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Move C:\Users directory to D:\Users

Warning

This is not recommended anymore: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/949977/en-us

When I use Windows, I always have separate partition for the data (D:). I have never tried to actually move the whole Users folder to D: though. Instead I moved folders with data such as Documents to D: manually after installing Windows.

After purchasing a couple of SSD’s for my laptops, I decided to install Windows 8 on them, and decided to use more sophisticated (and elegant) method of moving Users folder to D:, which leverages the soft link functionality of Windows.

I have read some howto’s about this and at first they look complicated, but it turns out it is pretty simple (about 3 lines of commands) and robust. As usual, it was so much better than manual way.

There are just a couple of things which can mess things up if you are not careful, and I wanted to share the experience so others can do this without trial and error.

I assume you already have separate partition D:.

Dropping to the Command Line Prompt

Windows 8

Since no process should be using files in the C:\Users directory, you have to drop to the recovery mode command line prompt. There are two ways that I know of. You can do it by booting with installation DVD and also you can do it in installed Windows 8. I recommend the second method as it is much faster. It became very easy in Windows 8 since you can invoke this within running Windows.

Please see the following link for how-to: How to start the Recovery Environment Command Prompt in Windows 8

Windows 7

Please see the following website for how-to: How to Get to the Recovery Console in Windows

Figure out drive letters

This is the first (a little bit) tricky part. For some reason when you drop to this command prompt the drive letters are different. In my case, it was always X: which was the secovery partition, and C: became D: and D: became E:. So when you are working in D: in the prompt, actually you are at C:. This can be confusing but once you figure it out it is not that bad. Anyway, if your drive letter mapping is different from mine, you have to adjust the following commands accordingly. Basically, when you make copies you use the letters assigned in the command prompt, but when you make the link, you have to use the letters that windows uses.

Copy Users folder to D:\Users

Two things are important in this step: 1) you have to use the correct drive letters, and 2) you have to use the exact options for robocopy. If you mess up 1), you won’t be able to log in, and if you mess up 2), then you might be able to log in but will have other problems.

Do the following to copy C:\Users to D:\Users. Again, keep in mind the drive letters are remapped:

X:> D:
D:> robocopy /copyall /mir /xj Users E:\Users

/mir option will delete all files in the target if they do not exist in the source. Hence, if you already have D:\Users and want to keep the files, then use /E option:

D:> robocopy /copyall /E /xj Users E:\Users

Again, here D: is C: in actual, and E: is D: in actual. Among robocopy options, if you miss /copyall, then it will not copy the permission information, and after log-in your Windwos 8 apps will crash upon launching. Make sure you get 0 for failed column in the robocopy results output.

After verifying there were no error, do the following to remove the original C:\Users directory:

D:> rmdir /S /Q Users

Using BitLocker

You can also use BitLocker.

  1. Encrypt C: with BitLocker
  2. Encrypt D: with BitLocker, and make sure to enable Auto-Unlock

Then when boot, Windows will unlock D: so you can log in.

Admin

Environmental Variables

  • System environmental variable:

    setx -m PATH "%PATH%;.\"
setx -m PATH "%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\KDE\bin"

  • Local environmental variables:

    setx HOME "C:\Users\Joon"
setx PATH "%PATH%;%HOME%\bin"

PowerShell Remoting

To configure the computer (the server) to receive Windows PowerShell remote commands, run the following in an elevated PowerShell:

Enable-PSRemoting

SSH

SSH Server

SSH Client

Bitvise SSH Server Public key authentication

  1. Login to the server
  2. Open Bitvise SSH Server Control Panel
  3. Open Easy Settings
  4. 2. Windows accounts
  5. From the Public keys imported tab, you can import local public keys. (Import both bitvise-generated and ssh-keygen generated keys)

Tinkerer blog

$ cd ~/git
$ git clone git@github.com:joonro/blog.git
$ mklink /J en C:\Users\joon\Dropbox\tinkerer\en\blog\html
$ mklink /J ko C:\Users\joon\Dropbox\tinkerer\ko\blog\html

공인인증서

The location of 공인인증서 in Windows is:

%APPDATA%\..\LocalLow\NPKI

Installation

SysAdmin

  • Chocolatey:

