The easiest way to get hardware serial and related information is using “dmidecode“. The command below should give you exactly what you need : dmidecode -s system-serial-number The command above does not usually work with “clone” computers/servers. Alternatively, you may use the command below, which will output all parts serial number availables : dmidecode |… Read More »
I had this strange issue on Windows 8/10 where changes such as file/folder renaming or deletion not appearing after a modification. A manual “Refresh” from the contextual menu (right click + Refresh) was required to show the last modification. It seem that some Windows core components were corrupted and needed to be repaired/restored. First of… Read More »
Running into a endless loop of “Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed” issue while searching within a folder in Outlook and missing elements in the results? This is an occasional behavior that I have particularly noticed with Windows 7 and Office 2010, but not limited to this software version combination.… Read More »
Have you lost your session profile since the last time you logged in on your Windows PC (meaning login with your user account and your settings and/or files vanished)? There might be multiple causes for that, such as you logged into a temporary profile or you joined the PC to a domain. (If this happened… Read More »
Since Windows 10, Microsoft made it harder for users to disable automatic updates and downloads. When triggered automatically, there is no function on the user interface to stop them, unfortunately. If you are running with the default settings, you might at some point end up working on your computer and noticed that your bandwidth was… Read More »
I have encountered the following issue/symptoms with Google Chrome (version 56.0.2924.87) on Windows 10 : – Google Chrome crash shortly after opening, the application become unresponsive even while going to settings – Single tab opened with the default Google page – No 3rd party extension, only Google defaults After digging around, I found that the… Read More »
uTorrent is a great BitTorrent client which have a free offer version. Like any free products, ads are involved at some point. Fortunately the developers left a function for users to turn them off. It is well hidden in the advanced features. Make sure before going forward with this procedure to not touch any other… Read More »
If you own the 1st generation magicJack and you have upgraded your computer from Windows 7 to 10, you may have noticed the following error message while starting the magicJack application : magicJack cannot access the Internet. Please click here to start magicFix. This message show up even though your computer is connected to the… Read More »
This might sounds a bit unusual, but there might be a good reason why you would remove the first three characters of each line of an extensive Word document, such as numbering. To achieve this, simply use the “search & replace” function : Edit > Search > Search and replace Then in the search field,… Read More »
Trying to uninstall the MacAfee Enterprise Agent and get the following error message? Unable to uninstall MacAfee when it is in Managed Mode. To resolve this matter and go through with the uninstallation, you have to change it to unmanaged mode as followed : 1. Open the command prompt 2. Go through the program installation… Read More »