I made two virtual machines, and when I went to install KB3033929 to get VMWare tools installed, it was saying “this update is not available for your computer”. But on the other one, it let me install the aforementioned KB3033929 with no problems. Both of them are using the exact […]
Rubin
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When I login using vncviewer to vnc server it doesn’t give me a user name in the login prompt, just a password. If I enter the password it won’t log me in. I thought it might have a default username of admin and so only wanted a password, but no […]
An application running on Windows 7 is breaking when it tries to render Google Maps. When I load the URL into Internet Explorer it fails, when I load it via Chrome it works. I have tried to turn off Internet Explorer via “Turn Windows features on or off” and also […]
I have multiple drives for my media which I want to all appear as one drive using mlink /j junction. Videos (F:) is a 12TB HDD which contains TV Shows, Concerts, Music Videos, Etc I have linked the Movies folder in here as an mlink /j junction to my Movies […]
In MacOS, I have a shell script that makes some changes to my tmux config file, then reloads it (by running tmux source-file). Usually, it completes successfully, but sometimes (I estimate about 5%) it “hangs”–when I run it from the terminal, the configuration reloads as expected, but I never get […]
I’m trying to automate, in the windows command line, moving files/folders that aren’t in use. Basically the main folder is making new folders and files but once the file is written, it’s not longer reassessed, it’s a recording folder. I’ve been searching around, robocopy does the job (https://serverfault.com/questions/444383/can-robocopy-be-made-to-skip-open-files), since it […]
Microsoft Word (and probably Excel too) store some print settings inside documents. So when I print a document with specific settings, this same document on another computer use the same settings (if the printer is the same). But sometimes this lead to problems, and it’s a nightmare to solve them. […]
Reposting from Windows 10: How do I turn off “Microsoft Start”? as none of the answers there works for me, as I’m still seeing this: Although I’ve disabled everything according to the answers there: How can I completely disable it? The only option from there is Hide each tiles, yet […]
I have a two monitor set up. On one of them, I keep the same windows always opened for quick review (trading charts). On the main monitor, I often click on the “show desktop” button to quickly lower all the windows. Doing so also affect the other monitor… Is there […]