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Apps for Windows after a clean install.

Raid 0 Fail

My laptop’s RAID0 array failed the other day resulting in a new hdd installation and a complete re-install of the operating system.

I had backups of my work, my personal files etc however I had to go through the hassle of re-installing all my applications.

As a side note – what a poor config choice RAID0 turned out to be. Unfortunately this was the way the laptop arrived from the factory. In my opinion it doubles the chances of a catastrophic disk failure as either disk going down will render the raid drive unusable. I chose to configure RAID1 when I rebuilt.

It’s always best to have a recent backup to restore from, but when you need to install all your applications again it helps to have a check list as there is just so many to remember.

So in no particular order here are most of them:

  • Notepad++
  • mIRC
  • Adobe Reader / Shockwave / Flash
  • Canon Digital Photo Software
  • SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
  • Visual Studio Express Edition
  • SyncToy 2.1
  • Windows Live Messenger
  • AVG Antivirus / Microsoft Security Essentials
  • Google Chrome
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • Mozilla Thunderbird
  • 7Zip
  • Gimp
  • Blender
  • VLC
  • nMap – needs WinPcap
  • Wireshark
  • Microsoft Network Monitor
  • Microsoft WinDbg
  • Dia
  • Inkscape
  • FreeMind
  • VNC Server / Viewer
  • Nokia Software
  • Java
  • Google Earth
  • SysInternals Suite
  • Python
  • Azureus / Vuze
  • Daemon Tools Lite
  • FileZilla
  • Amaya
  • Visual Studio 2008 Shell
  • SQL Server 2008 Express Edition
  • Windows Powershell 2.0
  • CDex (ripper)
  • PuTTY
  • UltraVNC
  • Skype
  • DiscJuggler (demo)
  • MPlayer
  • ImgBurn
  • Audacity
  • ImageMagick
  • Handbrake

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PHPLayersMenu 3.2.0

PHPLayersMenu 3.2.0 – this script provides a nice clean hierarchical web menu for a website – it’s multip platform and browser and is very configurable.

It’s available here: http://phplayersmenu.sourceforge.net/

I’ve just been getting this well known php script to work under Windows with PHP running under IIS.

After following the docs and making sure I set $myDirPath = ‘D:\\Websites\\sitename.co.uk\\phplayersmenu-3.2.0\\’;
$myWwwPath = ‘/phplayersmenu-3.2.0/’;

I was nearly there except I was getting a template error.

After a little searching I found the solution in \lib\layersmenu.inc.php

There is some code in there that sets various default paths and it needed changing to take account of the windows notation for the physical file paths.

/*
 $this->dirroot = ‘./’;
 $this->libjsdir = ‘./libjs/’;
 $this->imgdir = ‘./menuimages/’;
 $this->imgwww = ‘menuimages/’;
 $this->icondir = ‘./menuicons/’;
 $this->iconwww = ‘menuicons/’;
 $this->tpldir = ‘./templates/’;
*/

/* BECAME THIS */

$winroot = ‘D:\\Websites\\manick.co.uk\\phplayersmenu-3.2.0\\’;
$winWwwPath = ‘/phplayersmenu-3.2.0/’;
 $this->dirroot = $winroot;
 $this->libjsdir = $winroot.’libjs\\’;
 $this->imgdir = $winroot.’menuimages\\’;
 $this->imgwww = $winWwwPath.’menuimages/’;
 $this->icondir = $winroot.’menuicons\\’;
 $this->iconwww = $winWwwPath.’menuicons/’;
 $this->tpldir = $winroot.’templates\\’;

After that I was good to go and the menu system now works in any folder on the webserver not just the folder I installed the script.

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