As many years I’ve worked with Windows, there only a handful of times I’ve had the chance to explore and use the version built specifically for reduced instruction set computers (RISC). Getting my hands on one such device gave me time to look closer. The Windows download site offers the ARM-based iso for download, so […]
Digging through the vault of older CWL software, I came across a utility that I’d created in, oh, 2003, with a plan to sell it. That never happened, but the tool was still a thing and I’d spent hours coding and testing. Today, let’s look at what the program did looked like. If there’s a […]
For some time now, my daily drive laptop has been a Windows PC. Back years ago when I was using a Macbook Pro, the Windows feature WSL wooed me back to the platform. It was nice to be back on familiar ground again with Windows, doing things I’d always done before (and running Total Commander […]
When a client approached me and asked for an application to help them search for and bring up specification documents, I thought it was something I could help with. One caveat, however, was that the database referencing these documents was a Microsoft Access Database. Perhaps even more interesting was that files the database referenced were […]
The idea was quite simple: Create a program that made an empty Microsoft Access Database. This was the spring of 2003 and I was willing and ready to take on small things like this to, well, see if I could. The program would need to create a basic database structure resembling an address book that […]
For those that run the free version of RustDesk’s open source remote access server one big missing good address book. The RustDesk client is good for one-off connections, but a paid license is needed to get the full-featured web address book. This may change in 2026, but for now, many are looking for a decent […]
As this fellow was booting up the computer, an unusual thing started to happen: the keyboard wasn’t working or initializing on boot. Not only that, but also the built-in mouse was failing. Now, if one were to connect the power, or perhaps an external USB-based mouse, the computer’s keyboard would then work. Disconnect all this, shut down the computer completely and no keyboard….
In a most unusual move, Meta has decided to update its flagship Windows desktop application as a web-based viewer, thereby making it slower, bigger, more memory intensive and worse in just about every way. And to top it off, Meta will just force you to use this new version. And this thing is a monster. […]
In a bizarre and damaging scenario, RustDesk (a popular open source remote access tool) saw its code-signing certificate revoked by the company that provides it; Sectigo. This then led to a chain of events where RustDesk clients couldn’t run or be configured because of Windows SmartScreen errors and virus scanner false positives; effectively making the […]
There has been a ton of talk about the many changes of the (once) simple text editing tool in Windows called Notepad. A recent insider build of Windows 11 with version 11.2510.6.0 of Notepad features some very interesting new features to this venerable tool. For purists who like to only edit text, they hate this […]