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I have a developer computer with two physical network interfaces (NIC A and NIC B). I have VMWare workstation and several virtual machines in VMNet8 (NAT). I would like to connect my notebook to my computer in that way that my notebook is in the same network/subnet as my virtual machines, but also connected to the internet. So: Internet -- (NIC A) -- COMPUTER ---- VMNet8 -------- VM1 | +------------- VM2 | +-- (NIC B) -- NOTEBOOK How can I achieve that? It is important to have the notebook in the same subnet as the vm-s, and the internet should be accessable from the notebook. I use Windows 8 professional (64bit, all updates) and VMWare Workstation 10 (newest). I have been trying bridging (Windows built-in, bridge VMNet8 and NIC B) since the middle of August (and still using that), but it is not working: DNS resolve is slow and some

It's pretty clear that Windows' 10 "host" filesystem is mounted at /mnt/c/ from "Linux" perspective of view. But is it possible to get an access to "Linux" filesystem from Windows? If so, where it is? Answer The single root file system was located here until Windows 10 Fall Creators update (released in Oct. 2017): %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lxss\rootfs For example, C:\Users\Vigo\AppData\Local\Lxss\rootfs\ Other mount points are located one level up in the lxss directory. For example, your own home directory within Linux will be in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Lxss\home . Starting from the Fall Creators update, it is possible to install more than one instance of Linux and run them in parallel. The existing instance (a.k.a. legacy) will stay in its directory but new instances created are located under: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\ _ \LocalState\rootfs For example, my Ubuntu 18.04 installation is located under the CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows_ 79rhkp1fndgsc dire

I have a Windows 7 computer connected to a Verizon T1114 router. This router allows me to get a new IP address at will simply by logging into the router and rebooting it, since this router is connected with a SIM card and has a data plan. The issue I'm trying to solve is being able to use this computer as a Proxy server for other computers. I tried setting up NO-IP.com dynamic DNS on the machine, but the problem I'm facing is that because I'm not using a static IP, I cannot access the computer from the outside internet(according to Verizon). I tried putting the computer's IP address in the router's DMZ, and tried to forward ports as well, but when I try to ping the public IP address, I get request timed out. The goal is to be able to have 1 computer able to get a fresh IP address at will, and have many other computers able to use that machine's IP as a proxy. Any ideas?

How can I control the mouse pointer with keyboard (e.g. with arrow keys) on Windows OS? Some computers I use have mice with bad sensitivity, so I sometimes need to have more precise mouse controls. Note: I'm using Windows 7 personally but the computers I handle have different versions of Windows (2000, XP, Vista). Answer You don't specify which version of Windows you're using. It should be possible with MouseKeys, one of the accessibility features of Windows. See more explanation here . It's supported in Windows 2000 , XP , Vista and 7 .

This is a very simple questions because i saw a video where some guy uses this PE4L V2.1 adapter to connect his 16x PCIe GPU to a mPCIe slot, but the adapter only uses a 1x PCIe slot. i have a 16x PCIe 3.0 video card (GT640) and i want to connect it in a PCI 1x slot, specifically in this board startKIT , is this possible?. I saw many times that people just connect the first pins and leave the rest alone. That really woks ? Answer The simple answer is yes, it SHOULD work. There are many who have fit a PCIe x16 card of some sort, usually a video card, into a PCIe x1 slot through manual modification of either the slot or the card. That is, by either cutting the back off of the slot or cutting a notch into the card in the correct location. This is because the PCIe specification allows for PCIe cards to auto negotiate the lanes up or down. But sometimes, a x16 card does not respond like it is suppose to when it is modified for the x1 slot, even though the PCIe spec says it should; and th

I want to deny myself the ability to modify or delete an executable. When .NET Reflector asks you if you want to update: and you choose No it spontaneously deletes itself as retribution: So I want to prevent myself from being able to Delete the executable; as punishment for their punishment. I tried to Deny me Write permission (and deny it to Everyone , and Administrators ): Except, I can still Right-Click -> Delete the file... How do I deny the delete/modify permission to a file? Answer On Windows, it is enough to have one of : "Delete" on the object, or "Delete child" on its parent Therefore a file will only become undeletable if you deny both . Use icacls to edit the permissions: Deny "Delete" to the file: icacls Reflector.exe /deny Everyone:(D) Deny "Delete child" to the folder: icacls . /deny Everyone:(DC) (Tested on Windows XP.)

