- Disable Lock Screen Image
- (Re-)Disable Fast Boot to be able to use Windows partitions on Linux
On Windows you can record your screen to an .mp4 file using ffmpeg:
ffmpeg -f gdigrab -framerate 30 -show_region 1 -i desktop out.mp4
(the capture devices
video="UScreenCapture"
and
video="screen-capture-recorder"
did not work for me on my Windows 10 machine, they were not even listed in the available video devices.)
For details see ffmpeg's https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Capture/Desktop
On Windows 10, you can also try to use Windows' Screen Recording to record a window. Just press Win+G and check Yes, this is a game. Afterwards you get a Record button. Your recordings will be saved to %HOMEPATH%\Videos\Captures
You can automatically attach the Visual Studio Just-In-Time debugger when a process is started on Windows. The steps are simple:
My Virtual Machine was running very slow in VirtualBox 4.3.28. Unbearable slow. I though I remembered running it faster, but I wasn't sure.
Indicators for the problem I'll describe next are:
After some googling around at the wrong corners of the Internet I found this post by vonnie mentioning that maybe on my Windows 8.1 host the feature Hyper-V was enabled. I think this steals the VT-x functionality somehow for usage by itself. Disabling this feature boosted the performance of my VMs dramatically!
To disable Hyper-V in Windows 8.1 go to Turn Windows features on or off via Windows' search functionality (hotkey: Win+Q). You'll have to reboot.
These screenshots have been taken after fixing the problem:
The following configures git to use VIM as the default editor (e.g. for commit messages) on Windows:
git config --system core.editor 'C:\\PROGRA~2\\Vim\\vim73\\gvim.exe' --wait
dir /X "C:\Program Files (x86)*"
PROGRA~2
--wait
option after closing the single quotes for the path to the VIM editor+ Bonus: added specials for Windows 8.1
cd /d C:\windows ren vim.bat cvim.bat ren vimdiff.bat cvimdiff.bat ren vimtutor.bat cvimtutor.bat copy gvim.bat vim.bat copy gvimdiff.bat vimdiff.bat
git config --global core.preloadindex true
git config --global core.fscache true
git config --global gc.auto 256
Tools
/ Extensions and updates...
to avoid registrationTools
/ Options
/ Environment
/ General
: Check Use standalone application from command line by default