Many computers in the National Health service in the UK are still running Windows 7. This is not too shocking really, but why are some people making such a fuss over the decision to not update to Windows 10? Some software does not work very well on Windows 10 and…
Read MoreThe thumbs.db file in Windows is used to cache thumbnails for picture files in the file explorer, but this is a pain when the user wants to delete a folder and the thumbs.db prevents this. But there is a way to fix this, without needing to reboot. Open the Group…
Read MoreWindows has quite a few useful utilities for searching text. The findstr utility allows searching through a folder full of text files for a certain string. Here is an example. >findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.*>findstr /S /R "money_quest_update" *.* And this is how to search for text strings in a…
Read MoreLinux and Windows are continually in a state of competition, but the problem with Windows 10 is the update methods that create many and varied problems that should never even happen in the first place. The Linux and Macintosh operating systems do not have that many problems when upgrading. I…
Read MoreAccording to Bill Gates the traditional personal computer is dying and the mobile revolution is signalling a change to tablets and Metro applications instead of the traditional applications that all computer users are enjoying at the present time. But I believe that the standard computer form factor with a tower…
Read MoreThis is a Windows 10 computer with a virus infestation, this person was asking if this was a serious problem or not. I mean really? Of course it is. As long as I had Windows 10 installed, I shouldn’t have had anything at all to worry about. The problem is…
Read MoreA useful VBScript sample to get user information. This is just basic information about the user. ‘ Logoninformation.vbs ‘ VBScript Logon script. ‘ This program demonstrates how to get information about the logged in user. ‘ This script tested on a Windows 7 machine and works perfectly too. ‘ ———————————————————————-…
Read MoreThe forced restarts in Windows 10 are very annoying when you are working on something and then your machine restarts in the middle of your work. There is a way to turn this off. To do this go to this folder. %windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator%windir%\System32\Tasks\Microsoft\Windows\UpdateOrchestrator Rename the “Restart” file and create a folder…
Read MoreLinux is better than Windows for the following reasons. You can install updates in one go, and then they are installed, the user is not disturbed by an update prompt in the middle of whatever they were doing. That is what Windows 10 does, it updates and reboots without warning,…
Read MoreThere is a new desktop application for us Linux users, an Electron image of the Windows `95 operating system. This is fun to play with, but I am not sure how to get networking running in the sense that you would on Windows 7. I cannot seem to get a…
Read MoreI have just bought an old Kaiser Baas TV dongle and getting it to work on Windows is very frustrating. The website does not have drivers available and there are only dodgy driver download websites that have anything for download. Whereas on Linux, I just plug it and then run…
Read MoreThe original file manager that was featured in Windows NT 4.0 is now available for a modern 64-bit operating system. This is a Visual Studio solution and will build on a modern Windows operating system. Microsoft are gradually open-sourcing old parts of Windows. This is a good thing I think….
Read MoreRunning Windows in a qemu virtual machine is very easy. Install all required qemu packages. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemujason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-kvm qemu-utils qemu Now we can create a virtual machine disk image to install our virtual machine onto. jason@Yog-Sothoth:~$ qemu-img create -f raw win7.img 30Gjason@Yog-Sothoth:~$…
Read MoreA lovely GTK theme that emulates the look of Windows 7. I have just found a very good Windows 7 GTK theme: https://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Win2-7+Pack?content=113264. This is a lovely GTK theme that makes your MATE or Gnome 2.32.2 interface look just like the Windows 7 Basic theme. Windows Vista icon theme: http://www.securitronlinux.com/files/Vista.tar.gz….
Read MoreI was burning a DVD ISO image of Debian 9 to a disc in Windows 8.1. This completed successfully, and the disk was burned and finalized with no errors. But then I discovered the disk was a pre-burned CD with an old copy of Ubuntu Server 14.04 on it. So…
Read MoreThere are quite a few Windows CMD commands that users do not know about. I will be showing you a handful to improve your usage of the CMD prompt. The findstr command. This is just like the grep command for Linux. findstr /s "BIS_C_OFFROAD" *.sqmfindstr /s "BIS_C_OFFROAD" *.sqm This is…
Read MorePetya cyber attack threatening many Windows machines Petya cyber attack screen on Windows. This is a new version of the Wannacry malware that is targeting insecure Windows machines. Apparently, there was a system that pushed updates to many Windows machines, and the malware was introduced into the updates and therefore…
Read MoreThe new ransomware threat in the wild is quite amazing, but it relies on your machine having ports open to the web and the SMB service running in Windows. A lot of existing machines might have this service running and they might not be patched at all. Since this was…
Read MoreWindows has some very cool wallpapers available in it. Here are a few old favorites from old and new versions of Windows. These could be interesting choices for a Windows lookalike desktop on Cinnamon or KDE. These are very cool, especially the high-res wallpapers for Windows 10. Complete pack of…
Read MoreThese commands used in a Administrator cmd prompt will cleanup any Windows update files and any other unwanted temporary files on your Windows system. dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded cleanmgr /d C:dism /online /cleanup-image /spsuperseded cleanmgr /d C: In my case, there were no Windows Updates to cleanup. dism /online /get-featuresdism…
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