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How to list installed updates in Windows

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , April 1st, 2014 @ 12:27 pm

Time to time you might need to list or export installed updates and hotfixes. Unfortunatelly even if you are able to lkst them in instaleld programs, you are not able to copy that list. But there are solutions.

In Windows 2003/XP  you have to use 3rd party software like Windows Update List by NirSoft.

In Windows 2008 and newer (works also for Windows 7 and probably Vista) it is much more easier, you can do it with:

wmic qfe get /format:list >C:\installed_updates.txt

Format can be:

  • LIST  – tab delimited
  • CSV – csv file
  • HFORM/HTABLE – html
  • RAWXML – xml

How to fix “Cannot Connect to App Store” after upgrade to iOS7

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , , , September 22nd, 2013 @ 2:17 pm

After upgrading my iPad 3 and iPhone 5 to iOS7 I noticed that I cannot install any app from App store. I was able to update existing apps, but when I trid to search for some not installed I got a message “Cannot Connect to App Store“.

At first I thought it is because App store is overloaded, but after few days it was still the same. I have tried everything, sign out from App store, restart iPad/iPhone, but with no success. I was able to search App store from iTunes on my PC, so App store itself was working.

As a Window user, where reboot is king:-) I tried hard reboot and it worked!

So how to fix that “Cannot Connect to App Store” error? When iPad/iPhone is running press and hold both, Home and Power button untill it turned itself off. Device is then hard rebooted and App store is working. My iPhone rebooted automatically, iPad I had to turn with power button.

New Dropbox Giveaway

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , June 21st, 2013 @ 7:37 pm

To celebrate of release new Dropbox Wiki, Dropbox is giving away 50G of lifetime space. To win it, you need to do several steps (donation, tweet, web post etc). More details can be found on their promotions page.

How to update Windows defender automatically

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , , , April 16th, 2013 @ 8:49 pm

Windows 8 brings not only Metro interface and strange Start menu but also Windows Defender instead of Microsoft Security Essentials. Windows Defender is missing some features MSSE has. One of those changes is that updates for virus and spyware definitions are installed by Windows Update.

In case your setting are “notify but not install automatically” you are asked nearly every day for manual update. My guess is that Microsoft want to force people to use automatic updates.
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R.I.P. Echofon

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , October 16th, 2012 @ 10:47 am

I am using Echofon, Twitter client, for a long time, mainly because of its ability to synchronize timeline between several devices. I am using it on laptop and desktop as a Firefox plugin and on iPad as app.

I have tried several different clients, but realized that this synchronization is a killer feature for me.

But now it seems to be a history as Naan Studios announced that they are going to abandon all version except of mobile one.

So from unique multiplatform Twitter client with synchronization between several devices we have here a client like hundreds of other.

R.I.P. Echofon.

Bibble 5 is discontinued, from now it is Corel AfterShot Pro

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , January 7th, 2012 @ 10:02 pm

Yesterday appered information on Bibblelabs forums that Bibble labs were purchased by Corel last year and that Bibble 5.2.3 is last version of Bibble. Further information are to be presented on CES 2012 next week.

On same forums today user andysalay posted information that he found product page for ancestor of Bibble – Corel AfterShot Pro.

As you can see on screenshot it is in fact rebranded Bibble 5. According to information from andysalay current version of Corel After Shot Pro is in beta stage.

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CrashPlan 3.0.3 cannot start as regular user – Linux

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , November 8th, 2011 @ 8:23 pm

If you install CrashPlan with root permissions, you might have trouble to start  /usr/local/bin/CrashPlanDesktop as regular user with non root permissions.

It is because log files are owned by root. This can be fixed by simple chmod 666 /usr/local/crashplan/log/*.log.

How to fix “Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running”

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , September 28th, 2011 @ 8:57 pm

Sometimes you can get in situation that Windows Update is not working and you are receiving error

“Windows Update cannot currently check for updates, because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer”.

It can be caused by corrupted data for Windows update. If this is your case fix could be easy.

  • go to services and stop Windows update service
  • locate C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\ folder and delete all its content
  • start Windows update service
  • check for updates

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Tuning Firefox: cache

By Michal Filed in Computers Tagged with , , , , September 21st, 2011 @ 9:56 pm

If you have plenty of RAM and do no want Firefox to save temporary files to disk (for example because you have SSD and want to limit number of disk writes) you can move Firefox cache to RAM.

There is no way how to do it in gui, so you need to use favorite about:config.  Search for parameter browser.cache.disk.enable and set that to false. Now disk cache is disabled. Then search for browser.cache.memory.enable and set that as true – it will enable cache in RAM (it is set to true already sometimes).

If you want to set how much RAM you will dedicate to cache, search for browser.cache.memory.capacity and as value set desired cache size in kilobytes.

Moving cache to RAM is good idea only if you have quick internet connection as cache is wiped out on every restart and all pictures, scripts etc. are downloaded again after restart.

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