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Wednesday, 8 March 2023
New Windows 10/11 UEFI bootkit can bypass Secure Boot!
Sunday, 5 February 2023
Where have all the birds and insects gone - and should we care?
Sunday, 22 January 2023
Add OpenCore to your Easy2Boot USB drive
Copy the EFI\OC folder to Partition 2 (which should be FAT32) at \EFI\OC
Copy the \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI file from your OC source to the same \EFI\OC folder on Partition 2
Add your \EFI\OC\config.plist file (edit as required)
UEFI64 boot to the E2B agFM menu and browse to the \EFI\OC\BOOTX64.EFI file on Partition 2 and select it and press ENTER key.
If you are using your own startup menu, you can add the following entry into the \boot\grubfm\startup_menu.txt file:
if [ -f "(${user})/EFI/OC/BOOTX64.EFI" ] ; then
menuentry "OpenCore (UEFI64)" --class=settings {
set grubfm_file="(${user})/EFI/OC/BOOTX64.EFI"
grubfm_open "${grubfm_file}"
}
fi
fi
https://easy2boot.xyz/create-your-website-with-blocks/add-payload-files/opencore/
Thursday, 19 January 2023
New Windows Update for XP
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
New money saving tips eBook (PDF)
This 39 page eBook (PDF format) contains many of the money saving tips that I use every day (well most of them anyway :-) as well as some crafty tricks. For instance, I get £60 off my normal supermarket shopping bill every month using a simple trick to get £15 money-off vouchers every week. It can be used with other retail stores too and should work in most countries, not just the UK.
It also contains some heating/energy tips too as well as many other tips for other savings.
You may be familiar with some of these tips already, but even if you only actually use just one of them you will have saved the cost of the eBook!
It is currently on SALE at just $1 for two weeks only (normally $5).
Steve's Money-Saving Tips for 2023 (39pp.)
Sunday, 15 January 2023
Anyone can make a small business website in 2 hours (free PDF eBook)
Help - my kitchen ceiling is leaking!
I recently hired a plumber because there was water dripping from my kitchen ceiling and I couldn't find the source!
Friday, 6 January 2023
Try the new Rescue WinPE from AIOBoot
It seems to work for Legacy 64-bit and UEFI64 systems. Place the two files in the correct locations as instructed:
It claims to be semi-persistent as the “Program Files”, “ProgramData” and “Users” folders in drive X: are moved to drive Y: and data written to these folders and Y: drive will be saved.
Thursday, 5 January 2023
Run grub4dos commands from the Ventoy (or any grub2) menu system
Ventoy is based on grub2 and although it is very good at booting most legacy payloads, it is not that good at booting some DOS floppy images and some other legacy BIOS payloads.
If you need to boot using grub4dos, you can define your own grub2 external user menu (\ventoy\ventoy_grub.cfg) which can be run from Ventoy by pressing F6 in the Ventoy menu system.
My eBook 'Getting started with Ventoy' gives a few examples of how to do this.
Monday, 2 January 2023
Easy2Boot v2.19 released
- New grub4dos /grldr to fix changing wallpaper bmp/jpg whilst animation is running in background.
- Revise E2B Launcher.exe to add ‘Download and Update E2B’.
- Update some files - hotkey utility, Add_Ventoy.cmd, CheckForUpdate.cmd, CreatePersistentFile.sh,Download and Update E2B.cmd also tells user which version is installed on USB drive.
- Add new INDONESIAN menu language (thanks to mikail)
- Add ‘+DPMS’ or ‘ – No DPMS’ to default MAIN MENU heading so user can tell which version is installed.
- Add “\_ISO\docs\E2B Utilities\GetWindowsProductKey.vbs” – run this to get the current Windows system Product Key.
Sunday, 1 January 2023
Formatting, copying and writing floppy disks
Personally, I have not used a floppy disk in over 15 years, but if you are into retro computers and still use them, then you must check out this excellent Adrian's Digital Basement YT video:
In the video, he describes how to use the DOS ImageDisk program to test, read and write all sorts of floppy disks.