    @powershell -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy unrestricted -Command "iex ((new-object net.webclient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET PATH=%PATH%;%systemdrive%\chocolatey\bin

choco install Tunnelier

choco install LinkShellExtension f.lux pscx wifi-manager

Browsers

choco install Firefox GoogleChrome  # browsers

Cloud

choco install dropbox googledrive

Devel

choco install Emacs geany nano KickAssVim SublimeText3  # Editors; KickAssVim will pull ctags and vim
choco install consolez git.install meld winmerge  # devel
choco install SourceCodePro  # fonts; this doesn't work it seems

Pinning Emacs to the taskbar

http://superuser.com/questions/259146/why-latest-emacs-version-dont-support-windows-7-taskbar

If you just pin Emacs icon on the taskbar, next time you click it to launch Emacs, it will have a terminal window as well as GUI window. In order to fix this,

  1. Run runemacs.exe with no pre-existing icon on the taskbar.
  2. Right click on the running Emacs icon in the taskbar, and click on “pin this program to taskbar” item.
  3. Close the Emacs
  4. Shift right-click on the pinned Emacs icon on the taskbar, click on Properties, and change the target from emacs.exe to runemacs.exe.

Office

choco install PDFXchangeEditor PDFCreator  # PDF
  • It is better to install Sumatra PDF from the installer so you can install the browser plugins and pdf preview.

Multimedia

choco install foobar2000 mpc-hc

Communications

choco install winscp deluge youtube-dl

Utils

choco install 7zip autohotkey_l dexpot teamviewer  # utils

Chocolatey

choco install IcoFx
choco install SourcePreviewHandler
choco install keepass  # pims
choco install paint.net gimp

choco install pandoc

Libraries

GTK

In both cases, get the all-in-one bundle.

Set PATH:

setx -m PATH "%PATH%;C:\lib\gtk\bin"

Utilities

unison

Aspell

  1. Download Aspell executable (Full installer) and at least one dictionary (aspell-en-0.50-2-3.exe) from http://aspell.net/win32/.
  2. Install Aspell-0-50-3-3-Setup and then Aspell-en-0.50-2-3.

awk

  • Download and install Gawk for Windows

  • Put C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin\ into your Path:

    setx -m PATH "%PATH%;"C:\Program Files (x86)\GnuWin32\bin"

cURL

  • If you have Chocolatey installed (which I highly recommend):

    $ choco install curl

  • Otherwise, follow instructions here.

  • Also, follow the instructions here to add Certficate Authority Public Keys for https.

Multimedia

Preview Handlers

PDF Preview

For PDF Preview in Explorer and Directory Opus, get PDF XChange Viewer and install Shell Extensions. It is by default checked when you install it. Portable version does not have this plugin.

See http://www.tracker-software.com/shell_ext.html for explanations.

PowerShell

  • If scripts are not enabled, run PowerShell as Administrator and call:

    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser -Confirm

  • Install PowerShell Community Extensions

Determine what version of PowerShell is installed

$psversiontable.psversion

Install Modules

Persistent History

$MaximumHistoryCount = 31KB
$PoshHistoryPath = "$home\_posh_history.xml"

# Load history if history file exists
if (Test-path $PoshHistoryPath)
    { Import-CliXml $PoshHistoryPath | Add-History }

# Save history on exit, remove duplicates
Register-EngineEvent PowerShell.Exiting {
    Get-History -Count $MaximumHistoryCount | Group CommandLine |
    Foreach {$_.Group[0]} | Export-CliXml "$home\_posh_history.xml"
    } -SupportEvent

# hg function to search history
function hg($arg) {
    Get-History -c $MaximumHistoryCount | out-string -stream |
    select-string $arg
    }

PSReadline

# PSReadline
Import-Module PSReadLine
Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key UpArrow -Function HistorySearchBackward
Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key DownArrow -Function HistorySearchForward
Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function MenuComplete

Text

Write a file in UTF-8 without the BOM

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5596982/using-powershell-to-write-a-file-in-utf-8-without-the-bom

Out-File -Encoding "UTF8" force the BOM when using UTF-8. Use the following:

[System.IO.File]::WriteAllLines($File, $Contents)

Control Processes

Get-Process shows current processes. You can kill a process with Stop-Process and process ID:

Get-Process ProcessName | Stop-Process

For example:

