For little over 9 years I am a proud owner of Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 1520. Nice little 12.0” laptop with 1280×800 resolution weighting just over 1.7kg and it even has DVD burner. I got this way back when small laptops / netbooks were not that mainstream. Continue reading “Windows 10 upgrade from Windows 7 on Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Si 1520”
Fix broken / garbled ncurses output characters in Putty
If you are using Putty to connect to your Linux box and have encountered issue that your ncurses apps look ugly and with garbled text like:
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Migrate Outlook AutoComplete list to another computer
Look into following folder on your PC:
[YourDrive]:\users\[YourProfile]\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
Search for the file with extension .nk2
Close Microsoft Outlook then select yourfile.nk2 file and copy it to external drive or over network to another computer in the same Outlook folder.
Start Microsoft Outlook again and your address book will be available again on your new computer.
How to obtain Windows FullAccessMode
Create a folder on your desktop named:
FullAccessMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}
Install Windows XP to external USB drive on DELL laptop
If you get BSOD with message STOP: 0x0000007B you have to do one of the following:
1. Set your SATA controller in BIOS to "compatible" rather then AHCI 2. Integrate sata AHCI or RAID controller in your XP install CD
One thing that also must be done is to replace NTDETECT.COM with modified version of this file which can be downloaded from: