Time Travel Debugging in Windows 10
Dale7 years ago I wrote about Microsoft’s useful Time Travel Debugging (TTD) tool.A customer had an issue running it recently, as TTDInject.exe was being blocked by the Cylance anti-virus product. …
An improvised 12 volt shower
Needed to connect up a temporary shower in a workshop recently. I looked at doing the whole “plump in a complete shower”, and the quote we received was in the…
“My network drive drops out”
Had a customer complaining that their computer would lose the mapped network drives. Turning off the disable "turn off this device to save power" feature seems to reduce the number…
Playing with FreeNAS–some issues
Some of the issues I’ve stumbled with, on FreeNAS.pkg was erroring with a “pkg: file:///usr/ports/packages/meta.txz: No such file or directory”This can be fixed by editing the configuration files in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/,…
TeamViewer QS not working with Microsoft UAC
When you use TeamViewer to connect to a remote computer, with Windows Authentication, TeamViewer QS will restart on the remote computer with those credentials.Except it was throwing a Microsoft UAC…
Downloading Outlook contact photos / profile pictures
I wanted to grab the photos (“ContactPicture”) that people put in their Outlook Contact Details.Not sure if I grabbed this code from somewhere, or wrote it myself. Just leaving it…
Working from home challenges–Remote Desktop Gateway Server does not work
The customer reported this issue from their Windows 10 v1909 laptop, connecting to a outsider vendors (OV) Windows 2016 RD Web Access box.Before we get onto what the Outside Vendor…
Homemade cleaning fluid
Just leaving this here… Take an empty 500ml spray bottle and add 2 tablespoons of: Tea Tree Oil Lavender Oil Eucalyptus Oil then fill with filtered water.
Downloading Microsoft Orca
1.Go here: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk/2. Download and run the SDK installer3. Click though until you get the download screen4. Only select MSI Tools, and then click Install5. After the install, you can…
Microsoft Orca
Orca is a Windows Installer package editor provided as part of the Windows Installer SDK and designed to provide full access to the database tables that compose a Windows Installer…