The problem is caused by Windows incorrectly identifying the notebook's screen.
To fix, open the Device Manager, expand 'Monitors', select your monitor, right-click it and select Uninstall. Then, click the 'Scan for Hardware Changes button. You should now be able to adjust the display's brightness again!
Source
http://windowsforum.com/threads/cant-adjust-display-brightness.5924/#post-242751
When installing applications on Windows 8 you may be prompted to install the .Net framework. Windows will helpfully offer to download and install it for you, how nice…until it fails. You may be asked to reboot your machine or check it is connected to the Internet but nothing helps.
If you have access to your orginal installation media (which you may not if it was preinstalled on your machine), you can install .Net 3.5 directly.
Notes: /All (enable all parent features of .Net Framework 3.5), /LimitAccess (prevent DISM from using Windows Update) and /Sources (location of the installation files)
Source and further reading
Having used both the Windows command line and then used PuTTY to control Linux machines, I miss the simple copy and paste functions PuTTY offers however these are already built into CMD!
Simply open a command prompt, click the C:\_ icon in the top-right and select Properites… In the Options Tab, in the Edit Options group, tick the Quick Edit Mode and Insert Mode check boxes.
There you have it, now selections in the command prompt will automatically be copied to the clipboard and right-clicks will perform the paste operation alla PuTTY.
Source
If you include TeamViewer as part of your system image or clone an existing computer with TeamViewer installed, the newly set-up computer will have the same TeamViewer ID as the source computer however each computer needs its own unique ID to work.
To fix, open regedit (Start > Run OR WinKey+R, enter 'regedit' and hit <enter> or press 'ok') and delete two registry keys: ClientIC and ClientID which can be found at:
64 bit Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\TeamViewer\VersionX
32 bit Windows
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\TeamViewer\VersionX
where 'X' is the version of TeamViewer
Note that this will not work on the source computer as the ID is calculated based on the hardware of the computer, therefore if this procedure is carried out on the source machine, it will just recreate the same ID.
Source
Bonjour is Apple's auto-network discovery protocol that, among other things, allows iTunes to discover other iTunes libraries on the same network and for devices such as the iPod/Phone/Pad and Apple TV to discover each other and share their libraries or remote control each other. However, if you don't use any of these functions it is yet another service that:
Below are two methods to disable it:
Method 1: Remove Bonjour
"C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe" -remove move "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\msdnsNSP.dll" "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\msdnsNSP.old"
Note under 64 bit versions of windows this will be:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe" -remove move "C:\Program Files (x86)\Bonjour\msdnsNSP.dll" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Bonjour\msdnsNSP.old"
Method 2: Disable the Bonjour service
Running MacOS X and want to see every file?
To see hidden files in Finder, follow these steps:
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
This registry edit controls whether Numlock is enabled or disabled when you login to Windows.
HKEY_USERS\.Default\Control Panel\Keyboard
References
Enable/Disable Numlock at Login or Startup
http://www.technipages.com/enabledisable-numlock-at-login-or-startup.html
To perminantly block GIF animations in Firefox:
To perminantly block GIF animations in Internet Explorer:
There is a major problem in booting Windows via PXE from a Linux server: Linux's is case sensitive but Window's isn't. So text.txt, Text.txt, test.TXT and tExt.txt are four different files in Linux whereas under Windows there can only be one file or folder in a location with the characters T-E-X-T-.-T-X-T. Additionally windows uses '\' whereas Linux uses '/'. To compensate for this, TFTPD can be configured to translate between the two.
To allow windows to boot from a Linux TFTP server:
rg \\ / r bootmgr.exe /Boot/bootmgr.exe r /boot/ /Boot/
References
http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/142879-need-help-troubleshooting-booting-winpe-30-with-pxe
To set up a DHCP server, start by download the latest version at the Internet Software Consortium; it is important that the latest version is used as it is the most secure and will be running on your server.
wget http://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/dhcp-4.2.1-P1.tar.gz
tar xzf ./dhcp-4.2.1-P1.tar.gz
cd dhcp-4.2.1-P1
./configure make
sudo make install
You will be prompted for the root password and, if you entered it correctly, the new DHCP server will be installed
sudo cp server/dhcp.conf /etc
nano /etc/dhcp.conf
subnet 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 {
next-server 10.0.0.1;
option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.2; # This is the DNS server, usually your modem's IP
option domain-name "home"; # DNS name, this line is optional
option broadcast-address 10.0.0.255; # Useful for multicasting, e.g. VLC
option subnet-mask 255.0.0.0; # This is the default for 10.x.x.x networks
option routers 10.0.0.2; # This is your gateway, again usually your modem's IP
range 10.0.0.50 10.0.0.100; # IP range. The first computer to ask for an IP will
# be 10.0.0.50 the last will be 10.0.0.100 after which
# all IP addresses will be exausted (i.e. max 50 IPs)
}
host COMPUTERNAME {
hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:00:00; # Replace with the machine's MAC address
fixed-address 10.0.0.10;
}
References
How do I install DHCP on my Linux Server?
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_install_dhcp_on_my_linux_server.html