Disable Windows 10 News and Interests via Group Policy

Microsoft started adding News and Interests feature to Windows 10 PCs around April 2021. This can be disabled on individual PCs by right-clicking on the taskbar and navigating to News and interests > Turn Off.

To disable News and Interests in the Active Directory environment you can use Group Policy: Computer Configuration > Policies > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > News and interests > Enable news and interests on the taskbar >>> Disabled.

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Can't install TeamViewer - already installed on this computer...

Issue

TeamViewer v15 Host (.exe version) was installed on a PC that already had a TeamViewer v14 Host (.msi) version installed. The installation completed successfully, but it didn't remove TeamViewer v14 .msi Host from the programs list. Trying to uninstall TeamViewer from there, not only removed v14 entry, but also partially removed and completely broken v15... Trying to remove v15 was now failing with the following error:

Windows cannot find 'C:\Program Files (x86)\TeamViewer\uninstall.exe'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again.

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Media Portal HTPC doesn't enter sleep on its own

Issue

A Windows 7 Media PC (HTPC) with Plex and Media Portal TV servers installed never enters sleep on its own. It can be put to sleep manually via Start Menu (if no TV is being recorded or streamed), but it never enters sleep automatically according to the Windows Power Plan sleep schedule.

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Can't update Joomla - Infinite loop detected. File Checksum Failed

Issue

Cannot update Joomla 3.x. An update fails with the following messages:

ERROR:
Could not open archive part file .../path/to/tmp/...Joomla_3.10.1-Stable-Update_Package.zip for reading. Check that the file exists, is readable by the web server and is not in a directory made out of reach by chroot, open_basedir restrictions or any other restriction put in place by your host.

Warning
Joomla\CMS\Filesystem\Folder::create: Infinite loop detected. File Checksum Failed.

As a workaround, Joomla can still be updated manually by uploading the update file via the Upload & Update tab.

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