1. Download the DirectX redistributable
2. Unpack it
3. Unpack dxnt.cab
4. In dmusic.inf, search and replace “HKCR,” with “HKCR,Wow6432Node\”
5. Install the edited dmusic.inf (from the right-click menu)
6. Copy missing DLLs (dm*.dll) to %WINDIR%/SysWOW64.

That’s it! The same method could work for other DirectX components as well.

ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code.

ack doesn’t enable or output colors on Windows by default. To get it all working, do the following:

1. If you don’t have it yet, get ActivePerl.
2. Download the standalone version of ack; save it with a .pl extension
3. Create a batch file somewhere under %PATH% named ack.bat which invokes perl with ack:

   @C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe C:\Tools\ack-standalone.pl %*

   You should now be able to type ack arguments from anywhere, however this won’t get colors working right away. To do that:

4. Install the Win32::Console::ANSI module using PPM (you’ll need to add the repository).
5. In ack-standalone.pl, add this line after the other two use lines:

   use Win32::Console::ANSI;

6. Create a file named .ackrc in your user profile folder (usually C:\Documents and Settings\Username), with the contents:

   --color
   --color-match
   bold red

   “bold red” (which actually means bright red) is my own preference; I think it’s nicer than the default “black on_yellow”, and the default color for grep (on *nix) as well.

That’s it!

The cause of the problem is that the combo box was not created with the CBS_AUTOHSCROLL style:

CBS_AUTOHSCROLL

Automatically scrolls the text in the edit control to the right when the user types a character at the end of the line. If this style is not set, only text that fits within the rectangular boundary is allowed.

Visual Studio’s resource editor has a different name and description for this property:

Auto

Automatically scrolls text to the left when the user types a character at the end of the line.

Note: I re-exported the background from the original PSD as a PNG, since it’s too beautiful to be degraded by JPEG compression artifacts. The PNG is about 350kb in size – so, if that bothers you, convert it to JPEG and edit style.css accordingly.

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Here’s my AutoHotKey solution:

#IfWinActive ahk_class SWT_Window0
^Tab::Send ^{PgDn}
#IfWinActive ahk_class SWT_Window0
^+Tab::Send ^{PgUp}

Here is a patched version that reads the KiTTY registry key instead of the standard PuTTY one:
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Edit: I completely missed out on the session launcher feature in KiTTY, which supports KiTTY’s session folder structure.

Edit 2: I got so used to launching PuTTY Knife from a shortcut, that I could never get used to reaching for KiTTY’s session launcher in the system tray. Instead, I wrote a tiny program which pops up KiTTY’s system tray menu. Here it is:

#include <windows.h>
void main()
{
	HWND h = FindWindow("KiTTYLauncher", "KiTTYLauncher");
	if (h == 0)
		MessageBeep(MB_ICONERROR);
	else
		SendMessage(h, 0x402, 9901, WM_LBUTTONUP);
	ExitProcess(0);
}

Download: KiTTYLauncher.exe (just 1 KB!)