My Windows 7 was recently infected by the system-fix.com virus and it hid all my files and directories. I believe I've removed the virus but I still can't find many files and programs. Is there a single command-line tool in Windows that can recursively turn off the hidden attribute for an entire drive? Answer Unhide is designed specifically to address this symptom. When run, it will unhide (-H) all +H files on the fixed disks of your computer. It will not, though, unhide any files that also have the +S attribute. Refer to the Removal Guide for System Fix for further information.

I'm looking for a desktop search engine for finding images on my local hard drive with high visual similarity. I've only found paid for ones so far. It could be Linux or windows one, either would be helpful. A Google desktop plug-in would be nice! Answer dupeGuru PE . Plus it's open-source. :) dupeGuru Picture Edition (PE for short) is a tool to find duplicate pictures on your computer. dupeGuru PE is a big brother of dupeGuru. It works like dupeGuru, but is specialized for duplicate pictures matching. dupeGuru PE runs on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. dupeGuru PE is efficient. Not only can dupeGuru PE find exact matches, but it can also find duplicates among pictures of different kind (PNG, JPG, GIF etc..) and quality. On Mac OS X, dupeGuru PE can scan your iPhoto library. dupeGuru PE is customizable. You can tweak its matching engine to find exactly the kind of duplicates you want to find. The Preference page of the help file lists all the scanning engine settings you can

Is there a free application out there that will intercept requests from applications to open a URL and prompt me as to whether or not I want the URL to be opened? (For instance, after Adobe Reader installs, it opens its website to get feedback about the install process.) Ideally, it would be lightweight software for just this task, but if a larger firewall/security app provides this feature, that would be acceptable. I'm using windows 7 32-bit. As stating in a comment below, the idea is that you don't want the browser to open (assume it's not already running), so an extension (e.g. for Chrome, ffox) wouldn't be relevant.

I have an Excel sheet serving as a master spell list for a tabletop game. Each row (save for row 1) contains the data for a spell: Name, Target, Range, Duration, Function, Effect, Subject, Level, and Description. (Row 1 contains headings for the filters.) There is a specific set of values for columns B through G (Target through Subject), and those values define which spells a character might be capable of casting. For example, "Agony" has Target: Individual, Range: Seen, Duration: Sustained, Function: Genesis, Effect: Diminish, Subject: Body. If a caster doesn't know how to cast "Subject: Body" spells, he or she cannot cast Agony, despite knowing all of the other criterion. I want the spell list to be filterable, so that a player may be able to easily find what spells are available. There is one little problem: some spells have multiple values for Effect and/or Subject. For the moment, I have the relevant values alphabetically sorted within their cell as a comma

As I've started to use different operating systems at home and at work, I've found a few things that help. App Launching ( Quicksilver and Launchy ) Not having to mouse through folders or menus is nice, but having the same shortcut mapped (apple + space, alt + space) on both OS's is just great. ( RocketDock ) OS X style doc on your pc. Web Bookmarks ( Delicious ) I've installed the Delicious add-in on all my Firefox installs and added the tags to the the toolbar - so I can have tags 'tech', 'google', 'tech' at work and 'video','toread','etc' at home. Naturally, tagging an item makes it show up on all computers - nice! Keyboard The keyboard problem seems most complicated. Copy/Paste uses control on Windows and apple key on Mac. The apple key is in the Alt key's spot on Windows keyboards. Could I remap alt to be ctrl on Windows? I'd probably need to buy a mac keyboard for my work computer to make my brain work on th

I host a number of sites from our partners. These sites are all subdomains of our partners top level domains. In response to the new push to https I have obtained certificates and created the appropriate bindings. All is good when the url: subdomain.partner.edu is used. The request redirects to https and all is good. My issue at this point is when the url: www.subdomain.partner.edu is used. In ie and Firefox the www remains and I get a certificate error (the cert is for subdomain.partner.edu not www.subdomain.partner.edu). This I understand. However, in chrome the www. is removed and the site loads correctly. Why is chrome different? There is no url rewrite on the site to remove www. Sites are hosted on iis 8. As always any clarification is greatly appreciated

I added addresses of python 2.7, and Anaconda 4.1.1(Python 3.5) to PATH variable in Windows 10, whenever I run "python" from cmd, program which was added earlier is executed.How can I access both of them depending on my choice without altering name of either Answer Since you specified "without altering the name of either", one possible solution is to make a link (see mklink ) to the files somewhere in your path (or more preferably in the same folder as the original file) and that link can have a different name. Then you can use the name of that link to distinguish the two versions, but the file will still have its original name. Example (run cmd.exe as an administrator - required for mklink): mklink "python 2.7\python2_7.exe" "python 2.7\python.exe" mklink "anaconda 4.1.1\python3_5.exe" "anaconda 4.1.1\python.exe" CD \ python2_7.exe python3_5.exe

In GIMP, I have a green button GIF image: it shades from dark green to light green, against a transparent background. I would like to change it to blue, and keep the shading, so it shades from dark blue to light blue. How can I do this?

