“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 …
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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 …
Booting a UEFI enabled laptop
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 …
Waze–map editing notes
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 …
Operating instructions for camping-boxes
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 …
Adobe PDF printer hangs on Windows 10
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 …