Category: Windows

Submit a WordPress.com blog site to Google Search for indexing

I moved my web site from a shared hosting service to a wordpress.com personal site. However, I soon realised that the posts I had on the old service provider existed on Google search and some of them did not point to the posts published as per their link. The steps below are as per my … Continue reading Submit a WordPress.com blog site to Google Search for indexing →

Fix NTFS USB drive in linux

At times, there are errors with mounting NTFS formatted volumes from a USB drive. This can cause pain. Below is the method of how to fix the error, and even though it worked for me, there is no guarantee it will work for anyone else. Try it at your own risk. Open a terminal window … Continue reading Fix NTFS USB drive in linux →

How to validate digital signature in a document in Linux

In Linux, libreoffice-draw has the ability to open and validate digital signatures. Unfortunately, this functionality is broken as of today in the seahorse or gnome-keyring on LinuxMint 19.2 Tessa. This is due to the Ubuntu repository not having an updated package or a bug in seahorse. Without digging into above, a different program named PDFStudioViewer … Continue reading How to validate digital signature in a document in Linux →

How to hash files in Windows 10 into a file

Getting the MD5 hash of a file on Linux is very easy. However, in Windows, there are several utilities, but using Windows internally inbuilt command certutil, it can be done as follows in the Windows shell: C:>for /r %%f in(x) do (certutil -hashfile "%%f" MD5) >> output.txt output.txt will contain the files with their MD5 … Continue reading How to hash files in Windows 10 into a file →

GnuCash Finance:Quotes Modules MumbaiStock and IndiaMutual to retrieve online quotes

In GnuCash, the Finance:Quotes module allows retrieval of online quotes from various sources. Herein, are provided two modules, MumbaiStock.pm and IndiaMutual.pm with bugs corrected to enable the download of Stock Quotes from BSE and NAVs from amfiindia.com. To use the modules, follow the instructions below. Note that you are responsible to take backups and all … Continue reading GnuCash Finance:Quotes Modules MumbaiStock and IndiaMutual to retrieve online quotes →

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to run Windows 10 Insider Preview

VirtualBox package in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS does not successfully install Windows 10 Insider Preview. To install, you need to install VirtualBox from the Oracle website at this link: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads As instructed on that site: Open a terminal window and add the following line to the /etc/apt/sources.list file: $ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list <enter> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial … Continue reading Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS to run Windows 10 Insider Preview →

Delete CBS log files to make disk space on Windows 7 computer

Laptops come with 1 Terabyte of disk space. Lots of space for Microsoft Windows 7 to use to generate and store CBS log files in C:WindowsLogsCBS folder. Searching on Google, revealed that this folder can get really large and leads to most space consumption on computers with little hard disk space. Unfortunately, some of us … Continue reading Delete CBS log files to make disk space on Windows 7 computer →

Crossover Office and SimpleMind Desktop for Windows on Linux

It took a while to find out the big difference between Wine and Crossover Office. I use a Mind Mapping software SimpleMind Pro on an Android device to create mind maps to learn new subjects rapidly. SimpleMind Pro saves files direct to Dropbox or Google Drive and you can open these files on any Windows … Continue reading Crossover Office and SimpleMind Desktop for Windows on Linux →