After receiving the "data type mismatch" error, which I do know how to fix, I can no longer open the report in Design View. Thus, I cannot get at Report Properties to fix the problem. Is this a know bug? Is there any way to recover the report? I lost about an hour's work and seems like it could easily happen again.

I have a newish ( a couple of months old) laptop. i7 4700mq gtx765 8gb ram I'm using an ssd boot dirve and a HDD for storage. The computer has absolutely no problems running programs but it is very slow in file explorer.( I mean like 1 minute just to open up the ''this pc'' window. Opening properties of drives also becomes super slow. ( can take up to 5 minutes) If I try restarting the system, I get about 5 minutes of File explorer working at decent speeds, before going back to being slow. Both drives are at less then 25% full. I've only got a couple of games on the second drive and a few programs like office and chrome etc. on the ssd. Tried fixes: Indexing both files Turning off indexing Indexing only the ssd Changing the view to details instead of large icons defrag general drive optimising

I remember ten years ago cloning Win installation by copying all the files from HDD to another HDD using a bootable CD software. Then in the recovery console doing fdisk / mbr, to fix the master boot record so that the new HD can boot the old system. My question is this still the normal way to do it with Win7? Also what are the available utilities today that I can use on the bootable CD? Answer The initially accepted answer did not work for me and so I have to post an answer myself. After trying(and failing) few tools, I have ended up downloading Ultimate Boot CD Burn the image Restart PC into BIOS and verify that the boot device order is set to [first boot device] - CD-ROM Restart the PC and it should boot into the Ultimate Boot CD Chose [HDD] Chose [Hard Disk Cloning] Chose [CopyWipe] Set the source HDD and the target HDD with an [expand] option (Use F6 to view the partitions) Start the copy process. After the files were copied to the new HDD, shutdown and disconnect the old HDD Re

Possible Duplicate: What are the possible ways for prevention of laptop theft? Hi ! I'm looking for some security hw/sw based solution for my laptop (non standard solution maybe? open the case and add a gsm module.. ). Any means that could: send a location through gsm, gprs, wifi, lan.. so that the thief does not normally know that it's sending something. I've read about Intel anti-theft technology which also looks good, but I think that the thief can open the case and change the CPU to another one.. anyways, is this solution available for home end users too ? I'll appreciate any ideas Thank you :)

Windows 7 Backup is failing. When backing up even a single insignificant directory (e.g. I chose only the empty "Contacts" directory, leaving all other directories unchecked), I get this error within a few seconds and the backup fails. If I uncheck all files/directories, and just do the system image - then the system image is backed up OK without issue. Backup destination is an external USB hard drive. Steps to reproduce and subsequent failure: Set up backup to go to external hard drive. Don't back up system image. Back up "Contacts" directory only for my profile. Start backup. Immediately view the status of the backup, it stays on "Creating a shadow copy..." for a few seconds, and then the backup fails. Click Options button, and it says "Check your backup / The system cannot find the file specified." - with options to "Try to run backup again" or "Change backup settings". If I click "Show Details", then it says:

I need to make a zip file available to all my Windows users visitors, so I naively produced a zip file with the Unix zip command (let's call it madeinlinux.zip). It opens successfully with WinRar or Winzip, but those of my users who are using the standard Windows zip file handling experience failure when trying to unzip it. (Windows XP) I compressed the same data using Windows built-in zip mecanism, and from a Linux point of view, I cannot see any difference in the file type: $ file madeinlinux.zip : Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract $ file madeinwindows.zip : Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract They're must be something specific to a Windows compatible zip file. Does anyone knows what?

I would expect a TrueCrypt volume to be fragile when it suffers from data corruption. This could happen for example because the hard disk, CD or DVD start to deteriorate, or when an USB stick is unplugged while a write is in progress. In the TrueCrypt FAQ it is mentioned that this problem is limited because the data is encrypted in blocks of 16 bytes. However, I'd like to know if this really so in practice. Is there anyone who has experienced severe data loss due to only small corruptions? Answer Encrypted backups do have their drawbacks. In case the backup media becomes corrupted, you may lose everything whereas chances are much better to retrieve unencrypted backups (at least partially) from a damaged disk. In any case, only one set of backups is insufficient. And if applicable, maintain an unencrypted backup in a safe location (e.g. a bank vault). Security comes at a price.

