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All about UEFI vs BIOS – who to follow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/23

A link to an old post [WayBack] All about UEFI vs BIOS – David Berneda – Google+ reminded me to follow these people:

Source: [WayBack] All about UEFI vs BIOS

[WayBack] UEFI boot: how does that actually work, then? a long read ending with a long form of these recommendations:

  • If you can possibly manage it, have one OS per computer.
  • If you absolutely must have more than one OS per computer, at least have one OS per disk.
  • If you absolutely insist on having more than one OS per disk, understand everything written on this page, understand that you are making your life much more painful than it needs to be, lay in good stocks of painkillers and gin, and don’t go yelling at your OS vendor, whatever breaks.
  • If you’re using UEFI native booting, and you don’t tend to build your own kernels or kernel modules or use the NVIDIA or ATI proprietary drivers on Linux, you might want to leave Secure Boot on.
  • If you do build your own kernels or kernel modules or use NVIDIA/ATI proprietary drivers, you’re going to want to turn Secure Boot off.
  • Don’t do UEFI-native installs to MBR-formatted disks, or BIOS compatibility installs to GPT-formatted disks (an exception to the latter is if your disk is, IIRC, 2.2+TB in size…
  • Trust mjg59 in all things and above all other authorities, including me.

–jeroen

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When your Windows 8.1 mouse cursor is invisible in the screen center on VMware Fusion

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/10/02

Remove the

Remove the “VMware Pointing Device” using “devmgmt.msc”

Somehow I have it happen every now and then on Windows (usually 8.1 x64) VMs running inside a VMware (usually Fusion) that the mouse cursor is stuck.

VMware Tools were already at the latest version and a plain reboot didn’t help.

It doesn’t matter if I was running full screen or Windows and altering these mouse settings did not change the behaviour:

  • Enable pointer shadow
  • Display pointer trails (long or short: does not matter)

I did enable Show location of pointer when I press the CTRL key which then indicated the mouse pointer was static at the screen center.

The only thing to get the mouse respond to mouse movement were these steps:

  1. Start Device Manager using devmgmt.msc
  2. Switch to the Devices by Connection view from the View menu
  3. Open these sub-trees:
    1. Your machine in this case my machine W81ENTX64VS2015
    2. ACPI x64-based PC
    3. Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System
    4. PCI Bus
    5. Intel 82371AB/EB PCI to ISA bridge (ISA mode)
  4. Now delete the VMware Pointing Device
  5. Reboot after Device Manager ask you to do so

After that my mouse cursor works fine.

Just in case you bump into a similar thing, but the above steps don’t help, here are some links with different steps that might work in your situation:

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Posted in Fusion, Power User, Virtualization, VMware, Windows, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

How does one configure Notepad++ to use spaces instead of tabs? – Stack Overflow

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/27

The StackOverflow screenshot it out-dated so a new one is below.

  1. In the Settings menu, choose Preferences...
  2. In the Preferences dialog, choose Language
  3. Ensure the (default empty) Replace by space checkbox is checked
  4. Optionally change the Tab size from 4 to another suitable value

I prefer these settings: 

via: How does one configure Notepad++ to use spaces instead of tabs? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]

–jeroen

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Can I invoke Windows Update from the command line? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/25

For my link archive: Can I invoke Windows Update from the command line? – Super User [WayBack]

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »

Permanently Disable & Prevent Automatic Restart of Windows Update in Windows 10 – Tech Journey

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/22

Yay!

Windows 10 automatically restart the PC whenever it installed updates that required a mandatory reboot in order to finish installed. User can no longer delay or postpone a restart indefinitely. […]

The source Permanently Disable & Prevent Automatic Restart of Windows Update in Windows 10 – Tech Journey [WayBack] describes steps to fix a bunch of scenarios:

  • Disable Reboot Task
  • Stop the re-enabling of Reboot task
  • Group Policy (but people reported that Windows 10 ignores the policy when comes to mandatory reboot required for installing updates)
  • Prevent Updates from Installing by forcing your WiFi to act like a “metered” connection
  • Prevent Updates from Installing by setting the Configure Automatic Updates setting in your Local Group Policy Editor
    • For Windows 10 Home edition (that misses the Local Group Policy Editor) setting the above value directly in the registry

–jeroen

via: How to prevent Windows10 from automatically installing updates & rebooting – Primož Gabrijelčič – Google+ [WayBack]

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10 | 2 Comments »

Terry L@u’s blog: Manage non-domain Hyper-V servers (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview) by Hyper-V Manager

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/11

One day I will need this: Terry L@u’s blog: Manage non-domain Hyper-V servers (Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview) by Hyper-V Manager [WayBack]

Via: Matthijs ter Woord

–jeroen

Posted in Hyper-V, Power User, Virtualization, Windows, Windows Server 2016 | Leave a Comment »

How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/07

How to Find Saved WiFi Passwords in Windows – Geeks Gyaan [WayBack]: the rescue is netsh [WayBack].

netsh wlan show profiles
netsh wlan show profile name=network-name key=clear

–jeroen

via: Easily find save WiFi passwords in Windows – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | 3 Comments »

How to Easily Print a Large Image to Multiple Pages in Windows | Scottie’s Tech.Info

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/04

Many applications cannot not do that (Paint.net is one of them), but Paint can at least in Windows XP, 7, 8. and 8.1 (I need to check other Windows versions).:

In any case, here’s what you do:

  1. Open the image you’d like to print in Paint
  2. Select: Print -> Page Setup (Vista and 7), or File -> Page Setup (in XP)
  3. Under Scaling, select Fit to and change the setting to something like “3 by 2 page(s)”
  4. Click OK
  5. Print the image from Paint, and make sure to select “All Pages”

Source: How to Easily Print a Large Image to Multiple Pages in Windows | Scottie’s Tech.Info [WayBack]

Note the “3 by 2” has the order “horizontal by vertical”.

–jeroen

Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows XP | 2 Comments »

How to change the Notepad++ editor’s font – via Notepad++ Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/04

Paraphrased Steps (thanks guy038); Screenshots below.

  1. Choose the menu option Settings  -> Style Configurator…
  2. In the Style configurator dialog, choose the Global Styles under Language
  3. Then, under Style, select the Default Style (this won’t work for Global Override unless you have that one override everything)
  4. Finally, in the Font Style area, you can select your favourite Font name and/or its Size and apearance (Bold, Italic, Underscore)
  5. Confirm with Save & Close when you like the new font settings.

The cool thing is that if you have a file open, you will immediately see the effects even before pressing Save & Close.

Source: No way to change editor’s font? | Notepad++ Community [WayBack]

–jeroen

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SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog

Posted by jpluimers on 2017/08/17

SSD TRIM check tool | CyberShadow’s blog [WayBack] has source code on github:

trimcheck – SSD TRIM check tool for Windows

Source: CyberShadow/trimcheck: SSD TRIM check tool for Windows

It’s written in D using rdmd as compiler.

–jeroen

via via.

 

Posted in D, Development, Hardware, Power User, Software Development, SSD, Trim, Windows | 1 Comment »

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