Running Windows 7 and eager to upgrade to Windows 10 but you do not see the update proposal in Windows update? Here is the checklist to go through and make sure you have all the requirements in order to get the free upgrade : 1. You are running a genuine version of Windows 2. Make… Read More »
If you have recently upgraded to Windows 10, you may have encountered the following issue/error message trying to send an email : Sending reported error (0x800CCC13): ‘Cannot connect to the network. Verify your network connection or modem’. You are probably able to receive email without any problem though, the described behaviour is only encountered with… Read More »
Monitoring your temperature hardware on Linux made easy with “lm_sensors“. On CentOS or RedHat Enterprise, you can easily install the software using Yum as followed : yum install lm_sensors Then, you need to configure the software to monitor your hardware. You will have to answer several YES/no questions to probe your system. Just do the… Read More »
Getting this error while attempting to restore a Symantec Ghost image from DVD (or any optical media) under WinPE? Ghost Error Application error 437 cannot read from file The main causes are the following : – Image integrity check failed due to corrupted image and/or drive read error – Source image was created using compression… Read More »
Got this message attempting to create a new server connection into the FileZilla Site Manager? FileZilla is running in kiosk mode. ‘Normal’ and ‘Account’ logontypes are not available in this mode. To resolve this and make FileZilla save your profile, go to : – Edit > Settings – On the left pane (Select page) >… Read More »
NTFS filesystem store a lot of information that might not be required all the time and can significantly improve the I/O performance when disabled, especially under a virtualized environment. To disable Last Access Time Stamp on Windows, you need to manually edit the registry. 1. Open the registry editor : Start > Run > regedit.exe 2.… Read More »
Using a SSD drive on Windows 7? You better have TRIM enabled for better performance and make your drive last longer. Windows should enable it by default. To check if it’s enabled, run the following command : fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify If returned value is ” 0 “, this mean TRIM is enabled. If ”… Read More »
The normal.dot file is actually the default Office Word template file. Since Windows Vista and ultimately Windows 7, the location changed. This is actually the same location whatever Microsoft Office version you are using. %:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates *Please note that the file is now named “Normal.dotm“
Since there is no longer any shortcut to start Internet Explorer 9 without addons, in safe mode on Windows 7, here is how to achieve that : The first, and quick method would be to simply type the following command into the search bar located at the bottom of the start menu : iexplore -extoff… Read More »
Basically, we’ll use the “netsh.exe” builtin utility here to achieve theses tasks. Show TCP/IP settings : netsh interface ip show config Set the interface as DHCP : netsh interface ip set address “Local Area Connection” dhcp Set interface DNS server address : netsh interface ip set dns “Local Area Connection” static 0.0.0.0 Export the current… Read More »