I have Ubuntu installed on hdd, recently I've converted that disk to GPT using gdisk and created EFI partition formatted in fat32 (right after convertion it was ntfs, but then I've formatted it into fat32). However, when I was trying to install windows to unallocated space on disk, it said that my ESP is not in Fat32 and asked me to format it into fat32. I have rebooted into ubuntu and checked partitions: ESP created during convertation to GPT (fat32, about 4 Mb used, 200 Mb unused) Restore partition created by windows (ntfs) ESP created by windows (fat32, about 4 Mb used, 96 Mb unused) MSR partition created by windows (unknown) Partition for data created by windows (ntfs or unknown, I do not remember) Linux swap Ubuntu partition Windows version is 10, ubuntu is 16.04, I also have Ubuntu live USB in case I have to fix bootloader or something else. How can I fix the error? EDIT: Now I've deleted the EFI partition and Ubuntu can still successfully load, also Windows now does

Whenever I play video games on my pc, after a little while, different parts of my screen start turning red, and it makes gaming on my pc almost intolerable. Any thoughts on what the problem could be? There has been a new development, I got a second screen and when the original red screened the other was fine. Why would this happen if it was an issue with the graphics card?

I refered this doc and have configured MS 365 as follows but it throws exceptions. I have tried it with 465 port but still it's failing and also without checking Use SSL but it throws this exception javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: smtp.office365.com, port: 587; nested exception is: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Unrecognized SSL message, plaintext connection? at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.openServer(SMTPTransport.java:1934) at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.protocolConnect(SMTPTransport.java:638) at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:317) at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:176) at javax.mail.Service.connect(Service.java:125) at javax.mail.Transport.send0(Transport.java:194) at javax.mail.Transport.send(Transport.java:124) at hudson.tasks.Mailer$DescriptorImpl.doSendTestMail(Mailer.java:514) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorIm

I have been using a Dell UP2715K happily with a Nvidia NVS 510 card. It drives the screen at full res (5120x2880) and 60Hz refresh without problems, using a pair of DisplayPort cables. The card is also able to drive two other (single-cable) monitors at the same time . However, I have not been able to set up two of the Dell UP2715K monitors - neither by plugging them both into the same NVS 510 card, nor by having one card for each. The second UP2715K will do 3840x2160 only, despite being connected with two DisplayPort cables. This is with Windows 7 x64 and the latest Nvidia Quadro/NVS drivers (350.12 released 2015-04-14). Does anyone have a working setup with two 5k monitors? Answer OK, an embarassingly simple solution - only one of the two DisplayPort cables was connected, so only 4k resolution was available. The UP2715K on-screen display shows two DisplayPort icons side by side, but that doesn't necessarily mean that both ports are connected, only that it will try to use both if

I'd like to use mc as a search shortcut for metacritic.com from Google Chrome. I set up the following search URL for the shortcut: http://metacritic.com/search/all/%s/results Unfortunately, when I search for patrician iii as follows mc patrcian iii Chrome produces this query, which metacritic misinterprets to produce a useless set of unrelated results: http://www.metacritic.com/search/all/patrician%20iii/results Metacritic likes this query, giving me exactly the result I was looking for: http://www.metacritic.com/search/all/patrician+iii/results How can I force Chrome to use plus symbols instead of URL encoded spaces? Answer Though a bit crude, you can create a simple Chrome extensions that adjusts the URL for metacritic (or other sites if you want) Here's the code I've used for a Metacritic Search URL Replace extension: manifest.json: { "content_scripts": [ { "include_globs": [ "http://www.metacritic.com/search/*%20*" ], "js

I am a beginner .. I need some help to write a formula in Excel to randomly select people to 6 teams based on gender for example: I have a list of 78 people containing 48 females and 30 males and I want to distribute them on 6 teams but each team has to have 5 males not more or less. I have tried using different formulas that pick up a name randomly based on one criteria but it ends up getting duplicates or errors, same for randomly picking names with no criteria here is an example of my list:

This is not the blue screen of death I am speaking of, but the process called bluescreening (also known as green screen, or Chroma Key ). It removes a particular colored background from an image so that it can be superimposed on some other video/still picture. If you have ever seen the weatherman stand in front of the map, then you have seen someone doing a blue screen technique. I would like to be able to capture video from my webcam send that video to a bluescreen / greenscreen / chroma key program have that program replace the color in the background with a background of my own choosing Once the image is superimposed, pipe it into Skype for video conferencing. Anyone have a good way to do this?

