A PowerShell script that ran fine 30 minutes ago suddenly “cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled”? You probably didn’t change anything — you changed terminals. VS Code has two nearly identical PowerShell consoles, and only one of them obeys the execution policy.
Funny story: while I was working today, Windows 11 decided to restart my computer – without warning – and apply a bunch of updates I couldn’t avoid. They made my Start Menu go all wonky and display ALL pinned apps I had in a previously neatly grouped arrangement of pages. It’s so bad, it makes … Read more
I wanted to access several EXT4 partitions on a dual-boot Fedora/Windows system from Windows to share storage space. One option I came across was to boot into Windows, then use WSL to mount these partitions and use them as if they were native drives. Did it work? I’ll leave that for another article (it got … Read more
I’ve recently dug out a copy of Secret Files: Tunguska from Steam, and by default it stretches across my 16:9 monitor. That looks terrible because the game was made with 4:3 monitors in mind, which means the default settings stretch out the game making everything look distorted. There’s no built-in option to disable this. While … Read more
I was looking for the Windows equivalent of the Linux command “y| rm -rf” and despite my best efforts couldn’t work it out. We need to use “del”, with a couple of switches to do this recursively and for directories, and also automatically confirm this for every entry. Here it is: This will delete everything … Read more
I’ve made myself a striped “kamikaze RAID” volume a couple of years ago for video editing. It’s worked great until recently, when performance degraded a bit and it was time to re-create it. Turns out I had forgotten how to set it up, and I had no clue how to delete it either. Just in … Read more
I had an interesting conundrum on Windows the other day, where I wanted to use a 4TB SSD that had previously been in use on another system. It had a full installation of Windows on it, but I couldn’t turn it into a cohesive 4TB volume. Instead, after ridding it of all previous Windows partitions, … Read more
I’ve been trying to eliminate frequent Unreal Engine crashes on one of my Windows systems, some of which can be caused by the GPU pushing itself too hard. It’s not common, but it was a possibility. Turns out we can ask the GPU via the NVIDIA Control Panel to never go over a maximum frame … Read more
