My old file server died a few years ago, probably because of a dead motherboard. Might have been the power supply. Not sure.
Anyways, ever since my old server went cold turkey, I’ve had this bunch of old, powerful hardware sitting for ages.
I planned to “migrate” the motherboard and CPU from my old gaming and work PC to the old server case and revive it, but just kept postponing it again and again for a long time.
UNTIL NOW! Continue reading
I had an issue with the Ethereum Mist wallet never finishing syncing the blockchain. Mist just kept downloading “chain structure” for two days, always stuck a couple of hundred blocks behind the most current one.
Here’s how I fixed it:
Hope this helps someone out there with the same annoying issue!
After upgrading to Windows 10, I have had some issues with a couple of RDP connections that wouldn’t store the username and password (credentials). Despite ticking the box to save the credentials, it would always prompt me to enter the password.
Here’s how to fix the issue with RDP not saving the login information, which should work not just on Windows 10, but also other versions of Windows if you have the same problem Continue reading
If the Alt Gr key stops working, close Remote Desktop Connection if it is open. Try it out now!
There’s an old bug that causes the Alt-Gr button on your keyboard to mysteriously malfunction.
This is an old problem which still persists on Windows 10.
This bug has been plaguing me and others for many, many years. Since we use the AltGr key to produce the @ (at) sign here in Norway,
Even in 2019, I still get this problem all the time.
I just wanted to share the solution in case anyone else has the same issue, so hopefully it helped you out if you’re reading this, if not, please leave a comment!
PS! You can still try to help by voting for this Alt Gr bug to get fixed.
Either search for “Feedback Hub” on Windows 10 and log in if it asks you to.
Then click here.
Or, alternatively, open Edge in Windows 10, and paste this into the URL (address) bar:
feedback-hub:?contextid=937&feedbackid=bbb4ec30-a366-47c0-bc4b-610604517539&form=1&src=1
Thanks to Slingshot in the comments for this initiative!
Windows 10 is awesome. Administrative shares are too. This is a quick how to for enabling remote access to admin shares in Windows 10 (also works with Windows 8.1 and older)
This is how you can enable remote access to administrative shares in Windows 10.
(This guide applies to Windows 8.x, 7 and Vista too – only the screenshots are a bit different.)
The issue:
Adminstrative shares are default shares of all the disk drives on a Windows computer. These allow access to the root disks remotely.
If you try to connect to adminstrative shares (for instance C$ or D$) on a remote computer running a newer version of Windows than Windows XP, you will not be able to.
The solution:
First, you need to have a local account with administrative rights on the computer you want to connect to running Windows 10 or older. Continue reading
The issue with shutting down or rebooting a PC or server via Remote Desktop on Windows 8 (and 8.1) applies to Windows 10 as well.
Why Microsoft has chosen to make it so difficult is hard for me to understand, but perhaps their own engineers have sausage fingers and keep switching off instead of logging off their servers remotely? Or could it possibly be related to the HP engineer that accidentally formatted all the servers of Australian bank client CommBank? Probably the former, but the CommBank incident is an interesting read for any System Center admins 🙂
So, on to the issue at hand: maybe this looks familiar to you? I am referring to the shutdown icon menu only showing “Disconnect” as an option, so please ignore all the tiles.
