Notes about the world around us and a personal knowledge base — Antonio Nemcd’s blog
Problem: you install WinPower, connect a UPS (for example a Mustek PowerMust 600) via USB and start WinPower. The program doesn’t see the UPS, even though Windows detects it and installs the drivers. The UPS doesn’t show up in the program window, and auto search doesn’t help.
Solution: log in to WinPower as its administrator, then run auto search.
Switch to administrator mode:
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Robocopy (Robust File Copy) is one of the best command-line tools for backing up and mirroring folders on Windows.
Where to get it: on Windows Vista, 7, 8, 10, 11 and Windows Server 2008 and later it’s built in — just open a command prompt and type robocopy. Nothing to download.
For old Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 it came with the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit: download robocopy.exe for XP/2003.
If you install software more often than once every few years, an automatic, or “silent”, installation saves a lot of time.
To install Adobe Acrobat Reader quickly and without any questions (tested on versions 7.x, 8.x and 9.x):
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My wife has a Chinese pasta machine that she uses for rolling polymer clay.