Get-Process ClipboardHelpAndSpell | Stop-Process

GNU/Linux commands equivalents

PowerShell Community Extensions (PSCX)

Path

  • Get-PathVariable
  • Set-PathVariable
  • Add-PathVariable

Remoting

http://superuser.com/questions/643120/windows-powershell-screen-equivalent/643606

New-PSSession -ComputerName localhost

Get-PSSession -ComputerName localhost | Disconnect-PSSession

PowerShell Remoting vs ssh

  • In PowerShell Remoting, basically everything happens in the local machine; you send cmdlets to remote machines and get the results back.
  • With ssh, one logs into a remote machine, and then use a utility such as screen to make persistent sessions.
  • With PowerShell Remoting, one generates PSSessions from the local machine, and then Enter those PSSessions via Enter-Pssession.

Enable Remoting

On the remote computer:

Enable-PSRemoting

Check the port on the remote machine

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5458565/powershell-remote-enabling

On the local computer:

cd WSMan:\localhost\Listener
WSMan:\localhost\Listener> dir
[cut]
WSMan:\localhost\Listener> cd .\Listener_1084132640
WSMan:\localhost\Listener\Listener_1084132640> dir
WSManConfig:
icrosoft.WSMan.Management\WSMan::localhost\Listener\Listener_1084132640
Name Value
---- -----
Address *
Transport HTTP
Port 5985

Configure TrustedHosts

On the local computer:

Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts *
Set-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts $office
Restart-Service winrm

You can check it by:

Get-Item WSMan:\localhost\Client\TrustedHosts

Connect to the remote machine

On the local computer:

$targetServer = "xxx.xx.xxx.xx"
$remotePowerShellPort = 5985

$ConnectionURI = ("http://{0}:{1}" -f $targetServer, $remotePowerShellPort)

Invoke-Command:

$remoteSession = New-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI

Invoke-Command -Session $remoteSession -ScriptBlock {Get-Process} -AsJob

Enter-PSSession:

Enter-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI

Exit-PSSession

Note

Enter-PSsession without session argument makes a temporary PSSession automatically, which is not persistent. You have to make a PSSession first via New-PSSession and then enter into that PSSession.

Note

In default WinRM configuration, you can skip -ConnectionURI and http:// and use the ip address as the computer name.

With credentials
$Cred = Get-Credential "remotecomputername\username"
Enter-PSSession XXX.XX.XX.XX -Credential $cred

Interactive Remote Session

Open a persistent interactive session:

$s = New-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI
Enter-PSSession -Session $s

Disconnect from the session:

Exit-PSSession
Disconnect-PSSession -Session $s -OutputBufferingMode Drop -IdleTimeoutSec 2147483647

Recover the session:

$session = Get-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI

You can re-enter the remoting session:

Enter-PSSession -Session $s

Note

It seems this session is limited in a sense that console outputs will not be shown correctly; for example, invoking vim will make console to hang. I haven’t figured out how to fix this. It seems it is a inherent problem of remoting.

Remote Disconnected Sessions

about Remote Disconnected Sessions

  1. Creates a session to the ConnectionURI computer:

    > New-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI

    > New-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI -Name “IPython Notebook Server”

  2. To get the session, use the ConnectionURI parameter of Get-PSSession with a value of $ConnectionURI:

    > Get-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI

  3. To disconnect a PSSession use the Disconnect-PSSession cmdlet:

    > Get-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI | Disconnect-PSSession

  4. To connect a disconnected PSSession, use the Connect-PSSession cmdlet:

    > Connect-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI -Name Session2

  5. Run a command remotely in a disconnected session:

    > Invoke-Command -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI -InDisconnectedSession -ScriptBlock {ipython notebook --profile=nbserver}

  6. Run a command remotely as a job in a disconnected session:

    > $s =  Invoke-Command -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI -InDisconnectedSession -ScriptBlock {Start-Job -ScriptBlock {ipython notebook --profile=nbserver}}

    • In this case, you need to do Receive-PSSession to be able to access the session:

      > Receive-PSSession $s

Start A Remote Job that Returns the Results to the Local Computer (Asjob)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh849719.aspx

Runs the command as a background job on a remote computer. Use this parameter to run commands that take an extensive time to complete.

When you use AsJob, the command returns an object that represents the job, and then displays the command prompt. You can continue to work in the session while the job completes. To manage the job, use the Job cmdlets. To get the job results, use the Receive-Job cmdlet.

