
Pick one with the biggest number (scroll down):
https://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?prefix=Win_x64/
If the link is dead, there is always a solution to build it from source code, it's a benefit of open source application.
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/refs/heads/main/docs/windows_build_instructions.md#Build-Chromium
Chromium home page:
https://www.chromium.org/
Hope it helps!
I believe Chrome on Windows installs itself into the Application Data (/Users on Win7) folder of a user. While I can't test this at the moment, try creating a new user account, install Chrome, then log into your other account. Then try running both at the same time. Might be a bit hard to find the executable.
Another option would be to run it in a VM. More expensive versions of Win7 have this somewhat built-in (you need to download an XP image from Microsoft, but the VM software is pre-installed, I think) but you can also install VirtualBox + your own ISO. On a decent computer system, you shouldn't get too much of a performance hit.
A really silly way of doing this is installing the multiple concurrent users Remote Desktop hack, Remote Desktopping to your own computer (if that's possible) and running the second Chrome install as a different user.