It’s been days since the menu on top of virtual pc dissapeared after I chose the fullscreen mode. Good thing there is google.
Found the switch. And it is RIGHT-CONTROL yeah, not the left control key. It’s RIGHT+CONTROL + C
Viola! Enjoy!
Coffee Cup
Network is connected but no internet is sent [SOLVED]
Recently we had this issue with our Globe fiber wifi setup. After August 1, 2024 (need to check this one as well), wifi sticks are having a hard time getting internet. We can see that the wifi is connected but no internet is received.
- at first the culprit might be the wifi stick. standing that we have been using it for months and years, is there a cut-off for them as well?
- second is the wifi router itself. is it defective or have reached the limit of 60 devices (based on the manual that i read) ?
So far what we did to solve this issue is to use the command prompt and then issue a ‘ipconfig / release’ and ‘ipconfig / renew’ command and viola! It’s now working.
Hope it could help someone out
Coffee Cup
Win+Shift+S Shortcut and Snipping Tool Not Working (4 Ways)
This shortcut has been a game changer for me using Windows 10 since the old days of using Alt+Printscreen and then opening Ms Paint.
Recently, and not really sure what happens but it occasionally breaks down and needs to be reset. Thankfully here are the steps to do it. What i used is Step 3.
Fix Windows + Shift + S Not Working Windows 10 – 4 Ways
Way 1. Turn on the Clipboard History Switch
* Press Windows + I to open Windows Settings. And click System.
* Next click Clipboard in the left panel. Scroll down in the right window to find Clipboard history option.
* Make sure the Clipboard history switch is enabled and is in On status.
Way 2. Make Sure Snip & Sketch Is Enabled
* Still, you can press Windows + I to access Settings window. Click System.
* Next click Notifications & actions in the left pane.
* Scroll down in the right window, and find Snip & Sketch. Make sure it is turned on.
Way 3. Reset Snip & Sketch
Snip & Sketch is the successor of the Snipping Tool in Windows 10. You can also try to reset Snip & Sketch to see if it can fix Win Shift S not working error in Windows 10.
* Click Start -> Settings to enter into Windows Settings screen.
* Click Apps -> Apps & features. Click Snip & Sketch in the right window and click Advanced Options link.
* Click Reset button in the pop-up Snip & Sketch window to reset this Windows 10 screen capture tool.
Way 4. Reinstall Snip & Sketch
You can also try to uninstall and reinstall Snip & Sketch app from Microsoft Store to see if the Windows Shift S not working issue can be fixed.
* Press Windows + I, and click Apps -> Apps & features.
* Scroll down in the right window to find Snip & Sketch app, and click the Uninstall button to remove it from your Windows 10 computer. If the Uninstall button is grey, you can learn how to uninstall programs with CMD or PowerShell.
* Then you can open Microsoft Store to search the Snip & Sketch app to reinstall it on your Windows 10 computer.
I will saved the link here as well
https://www.minitool.com/news/fix-windows-shift-s-not-working.html
Disable Device Driver Signing in Windows 10 [SOLVED]
The original title should be “the hash for the file is not present in the specified catalog file”. I had recently encountered apps not being installed because the has file was not there. And then i wondered. Why would software developers deploy programs without this hash thing.
After a few google searches it turns out it was microsoft thing and you can disable it.
Enjoy
Coffee Cup
To solve this problem, I had to disable Device Driver Signing. Here’s how it’s done in Windows 10.
Option 1 – Command to Enable or Disable
- Click the “Start” button.
- Type “command“.
- Right-click on “Command Prompt” and select “Run As Administrator“.
- Do one of the following:
- To disable device driver signing, type “BCDEDIT /set nointegritychecks ON” then press “Enter“
- To enable device driver signing, type “BCDEDIT /set nointegritychecks OFF” then press “Enter“
You’re done! The Device Driver setting is now modified.
Option 2 – Disable From Menus
I figured this was security that was built into Windows to prevent me from installing bad drivers. This is a feature called Device Driver Signing. After going through the steps to disable driver signing in Windows 8, I was able to get my community drivers installed. Here’s how I did it.
- Select the “Start” button.
- Type “startup”.
- Select “Change advanced startup settings“.
- Select “Restart now” under the “Advanced startup” area.
