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Answer : You can use the utilities that come with Windows to do this without downloading anything else. DISKPART from the command line as Administrative user will do what you need. Once inside of the diskpart utility type in list disk , select the USB disk by typing select disk (x) and then clean , this should now wipe the USB stick, you can now create a new partition and format the UBS stick. To create a new partition table on the USB type in create partition primary , then select partition 1 , then format fs=fat32 quick . Your USB stick should now be ready to use. Use another formatting tool, Windows sucks at this part. As it seems you have partitioned this drive. Use this http://www.pendrivelinux.com/restoring-your-usb-key-partition/ After having tooled around with a USB Linux version using your image overwritten or multi partitioned flash pen drive, you might find it necessary to revert it back to a single fat partition (restore the flash pen drive to it's origin...

Answer : From the Putty FAQ: To run a PuTTY session saved under the name ‘mysession’, create a Windows shortcut that invokes PuTTY with a command line like \path\name\to\putty.exe -load "mysession" ---EDIT--- In Windows 7, the shortcut has to be in quotes like this: "\path\name\to\putty.exe" -load "mysession" I had referred to Putty Connection Manager as a useful addon, giving one click connects and tabbed windows, but it seems the app is dead and all the files removed from the hosting site. While checking into this, I found a fork of the project, called superputty (see below) and a reference to KiTTY - a Win32 native version of PuTTY with extra features so here you go: Superputty:https://github.com/jimradford/superputty KiTTY: http://kitty.9bis.com/ In windows use this target for putty shortcut, for save username and password. Then load a saved session or add to Task Manager: "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\putty.exe" -load ...

Answer : From Google's help: Make Chrome ask to save passwords again If you told Chrome to never offer to save your password for a specific site, but you change your mind, you can bring back the option. On your computer, open Chrome. At the top right, click More More and then Settings. At the bottom, click Show advanced settings. Under "Passwords and forms," click Manage passwords. A box will appear with a list of saved passwords. In the "Never saved" section, select the website and click Delete Delete. Click Done. If Chrome isn't asking to save any passwords anymore, you may have asked it to stop saving passwords. Bring back the prompt by turning "Offer to save your web passwords" back on. Chrome isn't saving passwords If you've told Chrome to save a password but it's not showing up, try deleting and resaving it. Open your list of saved passwords, and check for the website. ...

Answer : yes, We just released a sample Linux VHD that you can boot any computer. You can find more info here: Download and boot your physical PC, also runs as vm - http://www.vmlite.com/index.php/forums/17-vboot/1864-linux-vhd-boot-available-download-and-boot-your-physical-pc-also-runs-as-vm 1 Linux as Real Appliance With VBoot for Linux, you can pre-install and pre-configure Linux OS and its applications, then distribute the resulting virtual disk file in VHD format. The vhd can boot a real computer, with configuration and apps instantly available. This way, operating systems are truly manageable, as simple as files. We call such a Linux VHD to be a real appliance, in the sense that it boots physical computers. It's very easy to setup and boot a computer with a vhd file. You download the vhd file, drop it to Windows or Linux file system, then configure the boot loader, and reboot the computer. 2 Linux as Virtual Appliance The exact same vhd file also runs as a vi...

Answer : " The type of the file system is RAW. " means that CHKDSK was unable to determine the file system used on the drive, and considers it to hold unknown data. CHKDSK is made for verifying the filesystem data structures, and it doesn't make sense to verify something it doesn't know which way is correct. (Try spell-checking a text in a language you can't read.) That the filesystem is not recognized means the "inconsistencies" are at a level beyond CHKDSK's expertise. However, the fact that you are able to boot from said filesystem confuses the hell out of me. One possibility is that there is some sort of malware (or anti -malware) that is preventing CHKDSK access to the raw disk device. Run a RootkitRevealer scan and see if it shows anything interesting. If you have a Windows 7 install disc, try running CHKDSK from its "Repair" mode.

