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I am having real problems keeping my ASUS netbook running. It doesn’t have enough specs to run a lightweight version of Linux. Increasing the size of the swapfile is supposed to improve the performance of low specced machines. I have worked out how to change the swapfile size in the hope that it may help. To check if you actually have a swapfile. swapon -s This will either return nothing or detail the swapfiles statistics. ...

I am using the bash shell in Windows WSL Linux. Currently I am using the Ubuntu 20.04, Debian and OpenSuse distributions. The problem I have is that the default colour scheme has an ugly green background colour with blue text This is a really disconcerting colour scheme! I looked around for an alternative colour scheme to use and found that I could run a command to change the colours manually but each time I opened the terminal I would have to run the command again. ...

I needed to recreate my doskeys.macro file on a new computer. The following commands show how to setup permanent doskey commands. Open Regedit. Go to the following regedit directory. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor Create a new key named Autorun. REG_SZ Value doskey /macrofile="d:\util\macros.doskey" My macros.doskey These are short key commands that I use every day. cr=createcmd cu=cleanup dl=dlist no="C:\Program Files\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" $1 mp=D:\Util\BuildMp3Tag.exe Added note I have found a better way to install this registry setting. ...

In one of the Windows 10 feature upgrades Microsoft decided to make Powershell the default command shell on the Windows start menu (Win-X keys). I use Powershell occasionally and wanted the option to use the Command prompt instead. To do this go to: Settings > Personalization > Taskbar There is an option to replace Windows Powershell with the command prompt.

I recently upgraded my working computer so had to reinstall all of my software. I ran into problems with my SQL Server installation. When I am installing any major piece of software I must remember to install it with Administrator privileges. In the installation process I give the SQL Server Instance ID a name. If you don’t do this your SQL Server instance will be named mssqlserver. You will use this for all database connection strings in your applications. ...

Yesterday morning I opened my computer and noticed that I had a Window 10 feature update waiting to be installed. I completed the process and started working on the Rest API that I am creating. I am using Node.js and running my server with Express.js. I booted up the server and immediately got a server error. I had worked on the application the day before and knew that it was running without any problems. ...