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The Beginner Programmer's Experience

 So I had a really great idea for an online service and did some searches to see what other websites are similar to my idea and was stunned that none are out there! This has only bolstered my ambition to make what I envisioned a reality as it is going to make for a cheaper and more affordable alternative for my intended audience and I feel confident that it will be a money maker even as an incomplete website. How ever, I do not have programming skills. My experience has been repairs, upgrades, networks, tweaks to operating systems to speed them up, configuring webservers, html 4 and css, some Joomla!, Prestashop, and Wordpress, etc. but nothing in the programming arena or even javascript or php. So I started this blog and named it "Online Project Updates" so I can write posts on my progress developing my idea into a functional site that has (hopefully) happy members, and to keep track of notes, maybe bits of code, links to useful software and websites that prove helpful durin

Fix for MagicDisc driver mcdbus.inf not signed

To get mcdbus to install on Windows 8 and below (all systems, x86 and x64)  Windows prevents the installation of drivers that are not Digitally Signed as a security measure. Since MagicDisc is freeware and they have not signed the driver, you must turn off driver signature enforcement and restart.  Right click on Command Prompt and choose "Run as Administrator"  Copy and paste or type these lines one at a time, hitting Enter after each line:     bcdedit -set loadoptions DISABLE_INTEGRITY_CHECKS     bcdedit -set TESTSIGNING ON  Restart the computer.  If you have not already downloaded and installed MagicDisc, do so before proceeding from here.  Run Regedit and go to HKLM\LocalMachine\CurrentControlSet\services\ and right click on services folder, choose New -> String and name it mcdbus and click OK.   Download this zip file and extract contents. Open the folder where you extracted the files. Copy the mcdbus.inf file and paste it into these two folder locati