Cómo hacer el Hacha compatible con Windows Vista

Hoy he tenido que usar el Hacha, y no funcionaba en Vista, diciendo que le faltaba el archivo "msvbvm50.dll".

He visto a gente por inet ofreciendo packs con ese archivo, otros diciendo que había que poner el Hacha en "compatibilidad con XP". Bueno, pues ni lo primero ni lo segundo.

Basta con:

1.- Ir al directorio de Windows y buscar el fichero "msvbvm60.dll", la versión que viene en Vista. 2.- Copiar el fichero al directorio del hacha
3.- Renombrarlo, cambiando el 6 por el 5.

Al Hacha le da igual y funciona. Así que solucionado.

Salu2!

Disable automatic folder type discoverey in Vista Explorer

Vista is a great O.S. but, of course, has many things that could be better. Among all the things of Vista I don´t like, probably the most annoying one is the Automatic Folder Type Discovery feature.

This feature applies different templates to folders basing on their contents. For instance, if a folder contains mostly pictures, it will apply the "picture template" which uses a certain collection of columns for the files´properties: date the picture was taken, etc.



I don´t like this at all, basically for two reasons:

1.- It doesn´t work properly because it decides that a folder contains pictures when, in fact, has many other file types. And it´s absolutely annoying when you have a folder with 3d models, textures, sounds, etc, and you cannot see the "Modified Date" column or sort the files by "Type" because Vista decided that was a picture-only folder...

2.- This behavior might be appropiate for those home-users that normally use the computer for storing pictures and sending emails, but... what happens with developers and many other user profiles?

What I´m saying is: this feature would be good (if it worked better) for something like "Windows Vista Email-Sender-Only Edition", but I think that many people is asking for something like: "Windows Vista Developers Edition"... kindof "WindowsVista, without all the garbage".

Thankfully, this kind of stuff can be disabled. However, this time is a little bit trickier than just going to "that" menu and unchecking an option. Here it goes:



Note: This procedure implies editing the Windows Registry. Be sure to know what you are doing before proceeding and maybe, make a backup of the registry before changing it. If you don´t know what the registry is, or how to make a backup of it, maybe you shouldn´t go ahead...



1.- Run regedit
2.- Go to:


HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell


3.- If not already present, create a new Key in ther named: "Bags"
4.- Inside that "Bags" key, add another one with the name: "AllFolders"
5.- Inside that "AllFolders" key, add another one with the name: "Shell"
6.- Inside the "Shell" key, add a new "String Value" or "Valor alfanumérico" (in spanish), with the name "FolderType".
7.- Modify the "FolderType" string setting the value: "NotSpecified". Your registry should look like this:








8.- Close regedit.



Et voilá!. The Automatic Folder Type Discovery feature is disabled.

Note: This procedure and picture was taken from here. Thanks to www.windows-now.com for the info.


Cheers!