How to increase or decrease font size in web browser

To make the font size larger in your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc.):

  • Windows PC: Press [Ctrl] + [+]
  • Mac: Press [Command] + [+]

To make the font size smaller in your web browser:

  • Windows PC: Press [Ctrl] + [-]
  • Mac: Press [Command] + [-]

To set the font size back to the “default” size for the web browser:

  • Windows PC: Press [Ctrl] + [0]
  • Mac: Press [Command] + [0]

Mirror drivers don’t support Aero effects

I noticed that my Windows 7 Aero effect was not enabled yesterday after an IT tech had DameWared to my PC to help with an issue I was having. When I went into the Control Panel and “Troubleshoot Aero Effects” option, I received the following error message: “Mirror drivers don’t support Aero effects” and the Troubleshooting dialog was unable to resolve the issue.

Aero Error

Aero Error

To resolve this, open your Device Manager, expand Display Adapters and Disable the “Dameware Development Mirror Driver 64-bit” driver.

Device Manager > Display Adapters

Disable Dameware Adapter

Click “Yes” to disable the device.

Click “Yes” to disable the device

Click “Yes” to restart your computer.

Click “Yes” to restart your computer

 

 

To stop DameWare from installing/using the MRC Mirror Driver, open DameWare Mini Remote Control, click the View menu, and choose Default Host Properties…

DameWare MRC Default Host Properties

Click on the Mirror Driver tab and UNCHECK the Use MRC’s Mirror Driver if available option.

Uncheck the “Use MRC’s Mirror Driver if available” option

Speed-up Windows 7 Boot Time

Follow the below steps to make your Windows 7 PC boot faster.

Click your Start menu and type “msconfig” (without the quotes) and press Enter.

msconfig

msconfig

Click the Boot tab.

msconfig boot options

msconfig boot options

Click Advanced Options

msconfig advanced boot options

msconfig advanced boot options

Check the “Number of processors:” and “Maximum memory:” checkboxes, choose the number of processors in you PC, and select the maximum memory you want the boot process to utilize.

msconfig advanced boot options

msconfig advanced boot options

Click OK

Reboot your computer now or later to apply the changes.

msconfig restart to apply changes

msconfig restart to apply changes

Install Windows Server 2008 R2 from USB/Thumb/Flash Drive

Format the thumb drive

  1. Format the thumb drive as Fat32

Setup the thumb drive

Open run command (Start Menu > Run), type diskpart, and hit OK.  Then type the following in sequence:
  1. list disk   (take note of the serial ### for the thumb drive)
  2. select disk 2    (assuming disk 2 is the thumb drive)
  3. clean
  4. create partition primary
  5. select partition 1
  6. active
  7. format fs=fat32  (if you don’t do this step, you won’t be able to copy any files to the thumb drive)
  8. assign
  9. exit

Copy Microsoft Windows Setup files to thumb drive

Now, open a new command window (Start Menu > Run > cmd), type the following, and hit Enter.
  • xcopy F:*.* /s/e/f G:   (assumes your source dvd is F: and your thumb drive is G: