Have you ever tried moving, renaming or deleting a file or folder and getting an error message along the lines of: “Cannot delete folder: It is being used by another person or program. Close any programs that might be using the file and try again” It can be a pain trying to work out what …
Category: Windows Vista
Mar 25 2012
BitLocker and iPods – Will They Blend?
- By Boydo in Android, Apple, Interfaces, iPod, Linux, Macintosh, MacOS, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Security, Technology, USB, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Leading on from yesterday’s article about BitLocker and the unfortunate situation that Mac OS X users find themselves in when BitLocker to Go is enforced at work when using USB devices we should also consider one popular USB device, the iPod. It may be a lesser known fact that iPods will use either HFS+ or …
- Android, BitLocker, encryption, EXT4, FAT32, HFS+, NTFS, smartphone, USB, Windows
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Mar 24 2012
BitLocker Drive Encryption and Mac OS X
- By Boydo in Flash, Microsoft, Security, Storage, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Earlier in the week, a colleague of mine had his work laptop upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows XP. To many of us this would seem to be a welcome change but for some this could actually be a complication. As part of the changeover, “BitLocker to Go” drive encryption is enforced on USB drives as …
Feb 24 2012
Solving TLS Timeouts in FileZilla
- By Boydo in Connectivity, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Secure, SSL, Technology, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s something that I had observed today. When attempting to connect to my webhost today I found that it would accept my username and password however, when initiating TLS, it would timeout even though my website was up and I had seemingly reliable connectivity to my webhost. In order to resolve this problem I tried …
Feb 14 2012
MetroTwit – Get a Taste of Twitter, Metro Style
Here’s a software pick for those looking for a Twitter client for Windows other than TweetDeck. MetroTwit is a Metro styled Twitter client for Windows. For those that don’t know, Metro is the interface found on Windows Phone 7 and will also be the interface for Windows 8 tablets. The Metro design language basically gives …
Feb 05 2012
Another Way to Close Windows in Windows
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 95, Windows Vista
Here’s a quick tip for tonight for Windows users. Back in Windows 3.1 there wasn’t a dedicated button to close a window so instead you had to double click the menu button in the top left corner. It wasn’t until Windows 95 that a dedicated close button made its appearance in the top right corner …
Jan 30 2012
Retrieve Missing Task Manager Menus
Here’s a quick tip for today. On the rare occasion you might find yourself looking at Task Manager in Windows and it is completely devoid of the usual menu options and tabs at the top of the window, resulting in something like this: … or this: What’s the solution? Just double click on the blank …
Jan 16 2012
MiniBin – A Cleaner Recycle Bin Solution for Your Windows 7 Taskbar
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip for this evening. A while back I wrote about a way you could get the Recycle Bin in Windows to appear on the Taskbar but it was quite a hacky and inelegant solution. Well, there’s a great little application called MiniBin available here that will add the recycle bin to the system …
Jan 12 2012
Refining File Searching Under Windows 7
As more of us start using Windows 7 you’ll need to get to grips with the various features built into it. One of the prominent features carried forward from Windows Vista is search. Now, you’d think that you could find stuff by clicking in the box and typing the words of the file you are …
Jan 05 2012
Open Multiple Regedit Windows
- By Boydo in Microsoft, Technology, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Here’s a quick tip for tonight. If you are editing the registry sometimes you might like two registry editors open at the same time so you can compare the existing state with the updated state. However, attempting to do so will only allow you ever to open registry editor. The way around this is to …
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