- Select “Troubleshoot“.
- Select “Advanced Options“.
- Select “Startup Options“.
- Select “Restart“.
- A menu will appear where you can press “7” on your keyboard to choose “Disable driver signing enforcement“.
Now Device Driver Signing should be disabled, allowing you to install any driver you like in Windows 10 until you reboot.
Jpg Picture or Thumbnail Preview Not Showing On Windows
Ways to resolve Thumbnail preview issues
If you have complaints related to Thumbnail previews on your Windows 10, then simply try these fixes.
- Check File Explorer Settings
- Change Visual Effects Settings
- Clear Thumbnails Cache
- Modify Windows 10 Registry Settings
- Edit Group Policy
- Restore File Explorer Settings
Check File Explorer Settings
- Type File Explorer Options in the search box of your Windows 10 system and select the option File Explorer Options.
2. A dialog box namely File Explorer Options will get opened. Here, switch to the View tab, and under the Advanced Settings section, ensure that Always show icons, never thumbnails option is not selected. If it is selected, then unselect it. Then, select OK.
3. If the option was selected, then deselecting it might solve your problem.
Change Visual Effect Settings
On your Windows 10 system, search View advanced system settings and select the same search result to open it.
Next, a dialogue box System Properties will get opened. On the Advanced tab, click the Settings option under the Performance section.
The Performance Options dialogue box will get opened. On the Visual Effects tab, under the Custom section, select two checkboxes – Save taskbar thumbnail previews and Show thumbnails instead of icons. Click on OK to save the changes.
- Now, check if thumbnails previews appear again.
Clear Thumbnails Cache
- Go to the Search menu and type Disk cleanup. Select the search result Disk Cleanup.
- Next, you need to select the system drive on which you want to perform the scan and cleanup. Click OK after the selection.
- The drive scanning process will get started. Wait till it finishes.
- Now, on the Disk Cleanup for System dialogue box, select Thumbnails and Temporary files checkboxes under Files to delete section. Click OK to delete the selections.
5. It will delete the current (may be corrupted) Thumbnails cache from your system drive and Windows will create the new cache again on need.
Modify Windows 10 Registry Settings
- Press the Windows button and R alphabet on the keyboard together. Type regedit and click on OK.
- The Windows Registry Editor page will get opened. Go to the following locations one-by-one and create a DWORD name with “Disable Thumbnails” and set its value to 1 and click OK. (Value 1 = Disabling DWORD, Value 0 = Enabling DWORD.
The locations are
–HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
And
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer
3. Exit the Registry Editor and restart the system.
Edit Group Policy
- Type gpedit.msc in the Windows 10 run box (press Windows and R together) and click OK.
- The Local Group Policy Editor page will get opened. Here, on the left panel, follow this location –
User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Start Menu and Taskbar
3. Now, from the right panel, double click on the option Turn off taskbar thumbnails.
4. On the next page, select the Disabled option and click OK.
5. Also, on the main Local Group Policy Editor page, move to this location –User Configuration>Administrative Templates>Windows components>File Explorer. Expand File Explorer.
6. From the right panel, double-click on Turn off the display of thumbnails and only display icons.
7. Again select Disabled option and click OK.
8. Now exit the Local Group Policy Editor and restart your Windows 10 system.
Restore File Explorer Settings
- On the Search menu of your system, type File Explorer Options, and from the search result, click on File Explorer Options.
- The File Explorer Options page will get opened. Here on the General tab, click on Restore Defaults option.
3. Perform the same on the View tab.
4. Wait till the restoring gets completed. Click OK.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thumbnail-previews-showing-windows-10-kerneldatarecovery/
Enjoy
Coffee Cup
Windows 10 100% Disk Usage Problem [FIXED]
Sometimes you encounter a PC that when you look at the task manager, you go ‘holy cow!’, it’s running on 100% disk usage for a long, long time.
Believe me, that’s quite normal but solvable.
Here are the steps that I did to help bring it down.
1. Press + R and type devmgmt.msc in the Run, hit Enter key to open Device Manager snap-in.
2. In the Device Manager window, expand IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers and right click on Standard SATA AHCI Controller, select Properties.
