dd'ing images onto an SD card
I have a somewhat weird situation I'm trying to dd an OS image (something which I dd'ed off a card earlier) onto an SD card. The card capacity is 8GB and the image was made off an SD card of similar capacity. This is on linux. The image has 2 partitions (/ and /boot). The SD card when inserted is av...
Windows 8.1 - No Recovery Tools
Trying to refresh my WTG stick which has become corrupted. I have so far disabled Bitlocker and created a Windows 8.1 media iso. I run the WTG either as a VM over Hyper-V or in my laptop "physically". I was able to access the "F8" startup options via the Bitlocker menu but now that I have disabled B...
Set Outlook Default PDF Previewer
On my computer I have various PDF readers - I generally use Edge for PDF reading, but I also have Adobe Acrobat DC, and Foxit Phantom Editor. I installed a trial of Adobe Acrobat first, and then Foxit Phantom, and decided to go with Phantom as my PDF editor. So I uninstalled Acrobat. However, Acroba...
Match account/ipaddress of users connected to a remote desktop
the remote desktop is ru ing on Windows7. I do not have admin rights. using nestat I am able to get a list of all remotely co ected IP Addresses C:>netstat -n | find "3389" | find "ESTABLISHED" TCP 10.*.4.10:3389 10.*.4.*1:50031 ESTABLISHED TCP 10.*.4.10:3389 10.*.4.*2:50032 ESTABLISHED TCP 10.*.4.1...
Can't access Samba shares after moving to another server
Here's the issue: I've recently decided to move whole Samba service to new server without recreating everything again. So, I installed Samba on CentOS 6.7 and overwrote the following: /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, /etc/gshadow, [directory recursively] /var/lib/samba (*.tdb files mostly), [di...
Share Internet from Windows 10 to Mac OS X via Bluetooth
I have managed to share Inte et from my MacBook Air to my Windows 10 netbook successfully. But sometimes I'm using the Windows computer as the primary one for various reasons and want to share in the opposite direction. I can't seem to find decent instructions I can follow for this particular arrang...
Unzip 7zip to certain directory
I'm using this command line: 7z e d:devprojectsdbstestosc.data.db d:devprojectsdbstestosc.data.7z I think the first parameter should be the output, and the 2nd paramater should be the input. However, I switched them already, and none of my solutions would work. Does anybody spot any errors? Thank yo...
How to start autorun programs early?
We have software that we want to run very early in the login process. The software modifies or hides some elements of the user's desktop, and the user should never see the unmodified desktop. Now, on Windows 7, just starting the software via auto start works well; the software is already active when...
Why isn't File Explorer showing my mapped drives?
I'm using Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. My application (that was run as administrator) maps a folder from D drive to a network drive Z using the Windows Network API wnetaddco ection2(). When I opened File Explorer, I couldn't see the Z drive. However, when I opened other applications (e.g., Visual Studio) ...
Program in Windows startup registry doesn't run
On my computer at school, I was seeing I could get a program to run when the computer started, so I registered it to HKEY_CURRENT_USERMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionRun. However, when the computer loads, program does not run on startup. Why would it not run ? Let's block ads! (Why?)
why spool files are not getting stored in my windows 7 machine?
I have a network shared printer co ected to the linux machine. When i sent the print request from the windows machine the spool files are not getting stored in the sytem32/spool/printers directory.I also try to mark "keep printed documents " in the printer properties but when i apply the settings it...