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The last 3 weeks 2 windows updates "Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64" KB2656351 and "Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on XP, Server 2003, Vista, Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2 for x64" KB2600217 kept coming up in Windows Update even though it said they were installed successfully. That was really frustrating! Those 2 had to do with .NET 4 so I even did a repair but with no luck. They kept coming up. Finally I found the solution in this forum thread . Basically what I had to do was:      - Uninstall the .NET 4 with the  help of  .NET Framework Cleanup Tool      - Install .NET 4 again      - Install windows updates Before you start: In some post I read that maybe antivirus may be meshing up with the installation of the upgrades. So deactivate your antivirus as a precaution before you start this procedure. I had Spybot Se...

I am the proud owner of a Raspberry Pi  ( Wikipedia ) :). After I installed and played for some time with Raspbian  I wanted to use my 8 GB SD card in a Windows laptop. So I connected the SD card to my Windows laptop which got me a message telling me to format the card. And that is what I tried to do. But to my surprise I could only select 64 MB capacity in the format program! Where was the rest of my card?!!! After some googling I found out that this was caused by the installation of Linux. Linux uses different file systems (ext2, ext3 etc) than Windows and creates its own partitions which Windows can not see. Only the 64 MB FAT32 partition is seen by Windows. So how do you get back the full capacity of your card? What you have to do is:      - Clean any partition information from the card using diskpart.      - Use SD Formatter to low format the card Instructions Step 0 This is the most important step of all! ...