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 Read More …
Category: How To
How to do things
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 Read More …
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 …
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 …