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Making Traceroutes Work with a Firewall (Windows)
Hi! Even though I've had software firewalls in action for years now, I haven't really come across too many instances where I'd need traceroutes. The few times I did, however, I noticed that I only got...
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Viewing Hidden Devices in Windows Device Manager
Hi! If you are trying to find a device that has been hidden in your Windows Device Manager, for example because you don't have it plugged in at the moment, you might find this little guide handy. Open...
View ArticleDeleting Huge Directories in Windows Via Command Prompt
Hi! If you'd like to delete a huge folder / directory in Windows with maybe thousands or hundreds of thousands of files inside, doing that via Explorer might cost you a lot more time than via command...
View ArticleMozilla Thunderbird: Changing the EHLO / HELO Value in the “Received”-Header...
Hi! If you have had a look at your outgoing e-mail headers that you've sent from Mozilla Thunderbird, you might have noticed that Thunderbird uses the IP of the network interface that it uses to...
View ArticleUsing msysgit With PuTTY Pageant & Plink
Hi! If you have installed msysgit and are planning on using it in combination with Pageant from the PuTTY tool suite, you might run into the problem that it does not attempt to use any of the keys you...
View ArticlePhonerLite With FRITZ!Box
Hello! If you want to set up your PhonerLite VoIP/SIP client with the FRITZ!Box so you can receive phone calls on your computer as well, of course you should have a look at the official AVM...
View ArticleUsing Windows Photo Viewer in Windows 10
Hi! If your Windows 10 system is an upgrade from a previous Windows version, you will not have encountered this problem. This is only relevant for clean, non-upgrade Windows 10 installs. I noticed that...
View ArticleHigh DPI / Font Scaling Display Problem With LibreOffice
Hello! When I installed LibreOffice on my Windows 10 notebook with 125% font scaling, I immediately noticed that the menu bar was somehow hiding behind the title bar and everything I clicked was...
View ArticleUsing Git Bash With Custom Installation Of GPG / GnuPG
Hi! You have probably noticed that Git for Windows comes with MinGW64, which enables you to use programs (or to be more precise: Windows versions of these programs) that are usually only available to...
View ArticleDisable Autoplay For Videos in Firefox 63
Hi! Just after updating to Mozilla Firefox 63 (on Windows), I found that my setting to disable autoplaying media / videos was no longer effective - at least for HTML5 videos. Apparently one of the...
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