Tutorial Video Written Guide The PhotoRec Tool which we will use in this guide is available here: Lets start with an example, 2 files on a USB Flash Drive a Word Document and a Picture (Screenshot): Here is the Picture: Here is the Word Document: Now lets right click the files on the USB Flash … Continue reading File Recovery From a USB Flash Drive or Memory Card Using TestDisc/PhotoRec →

Introduction Spyder is a Python Integrating Development Environment (IDE) which has a similar user interface to Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB) which is a Commercial product commonly used in the physical sciences and engineering fields. Python and the Spyder IDE are open-source and can be freely downloaded using the Anaconda Python Distribution. In this guide we will … Continue reading matplotlib: The Python Plotting Library →

Spyder 4 and PyQt5 It is recommended to change the settings in Spyder when running a PyQt Application. Go to Tools and then Preferences: Change the Backend to Automatic. To do this select IPython console and then to the top select Graphics and change the Backend to Automatic: Object Orientated Programming Fundamentals Before looking at … Continue reading PyQt5: the Python Quasar toolkit 5 →

test1 In [3]: # Perquisites import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt %matplotlib inline In [4]: # Generate Data x=np.array([1,2,3,4,5]) y=np.array([2,4,6,8,10]) In [5]: plt.plot(x,y) Out[5]: [<matplotlib.lines.Line2D at 0x2c060a4b848>] https://github.com/PhilipYip1988/NoteBook1/blob/master/test1.html

This guide is obsolete as Windows 10 Version 2004 is now available. A section to download all previous versions of Windows 10 is included in an updated Windows 10 guide. Windows 10 Version 2004 has substantial tweaks when it comes to system performance particularly on older hardware, I recommend installing it opposed to Version 1909. … Continue reading Download Windows 10 Version 1909 and Create a Bootable USB →

Reading in Data from a File Example Book1.txt (Stored in C:\Users\…\Documents\Test1) 1→A→Small 2→B→Medium 3→C→Large MyTable1=readtable('C:\Users\…\Documents\Test1\Book1.txt') This file uses the tab [→] delimiter (the tab key is used to represent that one moves to the next column). This can be specified. MyTable1=readtable('C:\Users\…\Documents\Test1\Book1.txt','Delimiter','\t') Example Book2.csv (Stored in C:\Users\…\Documents\Test1) 1,A,Small 2,B,Medium 3,C,Large MyTable1=readtable('C:\Users\…\Documents\Test1\Book2.csv') This file uses the comma … Continue reading MATLAB: Reading Data from Files →

This guide is obsolete. Please see my updated guide: Spyder is a Python Integrating Development Environment (IDE) which has a similar user interface to Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB) which is a Commercial product commonly used in the physical sciences and engineering fields. Python and the Spyder IDE are open-source and can be freely downloaded using the … Continue reading Getting Started with Spyder 4 →

For Steam Instructions see here. Tutorial Video 1. Introduction The most common applications for PC Video Games are Valve's Steam and Electronic Art's (EAs) Origin. This guide goes through the backing up of their Game Installation Files onto an external hard drive which can be 10's-100's of GBs depending on the size of your game … Continue reading Moving EA Origin (Origin Games) to a New Windows Installation →

Installation of DeepIn Linux 20.2.2 on a Dell PC with a UEFI BIOS, Secure Boot and Machine Owner Key (MOK) DeepIn Linux is an interesting Linux distro developed in China. The DeepIn Desktop Environment is Windows like and is currently optimised for Desktop use. Some of the DeepIn inbuilt apss such as the screen recorder … Continue reading DeepIn Linux 20.2.2 →

Example Picture In this example, I will use the following picture. You can use either the same picture, if you are working through this guide or you can replace it with your own one. Save this picture by right clicking it and selecting save as… and call it LondonPNG.png this picture should be in the … Continue reading Python and MatPlotLib: Introduction to Image Processing →

Introduction I am going to upgrade from a low capacity m.2 128 GB Solid State Drive to a m.2 512 GB SSD in my OptiPlex 7040 SFF Test System. Instead of reinstalling everything from scratch I am going to use Macrium Reflect to make a System Image of the Windows 10 1809 OS, including all … Continue reading Moving your OS Boot Drive from a Old Drive to a New SSD Using Macrium Reflect →

Tutorial Video What is a Virtual Machine? A Virtual Machine in essence acts as a single Window within Windows 10 which contains an entire Operating System. This guide will instruct in converting an entire Windows 7 Physical Machine, including all installed software and user files into a Virtual Machine so you can use legacy software … Continue reading Convert a Windows 7 Pro OEM Physical Machine into a Windows 7 Pro Virtual Machine →

