I want to install the new Windows 10 build 14316 (w/ Bash shell!). I signed up for Windows insider and set the update speed to fast ring [see bottom image]. Unfortunately, when I click the update button, I don't get the Windows 10 build 14316. Has anybody had similar trouble? Any solutions?
Referring to this article published September 8, 2011, it gives instructions on how to to do a full (non-hybrid) shutdown in Windows 8 from the command line.
We have an option in the UI to revert back to the Windows 7 shutdown/cold boot behavior, or since that’s likely a fairly infrequent thing, you can use the new /full switch on shutdown.exe. From a cmd prompt, run: shutdown /s /full / t 0 to invoke an immediate full shutdown.
shutdown /s /full /t 0
I tried this in W8 Enterprise RTM trial, but did not work, so I did a
shutdown /?
and noticed they have changed the command for a Full shutdown
It appears the /s switch now does the full shutdown as explained in the MS article, and the /hybrid switch does the hybrid shutdown for fast startup.
Can anyone confirm this change in other RTM versions of Windows 8?
Any Microsoft docs on this change are welcome.
i want to disable remote shutdown to prevent the timer (on my internet cafe) from shutting down a certain pc (obviously, that pc should not be shutdown... diskless setup). how?
Obviously, im improvising. the timer is on a netbook and i want client to use the server pc on a different windows 8.1 account (non-admin). Anyways, just focus on the above
Answer
You can change access to who can perform remote shut downs by changing the local security policy. However, only machine administrators have this right be default.
Local Security Policy and it should pop as you typeLocal PoliciesUser Rights AssignmentForce Shutdown from a remote systemApplyI installed a new/larger (4TB) hard drive on my computer. I have Windows 7 installed on the old drive (1TB) and using backup of the drive with a system image, I restored that to the new drive. All seems to work fine.
Now I want to extend the partition on the new drive. In Disk Management, I can see the unallocated disk space next to the allocated C: drive. There are no logical partitions, just the allocated and unallocated sections. When I right click to extend the C: drive, the "Extend" option is disabled.
Why would it be disabled and is there a way for me to enable it?
I found some posts that says it has to be converted to be a dynamic disk first, but this option is also disabled.
Answer
2TB is the maximum partition size of any MBR format disk.
Understanding the 2 TB Limit in Windows Storage
Windows 10 Creators Update provides us a safe, and non-destructive method of converting MBR to GPT using MBR2GPT.EXE. Unfortunately, you don't have Windows 10.
The safest alternative is to just create a secondary partition to use the remaining space. The new partition will show up as a new drive on your computer, and you can save data to it.
Only Windows 7 64-bit running on UEFI hardware supports booting from a GPT partitioned disk drive. If you're running on older hardware, or 32-bit, you are SOL. If your system meets these requirements and you are adventurous, the drive can be converted from MBR to GPT. The official way involves backing up your data and deleting all partitions to create a new GPT layout and then restore data. But, there are ways to convert MBR to GPT without losing data.
WARNING: Always verify you have a good backup of data BEFORE attempting to convert MBR to GPT.
Here are a couple of options:
In my opinion, you really should not be trying this. It is likely to fail. If you need a partition size greater than 2TB, is it unreasonable to expect you to also have a modern operating system, on modern hardware?
On Linux (redhat/ubuntu/you name it), I can do this:
$readlink -f myfile.txt
/tmp/local/path/to/myfile.txt
On OSX (yosemite):
$ readlink -f eclipse-projects.xml
readlink: illegal option -- f
Can someone tell me what's going on? What's the "equivalent" of -f on osx? (And why do people love to make things sooooo inconsistent?!)
I installed Virtualbox on my workplace laptop to run Lubuntu in Windows-7 64-bit. I have some issues to make the hostonly network work with wireless adapter.
The wireless adapter will turn off once wired adapter is connected.
When I disconnect the wired adapter, wireless network doesn't turn on. Current active network points to Virtualbox Hostonly adapter. Only after I disable the hostonly adapter, I can turn on wireless adapter.
How can I make the wireless adapter turn on without disable virtualbox hostonly adapter?
my HP ProBook 5420s supports custom boot logo but I can't get it working.
It has UEFI (not BIOS), custom boot logo option is on and I have placed a 1366x768 (native.. also tried 1024x768 as guide told so) bitmap to HP_TOOLS\Hewlett-Packard\Logo\Hplogo.bmp according to HP UEFI guide I have found: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01564727.pdf
Answer
The HP UEFI custom logo needs to be a 1024x768 JPG, Hplogo.jpg, not BMP as the guide suggests.
