Windows

Yet another simple problem/resolution. If you are looking to make your VirtualBox VM’s resolution match that of your host making full-screen mode, truly full screen, look no further, here is the answer. Once again we are looking at an issue caused by a default setting. You can set your VM to full-screen mode, but it not likely to rescale to the native resolution of your display. The setting which you need to change requires you to have the VM powered off. Enter the settings for the VM > Display > Screen Tab > Graphics Controller: VBoxSVGA. ...

I once faced a rather tedious task that involved recursively modifying a number of shortcut paths stored across a convoluted folder structure. There was approximately 100 shortcuts which needed part of their path modifying. The answer: Create a****PowerShell script. The following code utilises regex to check for the existence of a string and modify with the define replacement. It is easily possible to use Read-Host to make this a little bit more interactive, but the purposes of my use-case it was just as simple to modify these variables before running the script. ...