Monday, June 30, 2014

Auto-Login Your Windows 7 User Account

  1. Press the Windows key + R on your keyboard to launch the “Run” dialog box.
  2. Type in control userpasswords2
  3. Press Enter. The User Accounts window will display.
  4. Uncheck the option “Users must enter a user name and password to use this computer”
  5. Click “OK”
  6. You will then be prompted to enter the current password and confirm it.
  7. After doing so, you will no longer be prompted to enter your password upon login.

Hide “this copy of windows is not genuine” notification in windows 7

Follow this link - http://www.makewindowsgenuine.com/2012/09/how-to-get-rid-of-this-copy-of-windows.html

Procedure to fix "this copy of windows is not genuine" notification:
1) Uninstalling Windows Update from "Uninstall A Program > View Installed Updates"
2) Rearm Windows through command prompt as administrator

Resize virtual machine disk : VMware Image

  1. Shut down the primary vm
  2. Create/find a helper VM which has similar configuration as primary vm
  3. Edit vm setting for helper vm and browse for the VMDK file that you want to expand (select primary’s vm vmdk file)
  4. Once added, click on Utilities > Expand button
  5. It will take some time to expand depending upon how much additional gb added
  6. Detach the disk from helper vm.
  7. Power on the primary vm with your extended disk and goto Disk Management
  8. You will see unallocated disk space
  9. Right Click on primary disk which you wanted to expand and click on Extend Volume option
  10. Goto my computer and you will immediately see the additional space added to drive.