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Search for Files that Do NOT Contain a Certain Term

7th August 12 | Windows

Using Windows command line, to locate only the files you want.

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Restore GRUB after Windows install

18th July 12 | Linux, Windows

Boot up into a Live Linux Image. Mount your old Linux Install, and use chroot to take control of it. mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt chroot /mnt You will get grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). if you don’t mount you devices, before attempting to install GRUB. So mount all devices. mount [...]

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Creating Windows 7 bootable USB from Linux

17th July 12 | Linux, Windows

Using GParted, or another tool, format the USB to NTFS and make the partition bootable. As root, mount your Windows ISO. mount /home/osaka/en_windows_7.iso /mnt -o loop Then copy the contents to the USB. cp -rv /mnt/* /media/USB sync # Flush file system buffers Install the Windows boot loader to the USB. ms-sys -7 /dev/sdX You [...]

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Remotly generate windows event logs

18th December 11 | Windows

To remotly generate log output: (Note the file will be created on the remote machine) wevtutil epl /r:192.168.0.111 System C:\output.evtx You can then view it using event viewer. You can replace System with any of the event logs. e.g. Application, Security and Setup. Reference technet.microsoft.com

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Get a list of filenames and move the files Bash and Power Shell

17th August 11 | Linux, Windows

Both these scripts do the same thing, they strip a log file down to the filename and then move each file up a directory. … C:\Random\Directory\n\chars\long\filename.xml … BASH cat 15\ August\ 2011\ Less.log | cut -c 113-152 > fileNames for i in `cat fileNames`; do mv -v “$i” ../$i; done WINDOWS gc ‘.\15 August 2011 [...]

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Windows Server 2008 USB WiFi

10th July 11 | Windows

Make sure to enable “Wireless Lan Service” Feature. After a fresh install of Windows Server 2008, I was unable to enable my USB Wireless Device, windows would attempt to enable it but the interface would not active. Problem solved by enable the “Wireless Lan Service” Feature.

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How to copy a DVD

27th February 09 | Windows

This artical will show you how too copy a DVD. you will require a blank DVD, DVD Shrink to rip the DVD data to your hard drive and imgBurn to burn the data to a blank DVD. Step One Open DVD Shrink and click on “Open Disc” select the drive with the DVD in and [...]

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Windows XP Choose User no password

23rd February 09 | Windows

If you only have one account on your Windows XP computer which does not have a password and it is asking you to “select” the account. It is possible to bypass this pointless selection by running this command in run (Start->Run or Windows Key and ‘R’) control userpasswords2 Then un-check “User must enter a user [...]

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How to convert a DVD to AVI

25th August 08 | Windows

I will show you how to RIP a DVD to your computer and convert it to AVI format, then you will be able to: 1) Edit it 2) Play it from your Hard drive. There are two versions one fast and simple and one slower and in more detail. Software you will need all free: [...]

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How to maximise your computers performace Windows XP

5th March 08 | Windows

If your computer running Windows is starting to slow down, or running out of hard drive space then you might be in need of a simple program called CCleaner. I was able to save 1.77MB of space and that was just from tempary files that Windows creates for it’s self. I have save up to [...]

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