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How I setup my external backup drive.
I use VeraCrypt to create a encrypted hard drive. That way, if I lose the drive, the lucky finder won’t be able to read the data. The steps are as follows: Using DiskPart and Clean the drive Start...
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Disputed computer ownership is …
a thing in large corporations. And one way to find out who has the computer, is to flag it at next logon. I used this idea at a few organisations, and it always works well. Related posts: The last time...
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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, this will be...
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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 The below manual was included with this...
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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 just dirt roads. Beware of Two segment loops, particularly when...
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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 NTFS formatting USB stick will fail sometimes, particularly with older...
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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 filtered water. Related posts: Cleaning a keyboard in the...
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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 we received was in the thousands. This was the quick workaround....
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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 the required resolution. Leaving me with 12 screen...
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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 that...
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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 keys; or blocking acroipm.adobe.com. Before...
View Article“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 the contents. One...
View ArticleCracking 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 archive So you need to crack the 7z archive. Get the password...
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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) Model Y4GS A18 0001 Engine displacement 51.5 cc Maximum...
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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 for a new filter from Dyson, I watched this video from Stampy on...
View ArticleHibernating 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. On a corporate laptop, we are...
View ArticleUninstalling 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 the command. I was wrong! (and the...
View ArticleWindows 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 and store it’s own copy under...
View ArticleDesktop Wallpaper–Tile Stretch Fit Fill Center Span
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 the customer should be ok. It got me...
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USB and Power Management?
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 ways to turn...
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