Daily Archives: Sunday, February 26, 2012 11:58 pm

Cleaning your system’s registry

If you want to keep your computer working great, you need to clean the temporary files, uninstall unused programs, keep it up-to-date, keep it virus and malware free and clean the registry.

Typically cleaning the registry should be left to a computer savvy person.  Why?  Registry programs find programs that have been uninstalled and have in essence left parts of it behind.  There are tons of programs out there that will find missing pieces of programs left behind.   Three excellent programs are CCleaner,  MVRegClean and TweakNow RegCleaner.  Here’s the results of each of these programs after a run on an older computer.   It appears MVRegClean is the winner….but reading through the results shows that CCleaner and TweakNow picked up some items MVRegClean may have missed.   While MVRegCleaner is more thorough than the others, much like anti-malware products, you may have to run more than one registry cleaner.   Remember, running a registry cleaner and not verifying the entries could lead to programs not working.  Double check the entries that are being removed and always backup the registry.

TweakNow

CCleaner

 

Why Virtualization is Gaining Momentum

Reblogged from TTC Shelbyville - Technical Blog:

Why Virtualization?

Virtualization is gaining momentum with information technology professionals because of the ability to install more than one operating system on an individual host computer.  With hardware becoming less expensive, this type of computing is gaining momentum because of the economy, space and consolidation of resources.  With tighter budgets, this is an ideal way to consolidate servers, save on cost with both hardware and making green computing become a reality.

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Run VirtualBox from a Portable Drive

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If you need to take VirtualBox with you, you can use a portable drive to operate the OS of your choice.   This is an excellent way to demonstrate virtualization or to use in a programming situation where a program is being designed for a a specific operating system.

Download Portable VirtualBox

In order to run VirtualBox on a portable drive, you will need Portable VirtualBox (Not Sun Supported).

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Installing Fedora on VirtualBox - Pictorial

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Experimenting with Linux is a great way to learn the operating system.  It is essential that you learn Linux if you are going to be in Information Technology.  Here's a pictorial on installing Fedora Linux on VirtualBox.

VirtualBox (Wiki)  is free product from Oracle and can be used to virtualize operating systems within your operating system (regardless if it is on a laptop, desktop or server).

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Clone your virtual machine

Reblogged from TTC Shelbyville - Technical Blog:

Here's how to clone your virtual machine in VirtualBox

  • Shutdown the Virtual Computer (machine)
  • Release the .vdi file
    • File
    • Virtual Media Manager
    • Select the correct virtual computer disk you want to copy
    • Click Release
  • Navigate to the directory of VirtualBox
  • Go to a CMD prompt
    • Type VBoxManage clonevdi  /root/.VirtualBox/yourdisk.vdi   /root/.VirtualBox/newdisk.vdi
  • Add the new virtual disk
    • File
    • Virtual Media Manager
    • Add…

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Increase hard drive size in VirtualBox

Reblogged from TTC Shelbyville - Technical Blog:

Running out of hard drive space on your virtual OS?  Here's how you can increase the size.

(VirtualBox Version 4+)

From the command line, you will need to navigate to the VirtualBox folder under program files. and type the following-

"VBoxManage.exe modifyhd "your.vdi" --resize 25000(new size in mb)       Note: your.vdi may be Windows.vdi substitute the word your with the name of your vdi.

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VirtualBox's newest version can be downloaded at virtualbox.org

Weekly blog spotlight

Every Monday we review our blog in class and visit other sites as I remember them or an when an article catches my eye.   There are great posts each week at these other sites but this acts as a reminder for me!   Be sure to visit my favorites and for a thorough list, visit Bookmark4Techs!

Bill Mullins

TweakNow PowerPack 2012  - Read Bill’s review of this excellent software that offers dozens of features to Tweak out Windows.   Also take a look at their registry cleaner!   (Thanks Mickey for pointing Bill’s post out!)

Another excellent review over at his site is Comodo Cleaning Essentials - so add this tool to help clean computers.

Also this link comes from Bill’s Tech Thoughts - Free Game Rentals at Redbox Next Week 

Rick Robinette  - “What’s on my pc”

Add 50gb of storage to your Android Device – see how by visiting Rick’s blog

Convert a PDF to Word or a PDF to Excel or create a PDF by using Microsoft Office.

Broadcom 943xx wireless drivers

Reblogged from TTC Shelbyville - Technical Blog:

Many laptops and usb wireless devices have the 943xx chipset and drivers are often not written well or are not very good.  Here's an excellent link to these drivers.   These drivers may say a vendor's name in the description but this may work.  Always have a backup of your computer.   There is never a guarantee that alternate drivers will work.

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