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For some reason, the option to format a drive with the FAT32 filesystem was removed from the GUI format tool in Windows 7. Thankfully you can still do it from the command line format utility. This guide will step you through the process of formatting a drive using the FAT32 filesystem using the command line. …
This ‘how to’ guide will step you through the process of installing FreeNAS 8 to a USB memory stick using a Windows computer. This can be a handy too if you have a system that has crashed, and you just want to get it back up and running so you can copy files off of …
As of Microsoft Windows Vista/7/2008 Server, Windows operating systems have had extra security put in place to prevent general user applications from making system changes to the computer. This helps prevent malware from causing havoc on a PC. Sometimes you do actually want to run a application that will make system changes, and to do …
There may be times when you need to set up a static route in Windows to allow your PC to access a network that is not accessible via the default gateway route. An example of this would be if you had a inter office VPN. You would want your main internet traffic to go via …
Slax is a great LiveCD linux distribution based on Slackware that fits in your pocket. One of the great features is the modular approach that is used for the packages, which are known as modules in Slax. Got a small USB stick that you no longer use? Put Slax on it. This guide shows you …
By default IIS 7 will generate a new session when accessing a site over a secure HTTPS connection. This can cause issues if you are switching between a HTTP and a HTTPS connection when dealing with a site that handles logged in users via sessions. Luckily this is a easy fix. Open up the Internet …
This guide shows you how to restart a specific IIS 7 web site from the command line. This can come in very handy if you need to automate restarting the site. IIS 7 includes a command line management tool called “appcmd.exe” which allows you do do a wide range of tasks, including stopping and starting …
There may be times when you want to close a process from the command line on a Windows machine. The ‘taskkill’ command allows you to kill processes/programs by process id or exe name (image name). You can do the same thing from the windows task manager, but sometimes this is not suitable. For example, if …
If you have your display’s DPI (Dots Per square Inch) setting set to something greater than 96 DPI (which is the default) in Windows XP, you may find that some applications don’t display text/form elements correct, and may get cut off the screen. Changing the DPI back to 96, and rebooting, should fix this issue …
If you don’t have a RAID add-on card (or have RAID capabilities on your motherboard), but you would still like to have some level of redundancy due to hard disk failure, you can set up a software RAID1 array. RAID1, otherwise known as mirroring, simply duplicates all writes to one drive, to another. If one …