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  • In Windows 7, if you are in a folder that was made available offline, you can always see Work offline button on the top toolbar. This allows to force working offline even when you are connected to the server. Very…

  • A simple task – once a week I need to copy certain folder to a NAS device. There are three devices and at any time only one of them is online. Following Windows PowerShell script will check if host is…

  • To uninstall Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI) based software remotely you can use a start-up script with MsiExec.exe command. First of all find out your software package ID number. There are number of way to do this. I normally use NEWT Professional for this purpose. There…

  • When you first connect to a new network, Windows 8 prompts what type of network it is. If you later want to change this connection from Public to Private (or other way around) perform following steps:

  • It’s not particularly difficult to change Windows Power Schemes normal way, via control panel, but if you do this very often there is even a better way.

  • Trying to run a Java web application and getting a warring message: Application BlockedApplication blocked by Security Settings.Your security settings have blocked an application from running with an insecure or expired jre. This simply means that you have out of…

  • Was having issues trying to launch DELL PowerEdge iDRAC v6 Virtual Console in Google Chrome. Instead of opening Java based remote access client, Chrome would simply try to save a file called someting like:viewer.jnlp(82.157.215.60@0@idrac-YT877TM,+PowerEdge+T310,+User-demo-user@9584712254699

  • I hit this error while trying to delete a leftover McAfee Validation Trust Protection Service using sc delete “mfevtp” command. This is how I resolved the issue: Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe) Navigate to:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\mfevtpmfevtp is the KeyName of the service you having problem…

  • Normally, when you uninstall an application it should remove all associated services automatically. Unfortunately, in practice this not always works. For example, after removing McAfee antivirus you may end up with couple of leftover services that do absolutely nothing. Such…

  • If you are paid-up Google Apps user (Business or Educational) you can download a sync tool that will sync your Google Calendar with Microsoft Outlook and provide full read/write access. If you are free Gmail user, you will have to…

  • This issue occurred after using a folder mounting trick to map SD card to local folder on C drive and then using SD card as a Windows Library target. As I explained at the end of the linked article, using…

  • Had a failing Seagate hard drive taken from an old Linux machine. There was some data on the HDD that I was keen to extract. First of all tried to access it from an Ubuntu PC, it could see the…