Clean recovery of Surface RT and Windows Update (2022)
If you reset a Microsoft Surface RT from a recovery disk, there is a good chance that you will get an error from Windows Update: Error 8007000e Windows Updat...
If you reset a Microsoft Surface RT from a recovery disk, there is a good chance that you will get an error from Windows Update: Error 8007000e Windows Updat...
I often use Visual Studio Code together with WSL2 using the Remote - WSL extension. Recently, I have been using Docker running on a remote server accessed ov...
It is straightforward to change the name of your Windows PC through the Settings app (go to System, About, and choose “Rename this PC”). One problem, though,...
I have been using a 128GB Micro-SD card as additional storage on my Surface Pro (both Surface Pro 4 and Surface Pro 5) for some years and regularly run into ...
Here is a quick way to get to the current user’s Startup folder in the Start Menu in Windows 10. Once there, you can right-click, Create Shortcut to add a pr...
Here is a way to change your Windows computer’s name from the command line. [Source: Password Recovery Blog]
I am lucky enough to own a pair of Bose QC35 II headphones, which can connect to multiple devices using Bluetooth. The headphones announce the name of each d...
Yesterday, I read an article on JD Supra answering the question “Can a company be sued under the CCPA for failing to post a ‘do not sell my personal informat...
Based on the code used internally by the Particle firmware for printing to String objects (see StringPrintableHelper in wiring/src/spark_wiring_string.cpp), ...
This week there were Surface Pro 4 firmware updates as part of the Patch Tuesday updates. After the system updates completed on my SP4, the type cover stoppe...
Windows has a timeout that can return you to the lock screen after a period of inactivity. This is useful if you want to make sure the PC gets locked if you ...
Samsung Smart Switch is a tool that will backup your phone and transfer the data to a new Samsung phone. You also use it to backup your phone to your PC in c...
This morning I was experimenting with some demo code and when I tried to install some packages from npm I got the following network error:
Like a growing number of people, I read a lot of content on medium.com. I wanted to find a way to share the posts that I find most interesting.
Many git commands require using an editor including writing good commit messages. I use Sublime Text as my default text editor and I wanted to make sure git ...
Microsoft Office Document Imaging (MODI) was part of Office up to Office 2007. It allowed you to scan multipage documents into .MDI files. MODI was deprecate...
The new Surface Dock from Microsoft has two mini-DisplayPort outputs that can be used to connect a Surface Book, Surface Pro 3, or Surface Pro 4 to two exter...
Yeoman is a tool that provides a scaffolding system to begin new projects. The genius thing about Yeoman is that, by itself, it doesn’t know how to do anythi...
Yesterday, my esteemed (new) colleague Aaron Gustafson wrote a piece about his reaction to the “Break Up with Internet Explorer 8” site currently doing the r...