May 5, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Enable F8 Boot Options to Windows 8

With the arrival of Windows 8  a new boot loader that decreases the time that it takes Windows 8 to start. In order to do this Microsoft needed to remove the ability to access the Advanced Boot Options screen when you press the F8 key when Windows starts. Instead in order to access Safe Mode, you would need to either start Windows 8 and then tell it to restart into safe mode or for Windows to fail to... read more

Apr 30, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Handle Windows XP Lockups after EOS

Recently I have had several systems come to me that are running Windows XP and have started to lockup shortly after the April 8, 2014 end of service. The customer was complaining about the popups they received at login about end of life. Upon digging into the systems found that Microsoft Security Essentials was causing the system to lockup, even though according to Microsoft the product is supported on... read more

Apr 26, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Windows P2V Using VMware vCenter Converter for Virtualbox

Download and install VMware vCenter Converter for Windows and install it on the physical Windows XP or higher machine to be converted. Run the VMware Converter on the physical host. It will take sometime to run and possibly may create multiple vmdk files. Transfer the converted virtual machine files to the destination host from the external drive. The Windows   7 physical machine is no longer needed. The... read more

Apr 23, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Nvidia Drivers on Fedora 20 Dell M1530

This post covers how to install the latest nvidia drivers on a Dell M1530 laptop running Fedora 20. Find out what chipset you are running. $ lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G84M [GeForce 8600M GT] (rev a1) Update to the latest kernel and SELinux and reboot $ sudo yum update kernel* selinux-policy* $ reboot Install RPMFusion $ su -c ‘yum localinstall... read more

Apr 22, 2014 Posted by newlife007

How to Install TLP on Fedora 20 for Battery Management

You can use the default battery management with Fedora or can use TLP which is better at managing battery life on laptops. TLP brings you the benefits of advanced power management for Linux without the need to understand every technical detail. TLP comes with a default configuration already optimized for battery life, so you may just install and forget it. You will need to have rpmfusion installed and... read more