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easyazon discount code only $17

Dec

15

2016

I got lucky, and thanks to warrior forum, I found a link from cyber monday to get the plugin for $17! You can use this link: https://boostwp.samcart.com/products/easyazon-pro-multi-rights-cyber-monday-special

Windows 10 1607 anniversary update broke my RC6 remote KODI/XBMC

Dec

15

2016

My RC6 remote up and broke on my when I updated Windows 10 to update 1607 ‘anniversary’ edition in Windows 10 on my Intel NUC. Long story short, I found out what it was, huzzah! This was the remote I used: coupled with this older So I had some free time to dig around on ...

capital one 360 free $25 with new checking or savings account

Aug

16

2016

I had signed up for capital one 360, and noticed with a referral you get $25, and I get $20 if you use this link to open a new checking or savings account with capital one! Seems like a win win. I signed up with them because they have a no monthly fee checking account, ...

AT LOTTO 8 – July 2016 47

Jul

6

2016

NOTE: This is not endorsed by Anandtech, they have no legal obligations in this if I decide to screw you all over or something. BUY IN = $10 In the past some have put in more money, but let it be known, if we win, we will still all get an equal share. But we ...

great explanation of vlans and layer 2 vs layer 3 switching

Jun

14

2016

Virtual LANs (VLANs) are an abstraction to permit a single physical network to emulate the functionality of multiple parallel physical networks. This is handy because there may be situations where you need the functionality of multiple parallel physical networks but you’d rather not spend the money on buying parallel hardware. I’ll be speaking about Ethernet ...

Windows 10 or 8 System Interrupts causing high CPU usage

May

6

2016

I had a few laptops where the system interrupt process was consuming 10-15% CPU. The one thing that seemed to have worked was disabling ‘turn on fast startup’ in the power settings. Hit your start button and type power options and click on the power options. Left side, ‘chose what the power buttons do’ click ...

Running batch and powershell scripts as administrator

Apr

28

2016

WINDOWS – RUN BATCH AND PS AS ADMINISTRATORS. This works for Windows 7 and newer. I tested on Windows 7 and 10 64bit and 32bit. This is a faster vbs version of the below script: net sess>NUL 2>&1||(echo.CreateObject^(“Shell.Application”^).ShellExecute”%~0″,,,”RunAs”,1 >”%TEMP%\%~nx0.vbs”&WScript “%TEMP%\%~nx0.vbs”&del “%TEMP%\%~nx0.vbs”&exit) #RUNNING CMD/BAT files as administrator, place this at the top of script after @echo ...

creating batch file to kick off powershell script in different versions of windows with different commands

Apr

26

2016

I needed the ability to have a powershell script execute specific ways for specific versions of windows, so after some googling, I hodge podged this. Essentially you will run this script first, as a cmd, or batch file: @echo off setlocal for /f "tokens=4-5 delims=. " %%i in ('ver') do set VERSION=%%i.%%j REM Windows 10 ...

Disabling UAC in Windows 10 but keeping built in apps working like metro apps and edge

Apr

22

2016

If you need to disable UAC, but want to keep the ability to use built in metro apps, like Edge, you can run this: cmd /c REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System” /v ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f cmd /c REG ADD “HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System” /v PromptOnSecureDesktop /t REG_DWORD /d 00000000 /f If you want some specifics on what ...

Create batch file to run with elevated permissions to activate windows 10

Apr

20

2016

I had a task of automating Windows 10 upgrades from Windows 7, and one key thing I needed to do was allow for UAC to exist, AND be able to run batch scripts, or powershell scripts as Administrator. Also known as elevated permissions. I created a bat file with these contents: set mydir=%~dp0 Powershell -Command ...