On one of my laptops, a premium model with a Core i7, 32GB of RAM and a 2TB SSD disk, it seems to take forever (possibly longer) to upgrade from Windows 10 Pro to Windows 11 Pro, and I can’t quite wrap my head around …
After getting files from a remote source, it is often a good idea to get some sort of fingerprint or checksum of the file, and verify it against a known value published in a place or on a website you trust. For Windows, this can …
This does not seem to be a problem for everyone nor for every XFCE theme, but sometimes it can be a real drag (no pun intended) to resize the windows in XFCE / XFWM4. For no apparent reason whatsoever, this seems to be known by …
Overwriting “unused space” on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 10 is quite simple. Open a “Command Prompt” window, and type: cipher /w:DD Where “DD” is your drive without a suffix, e.g. cipher /w:C to wipe unused space on drive C. Why is this useful? …
If you, like me, are using Ubuntu – or similar – for your daily stuff and need to connect to a Windows Server by using RemoteDesktop (RDP) / TerminalServer, you may find that local (Linux) resources are not made available to you on the Windows …