Enabling USB WiFi Network Adapter in VirtualBox with Kali Linux as Guest OS

I found enabling USB WiFi Adapter in Window 7 much simpler than Linux, precisely Kali Linux. Not that I couldn't do it in Kali but after sometime the connection would drop. But with Windows 7 it didn't take me a fraction of time compared to Kali and with the method I discovered the connection is also not dropping in Kali now.

So here's how to do it with Kali Linux as Guest OS. You can also use the same technique while using other OS such as Windows as Guest OS:

1. First make sure you have  added yourself to the user group 'vboxusers'; else you will be unable to view your Wireless USB Network Adapter under the  USB Devices list.

2. Now you can select your Network Adapter by going to --> Devices -->  USB Devices --> Select your Network Adapter here

Now to save yourself from your 'connection getting dropped' every now and then, make sure you have disabled your Internet connection from your Host OS. See the image below.

 

To confirm your WLAN setup Open your terminal and type:

 ifconfig  

You should be seeing something like wlan0 along with the details as in the image above.

Sharing Drive/File/Folder in VirtualBox with Ubuntu as Host and Kali Linux or Windows as Guest OS

1. To Share Drive/Folder in Kali Linux as Guest OS:

First make sure your Guest OS is turned off else you won't be able to make the changes.

 Then on your VirtulaBox Management Page make the following changes as shown in the above image or continue to read below:

1. Click on Settings
2. Click on Shared Folders
3. In 'Folder Path' select the desired Drive/Folder/File
4. If you just want to read the files from your Guest OS the select Read-only else if you want to read/write leave it as it is.
5. Give a name to your folder in 'Folder Name'.
6. Select Auto-mount if you would like to mount your drive/folder/file on startup.
7. Finally Click OK and that's all there is to 'Sharing Folders' in Virtual Box.

If you are using Kali Linux you can locate your drive/folder/file under '/media/your_shared_drive_folder_file'

How to turn your Windows 7/8 Laptop into a WiFi Hotspot 2014 - Best Way Without Any Software

If you are looking to create a WiFi Hotspot through your Windows 7 or Windows 8 laptop without using any software, the solution in the video below seems to be  the ideal one. Just execute some command from the command prompt and some setting in 'Network & Sharing Center' and you are done.

But note that once you restart your computer you will have to run this command in CMD to start the HOTSPOT. I still found this much better than some lame software:

Enter this command in CMD to start your Hotspot: netsh wlan start hostednetwork

How I Drastically Improved My Windows 7 Startup Time/Boot Time

Since quite sometime my computer had begun to boot up quite slowly. It was taking a good three and half minutes for my HP DV6 laptop, which has the following specification to boot up:

• Core i7 processor
• 4 GB RAM
• Windows 7 (64 bit)

Finally today I decided to fix this menace, once and for all:

Here's what worked for me after several rounds of trials and tribulations:

1. Goto Start and type Run.
2. Once in run type 'msconfig'
3. Click on the Services tab and also check the option 'Hide all Microsoft services'; this will help you in filtering and viewing only the services of software you installed.  I tested and found out that usually not the Microsoft services that causes the delay, but you can disabled services you aren't using such as Fax and Parental Controls. (see fig. below)

4. Now, you can enable a list of services,  Click on Apply and restart and test. You can disable some items from the Startup also. Click on the Startup tab to do this.You might have to try this a couple of times to find the main culprit. Once you've identified it disable that buggy service and things should be fine for you.

I used a software called Glary Utilities to check my Boot time and you can see I've made a massive improvement with my Startup Time.

How to Fix Helvetica Neue Font Issue in Facebook while using Google Chrome/Windows 7

You might have installed the ever so beautiful and elegant font Helvetica and it's family viz. Helvetica Neue and then seen a queer font-face in Chrome, as in the image below:

  

Searching for a fix I even tried the commonly suggested solution:

Permanent Solution:

The permanent solution is nothing but deleting the font which I guess you don’t want to.

To delete a font, you must restart your PC in safe mode and then delete the font by deleting it from Control Panel.

Temporary Solution:

This solution is also a kind of permanent solution. In this method we are going to alter the Chrome file a little bit.

Open your Windows Explorer and then go to C:\Users\[YourName]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\User StyleSheets\custom.css

You can use Notepad to open the .css file. After opening the file, you just need to add two lines which is written below.


