Active Directory / Bitlocker / Microsoft / News / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2019-07-29 · Last modified 2019-09-14
When Bitlocker is enabled on workstation/ laptop in your entreprise, you must have a solution to get the recovery key of the hard drive. In some cases, Bitlocker can prompt to the user the Recovery key...
DBML / GitLab / Microsoft / News / Visual Studio / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2019-07-25 · Last modified 2019-09-14
There is always better way to merge your DBML files when somehow your DBML become disorganized. Luckily KDiff3 has a feature that allows you to rearrange the lines in all the versions of a file...
GPT / MBR / Microsoft / News / Partition / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2019-07-25 · Last modified 2019-09-14
Set up a new disk on Windows 10 or 8.1 and you’ll be asked whether you want to use MBR (Master Boot Record) or GPT (GUID Partition Table). Today we’re explaining the difference between...
Microsoft / News / Virtual Machine / Windows / XenServer
by routh87 · Published 2019-07-25 · Last modified 2019-09-14
You can always grow the storage volume for a running Windows VM in XenCenter, but also there is a way to shrink it. Here is how to do it:
Bitlocker / Boot / eDrive / Hardware Encryption / Microsoft / News / SSD / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2017-07-01 · Last modified 2019-07-25
Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) technology provides verified and certified data security which offers nearly unbreakable pre-boot access protection for user data. Because SED access is pre-boot, there is no possibility of running an OS utility...
AHCI / Boot / Microsoft / News / RAID / SSD / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2017-06-18 · Last modified 2019-07-25
PSA: You should not be attempting these fixes unless you’re a professional! And it goes without saying, you will ALWAYS need your local admin password, recovery media, and backups of your data before fooling around with low-level...
GitLab / Microsoft / News / Putty / Regedit / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2016-05-17 · Last modified 2019-07-25
Sometimes you will get this problem when you try to connect into GitLab The server’s host key is not cached in the registry. You have no guarantee that the server is the computer you...
Procedures to change your computer’s Group Policy settings so that you can enable BitLocker Drive Encryption without a TPM. This use a startup key to authenticate yourself and it is located on a USB...
Language Packs / Microsoft / News / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2013-11-04 · Last modified 2019-07-25
Microsoft has made it quite easy to install a language pack in Windows 8. Just search for “Add a language” in Windows 8 and add language through the interface. If you have downloaded the...
.NET Framework / Microsoft / News / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2013-11-04 · Last modified 2019-07-25
In Windows 8, .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0) not installed by default and some applications require .NET Framework 2.0 or 3.0. The first step for us is to check the Program...
Microsoft / News / Virtual Machine / VirtualBox / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2013-11-03 · Last modified 2019-07-25
VirtualBox was capable of using physical disks for virtual machines. For more information check out this section on creating raw disks in the VirtualBox manual https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk.
If you performed a refresh of Windows 8, upgrade to Windows 8, or a custom install of Windows 8 without formatting the drive for a clean install and selected to install Windows 8 on...
Visual Studio includes a C compiler that you can use to create everything from basic C programs to Windows API applications. This post shows how to compile it on the command line.
If you following this post: Creating a “no hypervisor” boot entry And want to change your boot priority to with no hypervisor. You can change this easily.
I was not able to run hardware accelerated on VirtualBox after installing Hyper-V on Windows 8 (due to Windows Phone 8 SDK requirement). Some Virtual PC / Virtual Server still can run with hypervisor...
Linux / Microsoft / News / Ubuntu / Virtual Machine / VirtualBox / Windows
by routh87 · Published 2013-05-12 · Last modified 2019-07-25
This is the scenario that you run Windows as your host operating system and Ubuntu in a VirtualBox, and that you want to access a specific Windows folder from Ubuntu.
Unable to share computer’s internet connection with an error “an error occurred while internet connection sharing was being enabled.”
Here I will describe the steps that help you to setup windows 8 as an internet WiFi hotspot.
Here I will describe the steps that help you to load the Windows installation on to your USB flash drive and make it bootable just like the DVD.
How could I easily find out total number of memory slot in used and the memory size of each RAM module in the RAM slot, without open up computer casing? The answer is to...