Computing
How to Disable Web Quick Search Results on a Windows 10 Search
For those of you with older versions of Windows 10 this is the method. It include creating the "Explorer" key in the registry and its entry and value.
This procedure also seems to have gotten rid of the stupid advertisement that is in the search bar on the right hand side.
Solution Link
Computing
HP Color LaserJet 1600 Printer
Links
Of the three composite colors in computer printers, red colors tend to be used most. Red printouts use the magenta ink in your toner cartridges. Since red tends to be used frequently, your cyan and yellow ink will often be least used.
Computing
Installing Windows 7 – The procedure entry point adddlldirectory could not be found
Summary
After first pass of Windows 7 Pro install from DVD I was unable to install the network driver required. By installed KB4457144 I was then able to install and finish the Win 7 pro install.
Research Links
- Dell: Find a driver for your OptiPlex 9020
- Windows Dev Center: AddDllDirectory function
- Install All Post-SP1 Updates Offline in Windows 7 Using Convenience Rollup Package
Bought a USFF Dell Optiplex 9020 with a Windows 7 Pro COA sticker. After re-installing Windows 7 it still needed a few drivers. Inconveniently that included the network driver so I had to use sneaker net to install that. Upon attempting to install I received this message
the procedure entry point adddlldirectory could not be found
First googling showed that KB2533623 except when you go to that Microsoft page it is no longer available. Replacement solution appears to be in KB4457144
Microsoft Windows 7 Update KB2533623 needed to install Dell Update Package
The End User / IT Administrator must ensure KB2533623 is installed on Dell client commercial and consumers systems running on Windows 7 operating systems (32-bit or 64-bit) before attempting to install the Dell Update Package, or when encountered with this error and before re-attempting to install the particular Dell Update Package.
The KB can be downloaded from Microsoft from the following site by selecting the Windows 7 operating system and architecture: Update for Windows 7 (KB2533623)
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The latest KB4457144, with additional fixes including KB2533623, can be downloaded from Microsoft.
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Details of KB4457144: September 11, 2018—KB4457144 (Monthly Rollup).
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Standalone package: Microsoft Update Catalog – KB4457144.
Microsoft Update Catalog
Computing
H2TestW – USB Size Test Utility
There are problems with fake USB pen drives claiming to have a larger capacity than in reality. H2TestW tests the size of USB memory sticks.
Research Links
- H2testw 1.4 – Developers home page
- PenDriveApps: H2testw – Test for Fake USB Flash Drives
Computing
Open Smart Card Development Platform
Research Links
- Wikipedia: Open Smart Card Development Platform
- HomePage: Open Smart Card Development Platform
- OpenCard FrameWork
OpenSCDP utilizes a set of Open Source tools including:
Computing
Hacktivity 2012 Vivek Ramachandran Cracking WPA/WPA2 Personal and Enterprise for Fun and Profit
Had APless hacking. Might be useful for security logging of nearby phones.
Computing
Quantum Mechanics Computing for Computer Scientists
We're in the vacuum tube stage of the semiconductor revolution but in quantum
If two probabalistic events such as two coin tosses are independent then the probability of two specific events such as 2 heads is the product of the two seperate events: If a set of events can not be factored like this then they are not independent events. In quantum mechanics if this occurs then the events are said to be entangled..
