Thursday, November 21, 2013

How to install a third-party Google Chrome extension


There are not many people who do it but still sometimes we come across third party browser extensions for e.g Yesterday I was installing a download manager called "FlashGet" (Try it it's pretty good). It works with two of the leading browsers that is "Mozilla Firefox" and "Google Chrome". The extension for this very software was directly available in the Firefox add-on page but it wasn't there on the "Chrome web store". Instead, when I chose to install the browser support for Chrome it just downloaded a ".crx" file and I got this error. So it came to my knowledge that the new Google Chrome can't apply off-store plugins.


So, to fix this, you can try 2 things:

1. Download the extension-->Open the extension page from the menu-->Drag the downloaded extension to the page

2. Or there's a permanent solution: Right click on Chrome icon-->Properties-->add "--enable-easy-off-store-extension-install" without quotes to the target at the end and apply. Now you can install any off-store plugin!



Saturday, November 9, 2013

How to Uninstall/Delete Ubuntu from Windows: The safest way

So, I ran into this issue just recently. That explains my love for this open source masterpiece....I loved it so much that I didn't know how to delete it until like yesterday!! Hah!!

And now that I have deleted it (just because I wanted to free up my drive space :( ) I ran into quite a few problems which made me kinda nervous. So I thought sharing them would be good. I know there are a lot of tuts online for this but still....they sometimes confuse people and make them worry....they had me woried at least....with all those abbreviations like "MBR" and "BIOS" one can only look at it and say, "Okay that's some shit."........so let's cut to the chase

There are lots of ways in which people install Ubuntu and the simplest way is with the Windows installer (usually long term support packages come with a windows installer) or "wubi.exe". If you've installed it this way, you can uninstall it like any other Windows software. Just go to the "Add or remove programs" in the start menu and you're done. No further procedure!

But if it is some other version that doesn't support direct WUBI installation and requires you to make a CD/USB then you're in for the adventure...

Things you'll need:
1. EaseUS Partition master (You can get it from here)
2. Your Windows CD/DVD (Important! Don't attempt this gig without this baby!)
3. Ubuntu installed ( -_- wtf are you reading this article for?)

And that's it. While installing Ubuntu yall have had to create some extra disk partitions for it's filesystem. Now it's time to delete them. In many cases there is a very common problem that users cannot delete those partitions from the default Windows disk management tool (See the picture below- the delete option isn't activated).  But if you're able to do that no worries just follow the below procedure with the default Windows partition manager instead.


So we're gonna use a third party tool called EaseUS Partition Master to deal with this. Now it's very important for you to identify the correct partitions or you will simply end up deleting your windows partition. So first, open the EaseUS manager and locate the partitions. To reduce the confusion, remove all the external storage devices connected to your PC. And now you can delete every other partition which is not a Windows partition. 

The program will automatically reboot your PC in a different mode and carry out some tasks, you don't have to worry about it. But the next time when the system reboots it wont boot into any OS.

This is because you have deleted the partitions which contained the "GRUB" menu (The interface that was letting you choose the OS after starting till now) and we have also deleted it's ability to boot into Windows!

At this time, insert your Windows CD and boot. When the menu shows up, select "Repair".


Choose Command Prompt and type these commands:
bootrec /fixmbr
bootrec /fixboot

XP users need to run the recovery console from Windows XP CD and then type fixmbr when at the command prompt.

Now your windows will boot normally!

Now to reclaim the freed space you can use any Disk Manager and reallocate it to the partitions that you want.

You've successfully Uninstalled Ubuntu!!!!!!!!!