I've seen the phrase "firmware update" a few places before. Why and how do I update it? What changes are made to my computer? EDIT: I originally wrote "what it firmware?" but I'll save someone the trouble of posting the wikipedia article

I'm using Dropbox in group. We have a lot of folders. I want to see which files are occupying my space and how much space are occupying. Now, I can enter folder by folder and click file by file to see the space. Is there a better way? Can I get the list of all files of all folders in one list (only the files that are occupying my space)? Answer Sorry, no. If you have your Dropbox files synced to a local drive, there are various tools for Windows, Linux, or Mac that tells you the folder/directory size and all contents underneath.

I am using Windows XP Professional SP2 and am logging on with an administrator account. When I right click on any folder and choose Properties I am unable to see the "Security" and "Customize" tabs. How can I enable these tabs? Answer Did you format your HDD in NTFS or FAT32? FAT32 doesn't have that feature so NTFS does. Also, you can enable the simple sharing: http://www.petri.co.il/enable_simple_file_sharing_in_windows_xp.htm

I have a web application that sends me many emails that are only for notification purposes - and so, are not important. There can be a great deal of these per day, and I sometimes forget to delete them. I am using a Microsoft Exchange mail server, and do not have administrator rights to it. Is there a way I can set up/configure from Outlook a procedure that deletes emails from a specific sender after an amount of time? Answer I accomplished this by creating a new rule that automatically moved all emails from a specific sender into a folder. This folder then had AutoArchive (Right click folder, Properties) set up to permanently delete items older than x days.

Recently when booting up my computer, the OS (Windows 10 Pro 64-bit) failed to load. When booting off of my primary drive, I received the following error: 0xc000000e A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed. You'll need to use recovery tools. If you don't have any installation media (like a disk or USB device), contact your PC administrator or PC/Device manufacturer When booting off of the secondary, I receive a different error: 0x00000e9 An unexpected I/O error has occurred. This problem can happen when a removable storage is removed while it's in use or is failing. Properly connecting any removable storage and restarting your PC may fix this problem I suspect that the primary drive is fine, and that the secondary drive is the problem. While the OS is installed to the primary drive, it used to be installed on the secondary drive before I did a clean install of Windows. I believe the MBR is still on the secondary drive, which would explain why the prim

I like to slightly under-clock my processor to keep it cool. I use the following setting : But while playing games(usually for 4-5 minutes) the settings automatically jump back to 100%. I have also tried making a new power plan but same thing happens. My processor is Amd anthlon X2 4600(2.4 GHz) and OS is Windows 7. Why is processor state automatically changing and how to prevent it ? Answer Somebody else reported a similar issue and it seems that it was caused by the ATI/AMD Catalyst Control Panel. Closing it and removing it from startup might fix the problem. Source: http://www.vistaheads.com/forums/microsoft-public-windows-vista-performance-maintenance/180652-power-options-keeps-resetting-upon-startup.html

I'm using the build in File History feature from Windows 10 to backup my libraries and user folder on a network drive. The feature works nicely, but lacks quite some usability when it comes to configuration and flexibility. I have a few database (and Outlook) files in my library that regularly get changed leading to a huge amount of backups and space requirements on the network drive. I would like to clean up these few files from time to time without touching my overall backup/retention policy. They should still be backed up - just not every few hours. File History stores each files individually, but also saves some unknown information in a Catalog1.edb and Catalog2.edb file. Can I safely delete individual files from the file history data folder without breaking the catalog and metadata information?

Hybrid boot is a process that speeds up the normal startup in Windows 8 (apparently it makes booting faster than in previous versions of Windows) The normal boot usually looks like this: Pre-boot -> System Initialization -> User Session Initialization The hybrid boot looks like this: Pre-boot -> Hiberfile read -> Driver Initialization -> User Session Initialization Windows 8 hybrid boot takes the concept of hibernating your computer to boot your system. When you hibernate, your system takes a snapshot of the System Initialization for that session to use when it wakes up. This creates a hiberfil with that session data saved which Windows 8 then uses to wake up from that hibernation. I wish to disable Hybrid Boot in Windows 8 (as I have read it may cause problems such as the PC to hang at startup) even if the boot time is slightly increased (as it never really bothered me in Windows 7 etc) and would appreciate guidance on how to achieve this ? Answer There is a great

I am trying to portabilize every program I use if possible, and Notepad++ is on the list. The only problem is that I've had a native installation until now so that I'm not totally sure which settings files need to be moved to the portable directory. Surely there's a function tucked away somewhere in NPP exactly for this purpose, or some plugin out there? I mean the developers have literally thought of everything else, yet this is the one thing I cannot find specifically anywhere in the NPP wiki or otherwise, and I don't want to miss an important file. Here is the closest I've gotten: Notepad++'s configuration files and Where are all the files? Should I just copy every configuration file listed on the first link? Answer I found the configuration files under %appdata%\Notepad++ .

