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Nov 19, 2003
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How can I tell if I have the 64-bit edition of Windows?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Answer: Your wallet is empty. Seriously, there is no way you bought an Itanium by mistake. They are expensive machines: The entry-level workstation available from HP (who co-developed the Itanium with Intel) goes for over $3000 and the entry-level server is over $13,000. And in addition to paying for the computer itself, you probably had to instal...

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Oct 8, 2003
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In Explorer, you can right-click the icon in the caption

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

In Explorer, you can right-click the icon in the caption to get the context menu for the folder you are viewing. (Very handy for "Search" or "Command Prompt Here".) Apparently not enough people realize this. In Windows 95, we tried to make it so most icons on the screen did something interesting when you right-clicked them.

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Oct 2, 2003
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What do the text label colors mean for files?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Blue means compressed; green means encrypted. This is an example of one of those "come on, it's a tiny, simple feature" requests. Yes, the code to do this isn't particularly complicated, but it adds another element of "Ha ha, I'm going to do something in a way that you will never be able to figure ...

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Sep 11, 2003
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You too can dress like Raymond

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Yes, I'm the Raymond that Kraig Brockschmidt is writing about when he discusses "Dress Like Raymond Day".

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Aug 31, 2003
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Setup could not verify integrity of file

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

When you try to install a patch, you may get the error message "Setup could not verify integrity of file. Make sure the cryptographic service is running." This typically means that the signature catalog has been corrupted. There was a patch to fix this problem, but of course if you haven't bee...

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Aug 27, 2003
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Why are these unwanted files/folders opening when I log on?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

I get called on frequently to do troubleshooting, so I figure I'd share some entries from my private bag of tricks.  (And there are some remarks for programmers hidden here too.) Problem 1. A folder like opens each time you log on. Reason: Your system contains two ...

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Aug 27, 2003
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What are all these files in my C:WINDOWSCSC directory?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

This is where Windows keeps the files that you have marked for being available offline.  (CSC was the working name for the feature now called Offline Files. It stands for Client-Side Caching.)

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Aug 27, 2003
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What are those little overlay icons?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

Windows XP ships with a number of icon overlays. The black clock is particularly baffling because you sometimes see it even if your system is not equipped with Hierarchical Storage Management. When this happens, it's because some program (typicall...

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