Windows Sometimes Windows 11 is sooooooo annoying. Place a link to a webpage on your desktop... works. Drag it to the taskbar... can't p...

Datatalk Jellyfin is a free alternative for Plex (and as you may have noticed Plex has gotten a little top heavy lately). Unfortunately, the...

Windows After an update, I was suddenly left with a 500 GB hidden folder on drive O: (this is my Drivepool storage machine), and I couldn...

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VirtualBox  +  Windows Symptom: stuck at 10% when installing Windows 11 Guest on Windows 11 Host in VirtualBox. Solution: lots of small thin...

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OBS  +  Windows I'm writing this new OBS install post, as newer releases use different options, and things were getting a little confusi...

Windows HWInfo64 is a nice program, but it has two disadvantages: 1. It needs to run with Admin rights 2. It sometimes forgets the location ...

Countdown  + Windows Migrating Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office is an artform by itself. I'm still investigating and messing aroun...

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Windows Microsoft / Muckysoft / Micro$oft is rolling out it's Copilot AI assistant... and it doesn't matter if you like it or even a...

Windows Why make things easy... You can only create links to .exe files now on Windows 11, but there's a way around that as well. It jus...

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Windows My deepest apologies for the choice of words, but today was one of those days where I have been literally  yelling at my computer sc...

Windows Why does Microsoft keep doing these things? My home server (a Windows 10 box) ran perfectly fine, and woke up when requested. And th...

Windows Notes to figure out what version of Windows you have, and what combos can be upgraded.

Column  +  Windows Nearly thirty years of progress... Did we make any? I compared the layout of the same app on old style Windows NT / 98 (X...