If you're using Chrome for web development and if you have some extensions running, when you check the Scripts tab of developer tools you'll see a bunch of javascript files used by extensions. Those files or better said extensions are not necessary during development process. Do you know a way or maybe another extension to block all the extensions on particular tabs that you select? Thanks. Answer You can use an incognito window, Chrome disables the extensions by default in that mode.

After startup for 5 minutes my system is very slow. The Task Manager shows that the disk usage is at 100%. (Later this number is around 2-4 %, but sometimes for 1-2 minutes go up again at 100%.) I searched a lot on Google. For example I read related Microsoft answer page , and also other pages. I opened two topic on Microsoft answer. One in English and one in Hungarian. But I didn't found the solution yet. So I would like to ask Community's help. :) Here the steps I already done: I disabled everything at startups (including services) and the issue is the same. I disabled Prefetch and Superfetch, the Baground Intellingent Transmission, Windows Search and Windows Defender but the issue is still persists. I made a health check on HDD, I made defrag and file system error check, but there are no errors. Also I tried to reinstall the HDD's driver. I made a full hardware check up, with no errors. The Windows and all the drivers are up-to-date. I tried a clean start. The issue is

I'm not really sure how to even ask this question. So I took a screenshot of what I'm trying to accomplish. I'd like to output every combination of columns a and b into column d and e. I've seen many examples of how to combine a and b into one column, but I need them into separate columns. I'm sure this is possible, I just don't know what to even search for to start Answer Two formula. Put this in D1 and copy down: =IFERROR(INDEX($A$1:INDEX(A:A,COUNTA(A:A)),INT((ROW(1:1)-1)/COUNTA(B:B))+1),"") Put this in E1 and copy down: =IF(D1<>"",INDEX($B$1:INDEX(B:B,COUNTA(B:B)),MOD((ROW(1:1)-1),COUNTA(B:B))+1),"")

I have a batch file that makes a directory on H:\ and copies all of my CS work from I:\ to H:\ ( our I:\ drive isn't always available ). Is there a way to possibly run this batch file on logoff so that my files are always updated, WITHOUT using gpedit.msc (access denied)? I am on a student computer, so most likely installing software won't to practical, but I could try. And help would be much appreciated =) Or is there a way to run a batch file, and not have the commands run until like.. 8:50 before the bell rings, so I could just put it in the Startup folder and it could run at that time? I thought about it some more, and the easiest way would be to set a scheduled task at 8:50 for it to run.. but it would still be nice if I knew how to to do in a batch file. I don't have access to the shutdown -l commands, and I don't believe that would help anyways because I want the script to run when I click 'Log Off'. Answer I eventually just used Scheduled Tasks a

Using Virtualbox 4.2.10 with Windows 7 as host and guest. If I press Ctrl + F , the OS goes full screen. If I check the resolution, it says 1680×1050 -- same size as my host OS that has many (approximately 20) other options, including MUCH bigger resolutions. Now if I press Ctrl + F again (I want it to just fill the available window), it goes back down to 1024×732. If I shrink the window, the resolution DOES scale down, BUT will not scale back up when I resize the window again. When I check the resolution after resizing it down, it's at 640×480 (no other options available). Here is a video describing the problem. HD Version Could someone please help me fix this odd problem? Configuration: Host Windows 7 16 GB RAM 2 Nvidia 680's (factory overclock) on SLI (4GB for each video card) CPU virtualization turned on Guest Windows 7 4 GB RAM Guest tools installed Answer From the virtualbox.org manual Chapter 9. Advanced topics : When guest systems with the Guest Additions installed

I'm using Ubuntu and vim. I can copy text from vim and paste it into another window by highlighting it in vim, then middle-clicking in the other window. This works fine when I'm on my local machine. I can also copy into the system register by highlighting text and yanking to the system register. (For example, Shift-V JJ "+ y to go into linewise visual mode, highlight two lines, select the '+' register and yank.) It's then available to paste into other windows. However, if I ssh into my web host, I can't do either of these. (They use some flavor of Linux - I think it's CentOS.) In vim, if I type :version , my local version shows +xterm_clipboard , but the host's version shows -xterm_clipboard . I don't have sudo rights there. Is there any way to be able to copy from their vim without getting them to tinker with the installation?

