Allergy and Allergens

I saw this advertisement in the Tube and I captured it.
No intention to infringe any copyright, just impressed with the way it describes the problem we face everyday.
I am not helping them to advertise their product, but the photo and annotation of the advertisement does have an insight to our day to day allergy causes.
It is not easy to read all characters from the picture, these allergens are;

• Sunflower pollen
• Houseflies
• Insecticides
• Pollen
• Bee stings
• Deodorants
• Cosmetics
• Insecticide
• Hire dye
• Mosquito bites
• Acrylic glue
• Moisturizer
• Milk
• Costume Jewellery
• Dry cleaning chemicals
• Latex
• Rubber
• Rats
• Meat
• Ants
• Mice
• Paint dye
• Hearing aid
• face paint
• Wasp stings
• Chewing gum
• Newspaper
• Avocados
• Kiwi fruit
• Grass pollen
• Apple
• Nail varnish
• Leathers
• Marrows
• Cabbages
• Lemons
• Carrots
• Perfume
• Gold
• Artificial fingernails
• Vegetables
• Glue
• Saliva
• Sandflies
• Pen ink
• Spices
• Sweat
• Adhesive tapes
• Cats
• Mould spores

Windows 10 Startup folder

As we know, the Startup folder contains all shortcuts to programs that will run automatically when you start up Windows.
In Windows 10, this has changed slightly which you cannot find the Startup folder from the start menu, you have 2 ways to do the same:

Method 1  
- find the Startup folder and put your shortcuts and batch file in below:

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup

Method 2 
- run from shell command:
hold down the Windows key, and type R
you will see below screen, then type shell:startup
click OK

 
then you will be going to exact same folder patch like methos 1 above

The above is showing the personal startup folder, this is per profile basis (i.e. per user login). If  you are administrator and wants to run the program for ALL USERS when windows startup. Again similar ways to do:

Method 1  
- find the Startup folder and put your shortcuts and batch file in below:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp

Method 2 
- run from shell command:
hold down the Windows key, and type R
you will see below screen, then type shell:common startup
click OK

Windows 10 Backup

When you have used Windows 10 for a while, you should consider backup you system (as well as your files).

Prepare for your backup:

1. ensure you have a second hard disk (it can be a USB external hard drive) and the size must be bigger than you system drive (normally the C:\)
2. if you have a lot of data store in the same drive C:\, this procedure will also back them up together with the system files because it basically backs up everthying under C:\ (including your personal folders, musics, movies, photos, albums ... etc)
3. if you want to speed up the backup time, it's a good practise to run a clean-up of your C:\ before running the backup so that all temp files and files in recycle bin are cleared unless you want to keep them

Backup Steps:

1. Goto Control Panel  (right click the window start icon at the bottom left corner and select Control Panel)
2. select and click "File History"
3. from the File History dialog box, select and click "System Image Backup" in the lower left corner, a new window pops-up
4. from the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) dialog box (yes, it shows "Windows 7"), click "Create a system image", a new window pops-up
5. it will search whether you have a second hard disk, if yes the drive letter will be showed under the first option "On a hard disk"
6. this is the recommended backup option because the other 2 options will write the backup to DVD or via network which normally takes longer time to complete
7. Click the drop down menu and select the drive you wnat backup to
8. Click the next button
9. in the new dialog box, it asks you to confirm your backup settings, it will tell you the backup location, how much space will be used for this backup and also what drive(s) will be backed up
10. If you agree with the settings, simply click the "Start backup" button

It  might take an hour or a few hours depends on the size and speed of your PC and hard drive. When the backup is completed, you wil be prompted if you want a "System Repair Disc", it is a good practise to do this too.

Put a blank CD to you DVD drive and proceed to create a System Repair Disc

Then you are done.

Windows 10 Internet Explorer 11 command options

Below are examples of command line options tested in Windows 10 when we start Internet Explorer 11 via command prompt of within a batch file.

These are useful commands especially for specific usage or troubleshooting.

-extoff

This will start Internet Explorer in No Add-Ons mode, you can use this to troubleshoot problems when running different browser add-ons.

e.g.

C:\>start iexplore -extoff "google.com"

-private

This will start Internet Explorer with InPrivate Browsing set to active.

e.g.

C:\>start iexplore -private "google.com"

‑nosessionmerging

Prevents Internet Explorer from merging tab processes and thus sharing session cookies across tabs. Even if you have the –framemerging feature turned on (which it is by default), specifying this option will isolate your tabs into separate processes and prevent session sharing, even if those tabs are associated with the same frame process. You can also set this option via registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER

   SOFTWARE

      Microsoft

         Internet Explorer

            Main

               SessionMerging

                  (DWORD) 00000000

e.g.

C:\>start iexplore -nosessionmerging "google.com"

‑sessionmerging

This enables Internet Explorer to opportunistically merge new tab processes into existing tab processes within a merged frame process. By default, this setting is turned on. However, if you set the SessionMerging registry key to zero (thus disabling session merging), you can use this command line option to override that setting.

-k

This will start Internet Explorer in kiosk mode. The browser opens in a maximized window that does not display the address bar, the navigation buttons, or the status bar.

e.g.

H:\>start iexplore -k "google.com"

VideoLAN VLC displays Chinese subtitle

Follow below steps to select a Unicode font so that you can view Unicode subtitles e.g. Chinese, Japanese or Korean


From the Menu bar,

1. click "Tools" -> "Preferences" (or press hold Ctrl + P)
2. at the bottom of the screen select (set Show Settings to All)
3. scroll to the bottom, click "Subtitles/OSD" under "Video"
4. then change the Text Rendering Module from "Automatic" (Default) to "Freetype2 font renderer"
5. on the left hand side, expand the "Subtitles/OSD"
6. go to "Subtitles/OSD" then scroll down to "Text renderer"
7. on the right hand side under "Font" choose an Unicode font e.g. Microsoft JhengHei for Chinese
8. press Save to save VLC settings
9. restart VLC after that to make sure changes are enabled

You can now open a video, then click "Subtitle" -> "Add subtitle file"

you can add multiple subtitle files for the same video and switch between different subtitles.