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Situation:It’s -5 °C outside and I’m bringing my laptop to school in my bag. I spend a lot of time walking outside in the cold. Then I go into the school where it’s 25 °C and fire up the laptop immediately. Note, I’m not using the laptop while outside, it’s on “sleep”, so the “operating…
Will Internet Explorer run on Windows 10? I can’t seem to find an answer to this anywhere. I have just updated to Windows 10 and need to be able to do web development testing on Internet Explorer, but when I go to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/internet-explorer/download-ieit says “Looking for Internet Explorer? You’re in the right place, but Internet…
I want to use the “reset my PC” feature of Windows 10 to wipe the data on my Windows partition. But I have also a Linux system installed, which I want to keep. Will Windows 10’s full reset wipe all my disk, or just Windows’s partitions ? Solution: No windows 10 reset will not remove…
I’m trying to use ssh.exe in Cygwin (in Windows 7). I copied a config file into c:cygwinhome[USERNAME].ssh. When I run ssh (for example, ssh -vT git@bitbucket.org) I get the following error: OpenSSH_5.9p1, OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 Bad owner or permissions on /home/[USERNAME]/.ssh/config How do I get ssh to read my configuration file? Solution:…
Using the code below I add text to end of file names which are: 1.mp32.mp3 and should be: 1text.mp32text.mp3 but it changed to: 1.mp3text2.mp3text Code: @ECHO ONFOR %%A IN (“C:Usersuser123Desktopmp3*.mp2”) DO ( CALL :RenameFiles “%%~A” “%%~NXA”)GOTO EOF:RenameFilesSET fname=%~2SET renname=%fname=%REN “%~1” “%renname%text%”GOTO E Solution: How do I add "text" to the end of multiple filenames. Before:…
I would like to create a batch file, that will add registry key, not manually, but full automaticly by .BAT file. This link goes about adding everything but not the key. This link shows how to add everything, and how to add key manually, but it requires user interference, which I am trying to avoid….
I use an old copy of Altaris SVS (link to lifehacker – Symantec gutted the old Altaris website) for testing applications – it lets me capture the changes one executable makes, or changes to a whole system into a bundle, and remove the whole bundle once I’m done. However Symantec bought over Altaris and apparently…
in Windows XP, when I type an apostrophe ‘, or dumb/typewriter quote “, no character is displayed. If I type another character, the apostrophe or dumb quote and the next character appear at the same time. This happens with double quotes “, apostrophes ‘ and tilde ~ characters. What could possibly be causing this? This…
I argued with my friend that the Command Prompt is just a GUI version of MS-DOS which works in the Windows forms environment. He totally disagrees with me. Who is right? Solution: This was true once, but it isn’t anymore. From MS-DOS # Windows command-line interface – Wikipedia: All versions of Microsoft Windows have had…
I am looking for a Mac application similar to AutoHotkey. What are the best Mac applications in this category? Solution: What subset of AHK functionality are you trying to mimic? Quicksilver comes up in this discussion kind of a lot. You can have it store snippets of text, fire scripts, and move a lot of…
