Yearly Archives: 2026

Is it possible to diagnose with 100% accuracy whether a PC is physically damaged when it has malicious software and is only partially compromised—especially if all your other devices are in the same condition, and you don’t have clean installation media or any way to replace or reflash the motherboard […]

I have an issue where working with lilypond I annotate bars of music in the source by appending the comment char ‘%’ with the number corresponding to the bar in the score. However as I work through the material often adding or removing bars the entire set of “markers” becomes […]

Some application needs to perform an elevated operation, during which it fails to read a record from a table in MS SQL Express, which is working fine under the regular user. I wanted to run a trace and see what is failing, but the trace is failing as well. First, […]

I’m using Thunderbird to access an organizational Microsoft mail account via IMAP (outlook.office365.com). Recently, I’ve noticed two folders containing sent mail: Sent Sent Items Both are marked with the green paperpale icon in the TB folders view. One of them has ~970 messages, the other has ~1350 messages. The folder […]

Is there any known way to remove a OneDrive account, from a Windows PC / account? I.e. that guarantees the OneDrive account can no longer be accessed, from that Windows account? I already found the “Unlink this PC” link, inside OneDrive Settings. When I re-open OneDrive, it then shows a […]

“Servicing registration missing or corrupt” Windows 11 25H2, 26200.9457 I have this problem “Servicing registration is missing or corrupt” I have tried: Troubleshooter​ Command​ Background Intelligent Transfer Service msdt.exe -id BITSDiagnostic Bluetooth msdt.exe -id BluetoothDiagnostic Connection to a Workplace Using DirectAccess msdt.exe -id NetworkDiagnosticsDA Devices and Printers msdt.exe -id DeviceCenterDiagnostic […]

Recently I’ve had a problem with updating the system: The Discovery app crashed every time I tried to update. After a couple of hours I’ve tried again and the app didn’t crash, the update did complete. However, after rebooting and logging I get a flickering black screen (I can see […]

I am developing a Java web application inside a VPS host. The application will be accessible from the internet. However, there is a specific part of the application that I only want to be accessible from the office LAN. I thought filtering by public IP would be the best approach, […]

old MS word gave you a popup box and the box just worked and functioned. the new MS word brings up a massive side bar like slamming a train into the side of your house and it – most importantly – DOES NOT WORK. it doesn’t do the simple simple […]