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How do I uninstall Deep Freeze manually using registry? Solution: I’ve been using Deep Freeze for a while, and I never uninstalled it with the registry. It seems to have a way to do this anyway – see How to manually uninstall Deep Freeze. You can also read more in How To Uninstall Deep Freeze […]

This morning I upgraded my system to Windows 10 2004, the upgrade went smooth and was through Windows Update. I am using Hyper-V as my virtualization program for virtual machines and to provide extra layer of protection to the system through core isolation. After the upgrade, I noticed that a new Virtual Switch was created

I have a bash file with the following commands to copy books from my books folder into my toread / Read Later folder find /books -name ‘*.pdf’  -exec cp -n {} /toread ;find /books -name ‘*.epub’  -exec cp -n {} /toread ;find /books -name ‘*.azw*’  -exec cp -n {} /toread ;find /books -name ‘*.mobi’  -exec

How do I set up SSH so I don’t have to type my password when connecting to a host? Solution: Generate a SSH key (if you don’t have one) If you happen to use GNOME, the seahorse application (“Passwords and Encryption Keys”) can do it for you: File -> New -> Secure Shell Key. If

I want to append new data in a file stored in SSD. dd if=/dev/shm/test of=/data/sdb/test bs=1G oflag=append But df -h shows the dd command always overwrite the test file, instead appends new data in the test file. I also tried dd if=/dev/shm/test of=/data/sdb/test bs=1G conv=notrunc It does not work, either. Solution: What about: dd if=/dev/shm/test

I am trying to create an aliases in bash.  What I want to do is map ls -la to ls -la | more In my .bashrc file this is what I attempted: alias ‘ls -la’=’ls -la | more’ However it does not work because (I assume) it has spaces in the alias name.  Is there

I am going to schedule a job by using at command. Here I tried the following command: $ at now + 1 minuteecho ‘Test at command'<EOD> I saw the job is scheduled by using at -l. However, I saw no echo out. I guess that I may need to add user to at.allow file. I

If I have a group of files with a .htm extention, how can I rename them all to .html? mv *.htm *.html does not work. Solution: Or, you could use pure bash… (except for mv, that is..) for file in *.htm; do mv “$file” “${file%.htm}.html”; done and avoid the nasty basename stuff. 😉 Bash has

I did something crazy at some point that created a file called -rf on my filesystem.Now I can’t figure out how to delete it… I’ve tried: rm “-rf”rm -rf These just exit immediately, arrgh! Anyone know how to remove this file? Preferably without accidentally cleaning out my whole folder. Solution: unlink -rf Or rm —

I have two files in a directory. One has correct permissions and the other has not. Is there a way I can “copy” the set of permissions from one file to another? Solution: The GNU version of the chmod utility can copy the mode from one file (RFile) to another (file). chmod –reference=RFile file GNU