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
Category Archives: Optimizing
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
What to do when skype freezes?
If you set your skype to a compability mode in Windows 10 to remove it from the taskbar, then the most recent Windows update or Skype update made Skype completely unrelliable and constantly freezing. 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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How to remove the taskbar icon from Skype on Windows 10
Here is how to remove the pesky taskbar icon of skype on Windows 10 and move it into the tray: Continue reading
How to enable HTTP2 on Plesk?
On Plesk starting from version 12.5.30 update #28 you only need to go to your ssh console and enter this command to enable HTTP2 HTTP/2 or also called HTTP/2.0 on all sites that use SSL (HTTPS) and nginx. Continue reading
How to remove the “3D Objects” folder in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
In Windows 10 Fall Creators update there is a new annoying folder in “This PC” that is called “3D Objects”.
To remove it you need to open regedit and delete these values: Continue reading
How to enable inline HTML email in horde on plesk / odin?
For this you need to go to your favorite editor (nano in my case) and edit a few files.
Here are the files: Continue reading
Remove foreign audio from videos with ffmpeg
Here is a ffmpeg script to copy a video from a NAS network drive to a local drive and remove unneeded audio in foreign languages.
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Disable the annoying popup notification in firefox
Disable the annoying popup notification in firefox.
The popup often falsely states: “To improve video quality , you may need to install microsoft’s media feature pack.” when you try to view online videos.
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