Add user to windows

WTF!? Why do I have to give option for password recovery when creating a local user account!!!

On windows 10, Going through the normal user dialogs is painful, Microsoft tries so hard to only allow you to add Microsoft accounts to your machine that is maddening.

If you just want to add a nice, simple local user account you will have to directly call the old add user application, to do you have to call it from the run command, so:

1. Open the run command dialog: Windows key + R
2. Open the user dialog, by running the command: control userpasswords2

Start dropbox at reboot in linux

I was having problem in my ubuntu machine that the dropbox was not running, because it did not started at reboot. The command dropbox autostart y did not work, and I tried it running as root or my normal user.

So to solved it I decide to use cron, so I run crontab -e and add the line

@reboot $HOME/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

This did it, now I get dropbox running after a reboot.

Visual Studio sql hide design

To have visual studio show SQL and now show the design panel, follow the following:

1. Right-click on the file, and select Open With...
2. Then select Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools, T-SQL Editor,
3. Click on Set as Default
4. Click OK.

From question in Stackoverflow

Reaching google.com instead of google.fr

Visit the URL: http://www.google.com/ncr

Check http://www.labnol.org/internet/prevent-blogger-country-redirection/21031/ for instructions on blogspot.

Install Disk cleanup in windows 2008 r2

The site basics.net have the instructions how to install the disk cleanup nicely (the default Microsoft way is crap because you end up withi loads of stuff installed in the system), the article with the instructions is http://www.basics.net/2013/02/25/win-server-2008-r2-how-to-enable-the-disk-cleanup-utility/

Copy 2 files to specific system folders and you can immediately use the tool:

Copy Cleanmgr.exe to %systemroot%\System32.
Copy Cleanmgr.exe.mui to %systemroot%\System32\en-US.
The 2 files are located in
- C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_c9392808773cd7da\cleanmgr.exe
- C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_b9cb6194b257cc63\cleanmgr.exe.mui

You can simply run this as administrator:

copy C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_c9392808773cd7da\cleanmgr.exe %systemroot%\System32
copy C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-cleanmgr.resources_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_en-us_b9cb6194b257cc63\cleanmgr.exe.mui %systemroot%\System32\en-US

Enable unsigned plugins in firefox

The latest version of Firefox (43.0.1) disables all unsigned plugins, to be able to allow unsigned plugins to run edit the setting:
xpinstall.signatures.required
Set it it false.
The suggestion was found in the forum https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1078339

My Firefox tunning

There are a few Firefox option I like, unfortunately sometimes is hard to find what are the knobs to touch to get it set as I like it. Here are the settings that I prefer:

Make search open in new tab:

browser.search.openintab with value true

Keep window when closing last tab:

browser.tabs.closeWindowWithLastTab with value false

Single close button for all tabs:

browser.tabs.closebuttons with value 3 (0- Active tab only, 1 - all tabs, 2 - no close buttons, 3- single at the end of the tab bar)

Ask before quitting:

browser.showQuitWarning with value true

Hide default "Inspect Element" when Firebug is installed:

extensions.firebug.hideDefaultInspector set to true. (The option devtools.inspector.enabled does the same thing)

Disable message "This site has requested that you identify yourself with a certificate:" in Thunderbird

Thunderbird as one(not the only one) annoying feature that it keeps asking you to chose a certificate to identify yourself. The text in the box is: "This site has requested that you identify yourself with a certificate:", then there is a drop-down menu to chose among your certificates, then there is a checkbox that says "Remember this decision", then the buttons "OK" and "Cancel".

Very nice, too bad it asks you for input every single time it needs to authenticate... this is real annoying, it seems the checkbox is there to taunt, because it feels Thunderbird cannot remember your decision...

The solution is simple, but you need to open the config editor "about:config":

• Linux: Edit/Options -> "Advanced" section -> "General" tab -> "Config editor" button.
• Windows: Tools/Options -> "Advanced" section -> "General" tab -> "Config editor" button.
• Mac: Thunderbird->Preferences...->"Advanced" section -> "General" tab -> "Config editor" button.

Search for the entry "security.default_personal_cert" and change it to "Select Automatically" (default value is "Ask Every Time").

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