Category: Windows

Excel auto-selects multiple rows at once

When clicking on a row in Microsoft Excel, instead of selecting a single row, it for no apparent reason it selects multiple rows. First of all make sure you don’t have Extended Selection enabled. Look into left bottom corner, if Extended Selection is enabled, press F8 to disable it. Click on View tab and in Workbook Views…
Windows 10 – Random Crashes with Blue Screen of Death (BSOD)

Issue After an in-place upgrade from Windows 7 Pro to Windows 10 Pro, computer started crashing multiple times per day with “Blue Screen of Death” (BSOD) and seemingly random error messages. Here are some of the BSOD messages I recorded: KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (NTFS.sys) DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION RDR_FILE_SYSTEM (rdbss.sys) MEMORY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION BAD_POOL_HEADER SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED(NTFS.sys) RDR_FILE_SYSTEM (rdbss.sys)
Kaspersky Registration error – KasperskyLab.KIS.UI.Activation.Viewmodel…

Issue After instilling Kaspersky Internet Security 2016, Application Registration windows keeps regularly popping up. If you click “Remind me later“, it only dismissed the dialog and it re-appears some time later.
Windows 10 Pin to Start doesn’t work

Here is a little Windows 10 bug I recently discovered on my home PC. Occasionally, pinning an application to start menu does not work. Windows “thinks” that everything went fine and application has been pinned to the start menu (because if you right click on the same shortcut second time, instead of Pin to Start…
Combine individual media tracks into mp4 file

My MP4Box GUI is a tool I normally use to combine individual video and audio tracks (h264, aac, etc.) into a valid mp4 file. My MP4Box GUI is just a GUI wrapper for a free command line utility called MP4Box. Usage is very simple – add all tracks into the main application window and click Mux button…
Extract individual tracks from .mkv file

mkvextract.exe is a command-line tool that is part of MKVToolNix. mkvextract v8.3.0 can be downloaded from here. It allows to extract subtitles, audio, and other type of tracks from .mkv files. Syntax is pretty simple: mkvextract.exe tracks “D:\video.mkv” 1:”D:\track-1.aac” Where:D:\vide.mkv – Source file1 – Track number IDD:\track-1.aac – Destination file mkvextract manual can be found here. If you…
How To Configure Media Portal TV Server

I have been Windows Media Centre user for many years. Since Microsoft have made it clear that they are abandoning WMC, I started looking into alternatives. At this point I use Plex as the main HTPC interface which works really well. Unfortunately, Plex doesn’t have any PVR capabilities so it can’t replace WMC on its own. For…
XBOX Child Account: Parent Approval Required – endless loop…

Microsoft seems to be determined to move everyone to the Cloud kicking and screaming. Windows 8 and Windows 10 have been making more and more difficult to use local user accounts. There is still an option to do this, but MS works pretty hard to hide this as well as they can. More recently, everyone wishing…
Can’t install VMware vSphere Client 5.0 on Windows 10

Issue Cannot install VMware vSphere Client 5.0 on Windows 10 PC. The installer (VMware-viclient-all-5.0.0-455964.exe) was downloaded via a link provided on VMware ESXi 5 Host’s default http page. Installation fails with following error: VMware vSphere Client 5.0This product can only be installed on Windows XP SP2 and above.
Can’t install .NET Framework 3.5 (Error code: 0x800F081F)

Issue Cannot install .NET Framework 3.5 using “Turn Windows features on or off” wizard in Windows 10. Installation fails with following error: Windows couldn’t complete the requested changes.Windows couldn’t find required files to complete the requested changes. Make sure you’re connected to the Internet and try again.Error code: 0x800F081F
Mail (32-bit) icon not working in Control Panel

Issue Mail (32-bit) icon in control panel lost its bitmap and is not active (clicking on the icon doesn’t do anything).
Adobe Flash Group Policy installation fails on Windows 10

Issue Group Policy fails to install Adobe Flash on a brand new Windows 10 Pro PC. Windows 7 computers are unaffected. Following error is logged on a client PC: Event ID: 102Level: ErrorUser: SystemThe install of application Adobe Flash Player – ActiveX from policy Adobe Flash failed. The error was: %%1603 Trying to run Flash Player installer…