How to Disable Autostart Programs in Windows 10

Disable Windows autostart programs

Microsoft Windows comes with some predefined programs that have ‘automatically start’ settings. There are also some custom software installations that exhibit such similar auto-start behavior. Every time your personal computer starts or reboots, its Windows runs a command on all the installed programs to check whether there is any program that has auto-start specified in ... Read more

How to Disable the “Low Disk Space” Warning on Windows 10

Windows low Diskspace Warning

Microsoft is extremely diligent when it comes to user experience in their products. But sometimes they tend to overdo. Whenever your computer’s hard drive is almost full or running out of free space, a ‘Low Disk Space’ warning appears in the form of a little balloon notification. Different versions of Windows have specific durations for ... Read more

How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows 10

Windows 10 Keyboard Shortcut

We live in an era where technology is evolving and innovative solutions are being created to facilitate people by significantly reducing redundant tasks. By cutting down or automating time-consuming tasks, offices of every industry type are adopting an efficient work model. But one of the unaddressed and inefficient tasks that majority of the computer users ... Read more

How to disable Opera mouse gestures

The Opera browser uses mouse gestures that allow the user to navigate through tabs and tab histories with the help of mouse-clicks and -movements. This can be a hindrance however if you are used to control the browser with its own graphical interface and often just play around with your mouse out of boredom. Disable ... Read more

How to Disable Automatic Wi-Fi Connections in Windows 10

Whenever you connect your PC to a new Wi-Fi network, you enter the relevant credentials like a password. Once the connection has been established, Windows 10 saves that network profile along with its credentials for you. Therefore you don’t have to enter the same details again and again for the same Wi-Fi network. This lets ... Read more

How to use file search in Windows 10

Windows 10 File search

Where are my files on Windows? We all create and save files on our PCs and tend to forget either the names of the files or which folders we’ve saved them in. So when it’s time to reopen or retrieve them, our memory doesn’t help much and finding a particular file becomes troublesome. But there’s ... Read more

Are there Restore Points in Windows Server 2016?

There is no restore point feature in Windows Server 2016. You have to work with Windows Server Backup feature which can create backup including system state. If you are working with a professional virtualization solution such as VMware, you can use the virtualization tool to easily create snapshots. Restore point feature was removed from Windows ... Read more

[SOLVED] E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

You get the following error message while installing a .deb package on Debian or Ubuntu or while installing Updates? E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? This error means that there is already an apt process running or ... Read more

The following error was generated: $error.Clear(); Install-MsiPackage

While Installing an Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016, you may get the following error. The following error was generated when “$error.Clear(); Install-MsiPackage ` -PackagePath ([System.IO.Path]::Combine($<wbr />RoleLanguagePacksPath, “Setup\ServerRoles\<wbr />UnifiedMessaging\MSSpeech_SR_<wbr />TELE.nb-NO.msi”)) ` -PropertyValues (“ARPSYSTEMCOMPONENT=1 ALLUSERS=1”) ` -LogFile ([System.IO.Path]::Combine($<wbr />RoleSetupLoggingPath, “InstallSpeech-nb-NO.msilog”)) ” was run: “Microsoft.Exchange.<wbr />Configuration.Tasks.<wbr />TaskException: Installing product G:\Setup\ServerRoles\<wbr />UnifiedMessaging\MSSpeech_SR_<wbr />TELE.nb-NO.msi failed. Fatal error during ... Read more