How to set a Disk to readonly on Windows?
For this you need to open a Admin Command Prompt and enter: Continue reading
Category Archives: Misc
How to reset a HP Hawlet Packard PageWide printer?
If your printer locks you out, asks for passwords you never set and tells you that each and every WiFi and other option is locked by a Administrator then you need to reset that thing.
Mine always forgot the settings for WiFi and networking and DHCP and so on and one day he simply locked me out, disabled the network altogether and didn’t let me set anything through the touchscreen anymore.
Please enter the Pin… but i never set a pin…!
To unlock the “Disable Menu” option, press the touchscreen buttons in this way: Continue reading
How to repair plesk if you can’t access it or something is broken?
Repair a broken Plesk / Odin installation from SSH commandline with these commands: Continue reading
How to Import and Export Windows Drivers
Everybody encountered it… windows got corrupted and isn’t bootable anymore, and after reinstalling, you to search all the required most recent drivers from all over the web and many wheren’t available anymore or you got infected with a virus that you downloaded instead of a driver.
To backup the drivers you could do this command:
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How to make my PDF smaller for email.
Even in todays world, where email lost much of its former importance, it still is used for many things.
But what if you’re trying to send some PDF documents and letters and they get rejected, take forever to send or get stuck in the receivers mailbox just because it is so massively oversized?
Here are some scenarios that showcase some important problems people face on a daily base and how to get it done anyway:
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A webpage suddenly stopped working
Today multiple webpages stopped working and there was no obvious reason.
After many things i’ve tried to fix the problem, (For examlple different console commands, tools from multiple developers, restarting my router) i tried to ping a known IP adress instead of a webpage adress. Bingo, it worked.
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How to clear the ModPagespeed cache?
This is really easy. Just open a SSH command prompt to your server or set up a cronjob.
Then use this command: Continue reading
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.
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…).
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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