Submitted by drew on

 

Starting with Windows 7, Windows limits the number of items that can be opened simultaneously. Refer to Microsoft's article Context menus are shortened when more than 15 files are selected.

This is a bit of pain when I would like to select a bunch of items to add to VLC's playlist. Here's a method that will increase the number of items that can be selected and added to the playlist at a time, to 100. For details, see Creating Shortcut Menu Handlers.

  1. Open regedit.
  2. Navigate to HKCR/VLC.mp4/shell/AddToPlayListVLC. VLC has a whole bunch of different file types, this is just the one I am interested in at the moment.
  3. Add a string value named "MultiSelectModel" with a value of "Player"
  4. Press F5. You can close regedit, if you're confident it worked.
  5. Select a bunch of files and see if it worked.

 

The reg file would look like this...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\VLC.mp4\shell\AddToPlaylistVLC]

@="Add to VLC media player's Playlist"

"MultiSelectModel"="Player"

 

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Installing GBridge on Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

Submitted by drew on

 

Just because I don't want to have to look this up again. Windows 8's driver signing enforcement prevents installing GBridge's network drivers. I posted how to work around that on gbridge.net forums when I was testing the Windows 8 preview, but their forum is offline now.

Windows 8

This method works for Professional or Home versions.

Grape Harvest

Submitted by drew on

 

I finally got a full harvest off of this vine (before birds, etc.) These grapes are pretty sour, if you just pick and eat. And seedy. However, I always thought they might make good jelly or something. So this year, I have lots of grapes to try something.

Basically, the process is:

Raspberry-Vanilla Pudding

Submitted by drew on

We have a picnic on July 4 where we are supposed to bring a dish. An hour before the picnic... what should we bring? We have lots of fresh-picked raspberries and that vanilla pudding I got last week. After a few minutes of Google-searching for things that use those two ingredients (no results, except for baked items and stuff of the wrong kind), I am going to make my own recipe for this.

Five Crunch Mix

Submitted by drew on
 
Five different textures of crunch for a delightful and versatile snack that doesn't leave your taste buds feeling like you drank an ocean of saltwater.
 
Shake together in a container (or snack bag) in the desired proportions....
  • honey nut cheerios
  • pretzels (thin style, broken in pieces)
  • unsalted peanuts
  • Spanish peanuts
  • banana chips
  • raisins
 
I usually go heavy on the cheerios.