There are a lot of useful features in Windows 10 that you may not know exist like: Secret Start Menu – If you right-click the Windows Start icon in the low right corner of you screen you will see a menu giving you access right-away to many of the tools may want to access. Storage…
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5G Is Coming To Your Home
Can 5G cell service replace your home Internet from Spectrum or Comcast? In the last year cable companies have lost customers or at least have not gotten any new customers. This maybe partly due to 5G cell networks. These networks are fast enough to watch 4K HD video. Eventually these networks could give us up…
Secretly A Zip File
Many of the most popular file types these days are actually a variation of a Zip file. ZIP is an archive file format that supports lossless data compression. That is a file that contains many more files within it. Microsoft Office files, LibreOffice, Epub, Mindcraft.jar, Adobe Illustrator files, and many other file formats are just…
Kali Linux and Pen Teasting
Kali Linux is an open-source, Debian-based Linux distribution geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security Research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering. It is used security analyst to find vulnerabilities in networks of computers. Because Kali is an free and opensource tool it is also available to anyone including hackers.
Must Have Bootable Media
As computer geeks we must all have a bunch of CDs/DVDs/USB media in our toolkit. Among these are Windows install media, Linux install media, and Windows utilities. Windows Windows 10 – To install to and repair Windows 10 PCs. To get a Windows 10 ISO you must download the Media Creation Tool. Click ‘Download tool…
What is an ISO file? How to use them.
An ISO image is a disk image of an optical disc (CD or DVD). In other words, it is an archive file that contains everything that would be written to an optical disc, sector by sector, including the optical disc file system. The name ISO stands for International Organization for Standardization is an international standard-setting body…
What is Godmode?
The Windows Master Control Panel shortcut, also called Windows God Mode is an all tasks folder. It is a shortcut to access various control settings in Windows Vista and later operating systems, including Windows 10. By creating a folder with a certain name, users have access to all of the operating system’s control panels from…
Repair Windows Boot Partition
Sometimes when you remove Linux from a dual-boot Windows and any Linux operating systems. An issues may arise with the boot-loader. Removing the Linux partition does not remove the Grub boot-loader. When you start your computer you just get a black screen with… Example 1: error: no such partition. grub rescue> Example 2: error: no…
Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcut keys help provide an easier and quicker method of navigating and executing commands in computer software. Shortcut keys are commonly accessed by using the Alt key (on IBM compatible computers), Command key (on Apple computers), Ctrl key, or Shift key in conjunction with another key. The de facto standard for listing a shortcut is listing the modifier key, a plus symbol, and another key. In other…
3-2-1 Backup Strategy
The 3-2-1 rule is a best practice for backup and recovery. It means that when you build out your backup and recovery strategy you should: 1. Keep at least three copies of your dataThat includes the original copy and at least two backups. 2. Keep the backed-up data on two different storage typesThe chances of…
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