Tag: Windows

Count All Records in Every MS Access Table

Recently I worked with a client that wanted to export a MS Access DB into MySQL, the conversion was done by a third-party but I was asked to confirm that all the data from the tables was present in PHPMyAdmin. The easiest solution to this was to compare how many records were in each table, […]

Force Windows Upgrade to Windows 10

Windows 10 has now been released to the public, well it is for a few select people, but many like me did not receive a notification to begin upgrading to windows 10. Unfortunately Microsoft has no intention of upgrading the whole planet to Windows 10 at once, there are so many machines that require upgrade […]

Link a folder or drive to another folder on Windows 8, 7, xp, vista

Windows has a very neat hidden feature which is only available for advanced PC users, just like in Linux, the windows file system allows for Junction Points and Symlinks. A Symlink (Symbolic Link) is the ability to place a “folder” which is actually a link to another location on the system such as a folder […]

Relative Path Shortcut in Windows

Windows technically does not support relative path shortcuts, however I say technically because there is a way to create relative path shortcuts that work on any Windows system, and it works by utilizing explorer.exe directly. This method is much easier and quicker than the method’s already floating around on the internet, one such method involves […]

“Access Denied” troubles with files and folders in Windows

Good Evening, Windows has this really nasty feature called “user permissions”, well its not all nasty as it gives full flexibility when it comes to assigning permissions to certain users or groups of users. The trouble is that if your not familiar with the feature, and in fact just ignore it all together as is […]

Edit Images in a Word Document

At work today I needed to modify an image that was embedded in a Word Document, I thought it should be quite simple to export the image somehow or simply just right click on the image and edit it with an image editor such as Paint or Photoshop. Unfortunately Microsoft Word does NOT have any […]

Remove JoniCoupon from Chrome - JoniCoupon Adware removal

Unfortunately my laptop fell victim to the JoniCoupon malware, not sure where it came from as I had not downloaded and installed anything for months. In fact I only use my laptop for streaming movies from my main pc, and I also watch those movies on my PC and that has not ever been infected […]

Indent by Fold for Notepad++ not installing since last update

For those who don’t know what Notepad++ is, it’s a light-weight text editor with built in syntax highlighting for a multitude of programming languages and various other tools. The best thing about Notepad++ is it’s plugin features, you can easily browse, install and uninstall a variety of community created plugins, this is especially useful as […]

Windows 8 Upgrade Offer–The pain, the agonising pain!!

Just the other day me and my Girlfriend bought a new Windows 7 tablet (Acer Iconia W500) – the tablet is pretty good but before purchasing it we did allot of research and most people said that windows 7 wasn’t an ideal Operating System for a tablet. So we had planned to use the Windows […]

PRGrep - Search within files on your PC (Windows)

If you’re looking for some good software that enables you to search within files on your PC, then look no further! PRGrep is Linux software gone Windows, it offers you many tools to enable you to search within files. It doesn’t have a fancy interface, it’s easy to use and it searches files extremely fast! […]

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