How to get information about system memory?
Open your commandline (cmd) and enter either of the following commands: Continue reading
Category Archives: Windows
How to restart a crashed frozen Graphics driver
If your screen freezes, often the graphics driver crashed… Either wait for some minutes for Windows to notice it and restart the graphics GPU driver or do it yourself with this keyboard shortcut: Continue reading
How to hide a Folder in Windows
Everybody knows the normal folder option to hide a folder…
But if you enable the folder option “show hidden folders” it will still show the folder. Continue reading
Network collection agent failed to start in IE 11 or Edge
If you can’t start the F12 Networking tab and constantly get the error “The network collection agent failed to start”, it could be that the collection service was disabled.
To fix this, you should start a Admin commandline and execute this command: Continue reading
Delphi and C++ Builder free community edition
Embarcadero just released a free community edition of their RAD studio tools. Delphi and C++ Builder. 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
How to copy files without overwriting existing ones?
If you want to copy files from a folder to a existing folder and don’t want to overwrite existing / newer ones you could use the XCOPY command.
Recently the Profile folder got partially corrupt and i had to restore it from a backup without deleting newer files. 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 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
What to do when Skype is connecting forever
Today my Skype wasn’t able to connect. It simply tried connecting for ages and then it failed.
It wasn’t my firewall and also not a old version, as i updated to the most recent version with no change.
This is the solution that worked for me: Continue reading