Windows 8
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How to access a Bitlocker encrypted Windows disk using Ubuntu 15.04
Today has been one of those days where you think to yourself. “Self, you should have backed up your data more often!” My work laptop running Windows 8.1 decided to commit suicide. The laptop froze up and when I rebooted I received an error stating that werkernel.sys is missing and it won’t boot in to Windows. I took the laptop in and IT tried recovering Windows but could not get it repaired. The problem is that we use Bitlocker which meant it would be a challenge to just boot up with a Live Linux Distro and copy off my needed data. After a few hours I managed to access my…
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How to install the telnet client in Windows 8 and 8.1
I’ve built a Ubuntu Server to backup my Home server data and needed to test a few ports to see if they are open. Windows 8 and 8.1 does not have the telnet client installed by default so I decided to post an article to show you how to enable it. Below are the steps involved and a video showing how to enable telnet. Open up the control panel. Click on Programs and Features. Click “Turn Windows Features on of Off” on the left in the Programs and Features window. Scroll down till you see “Telnet Client” and check the check box. The telnet client will now install. Windows needs…
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Extract Audio from video using Audacity
In this tutorial we show you how to extract audio from video using Audacity in Windows. The same will work in Linux but we had to pont Audacity to FFmpeg in Windows. To download the FFmpeg dll for Windows go to this site:
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Virtual Desktops for Windows
Being so used to virtual desktops in Linux makes Windows quite hard to use. We found an application called Deskpot that “enables” virtual desktops in Windows. Below is a short video on how it works in Windows 8.
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Unable to mount a disk in Linux – The disk contains an unclean file system
This morning I logged into my Linux Mint installation and could not access any of the disks that I could access before. The disks are shared between my Windows 8 and Linux Mint operating systems since I’m dual booting. I received the below error: Error mounting /dev/sdc1 (lots of detailed text) The disk contains and unclean file system (0,0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. An explanation on how to solve this problem is detailed in the video below where I show you how to switch off the Windows 8 feature that is know to cause issues with Linux and Windows dual boot systems. Remember to watch in…
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Internet Explorer is not opening any websites but other browsers work
I had a problem on Windows 8 where Internet Explorer could not open any websites anymore.. Chrome and Firefox could access and open websites though. After a long hard search and consulting with friends a solution was found. Follow the below steps to get Internet Explorer working again. Click on start and in the search bar type cmd. (if using Metro then start typing cmd from your search in the metro screen) Hit the enter key. In the command prompt type netsh winsock reset and press enter. Now type netsh advfirewall reset and press enter. Restart your computer. Now go to the upper right hand corner and click on the…
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How to run a Memory Diagnostic in Windows 8
Ever needed to check your memory for problems from within Windows 8/8.1 ? Then check out the video below to show you how to run a memory test from within windows.
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Error Code: 0x000000C4 when trying to install Windows 8 or 8.1 in Virtual Box
I tried installing Windows 8.1 Preview in Virtual Box and received the below error: (If memory serves me correctly this was the same for Windows 8) Run the following command and then try installing Windows 8.1 Preview again. “c:Program FilesOracleVirtualBoxVBoxManage.exe” setextradata “VM Name” VBoxInternal/CPUM/CMPXCHG16B 1 This solved the issue for me. Found the information to the solution at this article here.