Multiple places online often suggest fixes for Windows Update error “0x80070643” by expanding the Windows Recovery Environment (“WinRE”) partition, citing a need for one at least 250MB free space.
I have an 8GB WinRE partition, so that was definitely not it.
Funnily enough, after several hours crawling through pages, I found this page, and “Fix #6” actually worked for me…
i.e. Run the .NET Framework Repair Tool…
As per usual, YMMV…
As part of managing my own web presence, including a hosted email server with limited users (both in numbers and geography), I tend to try and cut large swathes of spam by simply “binning” any emails that have any association with specific TLDs, like .ru or .us or .cn– whereby I know that my users and I have no legitimate reason to receive any email coming from those TLDs or passing through servers using any such TLDs.
However, it came to pass that some ham were getting caught, but simply looking at the email headers was not helping. Using CPanel’s in-built testing tool was helpful in surfacing which of my rules was triggering the spam trap, but not exactly why (or what part of the email was triggering it).
The triggering rule looked like regex, so I immediately tried to hunt down converted/parsed file to try and copy the rule in converted regular expression form.
Attempting to poke at the ~/.cpanel/filter.yaml and ~/.cpanel/filter.cache and even the /etc/vfilters/<domain> did not turn up the regular expressions I was looking for.
In desperation, I took a quick look at the CPanel test tool results and decided to just copy the regex shown outright…
Unfortunately, pasting that regex directly into a regex test tool did not work…
So, Firefox decided to drop support for “old technology” plugins… Since I could not find web-extension updates for some of my required plugins or they are not ready yet (e.g. Tab Mix Plus, now called Tab Mix – Links)…
Easy-peasy: install ESR 52.9.0, then disable auto-updates… Done!
Not quite… I booted my PC this morning only to find Firefox, flicking a big middle finger to all its advanced users, had ignored my settings to not auto update – and proceeded to update itself to ESR 60.2…
Obviously, this got me royally pissed as I had to waste time rolling back and setting it up as I originally chose (i.e. no updates); and so I wasted some time to track down and neuter their update capabilities once and for all.
So, fed-up with an outdated, “sanctified” version of Notepad++ “published” by the IT team at my workplace on my work laptop, I uninstalled the published version, grabbed a copy of the portable version (choose the appropriate .zip or .7z package) and proceeded to live happily ever after…
Well… Not quite… Whenever I attempted to use Windows Explorer’s “Open with…” context menu option, attempting to select the Notepad++ portable’s executable would not have any result – the dialogue would just continue to sit there…
After some soul Google searching, I stumbled across the solution.
The registry key HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Applications\notepad++.exe\shell\open\command was still pointing at the uninstalled, (now) non-existent executable. Pointing it to the correct location made Notepad++ show up immediately as one of the selectable applications.
Hello Everyone, this is our first post, not necessarily techie, but we all need to start somewhere. In the near future, we will be looking at reviewing gadgets, IT equipment, software applications or basically anything that runs on electricity (that we have/used or using) and give you our point of views.
OK, so enough of the posting for now, let us dig up what gadgets we have or am using and let you know what we think how well (or not) they are.!
