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“Someone has changed my Windows 10 Lockscreen …”

Posted onDecember 29, 2020December 21, 2020

and I can’t change it back. Lockscreens are located in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\SystemData directory. You’ll need to Take Ownership of that directory in order to delete Read More …

CategoriesHow To, Windows 10

Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 closes immediately after opening

Posted onNovember 5, 2020

with either a Exception code of 0xc000041d or 0xc0000005. Some web sites suggests it’s a license error, which can fixed by either deleting some registry Read More …

CategoriesHow To

ipconfig /flushdns now requires elevation?

Posted onOctober 29, 2020October 20, 2020

Customers had started to report that ipconfig /flushdns now requires Local Administrator rights. C:\>ipconfig /flushdns The requested operation requires elevation. Not all customers are seeing Read More …

CategoriesHow To, Networking, PowerShell, Windows 10

Making a neighbourhood street map from Google Maps

Posted onSeptember 8, 2020

For a community-building project, I needed to create an A3 sized street map of my neighbourhood. So I screen captured several Google Map pages at Read More …

CategoriesHow To, PhotographyTagsNotetoself

An improvised 12 volt shower

Posted onJuly 14, 2020November 17, 2020

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 Read More …

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Homemade cleaning fluid

Posted onJune 4, 2020October 5, 2020

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 Read More …

CategoriesHow ToTagsCleaning

Booting a UEFI enabled laptop

Posted onApril 21, 2020October 5, 2020

and it didn’t work with the NTFS formatted USB stick. Which is the clue to the issue there. Trying to install Windows 10 from a Read More …

CategoriesHow To, Windows 10

Waze–map editing notes

Posted onMarch 19, 2020October 5, 2020

Road types “Off-road / not maintained” is used for the sort of road that needs a serious 4WD. “Street / unpaved” can be used for Read More …

CategoriesHow To, Waze

Operating instructions for camping-boxes

Posted onMarch 19, 2020March 19, 2020

Gebrauchsanweisung für KühlboxenMode d’emploi pour réfrigérateurs portatifs The front cover mentions the following models B 501 RC 110/A RC 150/A B 533 KK BA 400 Read More …

CategoriesHow ToTagsDometic, Electrolux

Adobe PDF printer hangs on Windows 10

Posted onSeptember 13, 2019October 17, 2020

with Adobe version 9.5 –> 11. The fix is to grant all “Users”, “Full Control” to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker Registry Key (on a 64-bit system, Read More …

CategoriesHow To, Windows 10

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