Virtual machines are nothing mystical—yet a small stack of persistent myths keeps turning otherwise sensible choices into needless fear, wasted money, or fragile setups that break at the worst moment. The five misconceptions below are the ones most likely to trip up hobbyists, home-labbers, and...
Cisco has pushed an urgent patch for a maximum‑severity remote code execution flaw in its Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) software that allows an unauthenticated attacker to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands on affected appliances when RADIUS authentication is enabled for...
Windows 11 has become an easy target for criticism, with its new system requirements, aggressive update policies, and the relentless push toward Microsoft accounts drawing frequent flak from both power users and everyday consumers. Yet, tucked away in the shadows of those headline-grabbing...
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Windows Sandbox remains one of the most underrated features in the Microsoft ecosystem, quietly offering tremendous utility to power users, developers, security-conscious individuals, and IT professionals alike. Introduced by Microsoft in 2019, Windows Sandbox provides a lightweight, disposable...
Containerizing core programs with Docker on Windows might sound like an advanced DevOps trick best left for cloud professionals, but the tangible workflow improvements are immediate—fracturing assumptions about desktop app management and system stability. For years, personal computers have...
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For years, many tech enthusiasts and developers juggled the dual-boot setup — partitioning their drives to run both Linux and Windows on the same machine. At first glance, dual-booting seems like the perfect solution: full hardware access for each operating system, no virtualization overhead...
Hi,
88 year old Grandad is in isolation; I don't want to visit him as I have family members with symptoms.
His ancient PC (running Windows 10, just about) needs replacing. I have remote access to it (Teamviewer).
I have a new laptop for him. I want to transfer his basic settings to new PC...
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Dear All,
I taken latest windows 10 [1709] 64 bit VS 5.2 September 2018
(i5-8400 2.80 GHz 2.81 GHz) m/c and installed Oracle VirtualBox-5.2.22 Oracle Virtual m/c. when I create virtual Linux Ubunto 64 bit its created successfully but issue comes when I start this I am getting following...
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Ok, this might get complicated.
What I want is a user-level program that has the paths to virtual install locations, so I can test install applications without modifying the real program locations. I ideally want to do this in school, so I can play Roblox without actually installing it to the...
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Hi guys.
I have a Sony vaio that has recently been wiped unfortunately been hacked again for the second time damn neighbors.
Anyway I need to clean reinstall it all.
Apparently I need a product key.
I just had it repaired and the guy that repaired it upgraded it and didn’t give me the key...
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I want to lock one computer out of our home LAN - yet let it still access the wifi so's it can get the internet.
How can I do that?
The purpose is to avoid any contamination it might pick up being spread across the LAN.
I'm running regular backups on my Windows 7 computer. My destination for most backups is a USB 3.0 hard drive. I have several internal hard drives that I also use, but I'm using the USB drive so that I can totally isolate the backup files from anyone out there who wants to do harm to my system...
I'm in a rather blue mood right now, this may be depressive, or sound sour.
Why write this? Teaching? We do need to interfere. To involve when something gets messed up. Unless we do it, people just simply go up in smoke, us wondering, What happened?
Lost my neighbor at her 79 of age, she was a...
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When I use my mouse within some applications to perform a text-based Paste operation, the contents of the clipboard do not get copied into the desired location¹; before posting this I verified A) that the clipboard does have the data that's supposed to be there, and B) that the Paste operation...
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Revision Note: V1.0 (August 10, 2010): Advisory published.
Summary: Microsoft is aware of the potential for attacks that leverage the Windows Service Isolation feature to gain elevation of privilege. This advisory discusses potential attack scenarios and provides suggested actions that can help...