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When I upgraded from Windows XP to Windows 7, I had a second drive around and set it to dual boot. After a while, I decided that I wasn’t ever going to go back to Windows XP, and so I deleted the windows directory on that drive. Unfortunately, now I can’t remove Windows XP from…
After (hopefully) scrubbing viruses out of a Windows 7 installation (after deciding not to simply run over the laptop repeatedly with my car), I’ve got everything almost back to normal. The only lingering issue I have is that for my non-admin users, the “.exe” file extension doesn’t work. That is, clicking on the various desktop…
I need to run a program as a different user + make it run with admin privileges (Run as administrator). I use the ‘runas‘ for running the program as a different user How can I run the program as admin with that command? (or a different one so will give me my requirements) EDIT :…
When I start SQL Server Management Studio 2008, I get an error that’s been around forever and is documented here. One of the suggestions to fix it that actually worked was to start SSMS with Run as Administrator. So I modified the properties of the shortcut to always run it as the administrator. The only…
I have an external HDD which I would like to “safely remove”. Unfortunately, my system (Windows 7 x64) complains that “the device is currently in use”. Using Process Explorer I discovered which process is holding a handle on the device: Obviously, System is not a process that I can just kill and be done with…
I’m running on Windows 7 and using Sun’s VirtualBox, and I already shared my folders in the settings of my VirtualBox installation. The problem is I can’t figure-out how I can access it. I also tried googling it, but I think I’m not doing it right. Solution: Install the Guest Additions and setup a shared…
On my computers (running windows 7 and vista and using SD cards and flash drives) ReadyBoost rebuilds cache after every reboot. Because of this and 5400RPM HDD, it takes several minutes for computer to start working normally. I gave up on using ReadyBoost because of that. Today I read in comments on this answer that…
I’m using Kubuntu at work for quite a while now and been using multiple keyboard layouts , German, English, Romanian. When I switch the layout on Kubuntu it changes globaly. Is there an option for that on Windows 7 ?currently the layout changes in a per-application way, which might be considered a feature, but I…
I’ve been using Firefox’s built-in CLI to take screenshots of webpages, so that I don’t have to use any third party tool.It is really simple to do, Hit Shift + F2 Type screenshot filename.png , then Enter. To take the screenshot of the whole page (including those parts that are not visible), you…
I have a hard drive which I need to recover specific files from but all the folders in the K: drive are denying me access even though I took owner ship of the full drive I.E C:WindowsSystem32>takeown /F K: This granted me access to the drive and see the folders but I can not…
