HDR windows
31 October 2023 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
Do you want to use HDR on Windows 11? Go to System => Display and switch on Use HDR. What if HDR doesn’t work on Windows? It doesn’t work if […]
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develop windows
17 October 2023 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
When switching an application to full screen the monitor turns black for a couple of seconds. Reinstalling drivers and resetting the BenQ monitor didn’t help. The solution was to change […]
To update Google Chrome you go to: Settings => About Chrome. Google Chrome than checks if there is a new version available. Recently I got this error: Update check failed […]
develop
31 May 2023 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
Windows 11 has a bug when it comes to installing windows features. This happened several times after a fresh install of Windows 11. Say you have some windows open, say […]
If you use Outlook in WP Mail SMTP and get this error: Mailer: Outlook invalid_grant: AADSTS70000 It’s because the authorization expired. To make it work again go to WP Mail […]
new york city
3 March 2023 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
This live stream from New York is impossible to find with YouTube search: The title of the stream is: LIVE: stream from 10th Ave, Hell’s Kitchen, Midtown, Manhattan, New York […]
26 August 2022 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
Normally you can change your display resolution in Windows 10 this way: go to settings => System => Display and under Scale and layout you change the Display resolution. I […]
InDesign
15 October 2021 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
In InDesign you can create links to files or Excel spreadsheets. This way if you change the content in Excel you can update the content in InDesign easily by clicking […]
.NET Core windows
16 December 2020 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
By default .NET core collects telemetry when you use it. Telemetry data should be an opt-in process and not ON by default. How do you disable it? The DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT environment […]
Dell hardware
13 December 2020 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
In most situations after you (re)install Windows and the Intel Rapid Storage Technology (IRST) Driver the SSD cache volume will be found and used automatically as an Cache volume in […]
11 December 2020 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
Some users have trouble signing in on WordPress using the Mozilla Firefox browser. They get the message: “Oops! That page can’t be found.” Or the login just doesn’t work. A […]
GIS
11 July 2019 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
GeoJSON is a popular file format to store the coordinates and properties of a map. With QGIS you can create GeoJSON files from Shapefiles (in this tutorial QGIS 3.8 is […]
ASP.NET
24 October 2017 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
The DevExpress ASP.NET AJAX Autocomplete was not working on the iPad or iPhone with Safari, Chrome and Firefox. After a lot of testing it turned out the CompletionInterval setting can not be […]
Windows Server
15 September 2017 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
Although SMTP on Windows Server 2012 is deprecated, it still works fine, but support is not great. We had some complaints that e-mails where not delivered in some occasions. Looking […]
ASP.NET IIS Windows Server
4 January 2017 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
I’m running a website on IIS8.5, but it gives me only a blank page and the following error in the IIS logs: status error 500 and sc-substatus 19 There is […]
ASP.NET windows
24 May 2016 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
There will be some new posts about some typical Microsoft Windows situations. Where you think the solution should be simple, but it turns out it’s almost impossible. Installing .NET Framework […]
IIS Windows Server
21 March 2016 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
On Windows Server 2012 the SMTP Server is deprecated, but you can still install it using the Add Roles and Features Wizard in the Server Manager. Lately we received this […]
windows
10 September 2015 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
Lately my PC (Windows 8.1) randomly ran into a problem and needed to restart. After the restart I get the message: No Bootable Device Strike the F1 key to retry […]
ASP.NET develop windows
3 September 2015 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
MySQL For Excel is very useful to quickly update or insert Excel sheets to the MySQL database. You can install the application with the MySQL Installer. I’m using MySQL For […]
internet windows
31 July 2015 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
After upgrading to Windows 10 all my programs couldn’t access the internet including Firefox. The solution is to do a Windows Sockets reset. Open Command Prompt (Admin) Run: netsh winsock […]
Dell windows
25 March 2015 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
The last couple of weeks my computer (running Windows 8.1) was working so hard steam came out of the exhaust. In the Task Manager I found WMI Provider Host was […]
23 January 2015 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
Somehow Windows 8.1 keeps disconnecting the WD My Passport Hard Drive while using WD Quick View and WD SmartWare. After reinstalling different versions of the software and the drivers the solution […]
IIS
20 January 2015 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
In earlier versions of ActivePerl you had to configure IIS yourself. The newer version comes with a “ap-iis-config.bat” file to configure IIS automatically. To install Perl on a Windows 8.1 […]
15 September 2014 / 22 March 2024 by Cerveser
The ASP.NET MembershipProvider is also available for the MySQL database. The Membership Provider doesn’t come with much fields for profile information, like firstname and surname. A shortcut to implement the […]
