Tag: update

  • [How To] group icons of “This PC” as drives and removable storage in Windows 8.1 Update 1

    [How To] group icons of “This PC” as drives and removable storage in Windows 8.1 Update 1

    Microsoft introduced the new update which brings back the start button, removed drag and drop windows to close app and added minimize and close button for such operation, shut down and restart button is finally at the right place and windows now boots directly to desktop by default — and there are many other bug fixes and features that has now the potential to makes the modern UI a success for Desktop environment.

    Everything was perfect, but Microsoft managed to piss off their users once again by introducing a new File Manager — which is called “This PC” by default, instead of “My Computer” or “Computer” – if that wasn’t enough, they decided not to offer users to sort their hard disk drives and removable devices separately like they used to do it in previous Operating System.

    Windows users are so much attached to the traditional way to interact with their PCs, but when Microsoft tries to move their couch, it tends to piss off some of them because not everyone likes someone else making changes to the way they interact with things in their life. But, fret not! You can have your old Explorer back by following some simple steps.

    A developer designed a set of tweaks that can bring back the old File Manager back in the game, which has tweakable settings. Tihiy at msfn designed a software that uses Windows 8 and Windows 7 Shell Extension, that can undo “improvements” to file browsing made in newer Windows version.

    Have a look at the before and after effect:

    Before

    Before

    After

    After

     

    Instructions:

    • Download OldNewExplorer.
    • Extract the files, and double click on OldNewExplorerCfg.exe.
    • A new window will pop up with the following options. You can select the options as shown in the image below (recommended), or if you wish you can add some other features according to your preference.

    Options - OldNewExplorer

    • Click on Install and close the window.
    • Restart the Explorer.exe or reboot computer to apply changes.
    • Done.
  • how to install software on Ubuntu using command line | for dummies

    Ubuntu is a Linux distribution and as they say, Linux is for geeks. Although Ubuntu makes it too easy on you by offering you really nice and cool ways to search and install software, there always is a more sophisticated way to search and install software, there always is a more sophisticated way to do it. To install software from the terminal, you should know the right commands to be used. Before installing the software however, you must get the updated list of software from the Ubuntu servers, at least once. Performing any software install using built in commands for package

    management would require internet connection (except when you are removing them).

    The most used command for installing software from the command line is ‘apt-get’.

    To get the updated list of packages from the Ubuntu servers, run :

    sudo apt-get update

    This will make Ubuntu contact the servers and fetch the list of software packages and consider them the next time when installing software. So if it happens that someone says that a particular software or some specific version of it is available in the Ubuntu repos but your system does not agree, run an update. Remember however that an update is different from an upgrade. While an update gets only the list of software from the servers, an upgrade will actually get those packages and install them on the machine.If you wonder what the ‘sudo’ command does, it makes you the root user when you enter the command. If you do not use ‘Sudo’ in the begin

    ning of the command, the command will fail because it requires admin privileges on machine to install software.

    Installation of programs on Ubuntu is also a simple job. You just have to change the action for the apt-get and add in the package name of the software which you want to install.

    To install gimp, for example, type this into the terminal:

    sudo apt-get install gimp

    The above command will automatically find out whether gimp is already installed or not. If it is installed, you will be notified. If it is not installed, apt-get will find out how much data it needs to download in form of software and dependency packages, how much space will it consume on disk after installation and then prompt you if you want to continue. If you think that it is fine to go with, just confirm and it will automatically download, install and update the menus to reflect the changes.

    Now if you wonder what if the internet connection break down while downloading packages, let us tell you that you will have to type in the same command again to make Ubuntu complete the installation. Be not worried however because the download will resume exactly from the point where it broke down from.

    Another question that would come up when installing software from command line is : How do i search for a particular software package? There is no search bar! Well, as a surprise to many, apt-get does not help you search for packages in Ubuntu repositories, but aptitude does. So install aptitude first.

    sudo apt-get install aptitude

    After aptitude gets installed, you can search for packages by using the command in format :

    aptitude search <package_name>

    For example, if you wanted to install chromium but ‘apt-get install chromium’ is saying that the package name is incorrect, you should first search for the exact package name. Once you get to know the name, install the package using apt-get.

    sudo apt-get install chromium-browser

    Even if every graphical program is failing, you can make use of the terminal and install something new on the machine.

    How to update your Ubuntu using terminal aka command line :

    If you want to update your Ubuntu in terminal you need to remember a simple command line.

    first you need to update the list of new updates available officially by Ubuntu. to do this type :

    sudo apt-get update

    it will refresh your Ubuntu update list with newly available updates. Then you need to finally run a command to update the system.

    sudo apt-get upgrade

    you will be asked a confirmation whether you want to update the system along with the information about how much data will be downloaded and what space it will consume on your HDD.

    press ‘y’ if you want to update or type ‘n’ (without quote) if you don’t want to update Ubuntu at that time.

    Note: when you enter password in terminal, it doesn’t show up like it does in GUI mode (the ” *** “) however the terminal is accepting your inputs it doesn’t show up any significant characters.

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