A slip-up of adding an extra ” to a string definition highlights an anomaly in Sass which causes it to flag every line of scss  code (including comments) with double quotes as an error including the real error lost in the jungle of errors. See example below with ” added to the end of $fontfamily (not easy to spot) and an excerpt of the Sass compiler error message pointing to valid line of code amongst many more misleading messages.

$fontfamily: "Comic Sans MS",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif!important"←;

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­Install LAMP

For the purposes of this exercise the Apache document root will be moved to /home/mike/www/ and MySQL data directory moved to /home/mysql and a virtual host created called pcdocgo.co.uk

Use Tasksel to install LAMP services

$ sudo apt install tasksel

Install latest Apache, MySQL and PHP servers

$ sudo tasksel install lamp-server

Configure Apache

Add user to Apache www-data group

$ sudo useradd -G www-data mike

Prepare new document root

$ mkdir /home/mike/www
$ sudo rsync -av /var/www/html /home/mike/www

Note: rsync –

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After installing  Virtualbox 5.2.22 Guest Additions and restart you can’t sign in. The Keyboard input is not recognised. Don’t try to restart from power button on login page as you end up going round in circles. Instead elect to Shutdown and then Start.

After this everything seems to be OK although I did not notice it took several minutes to shutdown the first time after successfully logging in. After this it shut down in the normal time frame.

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Fix by Clean Install

1. Boot Windows 10 iso usb and enter Troubleshoot – Advanced Option – Command
2. Chkdsk d: /f  – where d: is the Windows drive
3. Boot Macrium Reflect or Acronis True Image usb and make an image backup of the drive to a portable usb drive
4. Boot Windows 10 1809 iso usb and do a clean install removing all partitions before hand
5. Once Windows 10 1809 is up and running install 3rd party backup software
6. Mount backup image and recover Home folder(s)
7. Reinstall applications,

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Outlook migration steps

• Source PC
  • Note account settings
    • Email addresses
    • Corresponding IMAP/POP3 and SMTP servers
    • Data folder locations
    • Default delivery pst file
  • Note data file locations, e.g.:
    • c:\users\[user]\Documents\Outlook Files\
    • c:\users\[user]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Outlook
    • c:\users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook
  • Close Outlook
  • Copy all above data folders to a portable drive
• New PC
  • Copy data from portable drive to same locations
  • Install Outlook 2010 but don’t start it
  • Run Control Panel
  • Change from Category view to  Medium Icons
  • Double-click Mail icon
  • Create new profile called Outlook
  • Set settings the same as the Source PC and save profile
  • Change Control Panel back to Category view
  • Disable Wireless/LAN connection
  • Start Outlook
  • Go to Account setting and enter email passwords
  • Re-enable Wireless/LAN connection
  • Click Send/Receive to update/synchronise data files

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Run Windows+R and command desk.cpl ,,5 to load Desktop Icon Settings

Tick Control Panel + OK

List Installed Programs

Command Prompt

wmic product get name,version

Powershell

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\* | Select-Object DisplayName, DisplayVersion, Publisher, Size, InstallDate | Format-Table -AutoSize

Repair Windows 10 UEFI boot error 0xc000000f

If you can boot into Advanced Startup Options menu jump to step 4

1. Insert the Windows 10 ISO USB in your PC and restart
2. Boot from the media
3. Select Repair Your Computer
4. Select Troubleshoot
5. Select Advanced Options
6. Select Command Prompt

Type following in Command window

Use Diskpart to assign drive letter to EFI system partion

diskpart
list disk (Note which disk is your boot drive,

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Extend XP Windows Updates until 2019 by cutting and pasting the following script into Notepad; saving it as “wepos.reg” and then running it from the Admin Command prompt. This will add the PosReady key to the registry to enable your system to receive security fixes and updates designed for Windows XP Embedded for Point of Service (WEPOS) systems.

After applying the registry patch log out or restart and run “Windows Updates” to get your system up to date. It might take a while and suffice to say where “Windows Updates”

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