How to remove Cortana from Windows 10 ?
Go to your commandline and open powershell (with typing PS) then in PowerShell type: Continue reading
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Android disable USB Device Port
A friends USB port of his phone broke and he got real high battery drain on his sasung galaxy s3.
A quick view revealed the culprid… The USB driver constantly checked the broken usb port.
After we disabled the port, the batteryusage went down.
Use this command in a android terminal emulator of your choice. You also need Root privileges: Continue reading
Remove Android Bloat without Root
Todays movile phones come packed with gigabytes of applications none wants, clog our phones, slow them down and raise network cost.
The problem is, normally you can’t uninstall them.
Here is a trick that lets you still uninstall them: Continue reading
How to disable the meltdown or spectre patch
Disabling the patches is different depending on the CPU and Linux distribution / version you’re using or the Windows version.
On some you can disable spectre and meltdown, on some only one of them. Continue reading
How to gestore Google PlayStore access when Google is blocking PlayStore and PlayServices access for Custom Rom Android Phones.
Google started declaring custom Android mod running phones as uncertified and there are some rumors that it will stop access to the PlayStore and all Google Services soon. (So many apps will stop working)
After some back and forth, google made a page where you’re able to input your Phone ID to make it certified again: Continue reading
How to copy files or folders to the root directory?
Every now and then i need to gather all files from subfolders, move them to the parent folder and delete the subfolders.
For example if i unpack a few Zip archives.
There is an easy way on Windows 10 (maybe earlier versions also?) to do this: Continue reading
What if WordPress wp-cron isn’t working?
WordPress and many of its plugins need to wake up and do some work for example to shedule posts, maintenance, refresh caching and so on.
Normally it does this while a visitor or searchengine requests a page and this slows down this user or searchengine which leads to suboptimal expirience or downgrades on the ranking.
So many people disable this behavior and run a linux sheduler (cronjob) to call the wp-cron.php file by themself over HTTP. Continue reading
How to check if Windows saves space or to activating space saving
Windows 10 is able to compress system files and decompress them on the fly to save diskspace.
Sometimes this is actually turned off.
To see if it is turned off and turn it on again do the following: Continue reading
How to Remove Borderlands Intro Videos
Games often include ridicioulously long intro movies from all sponsors and make a quick gaming session impossible.
There is a way in Borderlands (which includes a whopping 8 Videos) to remove them all.
Here is how. Continue reading
How to force HTTPS on plesk so it enables HTTP2
Google is punishing HTTP1.1 pages and sites with no SSL in its search results and now also in chrome. Telling the users that this page is unsafe.
To enable the faster, more secure protocol in the most recent plesk, you need to install a Free LetsEncrypt SSL certificate in plesk.
Then do these stepps in your plesk panel under “apache & plesk settings”:
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