a Customer Success Manager's Notes to Self
Modern Windows versions introduced mechanisms such as UCPD and UserChoice protections that prevent programmatic changes to default browsers. This post introduces a script that restores Browser Tamer as the default browser and automates the entire workaround process
After Windows updates introduced stronger protections around default applications, tools like Browser Tamer stopped working reliably. In this guide I explain what changed, why it happens, and what I found out on restoring Browser Tamer as the default link handler on modern Windows systems
Finally saw Hillbilly Moon Explosion live after years of Spotify obsession. Great energy, solid setlist with our favourite tracks, and a crowd of all ages enjoying the vibe. Most of the band were friendly and down-to-earth — special shoutout to Sylvain for being a legend. Only downside? A major customer success misstep
A few things to remember in addition to the official instructions
Broken related posts? Unable to disable them? Disable them anyway and use a different tool!
Pinterest downloader first command line release for Windows 64 bit!
Ideas to fix GOG Galaxy error “Connection to the Communication Services was lost and could not be restored! GOG Galaxy will now shutdown”
How to identify a device that continuously connects and disconnects in a loop on Microsoft Windows?
Are your USB VeraCrypt mounted drives auto-dismounting randomly when you less expect it? Try this
Having issues with Microsoft Remote Desktop on a Mac running macOS Ventura? It might be your Color Profile. A couple of things to try:
Easily identify your Windows box by placing the computer name in the taskbar
Windows File Explorer was freezing, stop responding and crashing. It drove me crazy for a while. Eventually I found out it was related to a mapped network share
downloads all your stuff from your itch.io account, useful if you bought on itch.io and want to have your purchases batch-downloaded and updated offline
I learned how to do it stuff by trying to make games work on my Olivetti M24 (circa 1990). Fast forward to 2022 and I learn new stuff by trying playing games on an Apple M1
A pretty strange error message I am not seeing on the current version of KeePass. However. if you landed here by searching, it still might be useful to you!
The ProtonVPN Client didn’t work as expected for me, so I tried OpenVPN Connect and found out a small change is needed to make it work. Read more about this here
A really simple project in Xojo, just for fun and because I noticed there were examples of string permutations code in so many languages but Xojo. I fixed that. You are welcome
macOS Catalina on a Mac Mini from Mid-2011. Yes, that is possible, but then you (might) get black boxes. Read about some suggestions on how to get rid of them!