3. In the property sheet, switch to Driver tab and click Driver Details.
4. If the Driver File Details window shows storahci.sys driver listed there, it means you’re running inbox driver and hence it is possible to disable MSI mode. Click OK.
5. Back on the property sheet, switch to Details tab. Against Property, select Device instance path from drop-down and note down the Value mentioned there.
6. Press + R and put regedit in Run dialog box to open Registry Editor (if you’re not familiar with Registry Editor, then click here). Click OK.
7. In the Registry Editor window, navigate to following registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\PCI\<AHCI Controller Value>\Device Parameters\Interrupt Management\MessageSignaledInterruptPropertiesSubstitute <AHCI Controller Value> we got in step 5.
8. In the right pane of MessageSignaledInterruptProperties key, look for the registry DWORD (REG_DWORD) named MSISupported which should be corresponding to Value 1 as its Data. Double click on the DWORD to modify its value:
9. Finally, set the Value data as 0 and click OK. Close Registry Editor and reboot. After restarting your machine, the 100% disk usage problem should disappear.
Thanks to this link
https://www.kapilarya.com/fix-windows-10-100-percent-disk-usage-problem
Enjoy
Coffee Cup
“Interface not supported” error when attempting to open Excel or Word from Delphi
When using Delphi that outputs some text into Excel or Word, I encountered the error “Interface not supported” on one machine
The problem was that the previous version of Excel was uninstalled incorrectly on the machine. To fix it, I used these steps :
- Open the regedit editor.
- Open
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT >> TypeLib >> {00020813-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
(The Excel PIA key is {00020813-0000-0000-C000-000000000046})
3. Delete the version that you don’t have. Leave only the version that you have instaled. In my case it was Excel 2010 which is 1.7. For Excel 2013 is 1.8, and for Excel 2016 is 1.9
Here are the version controls
Excel HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib{00020813-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\
- 1.7 is for Office 2010
- 1.8 is for Office 2013
- 1.9 is for Office 2016
Word HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib{00020905-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\
- 8.5 is for Office 2010
- 8.6 is for Office 2013
- 8.7 is for Office 2016
PowerPoint HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib{91493440-5A91-11CF-8700-00AA0060263B}\
- 2.a is for Office 2010
- 2.b is for Office 2013
- 2.c is for Office 2016
Outlook HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\TypeLib{00062FFF-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}\
- 9.4 is for Office 2010
- 9.5 is for Office 2013
- 9.6 is for Office 2016
Hope it helps
Coffee Cup
Why is my hard disk empty? Working on Microsoft SQL Server project
Recently I have download Microsoft SQL Server for a small interesting project I was working. Then all of a sudden, my hard disk space became 0 in my Drive C.
Puzzled for a few days a encountered a blog post that featured a nifty little software that I will now keep in my software belt.
It shows you the disk size of each folder in your pc. Quite a good find. The name of the software is TreeSize Free version.
For the culprit, the folder is located at :
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL15.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Log\Polybase\dump
When I looked at the folder, it came to 91gb.
So just in case you are working on a project in Microsoft SQL Server, be sure that the hard disk space will be close to zero, unless you can clean the dump folder.
Hope it helps
Stay safe guys
Coffee Cup
Windows 10 : How to switch from VGA to HDMI on the same PC
On a windows 10 computer, sometimes you have an HDMI port and a VGA port. Normally, you only have 1 monitor. When you try to plug both ports together, windows guesses you have 2 monitors so when you scroll to the right, the mouse disappears.
Now if you remove the VGA cable you will see a black screen. The secret is the Windows+P key. When you press this button, the system automatically switches to HDMI port. Please note that this step would take around 10 seconds to kick-in.
At first I thought it did not work. But patience is truly a virtue.
Coffee Cup
Teamviewer : Activated the black screen feature but is not working on windows 10
Recently, I have tried to combine both the portable version and the installed version. If you are an IT guy and you need to update a PC on your office mates office remotely, you need to hide what you are doing by clicking the black screen feature.
And as an experiment, I tried to remotely connect to my laptop using the portable version. And as it turns out, it is not working on the client side. It seems that when you activate it on the portable version, the installer for the video card does not kick in thus, people on the client side can see what you are really doing although on the server side (where the IT guys is working, he can see the tick box activated).
In this post I will include the picture on how to activate the black screen on Teamviewer.