For example:

$ Invoke-Command -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI -ScriptBlock {python C:\Users\joon\Dropbox\playground.py} -AsJob
$ Invoke-Command -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI -ScriptBlock {ipython notebook --profile=nbserver} -AsJob

Note

Problem with this is that since the results are returned to the local computer, once the local session is ended, the results are lost. I think the job gets lost as well.

Start A Remote Job that Keeps the Results on the Remote Computer

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh847805.aspx

I think this can be very useful.

  1. Generate a new PSSession, or connect to an existing one. Let $s denote the session variable.

  2. Invoke a command as a Start-Job in the session:

    Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock {Start-Job -ScriptBlock {python C:\Users\joon\Dropbox\playground.py}}

  3. You can Disconnect-Pssession -Session $s freely, without killing the job.

  4. To get list of jobs in the session $s:

    Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock {Get-Job}

  5. To get the output from the job:

    Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock {Receive-Job JobId -keep}

Example: one session, multiple remote jobs

# Open a new PSSession
> $s = New-PSSession -ConnectionURI $ConnectionURI -Name Persistent

# Invoke command on the remote server
> {Start-Job -Name NBServer -ScriptBlock {ipython notebook --profile=nbserver}} | % { Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock $_; };

# Disconnect $s with maximum IdleTimeoutSec
> Disconnect-PSSession -Session $s -OutputBufferingMode Drop -IdleTimeoutSec 2147483647

# Conncet to $s
> Connect-PSSession $s

# Run additional jobs
> {Start-Job -Name Playground -ScriptBlock {python C:\Users\joon\Dropbox\playground.py}} | % { Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock $_; };

# Get list of jobs in $s
> {Get-Job} | % { Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock $_; };

# Get the output from the job with name Playground
> {Receive-Job -Name Playground -Keep} | % { Invoke-Command -Session $s -ScriptBlock $_; };

Python Environment

Resources

All of the distributions come with MinGW.

If you need openmp support in Cython, then you should install TDM-GCC

Anaconda Installation

Download

Anaconda download page: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda

Path setup

$ export anaconda=C:\Anaconda
$ PYTHON=$anaconda

pylauncher

pylauncher for command line python script launching

Mayavi

Deprecated since version 1.7.0: Use conda install mayavi instead.

http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ maintains fantastic repository of binary Python libraries. To install Mayavi, you need to install the following two packages:

VTK-5.10.1.win-amd64-py2.7
ets-4.3.0.win-amd64-py2.7

For some reason, if you install VTK-Qt-5.10.1.win-amd64-py2.7, it yields DLL error.

And also, install configobj if you get import failure with configobj:

pip install configobj

ViTables

From http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/, download the following packages, PyQt and ViTables:

PyQt-Py2.7-x64-gpl-4.9.6-1.‌exe
ViTables-2.1.win-amd64-py2.7.‌exe

You can run ViTables with the following commands (use it as shortcut target):

C:\Anaconda\pythonw.exe "C:\Anaconda\Scripts\vitables"

Update Packages

Using conda

Accelerate

http://docs.continuum.io/accelerate/

$ conda update conda
$ conda install accelerate
Others

Note

Make sure you run conda with all python app closed. Otherwise, it might fail with permission error.

$ conda remove pip
$ conda update distribute cython matplotlib pandas scipy
$ conda install pip

Using pip

$ pip install bottleneck virtualenvwrapper-powershell

Manual

CythonGSL
$ git clone git@github.com:joonro/CythonGSL.git
$ cd CythonGSL
$ git remote add upstream git://github.com/twiecki/CythonGSL.git
$ python setup.py install
IPython
$ rm -rf $anaconda/Lib/site-packages/IPython $anaconda/Lib/site-packages/ipython*
$ python setup.py install
Statsmodels
$ rm -rf $anaconda/Lib/site-packages/statsmodels*
$ pip install patsy

$ git clone git@github.com:joonro/statsmodels.git
$ cd Statsmodels
$ python setup.py install
Cython
$ rm -rf $anaconda/Lib/site-packages/Cython* $anaconda/Lib/site-packages/cython.*
$ python setup.py install

Virtualenv

virtualenvwrapper-powershell is installed as a module in ~/Documents/WindowsPowerShell/Modules. To load the module, do import-module virtualenvwrapper.

