As we have already discussed the easiest way to install Ubuntu Linux within your Windows operating system, there are a few actions that are highly recommended to perform before beginning the installat…
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How will you move data from an Excel 2010 file to your Access 2010 Database?
Both the software Excel and Access have their own advantages. For storing, querying, capturing, and sharing data Access is better. For analyzing, calculating, and visualizing data Excel is better. Hen…
(more...)How to Keep your MySQL database secured and protected?
In any information system around the world, the most important asset an enterprise has is undoubtedly the database. This repository contains all the vital data and information. Needless to say, a lot …
(more...)3 Steps for Cleaning Your Windows Registry
Windows Registry is one of the most important parts of a Windows operating system. A damaged or a corrupted Windows Registry can make your computer crawl and not function properly. You may not even re…
(more...)How to Install Linux (Ubuntu) in 4 Easy Steps
Linux is considered one of the most stable and secured operating systems of this era by many technology experts all around the world. However, most of the domestic computer users are reluctant to chan…
(more...)5 Tips to Boost Your PC’s Performance Dramatically
Windows 7 is the latest operating system for PCs by Microsoft. Microsoft has worked extremely hard to offer a super fast PC user experience, but some people are still not satisfied with its performanc…
(more...)Configuring a Hidden Share in Windows 7
A hidden share is a shared folder that administrators create on any Windows operating system. The difference between the normal shared folder and a hidden shared folder is that the shared folder that …
(more...)Renaming a User Account in Windows 7
Renaming user accounts means changing the display name and login name of the user accounts while leaving the account profiles unchanged. This is useful when a user account contains some sensitive info…
(more...)Enforcing Users to Change Passwords after Specific Time Duration
Password expiration is the process in which operating system does not allow users to use their passwords to log on to the computer. By default, when a user account is created, the default password age…
(more...)Disabling Task Manager in Windows 7
Task Manager is a program that is integrated in almost all Microsoft Windows operating systems and contains multiple tabs. Each tab in the Task Manager allows users to customize the workflow of the op…
(more...)Promote Standard User Account to Administrator
Administrator account is just like any other standard user account, but with higher (unrestricted) privileges. When a user account is created in an operating system, by default the operating system ad…
(more...)Change Account Pictures in Windows 7
Account pictures are small graphic images that are displayed on the welcome screens and start menus of Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7 operating systems, and are helpful in identifying user accounts, apa…
(more...)Create New User Account in Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft releases two types of operating systems, namely Client Operating Systems and Network Operating Systems. In any type of operating system, the administrators are allowed to create local user a…
(more...)Enforce Applications to Run As Administrator in Windows 7
Something about Running Application As Administrator Running an application as administrator means that the application must use administrative privileges while executing. Sometimes, it becomes import…
(more...)Turn Windows 7 Firewall On or Off
Something about Windows Firewall Windows Firewall is a built-in tool that restricts or permits incoming and outgoing traffic as per the rules specified by the administrators. Windows Firewall can be c…
(more...)Microsoft Windows 7 Tune-up – 1: Increase performance
Overview of Windows Tune-up In a nutshell, Windows tune-up means customizing operating system settings to gain increased performance from Windows adding additional hardware. Windows tune-up process ma…
(more...)How to Rescue a Wet Cell Phone
Unintentional mishaps such as, forgetting to take your spectacles while going to class, having difficulty finding transport while you are going to attend something very important or looking for someth…
(more...)How to replace text in MySQL database
Syntax update (table name) set (column name) = replace(column name,’search string’,'replacement’); Example Remove all the half-width/full-width spaces from a table. update test_table set column1 = rep…
(more...)How to check MySQL settings
Use “mysql> show variables;” or “mysql> status;” to check your MySQL settings. mysql> status mysql Ver 14.12 Distrib 5.0.27, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline…
(more...)Manage Windows 7 Virtual Memory for Smoother Experience
Overview of Virtual Memory Virtual memory is the reserved space in the system drive of the hard disk, and is used to temporarily save the information that physical memory (RAM) cannot hold because of …
(more...)How to kill a MySQL process that takes too much time
Warning If you force quit the process while a file is being written, it may damage the data or adversely affect its integrity. Command Note that “process” here means that of MySQL, not the OS. KILL &l…
(more...)Enforce Windows 7 to Accept Complex Passwords Only
Importance of Passwords Passwords are used to identify and authenticate users and devices. Under normal circumstances, administrators can provide simple passwords while creating user accounts, and if …
(more...)MacFUSE/Macfusion: Mounting a server connected via SSH
It is a pain to handle files in a server connected via ssh. MacFUSE and Macfusion, applications which I introduce to you in this blog entry, let you mount such a server on your Mac like general disk i…
(more...)How to back up a database
■ With mysqldump $ mysqldump –default-character-set=latin1 -u root -p dbname > /home/user/back.sql To back up all databases, replace “dbname” with “–all-databases” in…
(more...)vi: how to set character encoding (in case Japanese characters are garbled)
Set character encoding :set encoding=(Character encoding) Set file encoding :set fileencodings=(Character encoding) Check character encoding :set enc? Check file encoding :set fenc? Check auto-detect …
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