I have a document from another editor that includes a non-printing character (it goes away when paragraph icon in ribbon is toggled) that I do not recognize: I don't know how to search for an image, so I searched Google for things like microsoft word non printing characters legend and found pages like this one , but none showed this unusual symbol that I've never come across before, so it must be obscure. What does the rectangular shaped symbol to the left of the two spaces and paragraph symbols mean? Answer It's a no width non-break I've found it here: http://wordfaqs.mvps.org/NonprintChars.htm Beginning in Word 2000, Microsoft added two new special characters to Word: the no-width optional break and the no-width non break. .... These characters were intended for use with some Asian languages, where characters can be placed beside or on top of one another. Also, the languages may use syntactic constructions that have no spaces between sequential words, unlike the En

We have facebook buttons, twitter buttons, linkedin buttons, google+ buttons, stumbleupon buttons, younameit buttons. These social network buttons and widgets are creeping up the internets like the plague. Sometimes even with cool javascript popups which obscure content if moused over. How can I get rid of them? I mean stuff like this: and this: and last but not least, this: How can I get rid of them? Answer That's pretty simple with the Adblock Plus, here see this tutorial - http://www.techairlines.com/2010/12/12/block-social-buttons-widgets/ short summary: Install Adblock Plus Install this filter: https://monzta.maltekraus.de/adblock_social.txt

So the bash man pages explain what login and interactive shells are: A login shell is one whose first character of argument zero is a -, or one started with the --login option. An interactive shell is one started without non-option arguments and without the -c option whose standard input and error are both connected to terminals (as determined by isatty(3)), or one started with the -i option. PS1 is set and $- includes i if bash is interactive, allowing a shell script or a startup file to test this state. I think this means we can have 4 different types of shells: Interactive login shells, Non-interactive login shells, Interactive non-login shells, Non-interactive non-login shells But why do we have interactive/non-interactive and login/non-login shells in the first place? Why the variety? What would we lose if we only had one type of shell? Also when trying to determine if I am in a login shell by running echo $- , it outputs: himBH Some of these flags are explained here , but h , H

First of all, I'm aware that this question has kind of been asked before , but that's not really what I want to know. Issue I use Chrome and its immensely useful sync feature on 5+ devices (PC, Mac, iOS, etc), which works fine for the most part, but it seems to be a bit half-baked, in that you can't: Sync dictionaries (update 15/04/2013: as of Chrome v26, you can do this) Sync extensions' configuration Sync extensions that aren't available on all platforms (such as Fireshot and IE Tab Multi (Enhance) ) Admittedly, some missing features are less important than others but, generally, when it comes to setting up Chrome for the first time or adopting a new extension, it's a bit of a nightmare for the aforementioned reasons. Cause I realize that the fault is: Partly Google's, for technical and logistical reasons (although, I can see fairly easy ways around the technical reasons) Partly the developer's fault, for not taking advantage of certain APIs and tha

Tried to update DSL modem (Telewell TW-EA501) firmware, but received "Server Error A file system error was detected on the RomPager server. Return to last page" - message. Did Googling on the string and the links pointed to ZyXEL modems? Could the two brands share the same firmware?

Since a few days I have a problem with some videos I watch on the web (youtube, vimeo etc). There is a green bar on the top of the video and the colors are distorted, it looks like they are somehow shifted. I am not sure since when this problem appeared, I guess it might have been an update for the flash player. Anyways, I found a workaround. Disabling the hardware acceleration, by unchecking right click on video - settings - enable hardware acceleration , helps. After reloading of the page the green bar is gone. The problem is that this setting doesn't seem to be persistent and I have to disable it again on every other video. Next thing is that I prefer to use HW acceleration. How can I make this setting permanent or how to get rid of the green bar alltogether? Answer Updating the drivers for my graphic card solved the problem. I feel a bit stupid, this probably would've been the first thing I had asked for in a comment if someone else had a similar question.

How to find multiple blank lines in Notepad++ and join the the separated text lines with a macro? Below is screenshot of the file, where I want a macro to find out this blank line and correct the SEE and FIGURE should come to one line.

