Tag: Windows

  • February 8, 2025 · Article

    Inkscape: “Document Properties” Window Not Showing Up

    Inkscape sometimes opens the “Documents Properties” window outside the visible area of the desktop. This is how you get it back.

  • July 25, 2022 · Article

    “Access Denied” Errors with TortoiseSVN on Samba

    So for some time now I’ve had issues with TortoiseSVN giving me “Access Denied” errors. This mostly happened when I reorganize files, and it was always annoying because it required a nasty workaround – usually, I would have to kill the SVN cache process and clean up my working copy to break write locks. I […]

  • January 23, 2021 · Article

    Gnucash: “Install Online Price Retrieval for GnuCash” results in “Access is Denied” error

    When I tried to install Stock market price retrieval for Gnucash – via the included script – I was presented with an “msxml3.dll: Access is denied” error. At first, I thought this was an UAC problem and reinstalled GnuCash outside the Program Files directory, but this did not help. The solution turned out to be […]

  • August 18, 2020 · Article

    Windows 10 “Type here to search” Search in Taskbar not working

    This is going to be a little more unspecific than I usually like my posts, but it took me a while to fix and I didn’t document well. My apologies, I hope this still helps. I recently had the issue that, when clicking on the “Type here to search” search box in the taskbar of […]

  • July 13, 2020 · Article

    Windows 10: Microfreezes in Games

    For the past few weeks, I noticed microfreezes or microstutters in games. Gameplay would “halt” for maybe half a second, then resume normally. This affected multiple games, so I knew it was a problem with my PC. I checked everything I could – deinstalled applications, made sure nothing “weird” ran in the background, checked the […]

  • May 29, 2019 · Article

    Scrivener: Installation freezes up

    I was testing the writing software Scrivener (for Windows), and ran into an issue. The installer would just freeze up completely on start. It would run, eat CPU time, and show up in the task list, but ultimately never showed any GUI. Once it randomly worked, the application Scrivener itself had the same problem. I then […]

  • July 10, 2018 · Article

    Deploying an RDSH Server on Windows in a Workgroup

    This came up today, and Ryan Mangan has a guide on deploying an RDSH 2012 R2 server in a workgroup. Thanks Ryan!

  • July 22, 2015 · Article

    iOS iTunes Remote can’t find iTunes Library

    The iTunes Remote software on my iPad worked flawlessly with my Macbook Air, but not with my Windows PC. I finally decided to investigate why, and after much search and trial-and-error, I found a solution. It turns out that it gets confused by IPv6 on Windows (interestingly the same is not a problem on my […]

  • May 8, 2015 · Article

    How To Change Primary Display in Windows

    A colleague had her Windows task bar on the wrong screen, and wanted to move the task bar to the other monitor. Seems this is a little confusing in Windows. You find the option if you right click on the desktop, then click on screen resolution. You will get this dialog: First, you must click […]

  • December 9, 2014 · Article

    Keyboard Shotcut for changing Keyboard Layout in Windows

    Because this happened to me several times now: In Windows, it is possible to switch between international keyboard layouts by pressing ALT+SHIFT or CTRL+SHIFT together. Since windows remembers this on a per-application basis, this can be quite confusing. Simply pressing those shortcuts again cycles through the layouts.