WFH Challenge – Cylance anti-virus vs. Oracle VirtualBox–Round 2
Dale(Round 1 was posted here.) This time the error happened to me. And it was Cylance this time. I’d been upgraded to Cylance Protect 2.1.1580.42 overnight. I’ve let our Cylance…
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. …
Microsoft 365–Changing your update channel
Occasional we’ll get a user asking for a feature which is only on the Current Channel. Or a Microsoft Support Engineer tells us, or the user, “your issue is fixed…
Saturday Link Roundup–Assorted
Waves Maxx Audio is using 250mb of memory – how to disable it. Using PSExec to run PowerShell scripts on remote PCs PSExec \\RPC001 -i -u myID -p myPWD PowerShell…
“Unable to activate Adobe DC Pro”
It was all because we were running Internet Explorer 11 in compatibility mode. The fix was to apply the registry key list here: Update your operating system to work with…
Saturday Link Roundup–Assorted
How to Convert Virtual Machines from VMware to VirtualBox and Vice Versa Australia’s Move Towards Authoritarianism Under the Guise of Public Health Typing Club - Learn Touch Typing for free!…
I needed the city name from a photo, aka Reverse Geocoding …
as I had a photo where I didn't know where I had taken it. I was in a Python class at the time, and thought "this would be a fun…
“TBT Detection Gain” BIOS setting
Wasn’t able to get a Thunderbolt docking station working with the Acer laptop I was testing. TBT Detection Gain was Disabled. Changing it to Enabled enabled the Thunderbolt Dock to…
Saturday Link Roundup–Windows Defender Application Control
Some WDAC links I’ve seen recently: Deploying Windows 10 Application Control Policy WDAC Policy Wizard Deploying Windows 10 WDAC Policies using Workspace ONE AaronLocker WDAC and AppLocker feature availability Create…
Cached credentials security on Windows Operating Systems.
“Where are they actually stored though? In the Roaming Profile, or somewhere else?”, asked the Problem Team. The answer is “somewhere else”. “Windows NT 4.0 has the capability to cache…