Dear Windows, Fine. You Can Have Your Pagefile Back.

Hello beautiful peoples! My PC has 32 GB of RAM. (Eat your heart out Sam!). Some applications were crashing, and Task Manager still showed plenty…

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Honey, I Shrunk the qcow2: A “Guide” to Dealing With Oversized Proxmox VM Disks

Hello beautiful peoples! “Guide” is an overstatement. I’ll tell you what I fucked up and how I fixed it (for my own records and future…

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USB Selective Suspend Setting: Enabled or Disabled? Microsoft Confusing the BeeGeeses Out of Me…

Hello beautiful peoples! You open Power Options in the Control Panel, dig into Advanced power settings, and find “USB selective suspend setting” with the value…

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[SOLVED] My PC Is Not Sound… (Pun Absolutely Intended)

Hello beautiful peoples! So here’s a fun one. My desktop would randomly lose audio. Not on every sleep, not on every wake, just… sometimes after…

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[SOLVED] I Almost Soiled My Pantaloons… A Sound Card Fix Attempt, a Mystery SoftLandingCreativeManagementTask Task Scheduler Entry, and the Malware Scare…

Hello beautiful peoples! It started, as these things usually do, with something completely unrelated to security. I’ve got an old Dell OptiPlex 7010 SFF (and…

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