My (newest) Canon scanner has a USB Type C (USB-C) plug.
The supplied cable is a USB-C to USB Type A cable.
My laptop only has USB-C.
So I thought, I’ll just use a short USB-A to USB-C adapter:
Seems like it would work.
Nope.
You can’t go USB-C –> USB-A (adapter) –> USB-C.
The scanner seems to have power and/or timeout issues.
The solution is to either a) use a USB-C –> USB-C cable or b) use a laptop with a USB-A port.
It’s the Data Redirection feature that was introduced with Windows Vista, in November 2006.
Data Redirection – beginning with Windows Vista, standard users have restricted access to certain files, folders, and registry keys. When an application is trying to write to these locations, it gets redirected to somewhere else. Most of the time this is transparent to both users and application developers, but sometimes it is not and that lead to some very interesting results.
– Windows Blog: Is Your Application Ready for Windows 7 RTM?
The customer had some issues running SAP Business One. The cause? SAP trying to write to a sub-directory under c:\Program Files (x86)\SAP .
References:
The following are sites are where Microsoft list changes to Windows 10 & Office 365
Office 365
Windows 10
On our “standard” workstations we have enabled Microsoft Applocker, which blocks unauthorised software from being installed.
We also have “Unrestricted” workstations, where there is no Microsoft Applocker, and customers can install anything they want.
All our workstations start out as “standard” workstations, and get moved to “Unrestricted” when a customer explicitly requests it.
We do occasionally encounter the issue where Applocker Rules are Still Enforced After The Service is Stopped.
Our fixes are as follows.
Option 1
Option 2
SrpV2 registry key and entries under HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsOption 3
SrpV2 registry key and entries under HKEY_LOCAL_Machine\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windowsgpupdate /forceNormally one of those options will work for us.
Quick answer:
In Windows 7/8/10, we use a third-party Credential Provider, and it was blocking LOCAL (ie. not Domain) accounts from logging on. Removing the third-party CP resolved the issue. (we have logged a fault with the vendor).
Detailed answer follows:
System.InvalidOperationException: This implementation is not part of the Windows Platform FIPS validated cryptographic algorithms. at System.Security.Cryptography.SHA1Managed..ctor() at ....
When I say “learnt”, it was more about reading documents to determine what happened to cause the above error.
I suspect either of these:
My quick “fix” was to change the application to use a different hashing algorithm.
References:
Collecting Windows 10 “Anniversary Edition” Keyboard Shortcuts
Find and remove duplicate items in your iTunes library
How to Remove Broken or Dead Tracks from iTunes
This article allowed me to tidy up my music collection.
WA Health – Centre for Clinical Interventions
Has a list of resources to assist with
I thought I’d have to do this for the Surface Pro 4 “Pen” application, but Microsoft has bundled the Pen application into Windows 10 Anniversary Version (Build 1607).
The Windows OS Hub has written a comprehensive guide on how to do this.
Modern Windows 8 apps (APPX Metro apps) are mostly designed to be installed online from Windows Store. Despite Windows allows to install Metro apps from APPX files offline, you can’t download a Metro app distribution from Windows Store. In this article, we’ll show how to download an APPX file of any Modern App using Fiddler and install it on the systems with no access to Windows Store (offline systems or corporate computers).
So, our task is to get an archive with an APPX file of any Windows 8 Metro app to install it manually on an offline system. As it has already been told, you can’t directly download an APPX file from Windows Store. However, during the installation of any app, at a certain moment a client gets a generated link to download its APPX file. Let’s try to trace the link, by which Windows Store downloads an installation file.
Further details here: How to Download APPX Installation File for any Windows Store App