Yet another fun one:
You reboot your Windows PC, and try to log in.
Only trouble is, there isn’t a login screen!
There’s a background wallpaper image, you can see your mouse cursor and move it around, but there’s no account image, username, or password/PIN box to type in.
It appears your PC is hosed, but fear not!
Ah, Windows networking... It sucks.
Chances are, you've got some linuxy gizmos like a NAS or local linux server for media or whatever.
And chances are, it does NOT show up in Network in the file Explorer.
Fortunately, this is the easiest thing in the world to fix - don't faint!
Way back in early 2009, I wrote a post entitled: How to Determine the Master Browser in a Windows Workgroup
Since then, quite a number of people have downloaded and used my little LANscanner program for displaying the IP addies, MAC addies, workgroup, and Master Browser of all the gizmos on their local network.
One problem: With the release of Windows 10 it stopped working. Version 2.0 fixed that, but then came Windows 11... And LANscanner got REALLY SLOW...
Well, I'm happy to announce the release of LANscanner v3.0! (more…)
It can happen during power flickers, after Windows updates, and a whole lot of other times: the dreaded Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) with an error message about BCD / 0xc0000098.
Now I know your Windows won't boot, and usually that's time for Panic Mode...
But it turns out that fixing this problem is not that difficult.
You just need a tiny amount of patience, some fingers to type, and these instructions! (more…)
If you're running VirtualBox on Windows, you may have seen this fun problem: 40 "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapters" listed next to your normal network connection in Device Manager and network Settings.
What's worse, when you try to delete them, it works... until a few minutes - or maybe a reboot - later, et voila! They've gone forth and multiplied.
You delete, they spawn again... The minute you disable them, your Windows networking works again, until... MORE of them appear!
What gives? How do you fix this seriously annoying issue?
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Learn these hotkeys and get more done in less time!
Instead of using only your mouse, keep one hand on your keyboard… and sometimes, you don’t even need to touch your mouse!
This is how the “pros” do it…
This video is #2 in a series of 10 – so stay tuned for the rest. (more…)
What do you do when all your desktop thumbnails turn into black squares?
You fix it good!
For the full-length video, watch here.
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NVMe drivers are blazingly fast.
Unfortunately, they sometimes "disappear" - as in, you can't boot from the drive, and even the Windows installer can't see the drive at all.
What gives?
The answer is quite simple - and so is the fix! (more…)
Sometimes, you just need to kill an application in Windows.
It used to be that you could enter Task Manager, choose the program you want to kill, right-click, and then End task!
Simple, right? Yup.
But then after a recent Windows 11 update, the ability to end a task totally disappeared from Task Manager!
Well, that simply won't do... So how do you get back your End task superpowers??
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WSL, or Windows Subsystem for Linux, is super-useful for running linux in Windows 10/11.
But what happens when you want to copy your WSL flavor of linux to another machine?
With WSL2, it's super-easy!
Just type a few commands, and you're off and running...
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