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Change Boot Order in Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and Above Devices.

You can change the Boot Order of Microsoft Surface Pro 3 and above, use the following sequence of commands: Step 1: Shut down your Surface. Step 2: Once Surface has turned off, press and hold the volume-up button. Step 3: With the volume-up button held down, press and release the power button. Step 4: Continue holding the volume-up button until the Surface logo no longer appears on the screen. You should now see the Surface UEFI. Do one of the following: Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3:  Go to  Step 5  below. Surface Pro 1 and Surface Pro 2:  Skip to  Step 9  below. Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3: Step 5: Select  Configure Alternate System Boot Order . Step 6: Do one of the following: Surface Pro 3:  Select  USB  >  SSD Surface 3:  Select  Network  >  USB  >  SSD . Step 7: Select  Exit Setup . Step 8: Select  Yes  to save the configuration and restart Surface. ...

Boxing and Unboxing in C#

Normally we hear about Boxing and Unboxing concept in C#. Let's see what it actually means. a. Boxing: Boxing is a concept of converting the value type variables into Object Types (reference types).  For e.g.   //value type int x = 100; //value type to reference type object temp = x; b. Unboxing: Unboxing is a reverse of Boxing where by the reference types are converted back to value types. For e.g. //reference type object temp=100; //reference type back to value type int x=(int) temp;

ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EPERM) Operation not permitted

In case you face an error as: ERROR: While executing gem … (Errno::EPERM) Operation not permitted [duplicate]   while updating or installing the gem(specially in EI Capitan), then we can do the following: Reboot your Mac into Recovery Mode by restarting your computer and holding down Command+R until the Apple logo appears on your screen. Click Utilities > Terminal. In the Terminal window, type in csrutil disable and press Enter. Restart your Mac.

How to do a fresh install of Windows on Dell Inspiron Series with UEFI Boot Model

If you upgrade your HDD to SSD (Samsung EVO 850) in your Dell Inspiron Model, you won't be able to install a fresh copy of Windows 10 booted from CD Drive or USB, though the BIOS Setup shows and recognizes SSD. It will give you a BSOD Error (Memory_Management) from the USB bootable which is created from Windows 7 USB Creator Tool. In order to resolve this, we need to create our USB Bootable of Windows 10 with the help of a Software named - Rufus. https://rufus.akeo.ie/ When we create a bootable USB with the above software we need to select MBR scheme for UEFI. That's the actual problem. So now if we try to boot again, the Windows 10 will be able to install without any error.

SSD Vs. HDD

SSD (Solid State Drive) has generated lot of buzz in the market in the recent years and lots of companies are offering SSD based laptops. There are few reasons why SSD's are becoming popular: a. Damn Fast b. Flash memory based. c. Increased battery life d. No noise. But it has few disadvantages: a. They are costly. b. The cells which are used in the SSD to store the data has a limited read write capacity. Recently, I upgraded my MACBook Pro with Samsung SSD EVO series and I have no regrets. The performance of the system is amazing fast. For e.g. a. Microsoft Word that took 1 minute to open in MACOSX now takes 3 seconds. b. EI Capitan which use to take 40-minutes to 1 hour to Install, now does the same in 20 minutes. I will recommend to upgrade your PC / laptop to SSD in case you are seeing a bottleneck in the performance. Don't go for the RAM Upgrade in case you are already having 4 -8 GB, rather upgrade to SSD. You won't regret. Highly Recommended.