Ok so I have one Western Digital 1.5TB Caviar Green WD15EADS (possibly this is also needed for newer 2.0TB Caviar Green drives as well) hard drive wtih 32MB cache sitting here that has been giving me problems ever since I tried using it in an external SATA to USB / eSATA bay.
All you have to do to get Windows to recognize the drive is the following:
Assuming everything is disconnected and the drive is not plugged in,
1) Plug in the 12V power to the Thermaltake BlacX (Rosewill rebadged the same dock so this applies to the Rosewill product as well)
2) Plug the WD15EADS 1.5TB hard drive in the external dock / bay
3) Power on the external dock and wait for the drive to completely spin up
4) Plug in the USB 2.0 cable or the eSATA cable from the PC to the external dock
Windows will now recognize the drive and you will see it displayed as adding a new device in your start menu bar.
Open Windows Explorer to view your files or open Disk Management to format the drive if it needs to be formatted.
The reason why you have to go through all of this is because the way the firmware is designed on the newer WD15EADS, the drive has a timing issue with some external enclosures.
Sandboxie, running each web browser in its own virtual space
I have been running Sandboxie a while with Google Chrome and MSIE. It works fine on my laptops so it must have been some updates that needed to be installed which had nothing to do with the Sandboxie user experience.
I haven't had any issues with Sandboxie but some programs will launch the default web browser without the Sandboxie controls of course since the default web browser is not Sandboxie but it is what is configured within Windows which in my HP laptop's case is MSIE 11. I sometimes forget to close the browser and re-open the one controlled by Sandboxie so that could easily allow virii into the o/s or to Kaspersky.
I don't currently have anti-virus installed on my desktop computer or this laptop and I have not been getting any virii or malware. This laptop, the Dell Vostro, has Sandboxie installed. It is just a core2duo but everything works great.
I am starting to wonder if there is a way to implement this in a corporate environment. Since Sandboxie requires licensing, it could possibly be something that would require additional configuration after being implemented within a system roll-out. I would be looking into this if I was supporting a large number of systems now, rather than trying to have people use Windows XP mode.
Virtualizing my web browsers was pretty much the only reason why I was going to use Windows XP mode, but it is a bit tedious to have to boot up a full installation of Windows XP within Windows 7 and then do all the web browsing in there. It doesn't seem like there really was anything else I was thinking to do with Windows XP mode.
For sure, if Sandboxie catches on very well or if something similar is implemented into Windows in the future, I am sure that malicious virus coders will indeed write programs that bypass it. At least, for now, it is a very solid solution.
I would have to say that those whom get virii and use sandboxie either do one of the following:
1) Run a program that they had downloaded outside of the Sandboxie environment
or
2) Mistakenly think they are within Sandboxie but are just using the default browser setting
Luckily with either of the above I have not got a virus within the past couple of months. I will just have to make sure to install Kaspersky on my Dell and desktop PC and make sure Sandboxie is installed and configured properly on all of them. At least that does not take very much time to do.
I haven't had any issues with Sandboxie but some programs will launch the default web browser without the Sandboxie controls of course since the default web browser is not Sandboxie but it is what is configured within Windows which in my HP laptop's case is MSIE 11. I sometimes forget to close the browser and re-open the one controlled by Sandboxie so that could easily allow virii into the o/s or to Kaspersky.
I don't currently have anti-virus installed on my desktop computer or this laptop and I have not been getting any virii or malware. This laptop, the Dell Vostro, has Sandboxie installed. It is just a core2duo but everything works great.
I am starting to wonder if there is a way to implement this in a corporate environment. Since Sandboxie requires licensing, it could possibly be something that would require additional configuration after being implemented within a system roll-out. I would be looking into this if I was supporting a large number of systems now, rather than trying to have people use Windows XP mode.
Virtualizing my web browsers was pretty much the only reason why I was going to use Windows XP mode, but it is a bit tedious to have to boot up a full installation of Windows XP within Windows 7 and then do all the web browsing in there. It doesn't seem like there really was anything else I was thinking to do with Windows XP mode.
For sure, if Sandboxie catches on very well or if something similar is implemented into Windows in the future, I am sure that malicious virus coders will indeed write programs that bypass it. At least, for now, it is a very solid solution.
I would have to say that those whom get virii and use sandboxie either do one of the following:
1) Run a program that they had downloaded outside of the Sandboxie environment
or
2) Mistakenly think they are within Sandboxie but are just using the default browser setting
Luckily with either of the above I have not got a virus within the past couple of months. I will just have to make sure to install Kaspersky on my Dell and desktop PC and make sure Sandboxie is installed and configured properly on all of them. At least that does not take very much time to do.
