Do the following (with Admin account) to associate .wps (Works document) and .xlr (Works spreadsheet) file types to Word and Excel.

1. Create Restore point to roll-back in case you make a mistake editing the Registry
2. Run Regedit
3. Locate HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ .doc
4. Right-click .doc key and select Export and save to Desktop file as, e.g. docassoc.reg. The contents should look like the sample below.
5. Repeat steps 3-4 for .xls
6. Exit regedit
7. In file File Explorer Copy &

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Some less well known Windows 7, 8.1, 10 Terminal (Command prompt) commands

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A slip-up of adding an extra ” to a string definition highlights an anomaly in Sass which causes it to flag every line of scss  code (including comments) with double quotes as an error including the real error lost in the jungle of errors. See example below with ” added to the end of $fontfamily (not easy to spot) and an excerpt of the Sass compiler error message pointing to valid line of code amongst many more misleading messages.

$fontfamily: "Comic Sans MS",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif!important"←;

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­Install LAMP

For the purposes of this exercise the Apache document root will be moved to /home/mike/www/ and MySQL data directory moved to /home/mysql and a virtual host created called pcdocgo.co.uk

Use Tasksel to install LAMP services

$ sudo apt install tasksel

Install latest Apache, MySQL and PHP servers

$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Configure Apache

Add user to Apache www-data group

$ sudo useradd -G www-data mike

Prepare new document root

$ mkdir /home/mike/www
$ sudo rsync -av /var/www/html /home/mike/www

Note: rsync –

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After installing  Virtualbox 5.2.22 Guest Additions and restart you can’t sign in. The Keyboard input is not recognised. Don’t try to restart from power button on login page as you end up going round in circles. Instead elect to Shutdown and then Start.

After this everything seems to be OK although I did not notice it took several minutes to shutdown the first time after successfully logging in. After this it shut down in the normal time frame.

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Fix by Clean Install

1. Boot Windows 10 iso usb and enter Troubleshoot – Advanced Option – Command
2. Chkdsk d: /f  – where d: is the Windows drive
3. Boot Macrium Reflect or Acronis True Image usb and make an image backup of the drive to a portable usb drive
4. Boot Windows 10 1809 iso usb and do a clean install removing all partitions before hand
5. Once Windows 10 1809 is up and running install 3rd party backup software
6. Mount backup image and recover Home folder(s)
7. Reinstall applications,

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Outlook migration steps

• Source PC
  • Note account settings
    • Email addresses
    • Corresponding IMAP/POP3 and SMTP servers
    • Data folder locations
    • Default delivery pst file
  • Note data file locations, e.g.:
    • c:\users\[user]\Documents\Outlook Files\
    • c:\users\[user]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
    • c:\users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook
  • Close Outlook
  • Copy all above data folders to a portable drive
• New PC
  • Copy data from portable drive to same locations
  • Install Outlook 2010 but don’t start it
  • Run Control Panel
  • Change from Category view to  Medium Icons
  • Double-click Mail icon
  • Create new profile called Outlook
  • Set settings the same as the Source PC and save profile
  • Change Control Panel back to Category view
  • Disable Wireless/LAN connection
  • Start Outlook
  • Go to Account setting and enter email passwords
  • Re-enable Wireless/LAN connection
  • Click Send/Receive to update/synchronise data files

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Run Windows+R and command desk.cpl ,,5 to load Desktop Icon Settings

Tick Control Panel + OK