windows – Page 2 – davelevy . info / wiki

Recoverying W7 admin user

May 30, 2013 Dave Technology

I came across these links when trying to recover a Windows 7 system which had been “upgraded”. This was made in 2013 and marked as deprecated in 2023. We had lost the one admin user password and a shell had been installed in the Admin user.

Windows Virtual Desktop

January 8, 2013 Dave Technology

Here are some ideas for a windows virtual desktop, written for a W7 machine; deprecated in 2023.

W7 and Sleep with an HP Probook

December 11, 2012 Dave Technology

As shipped the HP Probook can take too long to wake from “Sleep”. Made in 2012 and tagged as deprecated in 2023

Building a W7 laptop

September 1, 2011 Dave I.T., Networking, Technology

Building a new laptop is always a fraught exercise and in this case I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I am also upgrading from a Dell Latitude to HP Probook 5320m.

Shell Scripting on Windows

May 30, 2010 Dave Technology, Virtualisation

I want to write bash scripts to be emulated using cygwin. This has a problem in that XP uses spaces in its file folder hierarchies and the environment variable initialisation process isn’t good enough. This is actually a snip on writing shell script using cygwin. The virtual boix commands are just the use case which…

Samba

May 10, 2010 Dave Networking, software, Technology

Not just for file sharing, but also supports printing and name services. I now make it part of my standard Linux builds within Virtual Box but it is a pain in the arse with Ubuntu, it never seems to work out of the box.

Dell Dimension 5150c

October 1, 2009 Dave I.T., Technology

This was originally entitled “Our New XP Box”. I changed the title when I copied the snip across to WordPress in July 2013. I marked the snip as deprecated in June 2019, added a picture to remind me. Here are my notes; the tags give a pretty good idea of what I needed to write…

Scripting on Windows

July 17, 2009 Dave software, Technology

I need a couple of jobs done on my desktop machines (all Windows XP) and have been installing Activestate TCL on my windows systems for years. This page talks about my favourite, or favourite at the time.

Dell Inspiron 9300 Laptop

May 11, 2009 Dave I.T., Technology

Introduction This needed rebuilding. I need to re-install Windows XP. BIOS Use F12 to enter the BIOS and configure the order in which the BIOS looks for a bootable image and make sure that the DVD is before the HDD. Help google:dell inspiron 9300 windows how to reinstall

My Alienware Aurora

December 23, 2008 Dave I.T., Technology

I bought one of these in February 2006 and it went bang for the 2nd time in the Summer of 2014. I could probably get it repaired but I can’t be arsed. It served me well, the rest of this article is/was an action log. …

1 2

Tag: windows