February 2012

Re-enabling AutoPlay in Windows 7

By hiojay | February 6, 2012July 19, 2013 by hiojay

I noticed that the AutoPlay feature stopped working for me some time ago. It may have something to do with the fact that I have virtualization software such as VMWare and Daemon Tools installed. I managed to re-enable the AutoPlay functionality by changing the following value in the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun

1	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\NoDriveTypeAutoRun

The value was set to 255 (in decimal) or ff (in hexadecimal), meaning that AutoPlay was disabled for all devices. Once I set this value…

Text Editor

Opening EditPlus and Sublime Text from PowerGREP

By hiojay | February 2, 2012May 5, 2015 by hiojay

I use PowerGREP for all my grep needs. I also link PowerGREP to EditPlus (my preferred text editor) so that I can easily view/edit the file. Here is what I specify in the Command line option for the PowerGREP Preferences so that when I click on a line number in PowerGREP, it automatically opens EditPlus at that line number:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\EditPlus 3\editplus.exe" -e "%FILE%" -cursor %LINE%:%COL%

1	"C:\Program Files (x86)\EditPlus 3\editplus.exe" -e "%FILE%" -cursor %LINE%:%COL%

Here is what I specify for Sublime Text:

"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" "%FILE%:%LINE%:%COL%"

1	"C:\Program Files\Sublime Text 3\sublime_text.exe" "%FILE%:%LINE%:%COL%"