Lenovo Laptop Display is Dim
Issue: Your Lenovo Laptop or tablet display is often dim or dull at 100% maximum brightness in a low light situation, and you don’t have auto brightness turned on. Like Nigel you’re turning (punching!) the brightness […]
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Help! That God Damn Thing from Microsoft Office Is On The Screen Again!
You’re happily typing along in Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel or PowerPoint and this evil little thing comes from out of nowhere to hover over the text you want to manage and you can’t get rid of […]
Laptop Display Brightness Too Dark In Low Light
My Lenovo Yoga 920’s crisp and bright 4k display was often way to dim in low light situations. No problem right, just bump the brightness up from the default power settings while on battery right? F12, […]
Google Pixel 3 – Speed Up The Lag
If your Google Pixel 3 or 3XL is feeling a bit slow you might try changing animation settings in developer mode and disabling Digital Wellbeing. Shortening the animation settings definitely makes all basic UI actions faster, […]
This PC can’t be upgraded to Windows 10 – driver or service that isn’t ready
Issue: May Insider Update to 1903 won’t install: Feature update to Windows 10, version 1903 x64 2019-04. Windows Update shows “Updates available” but with a yellow exclamation mark, a status of “pending download” and the note […]
Spotify Volume Drops at Start of Song
Issue: Spotify song volume starts crisp and loud then suddenly drops. Cause: This happens because Spotify decided you needed an Equalizer, made sure it sucked massively and that you didn’t know you had it. Disable the […]
iPhone Upgrade Quick Start
Do you want some hassle free phone migration when you upgrade? Yeah Apple iOS has that. Confirm your device is running the latest OS Backup your old phone to iCloud or iTunes Call to activate your […]
Life Tip – convert text list to spreadsheet
You know how someone gives you a list and you’re like oh man, it sure woulda been nice had they not gone and made a list in Word or email that’s nothing but text, separated by […]
Useful WMIC Queries – Computer Info
I lookup a lot of computer serial numbers for warranty status and driver updates, WMIC via the command line is quick and easy way to get that info. It’s below with a small collection of other […]
RSoP gpresult for Target User and Computer with Non Admin Account
Issue: return a complete Resultant Set of Policy, RSoP, for a standard user logged in without full local admin rights. Why is this an issue? User Context. To return full results for both Computer and User […]