A seasoned programmer

One of the shortcomings I find with Hyper-V is that it isn’t easy to copy files from Windows into my Hyper-V virtual environment. I have found a quick and easy method to share a virtual WIndows folder with Hyper-V and will describe how to set this up. Starting a file share You need to open Control Panel and “Turn Windows Features On And Off”. From here select SMB 1.0/CIFS File Sharing Support and SMB Direct. ...

I have installed Hyper-V on my PC. I am going to use this to test various Linux distributions. I have noticed that every time I load a new distribution as a virtual machine it doesn’t display full screen. I have to change the resolution to be able to see my Linux system in full screen mode. One way to change your resolution is via the following: Open a terminal window. ...

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.