Yearly Archives: 2026

When I open a music file with Media Player I can switch to miniplayer mode (that is always on top and just shows the music cover image). Now, when I open another music file (by double clicking it), the Media Player switches back to normal mode and minimizes in the […]

I have a couple of movie files from different sources where some files exhibit one or two of three issues: The audio tracks are mangled (being played all at once) The Dolby Vision metadata is not interpreted properly The HEVC tag does not play on a Mac (tag hev1 vs […]

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?