One of the first things you notice about Windows Vista is the annoying User Account Control (UAC) popup. It keeps nagging you to click a confirmation button whenever you try to install or reconfigure something. With UAC, you are working with normal user privileges even though you may be logged in with an administrator account. When the application requires administrator privileges, the UAC prompt pops up to ask for your confirmation. UAC compatible applications are packed with an application manifest to tell Vista that they need elevated privileges . For legacy applications needing elevated privileges , you can check " Run this program as an administrator " on the Compatibility tab of file properties dialog. Application manifest itself is not new to Windows Vista. In...

The cygwin telnet client is contained in the inetutils package, which contains common utilities like telnet, ftp, rlogin, rcp, rsh, etc.

Press the "Windows" key Press R to bring up the Run dialog Enter tasks and hit Return.

From the "Start" button, select "Run", then type in "services.msc", hit return.

Include file: #include <winsock2.h> Link library: -lws2_32

Some tools to burn video files to DVD: DVD Flick: http://www.dvdflick.net/ Works on Windows 2000 Professional, all versions of Windows XP or all versions of Windows Vista. Uses ffmpeg . MEncoder + vcdimager or dvdauthor Works on Windows and Linux. Less user friendly than DVDFlick but more flexible. The following seemed helpful: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/menc-feat-vcd-dvd.html

Command Meaning ./configure configure the package for your system make compile the package make install install the programs and man pages make clean remove the program binaries and object files make distclean make clean, but also remove the files that 'configure' created

I don't know why but I can't burn a CD when DMA was off for my cdrom controller. I tried several different CD burning software, all failed with mysterious errors. It worked fine after I turned DMA on.

Name URL Comments Media Player Classic (MPC) http://sourceforge.net/projects/guliverkli/ (MPC) http://www.codecguide.com/ (K-Lite Codec Pack) K-Lite Codec Pack bundles MPC and is installed with windows installer KMPlayer http://www.kmplayer.com/forums/index.php Korean media player. Windows platform ZOOM Player http://www.inmatrix.com/ Windows 98 / Windows NT4 SP5 or newer VLC media player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ Cross platform, works on Windows, Mac OS, BeOS, Linux, BSD

MinGW is "Minimalist GNU for Windows" - a collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries that allows you to build Windows native executables with GCC. MSYS is a minimal system that provides a POSIX compatible shell and utilities so that you can run the normal set of GNU build tools (such as configure, make). You can download MinGW and MSYS from sourceforge.net: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 . The set of files is overwhelming and installation is confusing sometimes. But here's what I did in order to build ffmpeg on Windows XP: Download "Automated MinGW Installer" (MinGW 5.1.4) Install MinGW 5.1.4. Select "Candidate". Check g++, but leave other options unchecked Finish installation of MinGW Install MSYS DTK 1.0 in C:\msys\1.0. Download "MSYS...