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I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. When I shut down my computer why does the screen show this: Before shutting down I’m close all programs. Solution: From Windows Seven Forum: 1) This is not a problem. It’s actually a good thing because Windows is waiting for programs to shut down and disk buffers…
Are there any built in command-line tools that I can encrypt and decrypt a text file (and provide it some sort of password). Solution: openssl comes pre-installed on Mac OS X. You can use the following commands: # encrypt file.txt to file.enc using 256-bit AES in CBC modeopenssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.enc#…
I’m using a very old keyboard that doesn’t have a physical Windows key — it does have a 5/180° connector and an AT/XT switch on the back — but I don’t want to completely miss out on the functionality of the Windows key. Is there some group of keys in Windows 7 Pro that simulates…
Possible Duplicate: Clone a Hard Disk Content to Another Hard Disk What’s the equivalent of SuperDuper on Windows? I want to replace my current hard drive with a new one so I imagine that I would want a program that does a bit-for-bit copy from one hard drive to another, right? Solution: Clonezilla…
Possible Duplicate: Remote connection to a PC over internet I’m looking for something that would allow me to control their computer and that wouldn’t be very hard to configure. I think I’ll only need Windows-to-Windows support. What do you recommend? Solution: I find TeamViewer to be a great choice. The service is free…
I would like to use a (small) SSD disk as a cache for a large hard disk. I realize there are hardware-based products that do this: HighPoint RocketHybrid HBA, Intel SmartResponse and others. There is only one software-only product that I could find: ExpressCache by Diskeeper: ExpressCache intelligently and automatically combines the best attributes of…
I have several PDFs that are quite large (one is 80+ MB). Is there a free way to compress that PDF to a smaller size? Solution: There is also Free PDF Compressor. It gives you the option of using the Flate or RunLength compression algorithms as well as different compression levels.
I have a blog, and sometimes I’d like to show my readers something specific about computers. I’ve seen a lot of screen recording software, but all seem to save as video files. Do any save as an animated GIF? I know how to transform a small video into a .gif, but I believe that I…
Currently we are using Google Talk as messenger at our work place. Now we are supposed to replace it with some LAN based messenger. It should have at least following features chatting ( if logs are stored some where than it is good ), File sharing. Thanks. Solution: you could run openfire it uses jabber…
I would like to know a tool to enforce regular breaks from typing to avoid wrist pain. I have a preference for simplicity, unobtrusiveness (at least until break time comes), a small resource footprint, and, if possible, “non-ugliness”. Solution: Workrave. Cross-platform, simple, wonderful.
