Some USB sticks and SD cards simply won’t format properly, even after a “clean” with Diskpart. Rufus provides a quick remedy here and has reformatted almost every stick so far, even partially defective ones. But Rufus can do much more. It can be used to flash ISO images onto USB sticks. The tool is particularly …
I have been testing the Veeam Backup Agent, which is intended for my own free use, over the last few days. For the test, I chose an Intel Atom subnotebook from HP with MMC memory as the target device for my backup of a Windows server (with Xeon CPU). The Veeam Agent is required for …
It feels like it takes an eternity for the context menu to load after a right mouse click in Windows 11 and then not all options are even available there. That’s why I’ll tell you here how to restore the old context menu. Simply execute the following command in cmd: and then restart Windows Explorer …
Even under Windows 11, a software firewall like TinyWall is still necessary There are almost no standalone software firewalls for Windows anymore that are not part of a larger security package. Many users therefore rely on the integrated Windows Defender Firewall. But is that really enough? The answer, as so often in IT security, is: …
Some Windows 11 users are experiencing an annoying problem when working on the desktop, namely stuttering and stuttering of the mouse. The display really lags behind and the windows of applications can only be moved moderately. Switching between windows is also very slow. Other users also describe this error as a hang with high latency. …
In some cases, Windows may have the idea of compressing the contents of the RAM despite having plenty of memory. This could result in (very) slight performance losses. If there is already plenty of RAM available, the usefulness of the whole thing may also be questioned. The behavior can be specifically disabled via the Windows …
The latest KeePass update to version 2.54 has been released. This finally closes the vulnerability CVE 2023-32784, which could be used to read the master password from memory image files. An update alone is not enough to protect against this vulnerability, because there is still a significant risk . Note: This is a translation – …
With CutyCapt, screenshots of web pages can be made very easily under Windows. The URLs can be stored line by line in a csv or test file. With the help of a BatchScript each line can be processed. In this way, several thousand screenshots of various websites can easily be created, which can be very …
Sometimes it may be necessary to remove the old Office Key via cmd. To do this, we start the command prompt or cmd as administrator. Then we navigate to the Office installation location In the next step we read the currently available data for activation: You will see all information and the last 5 digits …
Under Windows it is possible to use the integrated FTP client for uploading or downloading files. For this purpose, such an FTP script can be called directly within a batch script. This looks then e.g. like this: Within the FTP script all necessary data must be stored. This includes the login to the server and …