If you’re running VirtualBox on Windows 11 and notice a green turtle icon in the bottom right corner of your VM window, you’re not alone. This icon indicates that VirtualBox is running without hardware virtualization (VT-x/AMD-V), which severely impacts performance and compatibility. Continue reading
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Disable Clipboard History on Samsung Android Phone
The default built-in Samsung keyboard maintains a clipboard history which cannot be easily disabled. Importantly, the Samsung keyboard collects clipboard history even if another keyboard is used! Continue reading
Fix Slow Start Menu Search in Windows 11
If the Windows 11 Start Menu is really slow to display search results, try resetting the Client WebExperience and Client CBS apps. Run the following from an elevated Powershell prompt:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience* | Reset-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *MicrosoftWindows.Client.WebExperience* | Reset-AppxPackage Get-AppxPackage *MicrosoftWindows.Client.CBS* | Reset-AppxPackage
Logging and Reviewing DNS Client queries in Windows using PowerShell
By default, Windows does not log DNS queries, but the log can be enabled. Continue reading
Synchronizing Windows User Folders with Resilio Sync
When syncing a windows User profile folder, there are some paths withing the profile folder that will not sync, or are not desirable to sync. To exclude these folders, take the following steps: Continue reading
Display Wi-Fi Keys in Windows Command Line or PowerShell
To retrieve a saved Wi-Fi key from the command line:
; List Profiles netsh wlan show profiles ; Get key for profile netsh wlan show profiles <SID Name> key=clear
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Windows Server Evaluation – Direct Download Links (ISO, VHD)
Windows Server 2025
Windows Server 2022
Windows Server 2019 Evaluation
Force Files to Download rather than Open in browser
There are certain circumstances where it’s desirable to force files hosted on an Apache web server to download rather than rendering in the browser. This can be accomplished using the following .htaccess file… Continue reading
Hyper-V Coexistence
Disable Hyper-V
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
Enable Hyper-V
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto
MySQL or MariaDB and Character Sets/Collation
In MySQL and MariaDB, utf8 is not actually UTF-8 encoding. Always use utf8mb4.
To convert a table to utf8mb4:
ALTER TABLE `table_name` CONVERT TO CHARACTER SET utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci;
To show character set and collation variables:
SHOW VARIABLES WHERE Variable_name LIKE '%collat%' OR Variable_name LIKE '%character%'