I have set up 2 users both as administrators. It is a home computer and we do not require password protection. I am the normal user and have managed to set up so that I login without having to enter password . However whenever my family switches to his user the login screen forces him to write his a...

I am slowly raising my knowledge in the scripting world, yet there are many things I still have yet to lea , even when it comes to seemingly simple bits of coding. I am trying to write a script in the AccuTerm emulator. For the most part I have what I need down except some code that will allow me to...

After upgrading to Windows 10, IE does not work properly. After opening IE and entering the desired website, nothing happens; the website ca ot be opened.

I have AT&T U verse with Router as Manufacturer Pace Plc Model 5268AC Default router address is 192.168.1.254 I would like to change it to 192.168.1.1 Regards

You've got most of a command typed out then realize you forgot a step, need to run a different command first. Without touching mouse, in quick edit mode, how not to lose the typing of a command not yet entered? So history is no help. Ok this looks good http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id...

I have co ected two computers over a switch. The desktop computer is ru ing Linux Mint 17.3 and the laptop windows 7. The laptop only has an IP6 address for the physical lan. Desktop has both IP4 and 6. The laptop can ping the physical lan IP6 address of the desktop, but not the other way around (ei...

I want to reset my windows 8 password through Hirens boot cd mini windows xp, but it does not detect my hard drive so i can not find the SAM file.

I have a list of dates across the X-axis of the form mm/dd/yyyy and have the pivot field formatted as a date. When I attempt to format the axis to be a date axis, Excel does nothing. I can literally copy the data displayed into a new sheet and create a chart with a date axis described above with no ...

my home router changed and now new gateway is 192.168.1.254 and i see no way to change it to 192.168.1.1 I changed my physical machines to use 192.168.1.254 as the new gateway now I have around 200+ VMs all using 192.168.1.1 Is there a way to change the Gateway information without powering them on i...

I use gnome-terminal on Debian 8 with Source Code Pro Regular as the font (the font comes with the TeXLive distribution). How can I disable the use of italics universally in the terminal? One reason for this: when searching a man page, the search results are highlighted with italics, which is diffic...

i have around 60 visualSVN server repositories and few sub-repositories in my visualsvn server and i want information users assigned to each repository and permission assigned to them. doing manually takes more time and i think i might miss some one doing manually Let's block ads! (Why?)

Is there is a fix for this apparent bug? My computer is using a static IP address, but registers itself automatically with dynamic DNS. If I change the list of DNS servers configured (even just reorder or put in only one of the servers as long as it's different from what was there before) then reboo...

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Sometimes, when trying to eject (remove) an exte al USB hard drive, Windows 7 issues the following error: Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device Windows can't stop your 'Generic volume' device because a program is still using it. Close any programs that might be using the device, and then try agai...

I am often on assignment and sometimes I forget to document my work. E.g. write down output from different one off tools. Is there a way to automate that via .bashrc? So I open up a new shell, it automatically creates a new log file (like day-month-year-#) and dumps everything in there. Also, it'd b...

I've recently dug out an old 1TB exte al drive (USB 2.0) for some temporary storage, it's quite slow (5400 I think) but it's fine for storing unimportant files until I upgrade. However, every time I delete a file on any drive the delete file dialog pops up and I can hear the old hard drive waking up...

I have a Windows Phone that with broken touch screen, and I absolutely need to recover the telephone book from it. I can only press power button and + and - volume buttons. Obviously I can co ect it to a computer using a usb cable. Is there a software (on windows, or ubuntu, or mac) to access smartp...

I launch an AutoHotkey script (.ahk) when Windows 10 boots, but it takes 10-20 seconds from when I'm logged in until the script starts. The strange thing is that the overall system is very snappy, so I can search and launch applications manually as soon as I'm logged in. Manually searching for and l...

Which Hard-drive would be the best to Invest in for a Desktop Computer? I know of Seagate that has been in the market for ages, but until recently I heard that its failure rates has been on the rise. I have also heard of Weste Digital but nothing much about its performance. Im confused as to which o...

I am looking for a way to import a root certificate in a synology server (the certificate comes from a ssl intercepting proxy). I have copied the certificate to /usr/share/ca-certificates/<somesubfolder> And changed the permissions to 744 and owner to root:root. Then I made a symlink to the cert in ...