Stories of daily programming
This morning Windows 10 search of my PC is no more working…. In my case doing the following solved the problem: Click Windows key + R to show the “Execute” window Execute “regedit.exe” In the path “HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search” delete the key “CortanaConsent” In the same path, add the key “BingSearchEnabled” of type dword with value 00000000…
In these days I needed to capture the screen in a Windows application I’m developing in C#. Looking on the Internet, I found several solutions to the problem, but all of them had a defect: they did not work properly if the scale was set a value higher than 100%, as you can see below:…
In my latest post I explained how to encrypt a drive with Bitlocker to avoid unauthorized access to your data. After unlocking a drive, sometimes you may want to lock the drive again. I couldn’t find any option in the user interface to do this (the only way seems to be reboot the PC). Searching in…
Today I want to show you how to encrypt a Windows drive. Why should you encrypt a drive? Basically to prevent your data from being read by unauthorized persons, that may happen for example if your laptop or external USB drive is stolen. So if you want to encrypt your drive, Bitlocker is your friend. But…
Today I want to speak about upgrading from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro. Why you should need something like that? In my case was simply an error: I reinstalled Windows 10 in my old PC with the wrong product key. Only later I realized that was a Windows 10 Home product key…. But…
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