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I don’t want notepad to remember my previous session so I changed the “When Notepad starts” setting to “Start new session and discard unsaved changes”. Pretty quickly I noticed what seems like an embarrassing bug. Start notepad then do the following: New file Type “abc” – note the “X” on […]

In Windows 10, is there a list that tells me the mouses/keyboards that have connected to a PC?

I’m having trouble with my HP laptop keyboard. A few keys just stopped working all of a sudden no liquid spill or anything like that. I tried restarting the laptop, reinstalling the keyboard driver, and even checking for updates, but nothing seems to fix it. Before I take it to […]

Host is running a Debian 13 minimal install. Occasionally my containers will lose access to the internet, and I’ve noticed that when this happens resolv.conf in the containers will have a line changed: Working: # Generated by Docker Engine. # This file can be edited; Docker Engine will not make […]

I’m struggling with a persistent issue on Windows 11 23H2 where my monitor randomly wakes up from screen-sleep mode without user interaction. This is specifically about the display turning off, not the entire PC entering sleep mode. Historically, on Windows XP and 7, once the screen went to sleep, it […]

I want to use the data contained in the Thunderbird profile folder of an IMAP account for email backup. Therefor I seek predictability as a precondition for reliability in terms of email restoration. To this end I conducted a restoration test and now find that I have several mails manifold […]

The user request appears to be about converting or rewriting a MATLAB command sequence or problem using FreeBASIC syntax, demonstrated by the example they pasted, which declares a Sub procedure named like(), includes some variable declarations, logic with an If...Then...Else statement, and loops with Do...Loop. To respond properly: Confirm the […]