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Determine if an EXE is 32-bit or 64-bit

Once in a while one has to troubleshoot regarding the platform an EXE was compiled for: 32-bit or 64-bit (x86 or x64 respectively). Sure, there are dedicated tools for this, but also common Windows applications like Task Manager and Notepad can help, as well as the also rather common 7-Zip. Sources: 10 Ways to Determine if Application is Compiled for 32-bit or 64-bit

Overshare, but underpermission

Bottom line of the linked article is that the permissions should be managed at the NTFS level, while the share should be set to Everyone - Full Control. Sources: Best Practices for Share Permissions in Windows Server 2016

Camtasia 7 and Full HD (1920x1080 / 1080p resolution)

As the post implies that is not something that works out of the box. But the following steps proved to work to create a video recorded on full HD. Out of the box Camtasia 7.1.1 was always producing videos with missing lower right hand-side; Like it was not taking the whole screen, but only 1/2-2/3 of the top-left-most area. Once I figured out a way to force the full HD resolution it would give me an out of memory exception: Camtasia Studio Error: E_OUT_OF_MEMORY has been returned when trying to write the file. This may be caused by the videos with large dimensions on the timeline. Please verify that all videos on ... When selecting screen or manually highlighting the screen area the recording would correctly put the green boxes around the full screen space. Yet, the recording dimension were something around 1500x800, not 1920x1080. So, this needs to be manually edited. After the recording finished, for whatever reason, the resulting capture-1.camrec would have a zomm