Downloading a Video from the Web without Browser Extension
Sometimes I want to download a video from a website for offline usage, for example when I want to watch it …
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Quip hangs with waiting cursor
It's been a little while since I had a "nice" application problem to blog about. It's …
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Get registry key name from a handle
Sometimes it can be useful to determine what registry key belongs to a registry key …
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Get Rid of the Office 2019 Licensing Nag Screen
In my lab I have deployed Office 2019 to an Windows 2019 VM to do some testing with Citrix Virtual Apps and …
The AWS Access Key Id you provided does not exist in our records using AWS PowerShell Cmdlets
After changing AWS accounts I resetup my API key so I could use the AWS PowerShell CmdLets. However even …
Ubuntu crash when pasting files from VMware
It's been a while since I last wrote a post but it does feel good so I'm expecting to pick up blogging in a …
No internet access from Edge and other Microsoft apps
I had a strange issue today: I couldn't open any webpage in the Edge browser on my Windows 10 machine: Edge …
DesktopAppConverter : error 'E_MANIFEST_USE_DEFAULT_VALUE_FAILED
I had a strange error today using the Desktop App Converter with the parameters given from the Store for …
signtool sign returns error 0x800700C1
I was trying to sign an .appx package that I created with the Desktop App Converter. However signtool returned …
Case of the Crashing Task Scheduler
Recently I installed a new Windows 10 machine (version 1709 aka Fall Creators Update). After a while I noticed …
How to use a comma in the Publisher field when using the Desktop App Converter
When using the Desktop App Converter there’s no need to sign the resulting .appx packages with your own …
How to remove Windows.old folder
Just a very quick note here (mostly a note to self) but I had a couple of folder from previous Windows 10 …