Category: Windows 11
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Troubleshooting A Bad Port
I have been in the business of troubleshooting and fixing computers since I was a teenager, and still from time to time I come across issues that make me shake my head. The computer: Microsoft Surface Laptop 4 (Core i7, 16GB RAM, 500GB SSD) The operating system: Microsoft Windows 11 23h2 (Enterprise) Connected Devices: AT…
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Virtual Machines on Windows Home: Oracle VirtualBox
**NOTE: Part of this article was copied straight from an article I published a few months ago called Kali on VirtualBox: Start to Done. The steps to install Oracle VirtualBox are no different, and it I did not feel the need to reinvent the wheel. –MDG — I teach a lot of different classes and…
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Kali on Windows: The Full Monty!
This is the third in my series of articles on installing Kali Linux on the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Before performing these steps, make sure you have performed all of the necessary steps from the previous two articles, found here: Kali on Windows Kali on Windows: Adding the Desktop Of course, in the first article…
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Kali on Windows
This will be the first in a series of three (3) articles that I am writing to take my readers step-by-step through the installation of Windows Subsystem for Linux, installing Kali Linux on that, and then converting that minimal installation into a complete Kali toolset, including the desktop, and the ability to connect to it…
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New Notepad?
When preparing to publish this article, it came as no surprise to me that Notepad, long a feature in Microsoft Windows, was not listed as a blog Category. After all, it’s like writing an article about the carpets in the back seat of your car… who cares, right? They are there, you try to clean…
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Shake Your Thang!
I remember sitting in a MCT Airlift for Windows 7 when we were introduced to Aero Shake. I was a huge fan of Shake, which allowed someone with a very busy desktop to take the title bar of the window they were using, shake it, and all of the other open windows (desktop clutter) would…
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Busting the Myth: Windows 11 Hardware Requirements
If you were to ask me to pinpoint the exact moment of IBM’s downfall and the great rise of Microsoft, it would be in the room in Armonk, New York where the IBM developers and the Microsoft developers were trying to create a new operating system for the new IBM-AT (based on the 16-bit 80286…
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When Will Windows 11 Drop?
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…
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Windows 11
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…