Category Archives: Windows

How to Optimize your WiFi Signal and Speed Up your Web Surfing

Linux, Tech, Windows

Are you suffering from frequent connection drops or slower download speed?
Are you located in a relatively densely populated area?

If your are surfing the web in a densely populated area, it is likely that multiple WiFi networks are within range. If you experience frequent connection drops or slower speed, it is most likely due to multiple network signals competing for the same channel.

Here is a simple 2 step solution for that.
 
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How to Fix GitHub Install for Windows Failure – “Application installation did not succeed. Cannot locate application files on the server. “

Git, Tech, Windows

The issue:

GitHub installation for windows goes through seemingly smoothly, but then an error occurs:

"Application installation did not succeed.  Cannot locate application files on the server.  Contact the application vendor or your administrator for assistance."

 

The detailed message says something along the lines of

ERROR SUMMARY
 Below is a summary of the errors, details of these errors are listed later in the log.
  * Activation of http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/GitHub.application resulted in exception. Following failure messages were detected:
   + Downloading http://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/Application Files/GitHub_1_0_47_0/msvcp100.dll.deploy did not succeed.
   + The remote server returned an error: (403) Forbidden.

 

The solution:

Step 1 – Remove a local %appdata% directory

Navigate to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Apps in windows explorer and delete the 2.0 directory.

Step 2 – download the application

Open Internet ExplorerInternet Explorer and navigate to:

https://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/GitHub.application

 

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How to Connect to your AWS Linux Instance from Windows Using PuTTY

AWS, Linux, Tech, Windows
1. Download and install PuTTY
2. Get the ID of the instance from Amazon EC2 console

AWS instance ID
 

3. Get the public DNS name of the instance from Amazon EC2 console

AWS console public DNS
 
Select your instance and copy the value specified next to “Public DNS”.
 

4. Enable inbound SSH traffic from your IP address to your instance.

AWS security group
 
From Amazon EC2 console, select “Security Group”.
Highlight the security group your instance is associated with.
Click on “Inbound” tab and then “EDIT”.
Select Type “SSH”, and under Source select “My IP”.
Save.
 

5. Locate the private key and convert it from .pem to .ppk using PuTTYgen

For instruction on how to do that refer to How to convert private key of format .pem to PuTTY .ppk.
 

6. Start PuTTY and in the Category pane, select “Session” and complete these fields:

PuTTY session settings
 
In the Host Name box, enter user_name@public_dns_name. To find out the appropriate user name refer to Amazon instance user names.
Under Connection type, select SSH.
Ensure that Port is set to 22.
 

7. In the Category pane, expand “Connection”, expand “SSH”, and then select “Auth” and complete these fields:

PuTTY authentication settings
 
Click “Browse” and select the .ppk file that you generated for your key pair and click “Open”.
Click “Open” to start the PuTTY session.
Click “Yes” to dismiss warning.
 

You should now be connected to your instance.

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