Resources for Windows based systems
God a fancy new drive? SSD maybe? TRIM support advertised? Well, here’s how you can check if TRIM support is actually enabled and working in your windows installation: Start a command prompt window (WIN+R, type cmd and press enter) In the command prompt window type the following: fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify You will get...
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One of my clients called be mecause every now and then his was bugged by Windows XP to change his password. This seemed weird as XP doesn’t do this by default. Probably it was set to expire by someone or by some friendly security suite. Fortunately the solution for this expiring password problem is...
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If you, like many of my clients regularly receive files from partners that have already upgraded to microsoft office 2007 have the annoyance that the files are always saved in the docx format (because people don’t go to the trouble to Save as office 2003) then you probably think that it’s time to upgrade....
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I found this weird looking process working on an infected computer. Further investigation revealed that it just came with a Marvell network driver. It just sits there and creates a log file, so leaving it in should not hurt anything. They should name their programs more peaceful
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We got for my wife a much needed upgrade for her aging Toshiba laptop. The new one came with Windows 7 64 bit. I managed to get all her old software working with the exception of Oxford Superlex. This one is a dictionary from the Windows 3.11 ages. It worked fine in all windowses...
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It’s a mystery for me why on windows firefox developers have conceived one use for backspace and another for firefox on linux. If you are coming from windows and moving onto linux you might be used to press backspace to go back one page in Firefox. Well you’re in for a small surprise –...
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As you know Linux does not use drive letters like Windows does. All files are organized under a big tree hierarchy. We use the mount command to mount partitions and this is the same command used to mount remote windows partition or windows shares. Please note that you’ll need to know the following: Windows...
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I tried running Windows 7 on a machine that had a Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1 card inside. Since the 5.1 is a decent card I see no reason to replace it just because windows 7 came along. Please note that these unofficial updated drivers also bring along Windows 64 bit support. A quick...
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This is something useful: code to wake up a machine on lan using python. Since python is available on most devices now (symbian, maeom, windows, linux and so on) it’s pretty usefull. So, if you have machines that you want to be able to start this is the code to do it. I found...
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Thinking of a memory upgrade? An operating system upgrade? Here’s a table from msdn stating the limits imposed by 32 and 64 bit editions of various Windows versions. Physical Memory Limits: Windows 7 The following table specifies the limits on physical memory for Windows 7. Version Limit in 32-bit Windows Limit in 64-bit Windows Windows 7 Ultimate...
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