Category: General

For quite some time I was observing the most annoying behavior in Facebook. Some words in chat and in comments were magically changing as I was writing them, creating the most embarrassing typos. It was literally impossible to write some words; they changed the moment I typed the next character, space or question mark. When I went back and fixed the typo, it changed right back. The problem manifested itself only on MS Edge; Chrome didn’t change anything. There are several questions about this in the Facebook support forum, but none of them is answered.

After spending hours looking for some sort of a solution to this ultra-frustrating issue, I finally found it:

It’s not Facebook driving me mad, it’s the default, horribly flawed spellchecker of Windows 10!

If you suffer from the same problem, here’s a quick and simple solution:

Just hit the window button and type “Typing settings”. In the settings panel that appears, switch off everything related to spellchecking.

Boom, problem gone 🙂


ReactOS

ReactOS is an open source effort to develop a quality operating system that is compatible with applications and drivers written for the Microsoft Windows NT family of operating systems (NT4, 2000, XP, 2003).


Deshaker – video stabilizer

Deshaker is a video stabilizer for VirtualDub. It eliminates camera shakiness and makes panning, rotation and zooming smoother.

Stabilizes horizontal/vertical panning, rotation and zooming.
Works in 2 passes for optimal simulated camera motion.
Can use previous and future frames to fill in “black areas” caused by the stabilizing.
Optional motion vector video output during first pass.
Lots of settings for the advanced user.
Human guidance is possible on a frame per frame basis.


Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder

The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware open source utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install Windows from your registry. It allows you to print or save your keys for safekeeping. It works on Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 family of products. It also has a community-updated configuration file that retrieves product keys for many other applications. Another feature is the ability to retrieve product keys from unbootable Windows installations.


Microsoft TechNet: Windows Sysinternals

The Sysinternals web site was created in 1996 by Mark Russinovich and Bryce Cogswell to host their advanced system utilities and technical information and Microsoft acquired Sysinternals in July, 2006. Whether you’re an IT Pro or a developer, you’ll find Sysinternals utilities to help you manage, troubleshoot and diagnose your Windows systems and applications. If you have a question about a tool or how to use it, please visit the Sysinternals Forum for answers and help from other users and our moderators.

If your windows XP fails to install drivers for USB devices, complaining that “The services database is locked”, you probably have a service somewhere that can not start. Check out your services, sort them by status and if there is one saying ‘starting’ try to disable it. It did help me, hopefully it will help someone else too

Windows XP/2000 Commands and Tools

Here’s the ultimate Windows XP/2000 command list that will make any Linux user feel at home at the command prompt. A lot of these commands are intended for administrating a network, but they are great for savvy home users as well. We even listed which OS you need for these commands.

A whole lot of CMD goodness.
I really didn’t know that there is a font editor called eudcedit packaged with WinXP

I Will Knot!

This is a site about knots: how to tie them, how to appreciate their beauty. Even the seriously knot-challenged among us can learn to tie many useful and popular knots by following along with the short, step-by-step instructional video clips on this site.

If you’re thinking about installing the MSN toolbar with tabbed browsing for MSIE, forget it.
It’s incredibly instable; since I installed it, my Outlook crashes on each and every operation with an email. You can imagine how very, very frustrating that is.
In addition to that, the switching between tabs in the browser starts a firework of weirdest window switches and blinks. I do understand why it’s so difficult to add this functionality in an already existing browser, but this solution is simply not worth the effort.
I’m uninstalling this ‘thing’ right now.
Sorry Microsoft, nice try but not there yet. Back to the drawing board.

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