Portable Flash for FireFox
While Flash Player is a pretty vulnerable plugin, a lot of sites on the web require flash to function correctly. And for those of us with portable versions of FireFox, we might need it from time to time. But how…
While Flash Player is a pretty vulnerable plugin, a lot of sites on the web require flash to function correctly. And for those of us with portable versions of FireFox, we might need it from time to time. But how…
Windows 10, like Windows 8 before it, comes with a bunch of useful apps, and it also comes with undesirable apps. Based on work from Thomas Vanhoutte, here is how to uninstall and reinstall them. First, open up PowerShell with…
As an owner of an Acer W500 touchscreen tablet PC, I was eager to upgrade to Windows 10. The upgrade seemed to run fine, although I had to restore the system using the Windows 10 system restore tool due to…
I ran across this interesting question (and answer) on SuperUser the other day. Do you know why? Answer The same code that allocates kernel handles is also used to allocate process and thread IDs. Since kernel handles are a…
I own an Acer W500, a tablet PC made a few years ago. It runs pretty well and I decided to upgrade it to Windows 10 just a few days ago. However, after upgrading, it ran into an issue where…
While doing regular maintenance and software updating on my system one day, I ran into a situation where I saw quite a few reboots and blue screens. What had happened? I could not be sure, but the Windows blue screen…
Cloud storage is immensely useful for data security and accessibility purposes. Most tech enthusiasts recognize that WebDAV is one of the best (default) solutions for creating mappings to online storage. In fact, this website is backed up to DropBox and…
As a regular Word user and an owner of a tablet PC, I was surprised one day to find that I could not select tables using the square table select block that usually shows up at the upper left of…
A few years ago, I wrote about how to offload data from size-limited but speedy SSDs to HDDs using mklink. I wrote that: Some useful things to take off of your SSD are: ● Microsoft Office’s MSOCache ● The Windows…
When creating a site on WordPress using a multisite install, some of us simply duplicate a blog to retain most of our settings. If the base blog, however, has disabled commenting on posts, the new blog will also have comments…