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Wed, Jan 18, 2017 10:46 pm
Allowing inbound connectivity for an application under Windows 8
To permit inbound access to an application through the Microsoft
Windows Firewall
on a Windows 8 system, you can take the following steps:
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Move the mouse pointer to the lower, left-hand corner of the window until
you see the Windows Start button appear. When you see it, right-click on it
and select Control Panel.
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From the Control Panel, select System and Security.
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Click on Windows Firewall.
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Click on Allow an app or feature through Windows Firewall.
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Click on the Change settings button.
Once you do so, the "Allow another app" button will no longer be grayed out and
you can click on it.
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Find the application for which you wish to allow access through the firewall
and click on it to highlight and select it.
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Click on the Add button. You should then see the program added to the
list of apps allowed to communicate through Windows Firewall.
By default access is allowed on "private" networks, such as your home or
work network. If you also want to allow access on "public" networks, such as
you would find at a coffe shop or airport, you can also click the check box
for "public".
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Click on the OK button. You can then close the Windows Firewall
window. You should be able to connect to whatever port or ports the application
opens now from another system on the same
local area network (LAN).
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Sun, Jan 15, 2017 10:30 pm
Turning on network discovery and file sharing on a Windows 8 system
If you wish to see folders from other Microsoft Windows systems on a
local area network (LAN) or those shared from Linux systems via
Samba, you may need to turn on network discovery on the Windows system(s)
in order to see the shared folder. E.g., if you double-click on
Network
in the Windows
File Explorer and see "Network discovery and file sharing
are turned off. Network computers and devices are not visible. Click to
change...", click on the message to enable network discovery.
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Sat, Jan 14, 2017 11:07 pm
Determining or changing the system name for a computer running Windows 8
To determine the system name for a computer running the Microsoft Windows 8
operating system, you can right-click on the Windows
Start Button at the lower, left-hand corner of the
screen. If you don't see it, hit the
Esc key and move the mouse
pointer to the lower, left-hand corner of the screen where it should appear.
You will see the system's name listed in the "Computer name, domain,
and workgroup settings" section. If you want to give the system a new name,
click on
Change settings and then click on the
Change button.
If you want to obtain the information through a
command-line interface (CLI) method, instead, you can do so either
at a
command prompt or
PowerShell prompt.
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Mon, Sep 07, 2015 8:52 pm
Entering UEFI from a Windows 8 system
I wanted to boot a Dell Inspiron 14 5000 series laptop (model number 14-5447)
from a USB flash drive to perform an image backup of the internal hard disk
drive (HDD). I had placed the Clonezilla backup program on a USB flash drive -
see
Creating a Clonezilla
bootable flash drive - and wished to use it to create an image backup
of the system's hard disk drive before upgrading the system from Windows 8.1
to Windows 10. But, in order to boot from the USB flash drive, I needed to
change the
Universal Extensible
Firmware Interface (UEFI) settings to allow me to boot the system from the
external USB flash drive. The steps to modify the system settings are listed
at
Entering UEFI from a Windows 8
system. Though these steps were written for this specific system, a similar
process can be followed on other systems.
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Wed, Apr 22, 2015 9:47 pm
Opening the Device Manager from a command prompt on Windows 8
To open the
Device Manager window on Windows 8 from a command prompt,
take the following steps:
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Right-click on the Start button in the lower-left corner of the
screen.
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If you are logged in under a standard user account and only want to
view device settings, you can choose Command Prompt. If you may
need to change settings and aren't logged in under an account in the
administrators group, choose Command Prompt (Admin). If you
choose the latter, you will be prompted for administrator credentials;
provide a user name and password for an administrator account. When
you choose Command Prompt (Admin), the title of the window
that opens is "Administrator Command Prompt" versus "Command Prompt"
if you open the command prompt window using a standard account.
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When the Command Prompt window opens type
devmgmt.msc
at the
command line and hit Enter. If you are logged on with an account
that does not have administrator privileges and haven't opened an
Administrator Command Prompt window, you will see the message below:
You are logged on as a standard user. You can view device settings in Device
Manager, but you must be logged on as an administrator to make changes.
You can then click on the OK button to view information
for devices listed in the Device Manager. If you've run
devmgmt.msc
from an Administrator Command Prompt window you
will have view and modification capabilities.
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Fri, Jan 16, 2015 11:15 pm
Viewing a stored WEP or WPA key
A laptop may be used to connect to many wireless networks with a unique
Wi-Fi Protected
Access (WPA), Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2), or
Wired
Equivalent Privacy (WEP) key, which can be regarded as a Wifi password,
for each of those networks stored within a wireless profile on the
laptop. If you need to configure another device, e.g., a phone, tablet
or another laptop, to use the same key and want to view what has been
stored on the laptop from a command prompt, under Windows 8 you can use
the command
netsh wlan show profiles
to view all of the
stored Wi-Fi profiles.