I've a VirtualBox VM which configured a very large hard disk size (bigger than host). By my mistake, a program on the VM generated lots of log files and the VDI file size keeps growing until there is no space on the host. Now I've deleted the log files but the VDI file size are not getting smaller after using VBoxManage.exe modifyhd "C:\Virts\mybox-i386.vdi" compact Is there a way to really compact the VDI file size? Thanks! Answer You have to do the following steps: Run defrag in the guest (Windows only) Nullify free space: With a Linux Guest run this: dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/bigemptyfile bs=4096k ; rm /var/tmp/bigemptyfile Or: telinit 1 mount -o remount,ro /dev/sda1 zerofree -v /dev/sda1 With a Windows Guest , download SDelete from Sysinternals and run this: sdelete.exe c: -z (replace C: with the drive letter of the VDI) Shutdown the guest VM Now run VBoxManage's modifymedium command with the --compact option: With a Linux Host run this: vboxmanage mo

Let's say that I have a value in cell A5 that is being used to calculate a value in A3. Example: A3 = (A1 + A2) * A5 When I copy paste cells A1:A3 and paste onto B1:B3, I'd like the resulting formula to be this: B3 = (B1 + B2) * A5 Notice that A5 is still there. It is the default behavior of Excel to cause this to be B5 instead of A5. Is there a way to force a reference a single cell, such as A5, to be maintained while copy pasting rows? Thanks Answer You want to use Absolute References then instead of relative references. Yes that is the default behavior of Excel. In your example do $A$5 to always reference A5. A3 = (A1 + A2) * $A$5 B3 = (B1 + B2) * $A$5

Google Chrome is crashing when I try to open it. I'm assuming that it's probably a bad extension that's causing the problem. How can I start up Chrome with all extensions disabled / turned off? Answer thirtydot is correct, run Chrome with the --disable-extensions command-line option to disable extensions. Technically, it doesn’t so much disable all the extensions as much as hide them so that Chrome thinks that none are installed, so this won’t help in your particular case. t_b_b , since you cannot disable extensions in-browser and the command-line argument hides all extensions, what you want to do is to manually disable them. Open your User Data folder then open the file Preferences in a text-editor. Now scroll down to the line starting the settings blocks: "settings": { Each of the extensions will have its own block inside the settings block. To disable them, change their states to 0: "state": 1 To simplify things, just do a search for all lines c

How to move a partition to the beginning of the disk a bit? Parted wants a filesystem for some reason (I don't know why), I want just to shift all sectors left... r@l:15:32:45:~# parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 2.3 Using /dev/sdb Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands. (parted) p Model: HGST HTS 541010A9E680 (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 32.2GB 32.2GB primary fat32 2 32.2GB 37.6GB 5360MB primary 3 37.6GB 1000GB 963GB primary (parted) move 3 WARNING: you are attempting to use parted to operate on (move) a file system. parted's file system manipulation code is not as robust as what you'll find in dedicated, file-system-specific packages like e2fsprogs. We recommend you us

I'm using an Acer AO722 laptop. Everytime I slide my finger from the right edge of the touchpad (where the slider is) toward the center (mostly accidentally), the charmbar pops up and stays on the screen until I manually click on some random spots on the screen. There's no such option in the Synaptics properties: .. nor is there any in the mouse option. Is there a way to turn this shortcut off? Answer Try installing the latest version of the touchpad driver, available from Synaptics . I installed it last night on my laptop, and after restarting, there will be a whole host of new options at the bottom of the list. The option that you are looking to disable is the one that allows you to swipe from off the right edge of the touchpad to the center - that is what is activating the charms. Edit: The feature you're looking to disable in the Synaptics driver settings is "Enable Edge Swipes". The image below is the settings for the driver version 16.2.21 25Oct12 . The t

I've been setup my variables for my development environment using the Windows cmd, but it works well only the first time I set them with the System>Advanced>Env Vars dialog. I just restart cmd and it works. But after I restart the computer, it behaves quite weird. Like I have to restart cmd an indeterminate number of times for it to get the variables I set. Sometimes it even shows in the cmd when I issue the command SET, but it doesn't work if I issue a command from one of those paths. This is how it looks: C:\Users\Adrian>set ALLUSERSPROFILE=C:\ProgramData ANDROID_HOME=F:\Programas\android-sdk ANDROID_SDK_HOME=F:\Programas\android-sdk ANT_HOME=F:\Programas\ant APPDATA=C:\Users\Adrian\AppData\Roaming BIN_DIR=F:\Programas\bin CommonProgramFiles=C:\Program Files\Common Files CommonProgramFiles(x86)=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files CommonProgramW6432=C:\Program Files\Common Files COMPUTERNAME=SAKURA ComSpec=C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe configsetroot=C:\WINDOWS\ConfigSet