@font-face { font-family: ‘helvetica neue’; src: local(‘Arial’); }

@font-face { font-family: ‘helvetica neue’; font-weight:bold; src: local(‘Arial’); }


 But even this solution didn't quite resolve my issue, mainly with Facebook.

And after some more searching I came across this Chrome extension called Facebook Font Changer which eventually resolved my problem. Install this extension and chose the font of your choice.  You can see the issue resolved in the image below.

 

Note: 

1. Pirated fonts might also be the culprit to this bug.

Restore VHD File Backup in Windows 7

If you have made a backup using Windows 7 Backup option where the backup is a large dump of VHD file and unable to recover the back up please follow the methods explained below. I've collected a handful of handy links which should serve your purpose:

Case #1: How to restore VHD file backup?

Answer:

The reason why you’ve a VHD file is because you’ve created a system image backup. A system image includes Windows and your system settings, programs, and files. You can use a system image to restore the contents of your computer if your hard drive or computer ever stops working. When you restore your computer from a system image, it is a complete restoration; you can't choose individual items to restore, and all of your current programs, system settings, and files are replaced.

You wouldn’t be able to restore VHD files using backup and restore center. You can mount the image by following the steps below.

Method 1: Steps to mount VHD files in Windows 7

a.    Open Start Menu, right-click on Computer and click Manage.

b.    Click on Disk Management.

c.    Click Action -> Attach VHD and specify the external hard disk location on your computer.

Check out the section in the link below about how to extract files from a system image (advanced)

http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/11/12/recovering-your-files-in-windows-7.aspx

Method 2: How to restore your computer from a system image backup

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Restore-your-computer-from-a-system-image-backup

For more information about system image backup, you can visit the link below

Learn more about system image backup

http://blogs.technet.com/b/filecab/archive/2009/10/31/learn-more-about-system-image-backup.aspx

Backup and restore: frequently asked questions

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Back-up-and-restore-frequently-asked-questions

Hope this information is helpful.

Mouneshwar R – Microsoft Support

Source: http://bit.ly/SUOhjB

CASE #2: Restore your computer from a system image backup: http://bit.ly/127HwPd

CASE #3: Restoring Windows 7 VHD Backup Files with Acronis True Image Home: http://kb.acronis.com/content/3648

Six methods to crack Windows admin password, remove unknown Windows admin password

The following methods can be used to hack / crack / reset Windows Administrator Password in case you forgot it:

Six methods to crack Windows admin password, remove unknown Windows admin password from passexpert

Hack, Crack Windows 7 Admin, Administrator Password

The following method is tried, tested and successful of cracking Windows 7 Administrator Password:

Please visit the link below and download the required utility viz. Offline NT Password and Registry Editor:
http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/


& follow the Step by Step instruction here:
http://www.pogostick.net/~pnh/ntpasswd/walkthrough.html


Hope that helps. I've executed this solution myself, if in doubt feel free to post comment; if I can I shall help.

How to view Apache error log files in Windows?

If you ever wanted to view your Apache Log files from your local computer or Windows Operating System (Xp, Vista, Windows 7) and were unable to do so, this awesome software can do the task for you. You must have noticed the log files are usually very large in size  and won't open in text editors like Notepad causing them to hang.

As the website states "Apache Logs Viewer (ALV) is a free and powerful tool which lets you monitor, view and analyze Apache/IIS logs with more ease. It offers search and filter functionality for the log file, highlighting the various http requests based on their status code. There is also a report facility, thus you can generate a pie/bar chart in seconds. Together with this there are also statistics where you can get the top hits, top errors, number of status codes, total bandwidth and more."

So here are the links:

1. Setup File: http://www.apacheviewer.com/download.php?new=1
2. Help File: http://www.apacheviewer.com/ApacheLogsViewer_Help.pdf

What to do when caught by Windows Activation Technology (WAT) for Windows 7

Just sometime back I was trying to use a feature from Microsoft called Virtual PC and XP mode. While trying to download those software, Microsoft asked me to validate my Win 7 with their WAT tool.

In the process the WAT detected that my OS was not authentic and the computer behaving queerly, like, my desktop turning black, my Antivirus (Microsoft Security Essential) showing "expiry" warning messages.

I freaked out a bit because with my current situation I am in no position to install a new OS with the amount of installing of various software, backups and etc...

