I needed to locally run a PHP project that required PHP 8. By default only PHP 7.x is available in WSL repository. To upgrade your PHP installation to the latest PHP 8.x version within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) read on. Step 1: Launch Your WSL Environment Start by opening your Linux distribution through the Start menu or... Read more »
It's good practice to occasionally check the health of your laptop battery. There's a very easy way to do so on Windows 10. Of course there are lots of programs that will give you detailed information on your battery, but the built in command will also give you quite nice report. Open command line Press the Windows Key, then just... Read more »
If you’re a big fan of Nyan Cat meme and you have Windows XP or 7, then you should be ecstatic about this. There’s a plugin that replaces your standard progress bar with a Nyan Cat animation 🙂 Download and install instructions here... Read more »
If your PDO scripts are crashing Apache after installing xampp 1.7 for windows all you need to do is: download this package http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.2.11-nts-Win32-VC6-x86.zip" unzip copy libmysql.dll into xampp\apache\bin and xampp\php restart apache All should be good now.... Read more »
Usually when you uninstall something, associated service is removed with the software, but sometimes it lingers on. In order to remove service manually you need to: Click Start -> Run… -> type in "regedit" Find the registry entry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services Find the service you need to remove and delete the entry. Note:... Read more »
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