By design, Google Chrome cannot be started as root on Linux systems for security reason, which totally make sense. However, there might be some exceptions where it is required. Here is how to make it work. If you need to run it once or really occasionally, you may start it with the following command using… Read More »
Since Windows 10 build 1803 from April 2018, the XPS Viewer is no longer included by default in that build of the operating system and has to be installed manually. Usually this is done by browsing to the applications and feature pane but sometimes cannot be found and installed this way. The quickest and most… Read More »
If your Windows 10 system suddenly stopped booting and show the following error message : VOLMGRX INTERNAL ERROR It most likely mean that your software RAID volume has failed. It may indicate a hardware underlying issue, such as a failed drive or the mirror just broke and is no longer in sync. To find out,… Read More »
If you are wondering why copying text from your VMware Workstation host to your Debian guest VM isn’t working, it is most likely because you either do not have the virtualization tools installed or have the wrong one installed. VMware does provide what is commonly called “VMware Tools”, however those need to be compiled from… Read More »
Experiencing the following issue with Nmap on Windows? $ nmap -P0 -sS -T5 0.0.0.0 Starting Nmap 7.70 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-04 03:14 ric dnet: Failed to open device eth0 QUITTING! It appears that some version of Npcap (or WinPcap) is causing issues. Updating Npcap to version 0.995 solve this issue. If you are running… Read More »
Here is the command how to show the available system memory on Windows with PowerShell command : (systeminfo | Select-String ‘Total Physical Memory:’).ToString().Split(‘:’)[1].Trim() Example : PS C:\Users\user> (systeminfo | Select-String ‘Total Physical Memory:’).ToString().Split(‘:’)[1].Trim() 32,767 MB
Having this error message when you login your Windows session : An error occurred while reconnecting X: to \\server-name\x$ Microsoft Windows Network: Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again. This connection has not been… Read More »
If you are using the magicJack app on Windows 10, you probably had the following issue after installing the latest Windows Updates : No Audio Found! This is caused by a new Windows security feature that deny microphone access by default to any applications. To resolve this, search with Cortana the following : Microphone Privacy… Read More »
I have encountered the following error while attempting to install the latest Windows Updates (on Windows 10). Feature update to Windows 10, version 1803 – Error 0x8007007e The update was blocking at “Status: Installing – 49%” and then failing. It appeared that since this PC have not been updated for a while, the update version 1803… Read More »
I ran on this issue where the Remote Desktop Client crashed the second it opened the session. There was a related entry in the Event Viewer that stated the following : Faulting application name: mstsc.exe, version: 10.0.17134.112, time stamp: 0x82251f4e It turned out that the issue was caused by a mapped printer. To resolve this… Read More »