I worked around a simple solution instead. I simply restored my system to a day earlier before the WAT was updated and voila the process worked!

Else you can try one of the solutions mentioned here: http://geekmontage.com/how-to-uninstall-windows-7-activation-update-kb971033/

Converting 7zip (.7z), WinZip (.zip) files into Gzip (.gz) in Windows

This solutions especially helped me a lot for importing my "MySQL Dumps" from my local server to my remote server.

My problem & How this Solution Helped me:

My web-host seem to have restricted "importing .zip mysql dumps" to my server. And my Xampp which is an older version (XAMPP for Windows Version 1.7.1 !)  don't seem to work well with Gzip. The newer version of Xampp does work well but since right now I am obliged to use PHP 5.2.x I haven't upgraded.

So, blabbing apart, here's the solutions:

Use this small but very powerful called Win-Gz tool to compress / decompress any file(s) into .gz (GZip) format. You can also use ArcConvert to make compression from .7z into .gz ... .gz into .7z etc...

Here are the download links:

1. Win-GZ
2. ArcConvert

Hope this helps .... have fun!

BOOTMGR is compressed. Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart - What to do?

I just tried to install Windows 7 (32 bit) Ultimate edition on my friend's 4 year old Toshiba Satellite Laptop. Firstly I created another D:\ (can be any label of your choice.. E:\, F:\ etc...) Primary Partition from the default single C:\ drive partition. For installing an OS, a Primary Partition is recommended.

The installation went fine until the time the computer restarted? & Lo!!! I got this queer BOOTMGR error!!!!!!!!!!!! 

After Googling here and there for the solution... I eventually arrived at one. Follow the steps below:

1. First go to your BIOS (at the time of restart) by pressing F2 and change your Boot Priority to CD\DVD.

2. Save and Exit and the computer will restart. An option like "Press any key to boot from CD will be displayed on your screen.... " Press any key.... After sometime the windows Installation Menu will appear.. Select your option (which is not important... I mean any option can be selected..") and click next...


3. Click 'Repair my Computer'
At the prompt to select your OS installation, click the button that says 'Load Drivers'. This should bring up a explorer-style drive browser.

Then just right-click on the drive you tried to compress, and deselect 'Compress this Drive', which should still be ticked on. Hit apply, and apply to subfolders/files. Usually it must be the C:\ drive.. You can go to your C:\ drive by clicking on My Computer or Computer... Once the C:\ drive is displayed.. Right click on it.. Select Properties.. and then Uncheck "Compress this drive to save disk space" & Reboot.

Your Problem should resolve!!!!

Why you should use Microsoft Security Essential?

I've used many anti-virus(s) over the years gone by ranging from McAfee, Eset Nod32, Kaspersky etc.. Few months back I became aware of this awesome, cool anti-virus provided by Microsoft christened Microsoft Security Essentials and surprisingly all for FREE!!! Yeah, get that RIGHT... it's all free... provided you own a Genuine Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, 7 (32 bit | 64 bit) software or you have this version of Microsoft Windows 7 http://soluzione08.blogspot.com/2011/02/windows-activation-technologies.html

Once you start using Microsoft Essential you'll be saving your time and money and experience many other good things:

1. *Free so no need to look for crack, hacks and keygens.

2. No need to Renew your Subscription yearly

3. Quite light and so won't Put much load on your system "enhancing your computer usage experience."

& lots more .. so what you waiting for.. get a copy of your Security Essential right here.. Download Security Essential


Note: Remember to download the right version of the anti virus (32 or 64 bit) depending on your Operating System!

Windows Activation Technologies, Deativate, Hack, Bypass

 Well this is not exactly a hack or a crack to be specific & clear. It's just a simple way to bypass the WAT or commonly known as Windows Activation Technology and use Windows 7.

If you possess a copy of Windows 7 (32 bit or 64 bit), during the Installation Process, you are asked whether you would like to Enable Automatic Update or not? Simply Select "Never Check for Updates" and continue with your installation and finish it.

Once done with the installation  Click on the Start Button and on the Search Box that appears type Update. Now click on Check for updates. 

A new Window should open and just below the Heading "Important Updates" Select the option "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them."

Click OK.

Now click on Check Updates.

Once the Update has been Checked ... Select all the Files to download ... EXCEPT!!! this update file>>>  Windows 7 (KB971033)

That should Solve Matters for You.. :))