Why has Windows Defender started removing shortcuts on 13 January 2023?
Because it is buggy… [Short answer to the question “Why has Windows Defender started removing shortcuts today (13/01/2023)?“] This issue is resolved in … Read more
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Windows 10 Update 1511 fails with DiskCryptor whole disk encryption
This appears to be a problem with Full Disk Encryption software generally (with the presumable exception of MS’s own BitLocker). From the VeraCrypt … Read more
Identifying Windows 10 \Device\Harddisk1\DR2
How can I tell which physical device this actually is? You can use wmic diskdrive get caption, deviceid, size to match up the … Read more
What is “Windows 10 for Mobile Image – 10.0.10586.0” and can it be safely removed?
It’s the Windows 10 Mobile emulator image for Hyper-V… you can remove it unless you want to have a Win10 Mobile emulator running … Read more
How to rename quick access shortcut without renaming the original folder name? [duplicate]
Windows does not have the ability to rename Quick Access pinned items, so one needs to rather use the workaround of pinning a … Read more
Windows10: What is “Service CPU Usage”?
It is the same in Windows 8.1 The subtotal of CPU usage for all the svchost.exe’s or services that are part of Windows … Read more
How are Dell’s default computer names (DESKTOP-XXXXXX) generated?
Does anyone know how the default computer names are generated? The Computer Name is randomly generated, using the following rules: ComputerName specifies the … Read more
What Alt + number is a tick?
The tick mark which you referred to, i.e Alt + 0252 is only possible if you select the font as “Wingdings” as mentioned … Read more
What is the Apps.ppkg file about?
.ppkg files are provisioning packages: A provisioning package (.ppkg) is a container for a collection of configuration settings. With Windows 10, you can … Read more
Port 9001 used by Microsoft-HTTPAPI/2.0
After Daniel B comment I did the following: $ netsh http show servicestate Snapshot of HTTP service state (Server Session View): —————————————————– Server … Read more
