Windows

How to: Use the Apple Magic Trackpad 2 with official Apple Windows Precision drivers on a PC

[box type=”info” align=”” class=”” width=””]Tested on an ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED running Windows 11 22H2[/box] The Apple Magic Trackpad 2 is hands down the best wireless trackpad on the market, and is arguably better than most trackpads that come built into Windows laptops. Fortunately, it’s relatively easy to get it working on a PC. Whilst […]

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How To: Fix The ‘Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0’ provider is not registered on the local machine.

This error is fairly simple to fix. There is no 64-bit Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0 provider, so you simply need to set the Application Pool for the site in question to 32-bit and the error should go away. To do this: Open the Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager GUI Click on Application Pools on the left-hand side Then

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Hands-on with WSLg, the official WSL GUI

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that WSLg, the Microsoft-developed WSL GUI, is finally available for Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel after teasing it previously. This brings official support for Linux GUI apps to run alongside Windows ones, potentially ending the need for some people to dual-boot Windows and Linux. What works? Clipboard copy/paste ✅ Sound

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Lenovo ThinkPad X390 Review: It’s Xcellent (yes, I’ll close the door on my way out…)

The first thing that you’ll notice when picking this laptop up after admiring the build quality is the weight. At 1.2KG it is incredibly light and can be thrown in a bag without having a huge impact, making it perfect for those needing a portable yet powerful laptop with business functionality like a 4G modem,

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How To: Fix Coil Whine and Squeaking (How to disable Turbo Boost)

There’s nothing worse than getting a new laptop, booting it up, and then hearing that incessant coil whine noise that kicks in and out. I’ve noticed it’s worse on the HP laptops we’ve used, but HP isn’t to blame. Intel is. In our testing, the issue seems to be related to Intel’s TurboBoost feature that

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SSL How To | Exporting the Private Key and Certificate from a .pfx file

If you’ve exported an SSL certificate from a Windows PC via the Certificate Manager MMC plugin into a .pfx file, you may end up needing to spilt that file into its constituent parts (e.g; for moving the certificate to a Linux based server or if you’re importing it into Plesk). Thankfully doing this is very

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