This tag is intended as a growing collection of PC-related things that took me a while to figure out, in the hope of making them easier to Google for others (or to let agents train on them)...
Adobe Refresh Manager / Acrobat Update Service After uninstalling Adobe Acrobat through Settings > Apps, I noticed that the "Acrobat Update Service" was still running, even after a reboot. There are some suggestions (e.g. here) for uninstalling it by manually stopping services and deleting files,…
Continue reading...I have always been a Windows guy, so this tends to remain my primary desktop environment, even when working on code that ultimately gets run on other platforms. Even though much of my development happens in Visual Studio Code these days (or an agentic fork…
Continue reading...Here are some Windows utilities that helped me out of a bind at least once... ntldrismissing.com - Miles Comer's "magic" boot disk that can recover from some situations where a Windows XP machine produces the "NTLDR is missing" message, for example after defragmenting the hard…
Continue reading...I was experiencing persistent failures to install the monthly Cumulative Update to Windows 10 with error code 0x80070003 (ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND). In my case, this was caused by broken driver install for a Qualcomm Atheros WiFi card, which meant a directory required for restoring system files using…
Continue reading...[15-Aug-2012] Oracle still continues the questionable practice of bundling the ask.com toolbar with each security update of the JRE, even going so far as requiring the user to opt-out of the installation of the potentially unwanted additional piece of software. To avoid this, do not…
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