How to enable TCP Fast Open TFO on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition for all apps in the networking stack?
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Replace Windows 10 Calculator with the old compact Windows 8.1 edition
For everyone that gets annoyed by this big clunky Windows 10 Calculator that is in fact a “modern app” that runs in a runtime enviroment, can now install the old Windows 8.1 Calculator.
Steam game not working after windows 10 upgrade
After a windows 10 upgrade or sometimes even without any reason, steam games begin to show strange behavior, crashes or not even start at all.
Verify install game cache files.
Data corruption on different places of the steam cache isn’t unusual.
Repair broken Internet Explorer and Edge
After moving some profile folders, Internet Explorer became slow and refused to load webpages.
The Edge browser simply opened and closed quickly without showing the user interface.
Copying the profile files and folders from a Windows 10 laptop, running the same synched profile, didnt help either.
Even xcopy with acl and flags copied didn’t help.
Move and redirect folders
If you want to redirect folders to move them to a different location (for example moving a big file to a non SSD disk), you can more them with the following admin command.
Recreate plesk php module list
How to force plesk into recreating the php module list, so your newly installed php extension module will show up in the extension list.
I tried to install memcached, pagespeed and different other php extensions, but they didn’t show up in the plesk php extension list.
Which port to forward on NAT or a firewall to enable RDP remote desktop? TCP and UDP
For the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to work, you need to open these ports on your firewall or NAT device (Router, WIFI…).
Apache uses 100% CPU or crashes every night
This is a common cause and happened to me with Plesk, after a update to Debian 8 with apache 2.4.
Apache 2.4 crashes with a segfault when you do multiple “apache2 reload” commands to reload settings.
This happens on Plesk every night, when it rotates the logs.
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Switch to a different boot device
Sometimes there is a need to switch boot devices on a pc (for example to start a recovery DVD / CD with a WinPE / WindowsPE, a live Linux or another Recovery system disk or USB stick.
Windows 10 stop telemetry
To stop Windows 10 telemetry (spy services) i recommend the following Technet article that
lists many ways to configure and disable new things you may like or dislike on Windows 10.
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