I’ve got an old HP Revolve 810 G3 that I use for all those weird firmware updaters and other tools that require an actual Windows with actual USB ports. Nothing else. This model was introduced during the Windows 7 to Windows 10 shift, so it is OEM-licensed for both. And I had it running on… Read More »
I’ve recently acquired an old HP EliteBook Revolve 810 G3 and wanted to reset that to the factory state. Luckily, this already supports HP’s Cloud Recovery feature where you can download the recovery image from the Internet and write it to a USB drive. There’s even a choice between Windows 7 and Windows 10. However,… Read More »
My dad has an old Panasonic MiniDV camcorder and wanted to import old tapes into his cutting tool on Windows 10. After hooking up the camcorder via Firewire, the import dialog showed the time code of the running tape, but instead of the video, the preview was black and there was no audio. To make… Read More »
Recently, I switched from a German QWERTZ to a UK Extended QWERTY keyboard layout – for easier access to characters for programming. The UK Extended keyboard is great in that it still provides means to type umlaut characters which I still need when writing German mails. For normal umlauts, you can type AltGr + 2… Read More »
There are two locations where you can define the button’s location: dconf and gconf. The dconf-method works for most of Gnome Shell and Unity. However, e.g. Chrome is using the “old” gconf-setting. dconf Install and run dconf-editor. Go to org → gnome → desktop → wm → preferences and find the setting button-layout. The default… Read More »
In Outlook 2016, you can’t setup an account from an Exchange 2007 server without having autodiscover setup correctly. The Manual Setup only offers “Exchange ActiveSync” which doesn’t work with the 2007 Exchange. (The working method is named “Microsoft Exchange”.) Usually, for an email address account@example.org, Outlook 2016 will look for https://autodiscover.example.org/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml. If that DNS entry… Read More »
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tango_Desktop_Project#Palette Import this registry file:
On a Windows 7 64bit, I was not able to capture any DV video from a video camera connected via Firewire IEEE1394. I was able to control the camera from the capture program (tried NeroVision and magix Video Deluxe) but only got a black screen and no audio. After a little search, I found this… Read More »
If you installed Windows XP after Windows 7, you’re left with the XP-MBR on your drive and thus only XP is booting. If you happen to have hardware, which produces the Code 5 error upon trying to boot from the Win7-DVD, you can do the following to restore the Win7-MBR from within XP: