How do I edit/append metadata to files in Windows Explorer?

Windows 7 seems to have all these fancy metadata fields that are viewable in Explorer - but no way to edit all of them! I know you can right click -> properties to edit a few things and to scrub metadata, but many of the fields in the Details tab are read-only on most files.

My purpose here is to keep records of files for document control. Right now I am using Excel to monotonously enter all the information I need for a file (project, vendor, customer, revision number, submittal date, etc.), but I thought I could be creative and just attach each of these items directly to files.

I suspect I may not be able to do this in Windows and should probably looking at file cataloging options with better features like reporting. However, I know little about catalogs either so not sure which route to go.

Answer

Some files's metedata can be edited in the explorer window, but not all file types for some reason. Those that can be edited have editable fields at teh bottom of the explorer window where it displays the information. You can simply click on the field and edit the data in that field. Unfortunately, not all file types allow for this type of editing, and I am not sure how exactly to deal with those.

windows - Win 10 won't load from SSD without old HDD

by now i've read a number of topics with similar questions but the answers vary heavily from running a single line of code in CMD to multiple-page instructions on creating a Windows fix USB stick and doing some other seemingly sophisticated stuff, so it's quite unclear as to what actually needs to be done in my particular situation, which is as follows:

• My 2nd PC had an HDD with Win 7 installed. As SSDs are cheaper than ever these days i decided to upgrade the performance on that machine.


• I purchased an SSD and installed Win 10 on it, however i did NOT
  unplug the old HDD during the install, which i now know was a
  mistake.


• Everything worked fine - on boot the PC asks if i want to load Win 7
  from the HDD or Win 10 from the SSD, both options worked (and still works if the SSD and HDD are both plugged in).


• Last week the HDD started making all sorts of noises hinting it will
  die sooner rather than later. As I had some documents and photos on that HDD which i still need i've bought a new SSD and have transfered (copy-pasted the folders i needed) the folders to this new SSD for storage (not the one with Win 10 installed)

And this is where things got tricky: i thought that all i had to do now was to simply unplug the old HDD and have my 2 SSDs plugged in for the system to work - one SSD where i had my Win 10 system installed, and new SSD with the folders copied from the old HDD for storage purposes.

But Win 10 won't load without the old HDD plugged in. At first I thought there was an issue in the BIOS boot settings, but it's not the case.

Having read up on the topic i can guesstimate that because i originally didn't unplug the HDD during the Win 10 installation onto the SSD, Windows has automatically placed the boot data from both Win 7 and Win 10 onto the old HDD.

The question is:
Is it possible to "move"/"copy" the loader or create a new loader for the existing Win 10 system to the SSD, without reinstalling Win 10, and remove the HDD from the system all together? If yes, then what are the step-by-step instructions?

Details from Disk manger:

Screenshot of Disk manager HDD + SSD

• The HDD (Win 7) is marked as Disk 0 - 100 Mb reserved by system (attributes translated: System, Active, Main) - assume this is the loader; Disk "E" (Main) 195Gb; Disk "F" (Main) 270Gb - are two file partitions on the HDD;


• The SSD (Win 10) is markede as Disk 1 - "C" disk (attributes translated: Load, Paging file, Emergency memory dump, Main), 493Mb (back-up partition?)

If i "right-click" on the SSD "C" partition, the option to make it active is not greyed out

Details from diskpart:

Diskpartition HDD Partititon 1 (Boot partition?)

Diskpartition HDD Partititons 2 (Win 7) and 3

Diskpartition SSD Partititon 1 (Win 10)

networking - Use a wireless router as a wireless network adapter?

I was using a Linksys Wireless-G router and a DSL modem for internet access in my house. My desktop was connected via ethernet cable to the router, and all the other clients in the house were accessing the network wirelessly. (The router connects to the DSL modem by ethernet cable also.) Now I have switched to using a "Clear Spot 4G Personal Hotspot" which has no ethernet ports, just a USB port. It's working great for all the wireless clients in the house. And when I plug it into my desktop (which has no wireless adapter/device of any kind attached) I can access the internet through the hotspot's USB connection. However I have found an odd conflict (which I could also use help with) -- when the hotspot is plugged in at the same time my USB TV Tuner is plugged in, the TV tuner doesn't work. I can be watching TV, and plug in the hotspot, and suddenly the TV stream will just freeze and all attempts to access the device freeze the program attempting to do so, and I can't even shut down windows cleanly (system hangs on shutdown). As soon as I unplug the hotspot, the TV programs become responsive again. It took me a while to find the connection between this freeze on the TV tuner and the hotspot USB connection, but it's pretty clear.

