- Qliner Quotes. I recently had to reinstall my Garmin Express software. It turns out that Garmin needed to download some Net Framework software from Microsoft (which it did automatically). I had a hunch that these downloads might have addressed the prerequisites for Qliner Quotes and was able to complete the install without incident. The fact that the recent refresh of the PC Windows on my PC wasn't backward compatible with at least 2 application installs but required downloads of Net Framework versions to install still bothers me.
- You May Need To Convert Your Flash Drive to NFTS. Over the weekend I decided to create a couple of Safehouse (encrypted) volumes over 4 GB. When I tried to backup copy them to one of my flash drives, I got a misleading error message to the effect there wasn't enough room on the flash drive (there was). I quickly determined the real problem is the default file format on the USB drive is FAT32 with its 4-GB filesize limit. (The rationale for FAT32 is its wider applicability not relevant for my purposes) Now, granted, I could have simply reconfigured my Safehouse volumes to 4 GB sizes, but I chose (after archiving my flash drive files in the interim) to convert the file system to NTFS (at an administrative command prompt): convert drive letter: /FS=NTFS
- I Said Goodbye to Q-DIR. I have used the 4-pane file explorer for years. Years back I had licensed the dual pane PowerDesk but tired of the mounting upgrade license fees and settled on Q-Dir as a replacement. My security software over the past week warned of strange behavior from the application and quarantined/deleted it. I went to virustotal with the download URL and found 1 hit (of 30-odd) reporting malware. In the meanwhile, I have shifted to a dual-pane alternative I had already installed on 1 or 2 other PC's, FreeCommanderXE. [This is not the only time my security software has clobbered utilities: I've installed Lopesoft's FileMenu Tools and filerfrog, only to find them missing when I went to use them.] One example of using these utilities: to avoid file archiving issues (duplicate file names), I've often had to rename files. filerfrog had a convenient tool to do this. Actually, since Windows 10 now optionally supports a variation of Ubuntu (Linux) as I mentioned in a prior post, I can easily rename files by piping a list of files into a DO WHILE loop.
- Updating Ubuntu on Windows 10. When you go into a bash session, you may see a message like:
This will prompt you to enter the password for the administrative account you created when setting up Ubuntu on Windows. And what if you forgot your password? You can reset it by temporarily changing the default user to root at a Windows command prompt:
- lxrun /setdefaultuser root
- bash
- passwd [administrative account]
- exit
- lxrun /setdefaultuser [administrative account]
