Kagunda JM

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Migrate/Convert Virtualbox VM to Hyper-V

Launch VirtualBox Select Virtual Media Manager from the File menu When Virtual Media Manager window opens, select the VM file you want to migrate and click on Copy button When the Copy Virtual Hard Disk window opens, click on ExpertMode button to enable selecting required options on one screen. Under Hard disk file type, select VHD (Virtual Hard Disk) Wait for the copy process to complete Convert vhd to vhdx

Powershell History Remove Duplicate Commands

When running commands within PowerShell, the history of commands may contain duplicated commands. To run a command contained within the commands history, you use the up arrow key to scroll up to the required command. If the commands are many and duplicated, it may require a bit of effort to get to the required command. In Windows PowerShell 5.0, you can prevent duplication of commands within the history by running the following command in PowerShell:

Hosting Google Fonts Locally

When a website using google fonts is hosted locally without internet access, the need arises to host fonts used on the site available locally. This post uses a simple demo to illustrate the steps required for self hosting google fonts locally. Create an index.html file and styles.css. You can use different names for the files. <!-- index.html --> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="ie=edge"> <link href='styles.

Install Go on Windows 10

Download MSI installer After the download is complete, open the downloaded msi file and follow the prompts to install Go. By default, the installer places the files in the c:\Go folder and also adds the c:\go\bin directory to your PATH environment variable. Create a working directory for your Go projects and change to this newly created folder. This will be your Go workspace and should be separate from your Go installation folder.

Recovering Folders converted to shortcuts by virus

There is nothing more annoying and frustrating than trying to copy files to a client’s computer using a usb drive and realizing that the clients computer has a virus and it has turned all your files into a shortcut. If you had important files and allow an antivirus to clean the usb drive, you may end up losing the files. This has happened to me on several ocassions and there are times I end up losing files.