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Linux

Why I Love Free Software

My contribution to the FSFE’s 2017 #ilovefs campaign.

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EdgeDeflector enforces your default browser setting in Windows

EdgeDeflector stops Windows from forces-opening links in Microsoft Edge, and makes Windows respect the system-wide default web browser setting instead.

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Microsoft Windows

How to enable, login to, or disable Microsoft SSH Server in Windows 10

Learn how to log in to and take control of Windows 10’s new SSH Server.

Microsoft Windows

How to remove the Adobe Acrobat Update service

Adobe’s Acrobat Update service remains on your computer even after uninstalling Acrobat Reader. Here is how to uninstall it.

The Data usage section of the Windows Settings app. The last month’s data usage is shown as 0 MB.

Microsoft Windows

Fix the Windows 10 Data usage report when it stops counting data

Plenty of third-party firewalls and similar programs can break Windows 10’s Data usage counting. Here is how to make it count your data again.

Microsoft Windows

Your control is limited to Active Hours in Windows 10

Microsoft insists on rebooting your PC every day. Active Hours control gives users up to eight hours a day without reboots. Is this enough?

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Microsoft Windows

eSATA port-multiplier only shows up as a single disk in Windows 10

I tested multiple eSATA port-multipliers in Windows 10, but all of them refused to show more than one connected disk at a time. Windows eSATA drivers are subpar.

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Microsoft Windows

The software update experience sucks!

Software updates are incredibly important for security, but end users shouldn’t have to suffer to install them.

A yellow bird looking at a Windows error dialog saying “Reconnect your drive. Your File History Drive was disconnected for too long. Reconnect it.”

Backup

Fix the “Your File History drive was disconnected for too long” error

How to reconnect the Windows Backup or File History drives when Windows complains that is has been disconnected for too long (even when it hasn’t.)

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Hardware

Review of Lenovo IdeaCentre Stick 300

Lenovo’s contender to the stick-PC market runs Windows 10 but doesn’t even have enough storage space to perform upgrades. Linux may be the better option.

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Microsoft Windows

How to enable Remote Desktop (RDP) in Windows 10 Home

Windows 10 Home edition has a built-in remote desktop access (RDP) server. Unlock it with this free utility program. However, enabling it is a big security risk.

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Microsoft Windows

BriskBard engine: A new web layout engine for Windows

BriskBard is a new proprietary web layout engine with a near-perfect Acid2-test score. Can it reignite the web browser engine wars?