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It’s an ongoing temperamental issue – occasionally clipboard sharing stops working in Windows 10 Remote Desktop app. When this happens, I usually can fix this by killing and restarting rdpclip.exe process on the remote computer.
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Intel Q45/Q43 doesn’t support 1920×1080 resolution after Windows 10 Upgrade
Issue After upgrading Dell Optiplex 780 PC (Intel Core2 Duo E7500 with Intel Q45/Q43 graphics chipset) to Windows 10 it’s no longer possible to set the monitor to its native 1920 x 1080 resolution. Maximum allowed resolution is listed as 1600 x 1200.
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Hyper-V: The virtual machine cannot be moved (processor-specific features)
Cannot move a virtual machine from one Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V host to another. The move fails at the very beginning with the following error: The virtual machine cannot be moved to the destination computer. The hardware on the destination computer…
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Disable Google Picasa screenshots feature
When Google Picasa is running it will intercept any screenshots you take and automatically save them in C:\Users\<username>\Pictures\Picasa\Screen Captures folder. There doesn’t seem to be any UI setting that would disable this often unwanted feature. Luckily there is a workaround. All you need…
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Transfer VPN connections between PCs in Windows 10
To transfer all your VPN connections from one Windows 10 PC to another simply copy the following file: C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk\rasphone.pbk. This will not transfer VPN authentication credentials so you will need to enter these manually.
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View all archived email in Gmail
Archived emails in Gmail are simply emails with all labels removed. You can view them in “All Mail” view, but they are displayed alongside all other emails. To view only archived mail (i.e. emails with no labels) run following search:…
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Can’t download any PDF files – Virus scan failed
Issue Users on one particular PC cannot download any PDF files from the Internet. After the download is completed Google Chrome immediately shows error “Failed – Virus scan failed“. Microsoft Edge shows error “<filename> contained a virus and was deleted“. The…
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Can’t send emails through Office 365 SMTP – Client host blocked using Spamhaus
Issue Windows server and Kyocera photocopier can no longer send emails through Office 365 SMTP server (domain.mail.protection.outlook.com). The issue started happening after ISP change (new ISP was UK’s PlusNet). After checking PowerShell mail send script output I found following error: Exception calling…
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Sophos Central alert stuck – Malware or potentially unwanted applications in quarantine
Issue Sophos Central web console reports a PC with medium severity alert “Malware or potentially unwanted applications in quarantine“. The potentially unwanted application (PUA) in question has been since added to the global Sophos whitelist is no longer triggering any new alerts.…
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Open VPN GUI (Windows) – VPN connected but data transfer fails
Issue Open VPN GUI client connects to the Open VPN server, the user can successfully open server shares and browse folders but trying to open or transfer any file fails (connection times out). No errors or warnings were present in OpenVPN…
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Google Home Bluetooth issues: “Sorry, power controls is not yet supported”
I play music on my Google Home Hub through an external Samsung Bluetooth speaker. The initial pairing has to be done from Google Home app, but after this, it’s sufficient to say “Hei Google, connect to Bluetooth” and Google Home…
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Sort Windows 10 VPN list alphabetically
Windows 10 VPN connection are listed in order how they were added which can get quite disorganised with a large number of VPN connections. This affects VPN connection list found in Settings > Network & Internet > VPN and one…