HTML, CSS, batch commands, and Javascript examples that I have used in my library work. Short entries, designed as quick reference. By Len Davidson at CUA Law Library
Have a patron that wants to copy a Word 2016 style to another document, or even their Normal Template
On the Styles pane, click the Manage Styles button on the bottom right:
Click on Manage Styles button, at bottom:
Click Import/Export at the bottom left to go to the Styles Organizer:
In the Styles Organizer, you can copy Style to regular document, or to Normal Template
On the Styles pane, click the Manage Styles button on the bottom right to go to the Manage Styles dialog box. Click Import/Export at the bottom left to go to the Styles Organizer.
Have an old printer that only has drivers for Windows XP, to install on Windows 10:
Windows 10 enforces driver signatures by default. This can be
disabled to install drivers that are not digitally signed. Use the
following steps to disable driver signature enforcement.
Click the Start menu and select Settings.
Click Update and Security.
Click on Recovery.
Click Restart now under Advanced Startup.
Click Troubleshoot.
Click Advanced options.
Click Startup Settings.
Click on Restart.
On the Startup Settings screen press 7 or F7 to disable driver signature enforcement.
Your computer will restart and you will be able to install
non-digitally signed drivers. If you restart your computer again the
driver signature enforcement will be re-enabled.
Need to help patron retrieve files from damaged USB drive, this software worked well:
iBoysoft Data Recovery has a mixture of simple and advanced features
combined into a clear and intuitive interface. The app is easy to use,
even for novices. Let’s look at iBoysoft and the features it offers to
make data recovery easy.
What Platforms Does iBoysoft Data Recovery Support?
iBoysoft is available for both Windows and Mac. Its list of supported operating systems is impressive:
Windows: Supports Windows XP, 7, 8, and 10. Also works with Windows Server 2003 to 2019.
Mac: Supports Mac OS X 10.7 Lion through macOS 10.15 Catalina.
Why Use iBoysoft Data Recovery?
When you launch the app
for the first time, you’ll find that the user interface is
straightforward. It displays a list of all your internal drives, plus
external drives (if any). There’s no feature bloat or any preferences to
worry about.
iBoysoft Data Recovery has two scanning modes. Quick
scanning mode is time-saving and runs by default. Meanwhile, a deep
scan runs a thorough search to find more recoverable files, but takes
more time. Both scan methods allow for a pre-recovery preview of the
documents and photos.
Recover Almost Any Type of Files
iBoysoft
Data Recovery helps you recover deleted or lost files of any type,
including documents, music, photos, and more from different devices.
There’s also an option to recover only selected types of files.
Select your drive and click Next to start the scanning process. Preview the results, choose the files you want to get back, and click Recover.
Get Back Data From Any Storage Media
iBoysoft’s
app can recover data from any storage media, including external hard
drives, USB drives, and SD cards. You can increase the chance of
recovery by acting quickly, in order to prevent the lost files from
getting overwritten. Note that fusion drives and RAID drives are not
supported.
In limited testing with USB drives, I was able to
recover 90% of photos, after formatting the disk a few days prior. This
illustrates that you can recover data from formatted, corrupted, and
unreadable drives.
With
either location open in File Explorer, you can drag and drop
application shortcuts to configure these applications to launch when the
current user or all users log in. You don’t need any particular
permissions to drag application shortcuts into your own user-level
Startup Folder, but you’ll need admin rights and face a UAC prompt when
adding items to the All Users Startup Folder.
We are using DBAN to wide old computers, some no longer hace CD drives, here is how to install it on thumb drive:
Step 1: Download DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke)'s ISO file from SourceForge.
Step 2: Download Universal USB Installer from Pendrivelinux.com.
Step 3: Run Command Prompt as administrator. You may be able to
do the same thing with Disk Management. But in my case Disk Management
refused to let me delete the volume of my flash disk.
Step 3.1: Type diskpart and hit enter. This runs the diskpart utility.
Step 3.2: Type list disk and hit enter. This lists all disks (including your flash drive).
Step 3.2.1: Look for your flash drive (look for its size) and keep note of its number.
Step 3.3: Type select disk # and hit enter, where #
is number of your flash drive (see step 3.2.1). This selects your flash
drive as the target to operate on.
Step 3.3.1: Type detail disk and hit enter. This lists the detail of the currently selected disk. Make sure it is your flash drive.
Step 3.4: Before you proceed, please ascertain that you have chosen the correct flash drive and have no desirable data on it. Type: clean and hit enter. This cleans the selected disk of its partition and format.
Step 4: Run Disk Management. (You should be able to do the same
thing with diskpart. But I have no advanced knowledge of diskpart so I
prefer to use GUI whenever possible).
Step 4.1: Find your flash disk in the section below. It should
have its entire space unallocated. Right click on the unallocated space
and click "create new simple volume".
Step 4.1.1: In the wizard that appears, choose a volume smaller
2048MB. My knowledge is that a FAT-fomatted (FAT-16, to be specific)
disk on Windows can hold a maximum of 4GB of data, with single file
limited at 2GB. But since DBAN's ISO file is less than 20MB in size,
there is no reason not to be safe. In my case I went with 512MB.
Step 4.1.2: Choose FAT as the file system.
Step 5: Run Universal USB Installer.
Step 5.1: Choose DBAN among the lists of available options.
Step 5.2: Browse and select the previously downloaded DBAN ISO file as the source image.
Step 5.3: Select your flash drive as the burning target.
Step 5.4: Do not select the option that asks you if you want Universal USB Installer to format the flash drive for you.
Step 6: Restart and boot into UEFI.
Step 6.1: In the boot order section, select the boot mode to be "Legacy" (it may be "BIOS" on your screen). This is the culprit that made my last attempt in the question fail. Apparently DBAN cannot be booted properly from UEFI.
Step 6.1.1: In some systems, instead of selecting between UEFI and
BIOS boot modes in UEFI itself, you may need to boot into BIOS directly.
Consult your motherboard/laptop manufacturers for instruction.
menu and select Settings.
