Temporarily stop all Microsoft Windows Defender processes
I have a huge sync going on right now and MSWD (Microsoft Windows Defender) is got a hold of a bunch of memory and is hitting my drive with a lot of I/O disk requests as well. I know how to disable MSWD all together but I do not want to reboot my PC while this sync in going on. I also have already t...
Using Workflows In Powershell
I have been using just a standard foreach loop, which executes as it should. However, I have an 8 core processor and 16GB of RAM and thought I would utilize such with a Parallel.foreach loop. Well, this syntax works as it should $filelist = Get-ChildItem G:GoodFilesForServer -filter *.mkv $num = $fi...
Strange PC behavior: Is my Motherboard or CPU failing?
Yesterday, when I tried to boot my computer (see below for specs), it would start booting for about 1-3 seconds, then shut off for a second or two. It would cycle like this indefinitely until I either shut off the power supply or held the "on" button for 5 seconds. During the 1-3 seconds it was on, ...
How do I set who can use my Chromecast?
I had a single Chromecast in my network. So to lock it down to myself and not allow others on my network to cast to mine, I simply created two networks; one is isolated and one has isolation off. I simply co ect to "my" SSID of the network. Now we have two Chromecasts. So to allow for this new guest...
What files does Windows 10 "Reset this PC" keep?
Windows 10 includes an option to Reset this PC which can be accessed in Settings → Update and Security → Recovery. When you choose to reset, you're given some options: The "Keep my files" option says it "keeps your personal files", but which files does it actually keep? Personal files could mean fil...
Email Transparent Compression
Can I compress email messages transparently, like my web server does with HTTP pages? It seems to me that there should be some basic compression/decompression protocol supported by servers and clients, to increase the transfer speed for large emails. The compression should be transparent to the user...
Global Proxy for a Network Adapter on Windows
I'm trying to share my Inte et Co ection with another system over Windows ICS. My system co ects to the Inte et via WiFi and shares it over to another system over LAN. This works perfectly without any issues. (Yes, I know, it's not a usual situation) But, I need to add proxy settings in the middle t...
BLE support in ubuntu
How can I know if my computer supports BLE, I wrote simple applications on Arduino using this board, now I want to write the same application but on my ubuntu computer, I read that Bluez which is installed by default supports BLE, but is there some special hardware I need to get like a dongle maybe?...
Communicate with SQL Server 2008 R2 through Hyper-V
I have an SQL server configured with a Server in Hyper-V and I am trying to access the database through the Host computer. When I ping the SQL server (static IP) they communicate and vice versa. Then through the SQL configuration manager, I can access the database from SQL server, but not from the h...
Automatically download Office 365 billing details pdf
Is there a fairly easy way I can easily download the pdfs containing the billing details from Office 365 automatically whenever I get my monthly email saying that new billing details are available? Perhaps there is some kind of REST API that I can just access using Curl? I got a reply from Microsoft...
Pass errorlevel from a child batch to parent
Parent .bat @echo off SETLOCAL set errorlevel=2 start /wait child.bat echo %errorlevel% Child .bat set errorlevel=1 exit %errorlevel% Output: 2 Expected Output: 1 The answer provided here does not work for me, also I don't understand why you would use /b and leave the cmd open. Let's block ads! (Why...
How to open iTerm2 version 3 in Forklift
I am looking for a solution which can open iTerm2 version 3 as the default terminal. For iTerm2 version 2 there were multiple AppleScripts on the inte et which worked well for opening the current Forklift dir in an iTerm tab. One such example (source): on splitPath(path) -- save delimiters to restor...