[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 […]
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
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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It’s still a little surprising how much effort Microsoft is putting into Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), with even GUI support coming to Insider Preview versions of Windows later this year. Regardless – it’s a very welcome feature for many people. WSL 2 support is available for Windows 10 on Intel/AMD and Windows 10 on
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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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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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If you spend a lot of time in the command line you may find it a bit difficult to remember the different commands you need to use to achieve basic things depending on whether you’re using Unix/Linux or Windows that day. This guide contains a cheat-sheet with some of the most used Unix commands and
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In this guide, I’ll walk you through the process of redirecting every site hosted on your server to HTTPS. Please note each site will need to have the HTTPS bindings properly configured else the sites won’t load at all.
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If you’re looking for a quick and dirty way to back up your MySQL databases and your IIS website files, look no further. Below are two batch scripts for backing up your MySQL databases via a MySQL dump and a quick script to copy and compress your IIS website files into a .zip file. I
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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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