Normally Windows will fail to connect to an IPSec VPN server if either or both the client machine and the server are behind some form of NAT.
However it is still possible to configure a Windows machine to allow such connections via a registry tweak.
Using a single USB printer on several computers isn’t the simplest task: you have to either connect the printer to each computer separately, share it from one (and start it up every time you need to use the printer) or, my personal choice, set it up on a Raspberry PI and share it with the world.
The information provided here covers the second half of the setup process – the client side of things…
A VPN connection is still mostly regarded as “business solution”, only useful to connecting employees to the company network. But this is no longer true nowadays.
VPNs can be very useful in protecting the integrity and security of data transfers, no matter who the two communicating parties are. To learn how to set up a connection and connect to a VPN server…
At random times, especially after a long computer uptime (over 2 weeks), all windows animations and especially any Flash-based video player would become sluggish and render at about 10-15FPS.
This happens independent of where using the computer or letting it idle while it is running. The solution…
So you’ve installed Windows Xp on a (probably very) old computer and forgot to check the BIOS to make sure APCI is enabled…
Now to switch Windows Xp from the “Standard PC” HAL to the A(dvanced) C(onfiguration and) P(ower) I(nterface) one you’ve got two choices…
If you’re using Avira’s Free antivirus and are a mad computer user like me that never reboots his computer (unless something blows up), you might have noticed that Avira periodically updates its program (beside the virus definitions) and asks for a system restart to complete this.
When running lots of applications, one may notice a moment where no more windows can be opened. This is the Desktop Heap limit; you will see this logged in the Event log as “A desktop heap allocation failed”
Back when I was running Windows Xp I hit this limit quite often (because of my working habits). The solution was to increase the limit; for this one needs to edit a specific registry key (always backup first!):
It is more and more obvious that while Thunderbird and Firefox are awesome programs, lately Mozilla is starting to implement design “features” which, while appealing and useful for a new/novice user, are a hassle for old power users…
I’m in a cleaning frenzy today, so using WinDirStat I’ve begun to inspect every little corner of my Windows partition for wasteful unnecessary and leftover files.
One of the places that always bugged my for taking up space is the Windows\Installer folder…
