How to repair Mac

Hi all, based on my recent experience, i will share steps involved in case you want to explore how to repair your Mac machine (iMac / Macbook). Although it is a huge difference between Windows, the concept is almost similar but using different methods.

Mac doesn't boot to login screen / corrupted/ etc or similar issues:

To repair HDD in case disk corrupted, etc:
1. Reboot your Mac and press and hold Command + R key in your keyboard until the Apple logo appears and loads into a repair option window.
2. Once you see the repair selection window, select disk utility and continue.
3. On the next window, select the disk you wish to repair and click "first aid" button on top the window.
4. The selected disk will be checked for errors and repaired if possible.
5. You may exit the window and reboot your Mac once done.

Note: you may also select Reinstall Mac OS incase you suspect the OS is corrupted and it will reinstall your OS.

To repair HDD using CLI (command line interface):
1. Reboot your Mac and press and hold Command + S key in your keyboard until the Apple logo appears and loads into a command line interface. This will be considered single user mode in Mac.
2. Key in /sbin/fsck -fy and press enter. This will repair your disk and show the progress until complete.
3. Once it is complete, you may type the command reboot and press enter to reboot your Mac.

Robocopy for copying files and folders in Windows

Hi all, I would like to share alternative step to copy files / folders in Windows apart from the conventional Windows Explorer copy method.

This Robocopy method will show the progress of your copy, files / folders being copied, size, number of files copied, skipped and etc.

To use this method, you may follow the below steps:

1. Open command prompt by typing "cmd" without quotes or Windows Powershell by typing "powershell" once clicking Start icon in Windows.
   
   Note: Make sure you right click and click "run as administrator" for the application shortcut, regardless of command prompt or windows powershell - this is to avoid permission issues when running commands.
   
2. Once opened, in order to run robocopy to copy files, you may type the below command to run:
   robocopy /E
   
   /E - copies all folders and folders including subdirectories which is empty
   
   Note: you may explore more additional command/ syntax for robocopy by typing "robocopy /?" without quotes.

Example:

How to reset administrator password in Windows based machine

Hi everyone, it has been long since I last wrote or published a post, this time I will share some tips on how to reset administrator account password in windows machine / PC due to my recent encounter with Windows Server 2012 based VM which I lost track of the password I set. Below are the steps:

Instructions

1. Boot from the Microsoft Windows Server 2012 / related Windows DVD.
2. From the Windows Setup menu, click “Next”.
3. Select “Repair your computer”
4. Under Choose and option, click on “Troubleshoot”.
5. Under Advanced options, click “Command Prompt”.
6. At the command prompt, run the following commands (note: D is the drive where your actual system files located, you need to navigate to the correct drive):
   d:cd windows\system32ren Utilman.exe Utilman.exe.oldcopy cmd.exe Utilman.exe
   
7. Close the command prompt and then click “Continue”.
8. The server / PC should now boot and present the logon screen. Here click Windows Key + U.
9. At the prompt you can now change the password, by typing the following command:
   net user administrator Password123
   This will set the password for the Administrator user to be Password123 (case sensitive). You may set the password of your choice.
10. Close the command prompt by typing exit.
11. Login the administrator account using the password you set earlier (in step 9).

Cleanup Steps

1. Restart your server / PC and once again, boot from the Micrsoft Windows Server 2012 DVD.
2. From the Windows Setup menu, click “Next”.
3. Select “Repair your computer”
4. Under Choose and option, click on “Troubleshoot”.
5. Under Advanced options, click “Command Prompt”.
6. At the command prompt, run the following commands: (note: D is the drive where your actual system files located, you need to navigate to the correct drive):
   d:cd windows\system32ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.newcopy utilman.exe.old utilman.exe
7. Close the command prompt and then click “Continue”.

Hope this helps for those who unfortunately lost their administrator account password that they set and unable to login to windows. This step helps to quick rectify the issue without having to reformat or wipe the disk and install the OS again.

Microsoft Click-to-run process consume high CPU & Memory

Hi all,

Recently i have been encountering issues with my notebook CPU & Memory usage when starting up, where it shoots up very high and stays high for some time.

It occurs every time i boot up the notebook into windows and when checked, the process of "Microsoft Click-to-run" is consuming the most resources based on windows task manager.

There are some steps to be performed to reduce this, even though it was not fully effective for me. You can give it a try as below:

1. Disable service click-to-run (in services - set disabled)
2. Restart computer (click-to-run will be not loaded)
3. Open C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\Spw and delete all files
4. Open C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Office\15.0\OfficeFileCache and delete all files
5. Enable service click-to-run (set automatic)
6. Restart computer

Alternatively, you may find the full question and answer at Microsoft at this link:
http://bit.ly/2z8kwo4

GE13 swing

Its the 13th general elections as we all know in Malaysia.

Few of my opinions about it:

1. More seats won by the so called "Opposition" parties compared to the last 2008 elections.
2. Previous ruling government came into power again with slight margin.
3. People were not clear about the results as mainstream medias only showed results comprising one political party's victory on seats contested.
4. Results were too slow ( Not sure made up or really counting took time)
5. It looked like a major foul played when out of the sudden a political party was announced victorious with minimum majority number of seats reached suddenly after a blackout came back normal.
6. People looking at online results were not confident of sudden surge of seats obtained by the victorious party in certain states where the victory should be otherwise falling to the opponent party.

Whatever fouls or tricks being played, now every single citizen are smart and the whole world knows because the power of internet. People are no more depending on the mainstream medias controlled by the Government for information as it is too bias to one side. Things might happen or might not happen, lets just be calm and go with the flow for now.