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Issue Minecraft server crashes when computer is resuming from sleep mode. Minecraft Logs: [05:11:26] [Server thread/WARN]: Can’t keep up! Did the system time change, or is the server overloaded? Running 23352870ms behind, skipping 467057 tick(s)[05:11:35] [Server Watchdog/FATAL]: A single server tick took 23361.66 seconds (should be max 0.05)[05:11:38] [Server Watchdog/FATAL]: Considering it to be crashed,…

These instructions will allow setting up Minecraft server to launch automatically when computer starts. I used Windows 8.1 Pro machine, but setting this up on different Windows versions would be very similar.

Issue Cannot change Music Rip location in Windows Media Player 12 on Windows 7 Tools > Options > Rip Music > Rip music to this location

Issue Can’t complete an in-app purchase in Windows Store on a Windows 8.1 tablet. The in-app purchase was for Island Tribe game (to upgrade it to the full version). After clicking buy and entering the password, following error would show up: Your purchase couldn’t be completedPlease try again later. Trying again later didn’t really help… The…

I recently had a task to scan large number of old photos using a flatbed scanner. Scanning photos one by one would be terribly inefficient as I could normally fit 4 – 5 photos on the scanner. Scanning multiple photos on one page was obviously much faster, but it left me with another task of…

Google Picasa started freezing while manually adding people face tags. Difficult to say when exactly it started as I wasn’t using this feature for a while and Picasa by default updates automatically in the background. When I noticed the issue the version of Picasa was 3.9.137 (Built 81). The freeze was not permanent, but I…

Xbox One’s ability to power-on and power-off your other devices (basically TV and AVR) is a cool idea but unfortunately it’s not nearly as sophisticated as what Logitech Harmony remotes can do. For example, to switch on my Panasonic TV, a remote has to send power-on signal for a few seconds. While you can easily…

Option 1 You can try Plex Skin Manager for Windows. If it works for you, that’s the easiest way to install and manage Plex skins. In my experience, however, this application is not particularly stable, often crashes and on in some instances simply refuses to run.

Download and install AC3 Filter. Light version will do. If you download full version make sure you choose custom install to deselect crapware during installation. Official website: http://www.ac3filter.net Archive: AC3Filter 2.6.0b Lite Open Media Player Classic and go to Play > Filters > AC3Filter

Windows Photo Gallery (formerly Windows Live Photo Gallery) writes facial recognition tags (people tags) directly to image file meta-data. Google Picasa until version 3.9 was storing face tags to its own internal database and configuration files. This made it tricky to synchronise face tags between different computers and makes it very easy to loose face…

Logitech Harmony Remote Software 7 installed on Windows 8 Pro PC. Following error is displayed when trying to launch the application: com.logitech.harmony.starter.Launcher – Remote Control Software ErrorThe Remote Control Software cannot start. Reinstall the software or contact customer service.InvocationTargetExceptionnull

In Windows 8, after unlocking the lock screen, Windows tries to login into the last logged on account. If account is without a password Windows logins automatically. In a similar fashion if you restart computer from an account without password, Windows logs back in automatically. One way to resolve the first issue is to disable…