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USB and Power Management?

Dale April 7, 2023 0 Comments

A 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…

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Desktop Wallpaper–Tile Stretch Fit Fill Center Span

Dale March 8, 2023 0 Comments

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…

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Windows 10 – Designing and setting a custom Lock Screen Background.

Dale November 22, 2021 0 Comments

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…

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Uninstalling the Zscaler Client Connector with an UNINSTALLPASSWORD

Dale October 8, 2021 0 Comments

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!…

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Hibernating your desktop on a time schedule.

Dale September 17, 2021 0 Comments

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. …

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Cleaning the Pre Filter on the Dyson V6, V7, V8, DC58, DC59, DC61, DC62

Dale April 11, 2021 0 Comments

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…

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Yardforce Y4GS A18 0001 18″ Chainsaw – what sparkplug does it use?

Dale March 8, 2021 0 Comments

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…

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Cracking a CherryTree encrypted database

Dale February 26, 2021 0 Comments

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…

How To Windows 10

“Someone has changed my Windows 10 Lockscreen …”

Dale December 29, 2020 0 Comments

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…

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Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 closes immediately after opening

Dale November 5, 2020 0 Comments

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…

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