Also, it will complain about not finding Python InstallPath from the registry. Copy InstallPath and PythonPath from HKLM\Software\Python\PythonCore\2.7 to HKCU\Software\Python\PythonCore\2.7.

Devel Environment

General

Git

  • Git for Windows

  • Install it with default settings (I tend to use option 3 so unix commands are available in other shell)

  • Git Bash command line:

    C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i"

  • Just use Chocolatey to install it:

    choco install git

  • When you try to update it with Chocolatey, you might get an error saying Setup cannot continue until you close at least those applications in the list that are marked as "closing is required". Stop ssh.exe and try it again:

    Get-Process ssh.exe | Stop-Process

PowerShell

posh-git

https://github.com/dahlbyk/posh-git

A set of PowerShell scripts which provide Git/PowerShell integration

Terminal

  • PowerShell
  • ConsoleZ
  • ConEmu

Libraries

GSL

Download

You can download binary GSL from oscats projects. Make sure you get the correct architecture. (Usually 64bit)

Environmental Variables

Add the path to bin directory of your GSL installation to your PATH Environmental variable:

setx -m PATH "$env:path;C:\lib64\gsl\bin"

Add an environmental variable LIB_GSL with the path to your GSL installation:

setx -m LIB_GSL "C:/lib64/gsl"

Note

You need to run above commands in administrator mode in CMD.

Compilers

MinGW with OpenMP support

MinGW doesn’t come with openmp by default so if it’s not included in the Anaconda version you’ll probably have to find the correct installer from the MinGW site and install it.

https://groups.google.com/a/continuum.io/forum/#!topic/anaconda/c-4u6C29hYM

Warning

The cython wiki Does not recommend using MinGW for the 64bit compiler.

Install TDM-GCC

TDM-GCC is a compiler suite for Windows.

It combines the most recent stable release of the GCC toolset with the free and open-source MinGW or MinGW-w64 runtime APIs to create a LIBRE alternative to Microsoft’s compiler and platform SDK

openmp support must be manually added during installation. Expand Components - gcc and check openmp:

TDM-GCC Installation

TDM-GCC Installation

LaTeX/LyX

Global location of .bib file.

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/49126/common-bib-file-for-several-collaborators

As in GNU/Linux, you can make texmf\bibtex\bib directory under the user’s profile directory (C:\Users\username).

mkdir ~/texmf
mkdir ~/texmf/bibtex
mkdir ~/texmf/bibtex/bib

The following is copied from the stackexchange entry:

  1. On Windows with TeX Live, make a texmf\bibtex\bib directory under the user’s profile directory (C:\Users\username by default on Windows Vista and higher).
  2. Place the .bib file in that folder.
  3. Place any custom bibliography styles in a texmf\bibtex\bst directory under the user’s profile directory.
  4. Pull up a command prompt, and run mktexlsr texmf from the profile directory (I don’t remember if TeX Live automatically has this in the path or not, so you may need to run it as C:\texlive\2011\bin\win32\mktexlsr texmf or similar instead).
  5. Write your documents wherever, and use the regular bibliography and related commands as usual. No need for paths, since your personal texmf tree will automatically be searched for support files.

Inverse search with LyX

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SyncTeX#toc3

  1. Set Tools > Preferences > Paths > LyxServer pipe to \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.

  2. In Document > Settings > Output, check Synchronize with output.

  3. Create a batch-file named lyxeditor.cmd and save it to one of the locations in your PATH Windows environmental variable:

    @echo off
SETLOCAL enabledelayedexpansion
set file=%1
set row=%2
REM remove quotes from variables
set file=!file:"=!
set row=!row:"=!
%comspec% /q /c (@echo LYXCMD:revdvi:server-goto-file-row:%file% %row%)> \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.in&&type \\.\pipe\lyxpipe.out
endlocal

AutoHotkey Script

The above cmd works well, but it shows annoying black cmd window everytime when you invoke the script. With a simple AutoHotkey script, one can not only suppress this window, but also activate LyX windows after the inverse search.

