WinAero

So in going through the remains of Brainless from before the wipe, I ran across this site. I used their software in the past and they have some real neat offers.

Unfortunately, there may be the possibility that the developer is Russian. Consider this strongly before visiting.

https://winaero.com/winaero-apps/

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Network Monitoring

Mill Yard Computing used to offer these tips for network monitoring. They have taken this down, so here it is for you:

iftop

On CentOS it is in the EPEL repo.

It shows a list of network connections and the data transferred over the past 2 sec, 10 sec & 40 sec (a bit like […]

Mounting drives (physical & image) on VirtualBox

To mount a physical hard disk onto a VirtualBox guest, we need to first create a VMDK configuration file which points to the physical disk, and then attach this VMDK file to the VirtualBox guest.

VirtualBox running on Linux:

VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ~/sdd.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sdd

Now attach ~/sdd.vmdk to your guest as normal

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Use dd to image a disk

“dd” is the linux command for taking byte by byte copies of files. Since a hard disk behaves sort of like a big file in linux, we can use “dd” to take a copy or image.

It is a good idea to zero all free space on the original disk before taking the image. […]

Blogosaur | Audio Edition, Music, VST & Wavosaur 4 all the people !

Wavosaur has been around forever and is a great tool from the days before.  Small, full of features, and if you can believe it, still being updated!  Give it a look if you wish.

Source: Blogosaur | Audio Edition, Music, VST & Wavosaur 4 all the people !

Gmvault: gmail backup

Have not used this yet, but it looks super promising as a way to backup Gmail accounts.

Source: Gmvault: gmail backup

Run Commands in Windows

Here’s a partial list of Run commands used to execute programs in Windows. Once you memorize them, it can be easier to type the executable then to navigate Windows. Note that you can run most of these in the Run prompt or the Command Prompt or PowerShell.

To open Run, press the Windows + […]

Thunderbird and Gmail | Thunderbird Help

Been having trouble checking Gmail with Thunderbird?

Here’s why:

Source: Thunderbird and Gmail | Thunderbird Help

This PC can’t run Windows 11 – Bypass/Fix

Ali posted a way to easily bypass Windows 11 install checks. Just like he said, I’m installing 11 as a Hyper-V machine on my Windows 10 box. My hardware is 11 compatible. I’m installing using Gen 2.

Whats up Microsoft? Thanks for giving me the reason to find this method.

Source: This PC can’t […]

Fix BSOD 0x0000007B on virtualized Win7 (and Server 2008)

Ran into this problem when I P2V’d my main Win7 box.  It had a broken Intel (software) raid on it (Raid1 with the second drive missing). I don’t know if this is why it was bluescreening, as I had used the heck out of this box for many years and it had every driver […]

How to manually install Integration Tools on a Hyper-V Virtual Machine

TLDR; Before you make the image!

Moving Win7 boxes to VM’s during decommissioning is a practical way to keep access to old systems. You can fire them back up when needed and access old data and applications safely. Even if migrating from one OS to another, making a VM is a easy […]