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Xbox Series X Display is stuck on low resolution

Jan 5, 2022 · 1 min read · xbox ·

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Turned on the Xbox Series X this evening and the TV showed a very low resolution picture.

Get old Azure Disk Snapshots with PowerShell

Oct 11, 2021 · 1 min read · microsoft azure powershell ·

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Get old Azure Disk Snapshots with PowerShell

Taking a snapshot of a disk is often a useful precaution before making a big change to an Azure VM. However, it’s easy for them to get forgotten about and remain on your account eating up budget. This PowerShell snippet will find old Snapshots in your subscription.

Screen dims during Netflix playback on Xbox One

Sep 6, 2021 · 1 min read · xbox ·

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Whilst watching shows on the Netflix Xbox One application the screen kept dimming after 10 minutes.

Quick Tip- Deleting iOS Apps

Jun 28, 2016 · 1 min read · apple ios ·

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Problem: I’m trying to delete an iOS app from an iPad (9.3.2) , I hold down my finger on the icon on the homescreen till they all jiggle but no little x appears on the icon.

Removing Attachments to Save Space

Dec 6, 2013 · 1 min read · microsoft outlook ·

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If, like me, you use your email archive as a record of what’s happened and if, like mine, this means your email box is approaching capacity, here’s a trick that might free up some space.

Pinch to Get an Overview of All Your Android Home Screens

Jun 20, 2011 · 1 min read · android ·

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When you’re on the home screen and you want to head to a screen that’s more than one swipe away, it’s probably faster to get an overview of all your screens and tap on the one you want. To do this, just pinch in on the home screen

Line counting in Windows batch files

May 31, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft windows ·

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In Linux the wc -l command gives a count of the number of lines in a file or pipe. Windows doesn’t have the wc command, but the same can be done using the built-in find command as follows:

How many copies of my application are running?

May 6, 2011 · 1 min read · linux ·

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A quick line of code for displaying how many copies of an application are running on a Linux platform: 1ps -ef | grep myapplicationname | wc -l | awk ' { print $1-1 } '

Can't open StickyKeys settings

Apr 21, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft windows ·

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By default on a Windows XP pressing the Shift Key 5 times in a row turns on StickyKeys and brings up the warning dialog. In normal operation this doesn’t happen very often, but if you’re bashing someone with your rifle in Call of Duty it can pull you out of the game to show this dialog.

Normally you click …

du for Windows

Apr 21, 2011 · 1 min read · microsoft windows ·

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One of those UNIX commands that is oh-so-useful when working from the command line is du or “disk usage”. This command calculates the total size of all the files and subfolders within a folder.