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You see mistakes all the time in really crappy ads, but it's interesting to see it from Amazon.com in a banner ad for their Video on Demand service. I guess they "instanty" made this ad and skipped quality control. xD
So for a few weeks now, I've been dismissing this new Windows 10 Creators Update nag dialog. Some days I wake up to find that my PC is already awake. It turns out that Microsoft's been doing something sneaky behind the scenes. I thought I'd done all the usual methods to prevent that scenario, such as disabling the mouse from being able to wake up Windows. Looking in Event Viewer (eventvwr), I see the wake source is Unknown. We can run a command in Windows Powershell to list all Scheduled Tasks that could wake the PC: Windows PowerShell Copyright (C) 2015 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> Get-ScheduledTask | where {$_.settings.waketorun} TaskPath TaskName State -------- -------- ----- \Microsoft\Windows\.NET Framework\ .NET Framework NGEN v4.0.30319... Disabled \Microsoft\Windows\.NE...
I don't mind seeing the occasional banner or text ad while browsing web sites. What I do mind is malvertising, auto-playing videos (despite steps taken by browsers to stop auto-play) and excessive ads that slow down my browser to the point where it affects the user experience. This is on a modern quad-core desktop PC with 16 GB of RAM. To that end, I gave in and installed uBlock Origin a few years ago. If ads and third-party tracking hadn't gotten so bad, I would not have had to resort to an ad-blocker. These days, sites are fighting back. They're using ad-block detection scripts in order to request that you whitelist their site. In some cases, I am happy to do this. Recently, I've seen a new one with the logo "Powered by Admiral", which pops up a modal and asks you to whitelist. These are usually on sites that have a ton of auto-play videos and Taboola ads ("Doctors hate this one weird trick!"). I get it. Sites need ad revenue to fund thei...
This solution may apply to anyone trying to extend a primary boot volume in Windows 2003 Server (mine happened to be the R2 Enterprise edition, but may apply to prior versions of 2003 Server). I was following VMware KB 1007266 to extend the boot volume on this Windows 2003 guest VM on ESXi (3.5). This is a separate issue from the Microsoft KB # 841650 . Everything was fine when I attached the newly extended VMDK file to my helper VM. But I kept getting the "The volume you have selected may not be extended" error and couldn't figure out why. It turns out I didn't read the KB carefully enough. Make sure you assign a drive letter in the Windows Disk Management UI first! Before assigning a drive letter: DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt -------- ---------- ------- ------- --- --- Disk 0 ...
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