How to mount a folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?
As a follow-up on my question VMware Workstation 8: how to fake a bootable USB stick?How can I mount a Windows folder as a virtual CD/DVD drive?That way, I could mount the folder as a virtual CD/DVD...
View ArticleHow can I stop percentage expansion in a batch file?
(This is on NT based Windows like 2000, XP, Vista, 7)On the command-line, the percentage characters are ignored:wget...
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Answer by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers for How to automate Adobe Acrobat XI Standard...
This is how I did it in Adobe Acrobat XI Standard:no need for the Action Wizardno need for AutoItThe trick is to ensure no PDF files are open in Adobe Acrobat XI Standard. Then the Reduce side PDF......
View ArticleWindows 8.1: what to do when the "sidebar" on the right side of the screen...
When running Windows 8.1, some settings show up on a metro-like sidebar that comes on top of the classic Windows < 8 desktop. E.g., this happens when you press the network icon in the notification...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers for How can I search for files that are...
and31415 has posted a nice solution for Windows Explorer that works at least in Windows 7 and up (maybe in Vista, will check that later).So for older Windows versions like XP and 2003, I've researched...
View ArticleHow to uninstall a Windows Update that seems invisible after installation
I learned the hard way that installing the "Synaptics driver update for Synaptics Composite USB HID Device" on Windows 7 x64 kills the trackpoint and touchpad of my Lenovo USB SK-8835 USB keyboard.The...
View ArticleMIME decoder for Windows
Is there a (preferably command-line) MIME decoder available for Windows (like ripMIME for *nix)?Someone sent me a MIME encoded message (this one with multiple MIME parts) that Google mail nor Outlook...
View ArticleEasiest way to grant "Log on as a service" to a Windows user from the...
I want to script an install where a service needs to be run as a user. I want to be able to specify the user.Creating the user is easy through the NET USER /ADD command.Specifying the user for the...
View ArticleHow can a partition be full if du does not show it is?
On one of my systems, the root partition is full:snip:˜ # df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted onrootfs 11G 9.3G 0 100% /devtmpfs 744M 36K 744M 1% /devtmpfs 751M 0 751M 0% /dev/shmtmpfs 751M...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers for How can a partition be full if du does...
First some background informationIf you have btrfs on your root file system on http://www.opensuse.org/en/, then two things will happen:openSUSE will automagically start using snapper to take snapshots...
View ArticleIs it possible to install PowerShell 3 on a Windows Server 2003 or 2003 R2?
On a Windows Server 2003 rig (which already has .NET 4 but no 4.5 on it) that is to be expired before the end of the year, I'd like to run a few PowerShell 3 scripts on a scheduled base as the scripts...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers for The last unmovable file appears to be:...
A bit late to the game, but I had this happening on a PC this week.My solution was to:boot the GParted live CD http://gparted.org/livecd.phpstart GParted in UI mode (you might want to use the safe mode...
View ArticleAnswer by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers for Whitelist Windows Update Servers
Microsoft keeps a list with wildcards at https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb693717.aspxThere are however quite a lot of routers that do not allow wildcards, or call "http", "https" and "www"...
View ArticleHow to automate Adobe Acrobat XI Standard to re-compress a lot of PDFs?
I've about 15 gigabyte of PDFs scanned with an old version of Adobe Acrobat that are huge.Adobe Acrobat XI Standard that comes with my new scanner has an option to (it seems lossless) recompress these...
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Answer by Jeroen Wiert Pluimers for Bring OS X Error Message window to the front
Based on the first answer, I found out that these sets of steps on High Sierra bring an existing Problem Reporter to the front.The GUI way:Press Command+Space to start Spotlight SearchSearch for...
View ArticleHow can I search for files that are either compressed or uncompressed in...
I know that Windows explorer can colorize the NTFS compression state of a file, in both the regular and search views.How can I specifically filter/search for files that are compressed or uncompressed...
View ArticleInstalling/deleting root certificate without CertMgr / CertUtil asking the...
When you install or delete a root CA certificate using the commandline tools CertUtil.exe or CertMgr.exe, Windows asks the user for confirmation using a MessageBox (for certificates other than root CA...
View ArticleWhy are Excel weekdays wrong for 1900?
This question is based on the observations of AdamV in his answer on How do I get the day name into a cell in Excel?When A1 has the value 2009-08-01, then:=WEEKDAY(A1) will obtain 7=TEXT(7, "dddd")...
View ArticleVMware Workstation 8: how to fake a bootable USB stick?
I want to experiment with various Windows builds.Normally, I'd put those builds on a bootable USB stick, then either deploy them on a physical or VM machine using something like Plop bootmanager.How...
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