So now I'm trying to find another way to access the wireless network without buying a wireless network adapter. I tried configuring my Linksys Wireless-G router as a Gateway, but I don't think that works between wireless networks because there's no place to enter into the router the parameters of the wireless network that I want it to connect to, and the only connection I can make between my desktop and the Linksys WRT54G is an ethernet cable. Am I missing something? Is there a way to configure the Linksys router to "participate" in an existing wireless network, or do I just need to get a wireless network adapter? I thought maybe I can try to set the router up with the exact same wireless network parameters that I am using on the hotspot, but that just seems like a recipe for conflicts... any chance it would work itself out and just form a larger version of the same network?

Answer

USB is cooperative, it could be bandwidth, power or it could be that the two devices don't play nicely. If you haven't already tried, try putting the two devices in different USB ports on the computer, (i.e., not off a hub or anything).

You can use a wifi router to do what you're trying, but not normally with the default firmware. Check the following projects to see if your router can run the non-standard firmware:

Then configure the wifi router for bridge-mode. E.g.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Bridged

Using temp roaming profile in windows 7 after removing local directory

I am trying to successfully implement Windows 7 roaming profiles. I added the share on my server 2003 server in active directory, logged in on my Windows 7 computer which is joined to the domain and everything was fine. I saw in me c:\users folder that there was both a username and username.domain folder. I wanted to remove the .domain folder, so I removed both folders in the c:\users directory.

Now I log in and see that I have no profile, and I have a "temporary" profile located in c:\users\temp ! How do I get back to having a roaming profile again??

I see on my server that it created the username.V2 folder and has all of the Windows 7 folders intact, so I know my original connection worked. I also look in the profiles section and see that I have a roaming profile, but it says it is a "temp" profile and gets erased everytime I log in!

Answer

This is a common issue. If you want to remove a profile on a Windows 7 machine, never just delete their user folder under C:\users. That will guarantee you this mess.

This problem has become so common that Microsoft has created a FixIt executable that you can run to resolve the problem, found in their KB article for the issue.

Most times running the FixIt by itself will fix the problem. In the odd case it doesn't, simply delete the associated user profile from the ProfileList in the registry:

• Click Start, right-click Computer, and then click Properties.


• Click Change settings.


• In the System Properties dialog box, click the Advanced tab.


• Under User Profiles, click Settings.


• In the User Profiles dialog box, select the profile that you want to delete, click Delete, and then click OK.


• Click Start, type regedit in the Start search box, and then press ENTER.


• Locate and then expand the following registry subkey:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

• Right-click the SID that you want to remove, and then click Delete.

To avoid this in the future, delete the user profile in the way it is described in steps 1-5 above.

macos - Shift+End doesn't work on OS X like on a PC; Can this be fixed?

I'm usually on a PC, but recently, I've decided to give OS X a go (at work anyway). I don't have too many complaints. There is one, however, that is driving me up a wall.

Home and End don't seem to work right. What's up with that? I'm very used to Home sending the cursor to the beginning of a line, End sending it to the end of a line, Shift+Home selecting everything to the left of the cursor while sending the cursor to the beginning of the line, and Shift+End selecting everything to the right of the cursor while sending the cursor to the end of the line.

I'm rocking Snow Leopard, and I have KeyRemap4MacBook. I try not to use it too much (after all, part of the reason I'm using OS X is to learn it), but this is one feature that I simply cannot live without. The only two things I have enabled on KeyRemap4MacBook are

1. Use PC Style Home/End, and


2. Use PC Style PageUp/PageDown.

Home and End still don't work for most apps, and Shift+Home and Shift+End don't work either.

Is there any way I can get those working?

Answer

If you want to learn the OS X way, move to the beginning of the line with ⌘+← and move to the end of the line with ⌘+→. Combine with Shift to select text on the way.

Windows 7 - Windows Update won't update

I'm trying to update my Windows 7 Professional 32-bit edition and when I try to tell Windows Update to scan for updates it failed with the error code 0x80096001.

I checked out WindowsUpdate.log and it appears this is the problem:

Validating signature for C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv4wuredir.cab:
WARNING: Error: 0x80096001 when verifying trust for C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv4wuredir.cab
WARNING: Digital Signatures on file C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\WuRedir\9482F4B4-E343-43B6-B170-9A65BC822C77\muv4wuredir.cab are not trusted: Error 0x80096001

How can I go about fixing this? It looks like it's just this one (corrupted?) file that's causing the problem.

Thanks!

UPDATE: Upon inspecting the file mentioned in the error message it appears that the file does not exist! What does this mean and how do I get it back?

UPDATE 2: Ok it appears that the file in question appears only for a split second when Windows Updating is trying to search (but fails) to find updates. So I guess the problem doesn't have to do with the file specifically then.

windows - Where to get software name of CLSID

I'm in such a situation that every week I need to find one or two software names and all I know is CLSID. I want to ask if there is any official place where I could look for.