Fix Master Boot Record (Win 7)

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in OS, Windows | No Comments »

See this little page: http://www.wintotal.de/tipparchiv/?id=1695 It links to a German web page, sorry.

Cloning OS with Case Study: Windows NT/XP/7

Wednesday, June 30th, 2010 Posted in Computer, Linux, OS, Windows | No Comments »

So the general headline is cloning, so basically backing up you system. Some commercial software that was mentioned when I researched was: Acronis True Image Ghost There are a lot more, see for example here: http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_alternatives.htm But as I am a fan of open ...

Relocate Chrome Profile Folder (Win7)

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

There are many tutorials like the following out there describing how to relocate the Chrome profile folder using the --user-data-dir="<Userdir>" command line parameter of "chrome.exe" and a appropriate shortcut: http://www.labnol.org/software/create-family-profiles-in-google-chrome/4394/ Yet if you are using Windows 7 this method will screw up the ...