They are stored as hidden files in a, you guessed, hidden directory. You can’t browse to it but you can type it in RUN or windows explorer location bar:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\Recent\AutomaticDestinations

You will see there a bunch of files with long weird names. You can either search trough them to find the one you want to delete or simply do like I do: delete them all! Not just from time to time, but add a task in Windows Task Scheduler to remove them on shutdown.

If you know the name of a process to kill, for example firefox.exe, use the following command from a command prompt to end it:

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taskkill /IM firefox.exe

This will cause the program to terminate gracefully, asking for confirmation if there are unsaved changes. To forcefully kill the same process, add the /F option to the command line. Be careful with the /F option as it will terminate all matching processes without confirmation.

To kill a single instance of a process, specify its process id (PID). For example, if the desired process has a PID of 1227, use the following command to kill it:

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taskkill /PID 1227

Using filters, a variety of different patterns can be used to specify the processes to kill. For example, the following filter syntax will forcefully kill all processes owned by the user User:

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taskkill /F /FI "USERNAME eq User"

The following table shows the available filters and their use.

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Filter Name   Valid Operators     Valid Value(s)
-----------   ---------------     --------------
STATUS        eq ne               RUNNING | NOT RESPONDING
IMAGENAME     eq ne               Image name
PID           eq ne gt lt ge le   PID value
SESSION       eq ne gt lt ge le   Session number.
CPUTIME       eq ne gt lt ge le   CPU time in the format
of hh:mm:ss.
MEMUSAGE      eq ne gt lt ge le   Memory usage in KB
USERNAME      eq ne               User name in [domain\]user
format
MODULES       eq ne               DLL name
SERVICES      eq ne               Service name
WINDOWTITLE   eq ne               Window title

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 one of the following:

DisableDeleteNotify = 1 (Means that Windows TRIM commands are disabled)
DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Means that Windows TRIM commands are enabled)

What is TRIM and why do you need it

In computing, a TRIM command allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (or “SSD”) which data blocks, such as those belonging to a deleted file or affected by a format command, are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally.

TRIM was introduced soon after SSDs started to become an affordable alternative for traditional hard disks as permanent storage in PCs. Because low-level operation of SSDs differs significantly from traditional hard disks (see details below), the typical way in which operating systems handle operations like deletes and formats (not communicating the involved sectors/pages to the storage medium) resulted in unanticipated progressive performance degradation of write operations on SSDs. TRIM enables the SSD to handle garbage collection overhead, that would otherwise significantly slow down future write operations to the involved blocks, in advance.

[from wikipedia.org]

Fortunately the solution for this expiring password problem is easy. You just need to tell Windows that you want your password to never expire. This is not necessarily a good practice, nevertheless if you want to, here is how you do it.

• Go to START->RUN or WIN+R.
• Type control userpasswords2 and hit ENTER

You’ll get a window like this one showing up:

• You have to click the Advanced tab

• Unsurprisingly, on the Advanced tab you have to click the Advanced button. (Who designs this kind of interfaces?)

• In the window that opens you can see your local users and groups.
• Click on Users and double click in the right panel the user you want to set the password not to expire.

• Finally in the new window that opens check Password never expires.
• Apply or OK your way back!

Done. Still it’s a good ideea to change all your passwords from time to time, just to be on the safe side.

Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats

This pack will allow your existing Office 2003 installation to open files in the newer formats. Problem solved !

Well there is another sollution, but this one is a bit more complicated but better on the long run. Just migrate to Open Office! It’s free, it’s open and can read the new formats introduced by Office 2007.

They should name their programs more peaceful

My wife likes this dictionary a lot, and as far as I can tell there are no upgrades available for it. One option would have been to have a copy of 32 bit XP or 2000 running as a virtual machine. Since the laptop only had windows 7 home installed it wasn’t elligible to run XP mode. A full blown virtual machine would also tax a lot the laptop.

Sollution: I grabbed a copy of Windows 3.11 I still had around, installed dosbox with freedos, set up windows 3.11 inside it. I gave some old graphic drivers a shot in order to get more than a 640×480 windows but gave up, it’s pretty usefull like this too. If someone knows how to get 3.11 inside dosbox to run at more than 640×480 please let me know.

I also set dosbox to launch win /s c:\oxford\superlex.exe at start and created an icon for it. So, it’s possible to directly call the wanted 16 bit app, without having my wife to remember how to launch windows 3.11 from dos.

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 – id doesn’t work.

You need to go to about:config

browser.backspace_action as either 0 or 1.

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0 means that the backspace button will go back a page in the session history
1 means that pressing the backspace key will scroll up one page in the current document

Please note that you’ll need to know the following:

• Windows username and password (the ones needed to access the share)
• The machine and share name. Something like //xpdesktop/pictures
• Have root access on the linux machine

Login on your linux machine as root. Type the following command to mount your remote windows share:

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mkdir /mnt/share_name
mount -t cifs //xpdesktop/pictures -o username=john, password=johnspass /mnt/share_name

Where:

• xpdesktop is the network name of the Windows machine
• john is the username on  the windows machine
• johnspass is the password used to access the windows share
• /mnt/share_name is the target folder where the partition will be mounted (the folder you just created above)

You can now cd and ls the remote windows share as any other folder on the linux machine:

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cd /mnt/share_name
ls  -l

I’ll show you in a following article how you can automatically mount a remote Windows share at boot time.

http://forums.creative.com/t5/Sound-Blaster/SB-Live-series-Support-Pack-1-5-08-09-2009/td-p/533861

Please note that this is an unofficial patch and that it has problems if your Windows 7 machine has more than 2 Gb of RAM.

Read all the details and download the package over to the above address. Let me know if it goes offline, I can upload them too somewhere.