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CREATING A LOCAL MSSQL SERVER ON YOUR W10 PC

From time to time you will need to utilize a local sql server, for dev, testing, education, whatever. So here is a quick how-to on creating a local mssql server on your W10 pc.

Download and install the free version of SQL, called SQL Express:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads
Accept all the defaults, except for these few
Use your credentials when prompted
Select all packages to be installed

Once SQL Express is installed, download and install SQL Server Management Studio
https://aka.ms/ssmsfullsetup

Now you have both installed, open SQL Server Management Studio or SSMS for short, and connect to your local SQL Express Database
Connect to “localhost\sqlexpress“
You dont have to put in any credentials if you selected to use your credentials earlier.

To do a test on the database, try restoring the AdventureWorksDW database
Right click on Databases
Select Restore database
Select the AdventureWorksDW file
Click Ok

You can now connect into your database using Power BI or another tool, and start playing around.

Thanks for reading

WINDOWS 10 VM DISK INTEGRITY


This is a quick way to check the integrity of the local disk of a Windows 10 VM, that sits on an ESXi 6.7 Host

Go to the Type here to search box
Type cmd
Best Match will show Command Prompt
Select Run as administrator
Type in chkdsk C: /f /r /x

Check disk will now run and scan your system. If any errors come up, you will be notified, and can choose a course of action.

RESTORE MINING WALLETS IN WINDOWS 10

The most recent Windows 10 update, went through my computer and started tagging many of my crypto wallets as threats, then it automatically quarrantined them. HUGE FAIL by Microsoft. I did not want their Defender app enabled after the update. I did not want it to scan my system.

To restore your newly quarrantined items, do the following:

Open Windows Security
Select Virus & threat protection
Click Protection history
In the list of all recent items, filter the Quarantined Items
Click all of the newly identified and restore

That’s it! Thanks for reading

REMOTE SUPPORT THROUGH CHROME REMOTE DESKTOP

Teamviewer has been a constant headache in 2020. So I have had to find a teamviewer replacement…and have found Chrome Remote Desktop. So far my experience has been good. Quick, easy install. I can still remotely manage my mining rigs. This guide shows how I connect to a system that runs during the day for a dedicated user (who owns it), and mines at night. When he has an issue, he contacts me and we setup a Chrome Remote Desktop support session using the following excerpt from this link https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1649523?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Share your computer with someone else

You can give others remote access to your computer. They’ll have full access to your apps, files, emails, documents and history.

  1. On your computer, open Chrome.
  2. In the address bar at the top, type remotedesktop.google.com/support, and press Enter.
  3. Under “Get Support, “ click Download Download page.
  4. Follow the onscreen directions to download and install Chrome Remote Desktop.
  5. Under “Get Support,” select Generate Code.  
  6. Copy the code and send to the person you want to have access to your computer.
  7. When that person enters your access code on the site, you will see a dialog with their e-mail address. Select Share to allow them full access to your computer.
  8. To end a sharing session, click Stop Sharing.

The access code will only work one time. If you are sharing your computer, you will be asked to confirm that you want to continue to share your computer every 30 minutes.

DISABLE WINDOWS 10 FIREWALL NOTIFICATIONS

So, I have disabled my windows firewall….because it breaks some of the apps I run on the daily. Now that the firewall is disabled, about 15 seconds after using my computer (right after it turns on), i get this extremely annoying sound, and a very annoying popup alerting me to the fact that I have disabled it. Yes Microsoft, I know I disabled it…i dont like your firewall. It kinda sucks. Infact it is about the worst one I have ever used. So i keep it off. BUUUUT the notification continues to pester me on the daily….To disable windows 10 firewall notifications, I ran the following command set, and it worked for a bit…but the annoying popups persist. Hopefully these steps help you.

Click the Type Here to Search bar

Search for Control Panel

Select Security and Maintenance

Select Change Security and Maintenance Settings

Under the Security Messages section

Uncheck Network Firewall

Reboot, and watch to see it it is now fixed

BS4 ERROR [SOLVED]

Here is an interesting, and easy fix to a nagging BS4 Error (bs4.FeatureNotFound) that I kept encountering. I was using a Windows 10 computer, running Ubuntu Server 20.04 through VMWare Workstation as my platform. If you see the following error

bs4.FeatureNotFound: Couldn’t find a tree builder with the features you requested: lxml. Do you need to install a parser library?

To fix it is easy, and simple.

Open a Terminal

Type
sudo bash
pip3 install lxml

lxml will install, and your error will be fixed!

IMPORTING A CURE PROFILE

Quick How-To Guide to walk through the steps of importing a .curaprofile file into your Cura Application, and enable it.

Download and install the latest version of Cura. In my case it is 4.6.1

Click Settings

Select Printers

Select Manage Printers

Click Profiles

Click Import

Navigate to your .curaprofile and upload it

Now, create a new Cura project

In the Top Right of your screen click Printer Settings

Click the drop down arrow next to Profile

Select your Profile (the one you just uploaded)

You can now slice using the imported profile

Simplify3D Opens and Immediately Closes [SOLVED]

Simple fix for this issue. Please note that this will remove your FFF files, so make sure you have them backed up prior

Navigate to
C:/Users/%USERNAME%/AppData/Local/Simplify3D/

Delete the folder named:
S3D-Software

Now you can launch Simplify3D and the issue is fixed

Unable to connect to Octopi.local on Windows 10 [SOLVED]

So you can connect to from your Apple device (iPhone, Mac, iPad, etc) but you cannot connect to it from your Windows 10 computer.

This occurs because Microsoft doesn’t natively recognize .local extensions.

Solution:
Install iTunes onto your Windows 10 computer. This will add the bonjour service which will allow you to connect to octopi.local

After you install iTunes, visit http://octopi

You can now use your Windows 10 system with OctoPrint