USB and Power Management?
DaleA question rolled in from a customer “We’re having issues with our audio headsets randomly disconnecting, is there a sleep setting for USBs?” Yes there is! USB Selective Suspend. Two…
Desktop Wallpaper–Tile Stretch Fit Fill Center Span
The customer sent me a request to update their Desktop Wallpaper, with the comment Don’t use fit as it upsets the “look” of the wallpaper. We mostly use “Fill”, so…
Windows 10 – Designing and setting a custom Lock Screen Background.
In short: it needs to be in a 16:9 ratio by default, the image is changeable by you in c:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds\ (Windows will copy that image and store it’s own copy…
Uninstalling the Zscaler Client Connector with an UNINSTALLPASSWORD
The Zscaler documentation gave me the impression that IF you don’t specify an UNINSTALLPASSWORD with your MSI Transform file, you can’t uninstall the client from the command. I was wrong!…
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 download programs to do that. …
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 for a new filter from…
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) Model Y4GS A18 0001 Engine…
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 archive So you need to…
“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 the contents. One way to…
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 keys; or blocking acroipm.adobe.com. Before…