Problem installing SAP GUI on Windows 10

I just downloaded the latest SAP GUI ZIP file from http://launchpad.support.sap.com/

The installation failed with hundreds of weird errors and didn’t work at all. Checking the errors, seems that Windows BLOCKED all the DLLs and from executables from the installation. I uninstalled SAP GUI and from an administrator Power Shell Console went to the root of the install media:

PS C:\Users\MDaponte\Downloads> cd C:\Users\MDaponte\Downloads\SAP\GUI_7.50_Win\Install\PRES1
PS C:\Users\MDaponte\Downloads\SAP\GUI_7.50_Win\Install\PRES1> dir -Recurse | Unblock-File -Verbose

That command unblocked all the files in the media. Afterwards, the installation worked without a single error.

 

 

vim replace multiple spaces with tab

xxxx            xxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
yy              y y yyyyyy
zzzzzzzzzz      zzzzzzzzzzz zzz zzz

Change the consecutive spaces with a tab so it looks like this
:%l
xxxx^Ixxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
yy^Iy y yyyyyy
zzzzzzzzzz^Izzzzzzzzzzz zzz zzz

:%s/ \+/^I/

Really interesting

Jeremy Grantham, Co-founder and Chief Investment Strategist of Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo.

• Air Date 3/10/2013

http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60191122

SQL Server 2008: Forgot to add an administrator account?

Or should I say: SAP installation script didn’t add your account as a SQL admin and now you’re locked out…

Follow this instructions:

http://blogs.ameriteach.com/chris-randall/2009/12/11/sql-server-2008-forgot-to-add-an-administrator-account.html?printerFriendly=true

Basically, stop SQL, and with an admin command prompt go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn

Start SQL in single user with
sqlservr.exe -m

Open another console and run
sqlcmd -s instance -e

Create your user with
create login [domain\user] from windows
go

Grant yourself some nice permissions
exec sp_addsrvrolemember @loginname=’domain\user’, @rolename=’sysadmin’
go

Close the command prompt. Press control-c in the console running the single user engine and close it.

Restart the SQL service and log in…

SAP – Como poner una actividad de SPRO en tus favoritos

Para crear cajas tengo que usar esta transacción:

SPRO > Financial Accounting > Contract Accounts Receivable and Payable > Business Transactions > Payments > Processing Incoming and Outgoing Payments > Cash Desk / Cash Journal > Define Master Data for Cash Journal

Vamos hasta ese nodo en SPRO y seleccionamos en el menú que nos muestre el nombre del IMG Activity. Una vez que la veamos, podemos darle Right Click y Display technical info para poder copiar el nombre _FICABTPY_FPCJM

Entramos a la SE16 y vemos la tabla CUS_IMGACH buscando con el nombre de la actividad

Logramos ver así el nombre de la transacción, que en este caso es S_SK4_84000011

Añadimos la transacción como favorita

La descripción es espantosa, así que la cambiamos dándole Right Click y Change Favorites

Listo!!!

Vim replace X number of characters

:%s/^.\{n}//

Substitute n with number of characters you want to delete.

https://varuntv.wordpress.com/2013/09/11/delete-first-n-characters-in-a-file-vim-trick/

How to increase volume in Windows

Excellent tip!!!

http://www.nextofwindows.com/sound-volume-not-loud-enough-here-is-how-you-can-boost-it/

The article contains images showing the steps, and these are the basic steps:

1. Right-click on the speaker icon at your system tray, and choose Playback devices, which opens up Playback tab in Sound dialog box.

2. Right-click the device, and choose Properties.

3. In Speakers properties window, go to Enhancements, and check “Loudness Equalization” option.

 

My Windows 8.1 does not have the policy editor gpedit.msc so how can I change the stupid thumbnails file-in-use policy?

These posts show how to fix the problem using gpedit.msc

http://www.sitepoint.com/switch-off-thumbs-db-in-windows/

And this site shows where in the registry are the policies stored

http://gpsearch.azurewebsites.net/#2645

So for this policy User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\File Explorer\, this is the registry key HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer, and this is the value of the key: NoThumbnailCache

Simple Input Dialog In C#

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Have you ever tried looking for a Input Dialog box in C#? I did recently and fully expecting something similar to the MessageBox.Show() found out that there wasn’t one. So I browsed the web for a quick solution, and did’nt find exactly what I wanted so I decided to make my own. Here is how I did it for those of you facing the same problem.

Just to be clear, my goals were :

• Simple looking dialog, with caption, description, and a textbox.
• Option to press ok and also cancel out.
• Easy way to return the value.

Okay lets start, create a form named InputDialog.cs with the following code in InputDialog.Designer.cs but make sure you rename the namespace to your own :

Now you should have a form that looks like this :

Now this form needs some code behind it to function, so clear everything behind it and paste…

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Windows – Take ownership of files or folders

This POS problem has happened to me on several occasions [attaching my Win 7 C: drive to my new Win 8 laptop; attaching a Windows 2008 drive (on VMware) to another server] and seems that there’s no way to fix it from the GUI.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-security/access-denied-error-applying-security-info/e8d77b3f-3e46-489b-bb55-80a7423a45e2

a.     In the start menu search Command Prompt or “CMD”.

b.     From the results, right click Command Prompt and Click Run as Administrator.

c.    At the command prompt, type “takeown /f <foldername> /r /d y” without quotes and then press ENTER. (Replace <foldername> with the path of the folder).

d.    Then, type “icacls <foldername> /grant administrators:F /T” without quotes and hit enter. (Replace <foldername> with the path of the folder).