Windows 10 supports Android, but I think the support is very lacking. Supposedly, if you attach your Android smartphone to the Windows Phone app, you can then run Android apps on Windows 10 using the Phone app. You would have to have the latest version of the Phone app though.…
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My Windows laptop complains that there is very little free space left on the 128GB SSD drive. That’s strange because Windows 10 and the few applications I installed shouldn’t have taken that much space, maybe at most half the hard drive space. I dig around and find that my user’s…
Leave a CommentMy brother-in-law has a problem with his Windows 7 laptop. He continually sees the pop-up error message, “Windows Explorer has stopped working”, and the desktop would flicker (killing all file explorer windows) as Windows restarts the process. He cannot do anything productive with the malfunctioning machine. He asks me to…
Leave a CommentI had tried out Windows 10 by installing it on a second, bigger 500GB SSD (Solid State Drive) than my existing Windows 7’s 240GB SSD. Having determined that I wanted to permanently move to Windows 10, I decided to move Windows 10 to the smaller drive, overwriting Windows 7. First,…
2 CommentsSee my previous post in the unmanaged VPS (virtual private server) series, Automate Remote Backup of WordPress Database, on how to create and schedule a Windows batch script to backup the WordPress database. Update: Let’s Encrypt has made changes that have broken my pre-existing certificate renewal. First, the new certbot…
Leave a CommentIn the past, whenever I needed a web server on Windows, I would install the XAMPP distribution (comes with Apache, PHP, and MySQL) and call it a day. This time, I wanted to use Nginx instead of Apache as the web server. Below are the steps I took to install…
15 CommentsSee my previous post, Subversion Over SSH on an Unmanaged VPS, to learn how to set up Subversion on Ubuntu (running on a DigitalOcean VPS). In this post, we will learn how to create a script to backup the WordPress database and copy it from the server to our local…
Leave a CommentThe instructions below will create a bootable system partition on a USB flash drive, which is exactly the same as creating such a partition on a hard drive. Specifically, I will be using Windows 7’s built-in DiskPart (Disk Partition) command-line utility to create a bootable USB flash drive containing a…
2 CommentsI recently upgraded to a 2015 Macbook Pro Retina 13 inch laptop. I attempted to install Windows 7 using the Boot Camp Assistant, which immediately asked for a Windows 8 or later installation media to be inserted. Darn it. I managed to create and insert a USB flash drive containing…
Leave a CommentNote: I have also used the WinToFlash tool to successfully make a bootable USB Windows 7 installer, both 32bit and 64bit versions. My sister asked me to fix her Compaq Windows XP laptop. I found that the Windows XP Home installation on it was in a weird state. On bootup,…
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