Copy into clipboard
Press PrtScn to capture and copy entire screen into clipboard
Press Alt+PrtScn to capture and copy currently active window into clipboard
Continue reading “How to Take a Screenshoot in Windows” »






Continue reading “How to Take a Screenshoot in Windows” »
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.
Navigate to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Apps in windows explorer and delete the 2.0 directory.
Open Internet Explorer and navigate to:
https://github-windows.s3.amazonaws.com/GitHub.application
Select your instance and copy the value specified next to “Public DNS”.
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.
For instruction on how to do that refer to How to convert private key of format .pem to PuTTY .ppk.
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.
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.