Hibernating your desktop on a time schedule.
The Shutdown.exe command will not let you set a time-out period for hibernating. ie. this does not work shutdown.exe /h /t 7200 Yes, you can Read More …
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Cleaning the Pre Filter on the Dyson V6, V7, V8, DC58, DC59, DC61, DC62
Or …. my Dyson V6 vacuum starts, then stops. If I remove the filter, it magically works. So it’s a blocked filter, then. While waiting Read More …
Yardforce Y4GS A18 0001 18″ Chainsaw – what sparkplug does it use?
The manual doesn’t tell you the type of sparkplug it is, which is really annoying when you’re at the hardware store. (it’s a Champion RCJ6Y) Read More …
Cracking a CherryTree encrypted database
I failed due to having too complex a password. Here is what I learnt on the way, though. CherryTree encrypted databases are a 7z encrypted Read More …
“Someone has changed my Windows 10 Lockscreen …”
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 …
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 closes immediately after opening
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 …
ipconfig /flushdns now requires elevation?
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 …
Making a neighbourhood street map from Google Maps
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 …
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 Read More …
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 Read More …