Answer : Okay: This is what I did now and it's solved: My httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this now: <VirtualHost dropbox.local:80> DocumentRoot "E:/Documenten/Dropbox/Dropbox/dummy-htdocs" ServerName dropbox.local ErrorLog "logs/dropbox.local-error.log" CustomLog "logs/dropbox.local-access.log" combined <Directory "E:/Documenten/Dropbox/Dropbox/dummy-htdocs"> # AllowOverride All # Deprecated # Order Allow,Deny # Deprecated # Allow from all # Deprecated # --New way of doing it Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> First, I saw that it's necessary to have set the <Directory xx:xx> options. So I put the <Directory > [..] </Directory> -part INSIDE the <VirtualHost > [..] </VirtualHost> . After that, I added AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes to the <Directory> options. Now htt...

Answer : You can do this in NetSetMan: http://www.netsetman.com/en/wifi The software is free for personal use. Main menu -> Tools > NSM WiFi Management Choose the AP you'd like to use and connect. If you open network sharing center, then click on the picture for your active wireless network it should come up with a window called "set network properties". At the bottom of the window is a button for "merge or delete network locations". After you are disconnected from the network, you can delete the bad AP from this list. It will not connect to that AP again. Well, I don't know of a free utility, but from what I've gleaned (no personal experience, so YMMV) WirelessMon (USD 24) allows a user to connect to a specific access point within a network containing multiple devices all within a single SSID.

Answer : When you run Netbootin, it will ask for the distribution that you want to put on the USB, or the ISO itself. In the distribution list, select Ubuntu (either 32 or 64 bit, no, it does not have to be ubuntu, but its just my preference), and download it. Make sure the right drive is selected (the USB that you want to write the data to after the data has been written, shut down your computer, insert the USB, and when you restart, I believe you hit F12 to get to the boot order. Select the USB Follow the ubuntu setup, its pretty straightforward, dont parition anything, just run it as a Live CD (it might be called a live USB, not sure) When you are done with the 'install' See if you can see any of the files on the hard drive, or if Gparted can see the hard drive. If the answer is yes, your HD is probably fine. If not, its probably busted. Please comment back here if there are any issues. The unit has a recovery partition, pretty much all laptops sold now have a r...

Answer : I faced the same problem in my network. When you use this command: ping icecream It uses WINS server since you have used icecream not icecream.my.domain . When looking for such words, Windows looks for NETBIOS names, but when you look for complete domain records, it will look in the DNS server. You can use one of the solutions below: Make sure you have correct records for that station in your WINS server. Use the complete domain name instead of using the host file. E.g. icecream.my.domain You don't have DNS suffixes configured. Either configure them, or use FQDN like this and it should work: ping icecream.my.domain

Answer : You likely have driver corruption issue. You can try to remove all printer driver and reinstall them. A similar thread exists over technet: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/itprovistaprinting/thread/3e47b7b6-00a3-47e1-9e28-e615fbff5f87 but that particular thread is for windows vista so the answer may or may not work. Since it worked, here's the text from the linked document (Originally by Arthur Xie, a Microsoft Employee): Remove a printer Click the "Start" button, type PRINTER in the search box and press Enter. Find the icons of installed printers, and delete them. Right-click on the blank part of the window, and choose "Run as administrator"->"Server Properties". On the Drivers tab, select the listed printers and click the Remove button. Please then select Remove driver and driver package. Open Start menu, input APPWIZ.CPL in the Search box and press ENTER to launch "Programs and Features". Try to rem...

