Unbrick or Recover Xiaomi Redmi 10A and other MTK devices

Case: Your Redmi 10A (probably other MTK devices too) is not turning on and doesn't react to any button pressed nor cable connection. Requisites:   Dead phone USB Cable  You tried tons of tutorials to unbrick the phone and didn't work This image Willingness to even use Linux to fix it (it's not hard) Steps: Create a bootable USB using the image downloaded. Make sure your computer allows booting from USB. Boot the computer from the bootable USB. When booting, a list of options will be shown. Pick the first one: Boot Live system. Once the system is loaded, go to the right-upper corner to connect to Wi-Fi. Once you have internet, use the Firefox browser (click on the icon in the left-upper corner) and download the Linux version of this tool (SP Flash) and save it in the desktop. Unzip the tool downloaded. Download the fastboot version of the stock ROM . Unzip the ROM, to have the folder and files. Click on 'MTK' icon that is in the desktop. In the command line opene

Installing SQL Server 2008 Without Rebooting

When I realized that I needed it SQL Server Management Studio 2008 to explore my new databases I got the installer and proceed with the installation.

But this installer made some validations before its execution, and the "Restart computer" item was not checked.
 
Reboot conditions in installer not passed

Well, all you have to do in this case is reboot your computer, but in my case I was with a lot of documents, applications and rebooting was not an option, therefore I had to simulated this action by modifying the register, the trick here is to change the name of the "PendingFileRenameOperations" key which is located in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager".

Change registry key to avoid rebooting the PC
 
Changing this key to another name will produce SQL Server installer to assume that your computer was rebooted allowing you to continue with the installation, after installing it you have to change back the name of the key.

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