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 … Continue reading

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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…

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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…

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Does Your Computer Support Virtualization?  Find out with BITS from MooSoft…Link

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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…

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Intel’s program  Link AMD’s program Link And my processor…

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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…

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Here’s the easiest way to share a folder in VirtualBox.  Richard is one of our students and loves to experiment with virtualization.

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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…

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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 … Continue reading

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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…

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