Answer : This is caused by the desktop reverting to a mandatory login profile, being caused by a new file in your user directory labelled ntuser.man, and has happened to me twice while doing Windows updates. Simply rename this file to something else and login. The trick is getting access to this file to rename it. The best way is to do it is from another administrator account. The file is: c:\users\<profilename>\ntuser.man Change it to: c:\users\<profilename>\ntuser.m.a.n.safe (or anything else)

Answer : ... a solution for windows: 1) Browse to the VLC folder, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC , and create a new folder called visualizations 2) Download the latest preset_samples of ProjectM, e.g. presets-2.0.0-Source.tar.gz and extract all the .milk files to the visualizations folder created above. 3) In VLC open Preferences from the menu, go to the audio tab and under Output select "Directx audio output" as your Output module. Also make sure that "LibprojectM effect" is selected as your Visualisation. 4) Still in the Preferences menu, click the "All" radiobutton at the bottom left corner. Go to advanced preferences > Audio > Visualizations > projectM and set the "projectM preset path" to C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\visualizations 4) Save your preferences, then activate the visualizations by going to the audio menu > visualizations > and select projectM VLC will now begin using random visua...

Answer : I have three programs for you. All of them are free: 1. XMeters Taskbar appearance: Setting: So far I'm satisfied with this program. 2. RAM CPU (+DISK) Taskbar It turns your taskbar into a dynamic color-changing resource meter. 3. CleanMem Mini Monitor This one actually display a floating panel and an icon in the notification area rather than in taskbar. It also has more settings than the two above. you can start your pc up with task manager running minimized Right click your desktop and select New then shortcut Type in taskmgr and hit enter Hit enter again Right click the new shortcut and go to properties In the Run dropdown select "Minimized" Click Start and All Programs Find Startup and right click the folder and select Open Drag the new shortcut into that folder Now the taskmanager will always run - minimized - when the computer boots. The @Keltari solution looks good, but the 'Task Manager' icon is still displayed in th...

Answer : This happen after you disable via Control Panel -> network adapters -> right click button on the virtual connection -> disable To fix that go to Device Manager ( Windows-key + x + m on windows 8, Windows-key + x then m on windows 10), then open the network adapters tree , right click button on Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter and click on enable. Try now with the command netsh wlan start hostednetwork with admin privileges. It should work. Note: If you don't see the network adapter with name 'Microsoft Hosted Network Virtual Adapter' try on menu -> view -> show hidden devices in the Device Manager window. Let alone enabling the network adapter under Device Manager may not help. The following helped me resolved the issue. I tried Disabling and Enabling the Wifi Adapter (i.e. the actual Wifi device adapter not the virtual adapters) in Control Panel -> Network and Internet -> Network Connections altogether worked ...

Answer : If the last command fails pause won't work. You can fix it by putting "call" behind the command you are running (whatever command is before the pause) then the pause will work. So for example I had a phpunit batch file that looked like this: phpunit tests/sometests.php pause When phpunit failed it just exited without pausing. Changing it to this made it pause correctly: call phpunit tests/sometests.php pause Does the last command before pause execute successfully? Mind sharing your script - at least last few commands? Alternatively, since you seem to be using Windows7, try Timeout command and see if that is working. I was having issues even on echo... assuming it was caused by long batch file... Pause was executing but it was not pausing, it was almost like that it was pressing a key after Pause was executed. Tried suggested solutions above; none worked. So just for future reference, here is what I did: Basically just "pause > nul ...

Answer : Apply the following steps when the Windows partitioning window apeares: Create a partition on the blank hard. Select the partition drive as the partition to install the Windows. Click "Next". The 100MB partition will be created. Delete the partition which you created in step 1. Extend the 100MB partition to the desired size. Select the partition which you extended in step 5 and select 'Format' After formatting the 'system reserved partition' will now become normal 'system' partition In fact you install the Windows on the 100MB partition created by windows and you cheat the Windows. This solution is tested on Windows 7 and 8.1. You've got to partition the hard drive first. You can do this from the Windows 7 setup screen that appears after you boot from the Windows 7 DVD. On the First setup screen, that asks you for language settings, Press Shift + F10 . This will open a Command Prompt window. Type diskpart and press Ent...