Friday, October 25, 2013

How to make a bootable usb drive

1. Right-click the Windows Command Prompt in your Start Menu. Choose to run it as an Administrator.
2. C:\>diskpart
to launch Microsoft’s disk management utility. The command line should now read DISKPART>.
3. DISKPART>list disk
Show a list of all disk drives.
Note the USB key’s disk number. You can pick it out by checking the disk capacity.
4. DISKPART>select disk #
# = USB key’s disk number.
5. DISKPART>clean
utility to clean the disk.
6. DISKPART>create partition primary -
Creates a new bootable partition
7. DISKPART>select partition 1
Choose partition 1
8. DISKPART>active
Mark partition as active.
9. DISKPART>format fs=fat32
Format the partition. DiskPart will display a progress percentage.
10. DISKPART>assign
Give this USB key a drive letter.
11. DISKPART>exit
Close the DiskPart program

Wednesday, October 9, 2013

Don't want the windows 7 alt-tab style?

Revert to XP style alt-tab using PowerShell 1 liner

C:> Set-ItemProperty HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer AltTabSettings ([int]1)