A current way to defeat virii and malware
Currently Kaspersky Antivirus and Combofix work well. Of course, Kaspersky is a paid software and Combofix is free.
Also there is a program called Sandboxie that allows you to run your web browsers in their own compartments of memory and hard disk space, keeping potential risks away from the main operating system. This solution, while not perfect, works pretty good and allows you to download files and get prompted as to whether or not to allow them to go to the main operating system's download folders. It also allows you to watch streamed video from sites such as youtube.
The other solution would be to set up a virtual machine. This is a bit more cumbersome and most users will forget to click over to a VM when they want to browse the internet. Sandboxie is more convenient in that aspect.
I have found web browsing overall to be a little bit impeded by the installation of Sandboxie so far but it is not real bad. It can be annoying at times. It might be that the drivers on this laptop are too old though so there is more work to be done. Currently I run it on two laptops and have not set up on a desktop yet.
Also there is a program called Sandboxie that allows you to run your web browsers in their own compartments of memory and hard disk space, keeping potential risks away from the main operating system. This solution, while not perfect, works pretty good and allows you to download files and get prompted as to whether or not to allow them to go to the main operating system's download folders. It also allows you to watch streamed video from sites such as youtube.
The other solution would be to set up a virtual machine. This is a bit more cumbersome and most users will forget to click over to a VM when they want to browse the internet. Sandboxie is more convenient in that aspect.
I have found web browsing overall to be a little bit impeded by the installation of Sandboxie so far but it is not real bad. It can be annoying at times. It might be that the drivers on this laptop are too old though so there is more work to be done. Currently I run it on two laptops and have not set up on a desktop yet.
How to create global macros in Excel 2010
I found this site's instructions useful for saving macros. Basically whenever Excel 2010 starts, it loads everything in the folder C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART
So you want to store the macros in there somehow. To do that, do the following:
1) Open Excel 2010
2) Click the View tab to open the View ribbon
3) Click Macros
4) Click Record Macro
5) Type in the name of the macro under Macro name
6) Type in a brief description of the macro under Description
7) Click OK
8) Click Macros
9) Click Stop recording
10) Press ALT+F11 to open the Excel VBA development window
11) In the VBA development window, click the + next to Modules
12) Module1 should be displayed. If not, start over
13) Double click Module1
14) Type in your VBA macro code
15) Click on the floppy diskette icon to save the VBA macro workbook
Now whenever you open Excel, the macros inside PERSONAL.XLSB file which is hidden within the Users folder mentioned at the beginning of this blog entry will automatically load.
http://blog.johnmuellerbooks.com/2011/09/02/creating-global-macros-in-excel-2007-and-2010.aspx
So you want to store the macros in there somehow. To do that, do the following:
1) Open Excel 2010
2) Click the View tab to open the View ribbon
3) Click Macros
4) Click Record Macro
5) Type in the name of the macro under Macro name
6) Type in a brief description of the macro under Description
7) Click OK
8) Click Macros
9) Click Stop recording
10) Press ALT+F11 to open the Excel VBA development window
11) In the VBA development window, click the + next to Modules
12) Module1 should be displayed. If not, start over
13) Double click Module1
14) Type in your VBA macro code
15) Click on the floppy diskette icon to save the VBA macro workbook
Now whenever you open Excel, the macros inside PERSONAL.XLSB file which is hidden within the Users folder mentioned at the beginning of this blog entry will automatically load.
http://blog.johnmuellerbooks.com/2011/09/02/creating-global-macros-in-excel-2007-and-2010.aspx
How to save Excel 2010 document as pdf macro
This post states how to create the macro to save excel spreadsheets as pdf. The problem with it is that it saves it only to the desktop folder.
http://www.computing.net/answers/office/macro-code-save-as-pdf/16283.html
http://www.computing.net/answers/office/macro-code-save-as-pdf/16283.html
How to save Word 2010 Documents as PDF using a macro in the ribbon
Adobe Acrobat 9 and X doesn't work well with Microsoft Office 2010 when the ribbon is concerned. To alleviate this, a macro can be used in the ribbon instead of the Adobe plugin that their suite comes with.
How to Save Your Word Document as PDF with One Click (Using a Macro)
How to Save Your Word Document as PDF with One Click (Using a Macro)
Windows constantly updating but it is already the middle of the month or past.
Microsoft releases security updates to their Windows operating systems on the second Tuesday of every month which is called Patch Tuesday. A user may notice that a lot of items are being installed, depending on how many updates Microsoft has released at that time.
Patch Tuesday Wikipedia Article
Patch Tuesday Wikipedia Article
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