With the cost of electricity being able to change power profile quickly is very handy with PowerPlanSwitcher.
Download from Microsoft Store here;
https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/powerplanswitcher/9NBLGGH556L3?hl=en-us&gl=us
Credit:
PowerPlanSwitcher lets you quickly change Power Plans in Windows 11/10
Was working my way through the exercises on hackthebox.com and every FFUF scan was saying the file size as 0.
Turns out it was Bitdefender’ “Online Threat Protection” ->”Network threat protection”.
This blocks the filesize of FFUF results so the will come out as 0 if you are connected using VirtualBox.
Windows 10 Wont enter sleep mode with Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick plugged in.
I ran into this problem a while back as no matter what i did my PC would enter sleep mode. i tried everything;
Turns out it was due to having the Logitech Extreme 3D Pro Joystick plugged in which i might add is a superb Joystick for Flight Simulator 2020.
Geforce Experience Bug:
Turned out, there is a bug in nVIDIA experience, down in the Windows driver level that would prevent the system from being idle, if you have a joystick plugged in (the article goes a bit deeper into details, it is very interesting if you are a software development related kind of person).
TL:DR , if you have nVIDIA GPU + nVIDIA GeForce Experience installed + have any kind of joystick plugged into the system , Windows won’t be able to sleep/turn screen off automatically until either:
You turn off nVIDIA GeForce Experience in-game overlay.
You unplug ALL joysticks off your system.
PSA: if GeForce Experience is enabled and joysticks are plugged in, Windows can’t automatically turn off screen / go to sleep. This is critical if you are using an OLED screen for your simpit. from flightsim
The pain of running docker as a non-root user is hard to describe but there is a solution. The solution is create the docker group and add your user:
sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
The excellent network chuck on youtube made a video the other day about making your own search engine with searxng so i thought id put the steps involved on doing in locally in Linux.
Update our linux installation
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
install docker;
sudo apt install docker.io
install docker compose tool:
sudo apt install docker-compose
navigate to dir where you want to keep searxng, in this example well put it in “/usr/local/”
cd /usr/local
download searxng;
git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker.git
cd searxng-docker
create secret key;
sudo sed -i "s|ultrasecretkey|$(openssl rand -hex 32)|g" searxng/settings.yml
start up docker containers
sudo docker-compose up
point your browser to;
localhost:8080
Tweaks and settings;
See here for how to change things;
https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/settings.html#use-default-settings
refs;
https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker
If Virtualbox & VmWare is causing massive problems with just getting a Virtual machine running in windows 10 its probably because you have Hyper-V enabled. I learned the hard way that having Hyper-V enabled and running Virtualbox is a nightmare. I kept getting the error;
MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
Disable Hyper-V if its enabled in windows 10 by going to “Turn windows features on or off” and un select “Hyper-V”.
Also make sure that its disabled in bcdedit by making sure that you run the command;
bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
Reboot your System and Virtualbox and Vmware will now work much better.
refs;
The Ultimate Guide to Uninstalling or Disabling Hyper-V in Windows 10
Bitdefender is a great piece of software with a huge range of security features but doesnt give an option to remove the annoying menu option that pops up when you right click on a file., of course there is a way to remove it.
Download a program that makes this easy called “ShellxView” from https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/shexview.html#DownloadLinks
Load it up and look for an entry called “BdShlExt” (see below) and right click and select disable. 
Great tips on to fix and tweak Windows 10 file search to be a bit faster and why its so slow.
Ever since i upgraded my PC last year, my Windows 10 pc will not go to sleep and neither will the monitor and that’s with a fresh Windows 10 installation. The first thing i did was to press the “Restore default settings for this plan”..didnt work.
I’m really finding it hard to figure out how this is a problem when with my old hardware it was never a problem. The only thing i cant think off is that its the motherboard and some setting in BIOS thats not quite right.
This problem has been happening since i installed the new hardware and for some reason i thought it was normal..but remembered how my old PC would behave it would just go to sleep when the windows 10 power settings told it too.
Hardware Specs:
MSI B 450-A PRO (latest BIOS)
AMD Ryzen 2600
Win 10 64 210h (latest)
32GB DDR 4 3000
Possible fixes:
Solution:
After reading about the same problem being caused by a controller being plugged in, I disconnected the Joystick from my PC and within one min the screen had gone off.
Logitech Extreme 3D pro is causing the the issue:
Logitech Extreme 3D pro
https://www.tenforums.com/performance-maintenance/27004-windows-10-will-not-auto-sleep.html
Sources:
Solution Found Here
https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/monitors-wont-go-to-sleep-why.244167/page-3
The solution is rather simple remove the “&gl=US” from the address of the page in chrome
So:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.lite&hl=en_IE&gl=US
Becomes;
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.facebook.lite&hl=en_IE
credit to this post for the solution;