Fenix PD25 brief review
I finally lost my Fenix PD35 flashlight that I’ve owned for a better part of a year. It was small and light enough to fit in my pocket with a clip and not bother me. I never knew it was there. I kept the PD35 along with a Benchmade Bugout knife in my right pocket […]
Microsoft Windows 10 calculator always on top
I recently found out that in Windows 10 you can choose to have the calculator app always on top. However, the app that you can always on top is not the full calculator. The first image is the full Windows 10 calculator which shows history and you can resize to your heart’s content. The second […]
Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows download links broken
If you’re trying to download the Update for Universal C Runtime in Windows from this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2999226/update-for-universal-c-runtime-in-windows, just know that you’re not going crazy and it’s not down temporarily. Those links are down for good. However, after a Google search, I found this post and a nice developer fixed or found the right download links […]
Lenovo Yoga C740 Ubuntu missing Intel wireless card
If you have a Lenovo Yoga or similar model or even a laptop that Ubuntu just cannot seem to find the wireless card, follow these instructions: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1180765/intel-wifi-card-not-working-on-ubuntu You have to make sure you follow the edit of the answer which is to do the update and install linux-oem-osp1. If you don’t do this, it will […]
Edge Chromium protocol handler always open these types of links in the associated app
I’ve moved my daily browsing habits to the new Edge that is based on Chromium. I have been using it since the very first release. I am now using the stable beta version. I noticed about a month or so ago that whenever I tried connecting to a Screenconnect session, the protocol handler would always […]
Outlook is retrieving data from the Microsoft Exchange Server outlook.office365.com
I have a client who has been having this problem for several months now. It started out of the blue. No one else in that site has the same problem. Although the computers are not exactly the same, they all share a commonality in that they are all Dell OptiPlex workstations running Windows 10 Pro […]
Server 2012R2 FileZilla Server stops working – only reboot fixes problem
If you’re running Server 2012R2 with FileZilla server doing FTP server dutie and you find yourself with an end-user who reports that FTP stops working every few days and then you go on to check and cannot get out via web browser, you probably have an orphaned iSCSI connector. That is what was causing this […]
Intel Rapid Storage Technology (Intel RST): The inbox storage driver iastora.sys doesn’t work on these systems and causes stability problems on Windows. Check with your software/driver provider for an updated version that runs on this version of Windows
If you get this error message while trying to upgrade to Windows 10 1903, and you update your storage driver, but this message is still appearing, you have to go into C:\Windows\system32\drivers (WARNING, WHAT I AM ABOUT TO TELL YOU CAN HOSE AND DAMAGE YOUR SYSTEM. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A GOOD BACKUP THAT […]
iCloud 0x800CCC0E Outlook cannot synchronize subscribed folders after enabling multi-factor authentication
If you’re struggling to try to get your iCloud account with multi-factor authentication enabled to work properly within Outlook, and you’ve tried going to File > Account Settings and tried changing your password there, you’re in luck. You first have to generate an app password at appleid.apple.com. Next, you have to go through Control Panel, […]
The way it should be: eBay search preferences
I had bought items on eBay after performing a search and seeing that the seller is located in “Georgia” or some other similarly named city/state that exists in the US only to find out that the person selling the item is in GEORGIA the COUNTRY! After all these years I still don’t understand why eBay […]