Note: TL;DR, scroll to bottom for summary. I recently set up my computer for a dual boot between Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. My current drive setup is as follows. | A1 |     A2       || B1    |  B2  | B3 |   A1: 100 mb, windows 7 “System  Reserved” boot partition     A2: 230 gb,…

Is there a modifiable equivalent of “swappiness” in Windows 7? My system has 8GB of RAM which is more than enough for my day-to-day use. I’d like to modify swap behaviour, what *NIX systems call swappiness and set it to 0, as I’ve done on my Ubuntu machine. I’ve searched the Web for this but…

My conventional hard drive is clicking (second time this year I’ve killed the drive), so I just bought a SSD to benefit from the lack of moving parts. However, I am deathly afraid of using this as the only drive in my laptop running Windows 7, because the swap file is going to kill the…

I need to link a file to C:WindowsSystem32driversetchosts How can I do that with Windows ? Is there a soft link such as ln -s or equivalent in Windows ? Solution: You are looking for the command “mklink”. Documentation and examples in Microsoft Docs or ss64.com. Example taken from the link: // To create a…

Is it possible to copy a Symlink to a directory in Windows 7. When I try to copy a symlink’d directory, it tries to deep copy the contents to the location. Solution: I don’t know of a way to do it within Windows Explorer, but you can use xcopy at the command line with the…

How can I synchronise my desktop Outlook calendar with my Google Calendar (Outlook -> Google)? I saw the question Free tool for Synchronizing Google Contacts and Calendar with Outlook, but the solution that was suggested there is no longer available – Google Sync End of Life. There are tools that required a payment, like SyncMyCal,…

I want to synchronise two folders in real time under Windows 7. Basically, I want to monitor a folder and synchronise each change (new files, changed files, deleted files) to another drive. It has to be in real time, so it gets synchronised instantly when a change happens. A one-direction synchronisation is enough. I tried…

At work we are on an exchange server, and at home I like to use Google calendar. Whats the best way to keep my contacts and calendar in sync? Solution: I run Google Calendar Sync on my machine at work which has worked great!

A little mishap happened earlier today and i am thinking i should have a copy of my external harddrive since 10% of it is very valuable. What is the best solution to keep two external harddrive in sync? i’ll probably use one as regular and maybe use the other only to copy data. The easiest…

I want to do something like bzr commit -m “It works!”. I can sort of escape the exclamation mark by doing bzr commit -m “It works!”. However, then my commit message includes the backslash. How do I escape the exclamation mark, while still ignoring the backslash? Solution: Since you do not depend on bash to…