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  • 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…

  • 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

  • Issue Computer never enters sleep mode on its own. A user can manually press the sleep button and it works fine, but PC never enters sleep / standby as specified in power settings. Troubleshooting Running powercfg -requests at the elevated command prompt…

  • Issue Computer wakes up from sleep / standby mode without any obvious reason. Very often this happens just few seconds after computer enters the sleep mode. Cause and Resolution Issue was caused by Intel Ethernet Controller (integrated LAN card) option:…

  • Mac OS X has several built-in shortcuts to take screenshots. Since Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) screenshots are saved in png format. Take screenshot of  the whole screenCommand + Shift + 3 Take screenshot of selected areaCommand + Shift +…

  • To open Windows share on Mac OS X: Open Finder Go > Connect to Server

  • To show hidden files and folders on Mac OS: Open terminal Run following command:defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Relaunch FinderPress Alt + Right Click on Finder icon > Relaunch

  • Issue Windows 8 loses a drive letter after every reboot. Adding the drive letter manually via Windows Disk Management works fine, but this needs to be done after every reboot. In addition, VMware Desktop wouldn’t work reliably with VMs saved on that particular hard…

  • A brand new PC with Gigabyte Z87X-UD3H motherboard. Installing Windows 8 worked absolutely fine. However, trying to install Windows 7 was unsuccessful. After installation, computer would reboot for the first time and then get stuck on Starting Windows logo. Trying to…

  • 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…

  • Download and install RT Se7en Lite. Choose 32 or 64 bit version appropriate for your OS. You will need version 2.x (which at the time of writing was still in Beta). Version 1.7 will not work. You can download version 2.6.0 (Beta)…

  • Even if you select CD/DVD drive as your first boot device, Acer XC600 will simply ignore this and boot from the internal hard drive. To boot from CD or USB drive on Acer XC600 and similar Windows 8 machines you need to…