Windows7-10
Contents
- 1 USB Drivers not installing automaticly
- 2 Win10 VLC Bluray
- 3 FDDI USB COM Port Drivers
- 4 Move My Documents Folder
- 5 Hide users from the logon screeen
- 6 X windows client
- 7 VMWare Workstation
- 8 Date in the taskbar / clock
- 9 Quick append text to files in a directory
- 10 Corel Draw
- 11 Thunderbird
- 12 Powershell
- 13 WSL
USB Drivers not installing automaticly
Locate the latest original USB 2.0 driver from the following folder.
%System Root%\system32\Driver Store\File Repository\usb.inf_xxxxx
Copy everything in that folder to c:\temp\driver
Now plug the device in, find drivers manually and specift c:\temp\driver or you can put them in %System Root%\INF and windows7 should find them automatically.
This worked or an Orico 7 Port USB Powerd Hub that should turn up as a USB Hub (Generic)
Win10 VLC Bluray
FDDI USB COM Port Drivers
www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm
Move My Documents Folder
- Login as the user
- Start --> <select user name>
- Right click the 'folder' IE Documents
- Location tab
- Select Move
- Select the new folder
- 'Select Folder'
- OK
- Yes
www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-move-windows-7-personal-folders-my-documents-another-drive.htm
Hide users from the logon screeen
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon\SpecialAccounts\UserList Add 32bit DWORD with users name
X windows client
Moba Xterm, simple free for personal use.
VMWare Workstation
Makes life easy :)
To get to the bios menu, to be able to toggle numlock on/off on boot
edit the .vmk file for the image add
bios.bootDelay = "5000"
then tap away at F2 as the image boots
Add an additional disk to a RHEL Machine under VMWARE
robscomputer.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/adding-drive-to-vmware-workstation.html
- stop the VM
- Add disk
- start vm
- ls -l /dev Should have a new disk like sdb or sdc
- create a disk - fdisk /dev/sdc, n, p, 1, enter, enter, w
- make a filesystem - mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1
- mount the disk temporarly - mount /dev/sdc1 /opt
- add to fstab
vi /etc/fstab /dev/sdc1 /opt ext4 defaults 1 2
Date in the taskbar / clock
If you want to see the date in the taskbar (I used to have a piece of s/w do this for me in xp) - under win 7 there are 2 options
- use two rows of icons in the task bar (right click taskbar – properties – uncheck lock task bar, drag top edge up, lock task bar again)
- use large icons (right click taskbar – properties – uncheck use small icons)
Quick append text to files in a directory
Using windows powershell
Get-ChildItem -Filter "*MATCH_TEXT*" -Recurse | Rename-Item -NewName {$_.name + ".APPEND_TEXT"}
Corel Draw
Macro to measure a line http://macromonster.com/index.php?mod=descr&id_desc=60&keyword=length&Submit=Go [macromonster.com/index.php?mod=pages&id_pages=18 install process]
Curve Lenth addon
http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?111024-Vector-line-length-measuring
Thunderbird
Finally an add-on to open Microsoft Outlook winmail.dat attachments https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/lookout/
Powershell
List sub-directory sizes
Essentially du -hs *
$colItems = Get-ChildItem $startFolder | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $true} | Sort-Object foreach ($i in $colItems) { $subFolderItems = Get-ChildItem $i.FullName -recurse -force | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer -eq $false} | Measure-Object -property Length -sum | Select-Object Sum $i.FullName + " -- " + "{0:N2}" -f ($subFolderItems.sum / 1MB) + " MB" }
or use sysinternals du command
du -l 1 c:
Scheduled Tasks
Error 0x80070532 = INVALID PASSWORD, usually happens when the password for the user the task is running as has been changed.
libraries settings
Stored in
C:\users\name\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\libraries\libraryname.library-ms
WSL
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Blocked by Windows firewall
The following gets ping working, but not tracepath hummm
https://superuser.com/questions/1358297/windows-10-wsl-ubuntu-unable-to-ping-anything
netsh.exe advfirewall firewall add rule name=wsl_ping dir=out action=allow program=C:\Users\tapp\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs\bin\ping enable=yes
Office =
Remove Password protection from MS Word 2013 Document
www.jamesewelch.com/2011/09/21/how-to-remove-passwords-from-protected-microsoft-word-documents/
DocX is a compressed zip container file. Make a copy of the original docx file. If you unzip it, there is a subfolder named word with a file named settings.xml. You can open settings.xml with a plain text editor.
Within that there is a block of text:
<w:documentProtection .... />
remove it