Create a AutoHotkey script named lyx-inverse-search.ahk with the following code and save it to the same location to lyxeditor.cmd and compile it with AutoHotkey to generate lyx-inverse-search.exe:

SetTitleMatchMode, RegEx
Run, lyxeditor.cmd "%1%" "%2%",, Hide
WinActivate, ^LyX:,,,

If you don’t have AutoHotkey installed, you can download the compiled exe.

SumatraPDF

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/LyXWinTips#toc6

  1. Download and install Sumatra PDF.

  2. In LyX go to Tools > Preferences > Paths and add the install location to PATH prefix. Most likely this is C:\Program Files\SumatraPDF.

    Note

    If you use Chocolatey to install Sumatr PDF, the PATH is C:\Chocolatey\bin

  3. In Tools > Preferences > File Handling > File Formats select PDF (pdflatex) from the list of formats and modify Viewer to the following:

    SumatraPDF -reuse-instance -inverse-search "lyx-inverse-search.exe \"%f\" \"%l\""

  4. If you don’t have the compiled AutoHotkey script from above, use the following:

    SumatraPDF -reuse-instance -inverse-search "lyxeditor.cmd \"%f\" \"%l\""

Okular

  1. In LyX go to Tools > Preferences > Paths and add the location of okular.exe to PATH prefix. Most likely this is C:\Program Files (x86)\KDE\bin

  2. In Tools > Preferences > File Handling > File Formats select PDF (pdflatex) from the list of formats and modify Viewer to:

    okular --unique

  3. In Okular, Settings > Configure Okular > Editor, choose Custom Text Editor and input the following:

    lyx-inverse-search.exe "%f" "%l"

    If you don’t have the compiled AutoHotkey script from above, use the following:

    lyxeditor.cmd "%f" "%l"

Note

If lyxeditor.cmd or lyx-inverse-search.exe is not in your system PATH, then you have to specify the full path here.

Forward search with LyX

SumatraPDF

Forward search setting is easier. Make sure you have the PATH to Sumatra PDF in Tools > Preferences > Paths. Then in Tools > Preferences > Output > General, choose SumatraPDF -reuse-instance $$o -forward-search $$t $$n, which should be built-in.

Note

If you have master and child document structure, the forward search only works when you compile the full document. If you only compile current child document forward search will not work.

Okular

okular --unique "file:$$o#src:$$n $$f"

Mendeley Settings

Tools -> Options -> BibTex, check Enable BibTeX syncing. Create one BibTeX file per collection. Path, put C:\Users\joon\texmf\bibtex\bib.

Backup

LyX settings

In `C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\LyX2.X folder:

preferences  # general preferences
pwl_english.dict  # personal word list
bind\user.bind  # key binding

Outlook

*.ost files in In `C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook folder.

Windows 8 Apps

Manga Z

C:\Users\joon\AppData\Local\Packages\36032Twincubesstudio.MangaZ_3znhphxp8kcdy

Troubleshooting

General

I suggest that you run SFC scan on the computer to see if fixes the issue. SFC (System File Checker) checks for any corrupt system files and tries to repair them. To do so, follow these steps.

  1. At the Start screen, type cmd.
  2. You will find Command Prompt, right click on it and select Run as administrator from the bottom of the screen. At the command prompt, type the following command, and then press enter: sfc /scannow

The sfc /scannow command scans all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct Microsoft versions.

  • Error log is located at:

    C:\$Windows.~BT\Sources\Panther\setuperr.log

Skydrive

Disable Skydrive in Windows 8.1

http://www.ghacks.net/2013/11/02/disable-skydrive-windows-8-1/:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Skydrive

You may need to create the Skydrive folder here. If you do, right-click on Windows and select New > Key and name it Skydrive.

Right-click on SkyDrive and select New > Dword (32-bit value) and name it DisableFileSync.

Double-click the new parameter and change its value to 1.

Network

  • Resolving proxy

  • How to Delete or Forget Wireless Network Profiles in Windows 8.1:

    netsh wlan show profiles
netsh wlan delete profile name="profile name"

0xd0000225 switch to live account

This user Wasn’t Added to this PC code

Add pku2u and livessp to the Security Packages REG_MULTI_SZ key under regkey HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa, and reboot.

Windows 8 sleeps after few minutes when awaken by external USB keyboard

Forum

  1. Get registry from Here and add “System unattended sleep timeout” to Advanced Power Settings
  2. Following Here, increase system unattended sleep timeout.

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