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Do you remember the good old times when PC manufacturers used to apply those fancy stickers to the back of your laptop or desktop PC depicting your Windows Product Key? …
How to retrieve the Windows 10 Product Key from BIOS / UEFI / Windows Registry Read More
A rather common issue that you can experience while working with Visual Studio - be it 2010, 2013, 2015 and even 2017 - is the following error appearing on your …
FTP Publish Error in Visual Studio - An unknown WinINet error has occurred (code 12113) - How to fix it Read More
In this post I'll try to create a comprehensive list of all the Visual Studio build numbers/version IDs and default paths, including any available/released/known RTMs and Update. If you see something …
Visual Studio Build Numbers, Version IDs and Default Paths - All Releases from VS6 to VS2017 Read More
The scenario we're about to introduce is an unbeatable classic for anyone working with Windows. You need to move, rename or delete a file and - as soon as you …
How to unlock a file handle locked by SYSTEM or any other active process in Windows Read More If you're working with Visual Studio on recent Windows versions, such as Windows 10, you might stumble upon the following error when trying to open an ASP.NET Core or MVC …
Process with an ID #### is not running on Visual Studio 2015 - How to fix it Read More
Despite having been shutdown for good some years ago, the Microsoft Jet Data Access Objects interface (better known as DAO) is still up and running, as it's still being used …
Using DAO from Excel VBA VBS Without MS Access installed Read More
If you've stumbled upon this post, it probably means that you're struggling against an old .BKF archive/backup file of some sort. As you might already know these are the files …
Open BKF files in Windows 10 without NTBackup with NT5Backup Read More
If you're working a lot with MySQL you're most certainly aware of MySQL Workbench, the official administration & management framework for MySQL DBAs and operators: that suite comes shipped with a …
SQLyog - The best freeware MySQL Administration GUI for Windows Read More
If you are looking for an alternative who will allow you to avoid teaching your friends & colleagues how to properly use Skype, Hangouts or other similar softwares to host or partecipate video-conferences, …
Zoom, the new leader among cloud-based video conference softwares Read More
Any decent After Effects user most certainly know how to create masks from text or add silhouette alpha to make a text layer (or any other layer) "dig" into another layer. This …
Text Masking in Adobe Photoshop: How to dig through a Layer with Text Read More