Introduction This guide will instruct you on converting a Windows XP Professional OEM Physical Machine into a Virtual Machine using VMware vCentre Converter. The advantage of this is you retain all files, programs and settings after converting the physical machine to the virtual machine. For Product Activation we will port through a SLIC Version of … Continue reading Convert a Windows XP Pro OEM Physical Machine into a Windows XP Pro Virtual Machine (Host PC Windows 10 Pro OEM Downgrade Rights) →

Perquisites Before looking at the SciKit library sklearn you should make sure you are comfortable using the core Python library in addition to numpy, pandas and matplotlib. Video Machine Learning The SciKit Library Data General Form When using the sklearn library the data being investigated is usually initially in the form of a dataframe. The … Continue reading SciKit Learn →

Tutorial Video Written Guide Download Links Debut Video Capture can be downloaded from here: https://www.nchsoftware.com/capture/index.html For home non-commercial use, you can use their free version. For commercial use, you'll need to get the Pro version. If purchasing an affiliate link is here: http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-8943721-11983740 Installation Installation is pretty straight forward. Double click the application: Accept the … Continue reading Making a Screen Recording with Debut Video Capture →

For EA Origin instructions see here. Tutorial Videos 1. Introduction The most common applications for PC Video Games are Valve's Steam and Electronic Art's (EAs) Origin. This guide goes through the backing up of their Game Installation Files onto an external hard drive which can be 10's-100's of GBs depending on the size of your … Continue reading Moving Steam Games (SteamApps) to a New Windows Installation →

This guide is now obsolete and has been superseded by Download Windows 10 Version 1903 and Create a Bootable USB in Windows or Linux which instructs with the newer Build of Windows 10 and also addresses a common error found with Unetbootin. Tutorial Video Perquisites For this guide you require a: Windows 10 iso (preferably … Continue reading Creating a Windows 10 Bootable USB for a UEFI BIOS within Windows →

Introduction There are different reasons for using a Virtual Machine. One of the reasons is just to run Legacy Software. If you have the setup files for all your software you can create a new Windows XP VM and copy then over to the VM and install your legacy software. If you don't have access … Continue reading Installing Windows XP in VMware Workstation Player →

This guide is obsolete. A section to download all previous versions of Windows 10 is included in an updated Windows 10 guide. The MD5 are listed in a single table within this guide for convenience. Tutorial Video Written Guide Every time Microsoft release a new mainstream build of Windows 10, they update their Media Creation … Continue reading Downloading Windows 10 Older Versions →

This guide is obsolete as it has been superseded by a new build of Windows 10. See Windows FAQs and Downloads for the up to date installation guide. The installation .iso checksum takes into account, the file size as well as the source and time/date of creation. Checking the installation .iso checksum is useful when … Continue reading Checking Windows 10 Version 1703 Installation .iso Checksums →

Introduction Windows 7 Reached End of Life in January 2020. The Intel USB 3.0 Creator Utility was a tool for adding USB 3.0 driver support to Windows 7 Installation Media. Intel have been dropped a large number of Windows 7 drivers from their servers now that Windows 7 has reached end of life. The Intel … Continue reading Intel USB 3.0 Creator Utility →

Obsolete Guide This guide has been superseded by: Download Dell Windows 7 Pro ISO (Media Refresh January 2016) from Dell and Make a Bootable USB January 2020 Windows 7 Reached End of Mainstream Support in January 2015. Extended Support lasts until January 2020. For more details see End of Support. Your Dell Windows 7 OEM License is … Continue reading Download Dell Windows 7 Pro OEM Skylake Reinstallation.iso →

This Guide is Obsolete and has been replaced by: Downgrade Rights to XP Pro from Windows 10 Pro Using a Virtual Machine Convert a Windows XP Pro OEM Physical Machine into a Windows XP Pro Virtual Machine (Host PC Windows 10 Pro OEM Downgrade Rights) Contents Introduction Example Windows XP Physical Machine Installing VMware vCenter … Continue reading OEM Downgrade to Windows XP Pro in a Virtual Machine →

Contents Downloading the Windows 10 TH2 .iso and Creating a Bootable USB The Windows 10 Product Family System Information OEM Licensing A Windows 10 Edition Device Downloading the Windows 10 TH2 .iso English File Sizes Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive Installing Windows 10 TH2 Final Preparation Steps Booting from the Windows 10 Bootable USB Language … Continue reading [Legacy] Download Windows 10 TH2 OEM and Retail →

Contents Introduction Unified Extensive Firmware Interface (UEFI) is the next generation of Basic Input Output (BIOS) and was released in 2011 becoming mainstream for all computers manufacturer in 2012 and later. What is Basic Input Output System (BIOS)? Basic Input Output System (BIOS) is the very basic Operating System embedded into your systems i.e. firmware. … Continue reading Unified Extensive Firmware Interface (UEFI) SMBIOS 2.7-2.9 →