C:\>netsh wlan show profiles
Profiles on interface Wi-Fi:
Group policy profiles (read only)
---------------------------------
<None>
User profiles
-------------
All User Profile : belkin54g
All User Profile : Imp
All User Profile : Harbor
All User Profile : Guest
All User Profile : library
All User Profile : T28J7
All User Profile : NETGEAR
All User Profile : linksys
You can then retrieve the key used for a particular profile by specifying
it with name=profile
, where profile is one of
the stored profiles, followed by key=clear
.
C:\>netsh wlan show profiles name=T28J7 key=clear
Profile T28J7 on interface Wi-Fi:
=======================================================================
Applied: All User Profile
Profile information
-------------------
Version : 1
Type : Wireless LAN
Name : T28J7
Control options :
Connection mode : Connect manually
Network broadcast : Connect only if this network is broadcasting
AutoSwitch : Do not switch to other networks
Connectivity settings
---------------------
Number of SSIDs : 1
SSID name : "T28J7"
Network type : Infrastructure
Radio type : [ Any Radio Type ]
Vendor extension : Not present
Security settings
-----------------
Authentication : Open
Cipher : WEP
Security key : Present
Key Content : 719DDAB7A9
Key Index : 1
Cost settings
-------------
Cost : Unrestricted
Congested : No
Approaching Data Limit : No
Over Data Limit : No
Roaming : No
Cost Source : Default
C:\>netsh wlan show profiles name=Harbor key=clear
Profile Harbor on interface Wi-Fi:
=======================================================================
Applied: All User Profile
Profile information
-------------------
Version : 1
Type : Wireless LAN
Name : Harbor
Control options :
Connection mode : Connect automatically
Network broadcast : Connect only if this network is broadcasting
AutoSwitch : Do not switch to other networks
Connectivity settings
---------------------
Number of SSIDs : 1
SSID name : "Harbor"
Network type : Infrastructure
Radio type : [ Any Radio Type ]
Vendor extension : Not present
Security settings
-----------------
Authentication : WPA2-Personal
Cipher : CCMP
Security key : Present
Key Content : ccc777cc
Cost settings
-------------
Cost : Unrestricted
Congested : No
Approaching Data Limit : No
Over Data Limit : No
Roaming : No
Cost Source : Default
In the above two examples, the WEP key for the wireless network
with an SSID of "T28J7" is "719DDAB7A9" and the WPA2-Personal key for the
wireless network named "Harbor" is "ccc777cc"
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Sat, Nov 29, 2014 2:02 pm
Creating a Windows 8 System Repair Disc
For any Microsoft Windows system, you should ensure that you have a
Microsoft Windows Repair Disc to aid in recovering from problems before
you experience some problem on the system that makes the system unbootable.
A Windows Repair Disc is a bootable disc that can be created inside
Microsoft Windows which will contain a number of repair tools that will
allow you to recover from some types of problems that can make a system
unbootable from the hard drive. Steps to create a repair disc in Windows 8
are posted
here.
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Sat, May 17, 2014 2:20 pm
Turning airplane mode on and off under Windows 8
To enable or disable "airplane mode" on a Windows 8 system, you can take
the following
steps.
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Sat, Jan 25, 2014 10:22 pm
Turning Off Automatic Updates in Windows 8
By default, a Windows 8 system will automatically install updates and
reboot the system, if it deems it is necessary. You will be warned a
few days beforehand that a reboot will be necessary within a few days,
but when the time arrives, you will get only 15 minutes to save your work
before the system automatically updates. If you are someone like me who
tends to have a lot of windows open at once and who may be working on
many tasks concurrently, 15 minutes may not be enough to save all work
in progress, even if you are sitting at the computer at the 15-minute
warning so have the full amount of time to save work in progress. And,
if the 15-minute warning comes late at night, you may not even be awake
at the time and may find when you first check the system after you have
awakened that it rebooted over night and you have lost a lot of work in
progress in applications that don't autosave. To download the updates, but
control the timing of their installation yourself, take
these steps.
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Sat, Dec 28, 2013 9:18 pm
Viewing Installed Fonts on a Windows 8 System
To see a list of the fonts installed on a Windows 8 system, you can
take the following steps:
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Move the mouse pointer to a corner of the screen to bring up the menu with
the magnifying glass representing the Search function. When you
select the search function, you will see field appear where you can type
fonts
to search on that term. Hit Enter once you have
typed fonts
to initiate the search.
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You may see "No apps match your search" and
0
next to Apps
on the right of the screen, but beneath Apps you should see
Settings with a number to the right of it, which should be 6 or
greater. Click on Settings.
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Click on Fonts or View Installed Fonts.
If you wish to see what a particular font looks like, you can double-click
on it or touch the icon for it if you have a touchscreen.
If you have a TrueType .ttf font file
you have downloaded, you can right-click on it and choose Install
to install it on your system or you can double-click it to open a font
preview window and then select install. To install a font, you will
need to provide a userid and password for an account with administrator
privileges on the system.
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