May 16, 2016 | OSes, Windows
My son and I went through rather painful ordeal with this Event 11 that Windows quietly generates. It took us few weeks to fully work out why Windows suddenly started hanging, misbehaving or even c…
Source: Solved: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort2
Mar 1, 2016 | OSes, Recent, Windows
Set up a virtual private network in a few simple steps.
Source: How to Set Up VPN in Windows 7 | PCWorld
Oct 23, 2014 | Installations, OSes, Recent, Windows
To install a Fortran compiler (gFortran) to be used within the Code::Blocks IDE editor:
- Go to http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads
- Click on “Download the binary release”
- Click on “Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7//8”
- Click on “codeblocks-13.12mingw-setup.exe” to download from SourceForge.net
- Once downloaded (~100MB), install Code::Blocks IDE
- Full installation
- Destination “Program Files\CodeBlocks”
- “Do you want to run CodeBlocks now?” NO
- Start Code::Blocks from the shortcut on Desktop (or find in programs)
- When the IDE opens, go to “Settings” > “Compiler…”
- From the “Selected Compiler” option, select the “GNU Fortran Compiler” from the list
- From below, select “Toolchain executables” TAB
- Now check that the “Compilers installation directory” is set to the MinGW folder within Codeblocks
[bash]c:\Program Files\CodeBlocks\MinGW[/bash]
- Click Ok to close the options dialog, close Code::Blocks and re-open
- You should now be able to create and compile Fortran sources
Create a simple program (try .f90 or .f95 or .f) and compile:
[cpp]program test
do i=1,5
print*, ‘Hello Fortran’
end do
end program[/cpp]
Aug 27, 2013 | OSes, Recent, tips-n-tricks, Windows
You receive the following error when you try to delete a local user account in Windows XP Home:
[text]Remove Domain Name\Computer Name.
Error 1377: The specified account name is not a member of the local group.
Error removing Domain Name\Computer Name.[/text]
This may be due to a corrupted user profile and usually occurs when a user account has been added/removed to various user groups or may be also caused by using a password reset utility like NT Password Editor.
A solid fix to this problem:
- Log-in to Safe Mode using the local Administrator account.
- Go to Run and execute the command:
[bash]control userpasswords2[/bash]
This will fire up the Control Panel item for user accounts management not normally available in the Home Edition.
- Select and delete/remove the corrupted user profile.
Note: The local folder is not being deleted, only the user account. Delete the folder manually if needed.
Jul 2, 2013 | command line, OSes, Recent, Scripts & Batch, Windows
You can check the health of your hard disk by using a command in Windows (S.M.A.R.T.).
- Start a cmd window
- wmic
- diskdrive get status
This should output the following result:
status
ok
ok
Jun 10, 2013 | html, OSes, Scripts, Scripts & Batch, Windows
Prerequisites:
- a notepad (I recommend: notepad++)
- some HTML knowledge
- Start a simple HTML page and add the following as the main structure:[xml]<head>
<title>Backup Reminder</title>
<HTA:APPLICATION
APPLICATIONNAME=”Backup Reminder”
ID=”myware”
VERSION=”1.0″
CAPTION=”yes”
BORDER=”normal”
SYSTEMMENU=”yes”
MAXIMIZEBUTTON=”no”
MINIMIZEBUTTON=”no”
ICON=”gumware.ico”
SCROLL=”no”
SCROLLFLAT=”yes”
SINGLEINSTANCE=”yes”
CONTEXTMENU=”yes”/><style>
img{border: 0px}
input{color: blue; background-color: white; font-variant:small-caps;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; border: 1px solid blue}
H1,H2,H3,H4,H5,H6,P,BODY,UL{font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif}
</style>
</head>[/xml] (more…)
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