Monthly Archives: August 2026

I’m assuming there is some registry edit that can fix that. What is it?

For the last month my OneDrive (business) is constantly switching between “looking for changes” for about a minute then “Backed up and Synced” and back to “looking for changes”. Before, it used to look for changes and then stay in the “Backed up and synced” state, unless I made a […]

Had the RAM fail on my Windows 11 PC. So now I am concerned that some of the user data on my PC may have been corrupted. For instance, possibly I opened a file and then saved it and it was written with bad data from the RAM. (This would […]

There are many questions like this one, i.e. why hosts on the VPN LAN cannot be pinged, and I went over dozens of them, but in each instance the difference is that they forgot to open their firewalls or something silly along those lines, which I had eliminated along the […]

When I run yt-dlp I get the following warning Your yt-dlp version (2026.03.17) is older than 90 days! It is strongly recommended to always use the latest version. You installed yt-dlp with pip or using the wheel from PyPi; I am pretty sure I did it with PIP as I […]

I have changed my router, and the new router’s LAN uses subnet 192.168.178.0/24. The original LAN subnet was 192.168.1.0/24. I need to be able to connect (occasionally) to another device with a fixed IP address of 192.168.1.12. How can I do this?

A couple years ago I bought a laptop (Thinkpad Yoga 14) and followed a professor’s tutorial to change its system from Windows to Ubuntu for class. After I changed majors, I tried to change it back to Windows on my own and sort of (badly) managed to do so. However, […]

I am planning to change the display panel on my MSI laptop. The stock panel currently installed is an AUO B173ZAN03.3. I am considering swapping it for an AUO B173ZAN06.8. According to panel specifications, both displays share matching physical dimensions and interface types: Form Factor: 17.3″ Slim (No mounting tabs, […]