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Everything tagged Troubleshooting, wherever it's filed, newest first.
Empty the disk caches for Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera and Firefox across every browser profile, and see how much space each one gave back, while cookies, history and passwords stay put.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗Ping a handful of hosts on a timer, log every reply and every up/down change to CSV, and get a tidy list of outages with start, end and duration when you stop it.
Thread: PowerShell craft ↗List every icon overlay handler in the order Explorer loads them, see which ones fall past the 15-slot limit, and switch off the ones you don't need, with a registry backup first and an easy way back.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗The WordPress database is where sites actually break. Back it up first, clean it with WP-CLI instead of raw SQL, and never swap URLs with a plain REPLACE, because serialized data won't survive it.
Thread: The WordPress toolbox ↗Take a restore point, repair the component store with DISM, then run SFC, and get one object back that says what each step found instead of three screens of scrolling text.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗How to add an MCP server to Claude Code or Claude Desktop, where the config actually lives, and the short checklist I run when a server won't show up.
Thread: Building with Claude and MCP ↗Find the servicing packages behind a KB number, including cumulative updates that hide it, remove them with DISM, keep a transcript, and optionally hide the update so it doesn't come straight back.
Thread: Windows Update, untangled ↗Your scroll area has overflow:auto, the layout is 100vh, and the whole page scrolls anyway. Blame the automatic minimum size of flex items, and fix it with one line.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗Use PowerShell's own parser to catch typos and broken brackets in a whole folder of scripts, before anything runs.
Thread: PowerShell craft ↗My brand-new blog got an F on a security header scan. Here's why, what actually matters for a static site, and the fixes that work on DigitalOcean App Platform.
Thread: Building this notebook ↗A dry run that quietly lies to you. Why ForEach-Object's property shorthand returns nothing under -WhatIf, and the one-line fix.
Thread: PowerShell craft ↗When Graph cmdlets start throwing assembly errors, it's almost always mixed module versions. This removes every copy and puts back one matching set.
Thread: The Microsoft Graph toolbox ↗Clean old user profiles off shared PCs and servers through Win32_UserProfile, so the folder and the registry entry go together and nobody gets a TEMP profile.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗Find the old Outlook .ost files nobody is using any more and reclaim the space, without touching the ones Outlook has open.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗Clear old temp files from the usual suspects and run Disk Cleanup unattended, with an age threshold and a -WhatIf that shows how much you'd get back.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗When Windows Update is greyed out or just won't run, check all the policy values and services that can block it, and put them back the way Windows shipped.
Thread: Windows Update, untangled ↗Pull shutdown, startup and crash events from the System log so you can tell a planned restart from a power cut, and see who or what asked for it.
Thread: Windows Update, untangled ↗My notes from trying to bring a water-damaged Meta Quest 2 back to life, what each symptom probably points to, and where I'd go next.
Thread: Games and gear ↗A read-first WinRM check that tells you why remote PowerShell won't connect, fixes it only when you ask, and doubles as a ConfigMgr compliance script.
Thread: Windows Update, untangled ↗Clear the Windows DNS client cache locally or across a list of machines, and know when a flush will actually fix anything.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗For the Entra-joined PC that never showed up in Intune. Check it's ready, kick off enrollment, and see why it failed if it does.
Thread: Getting devices into Intune ↗How RADIUS VSAs work, how to add one in Windows NPS or FreeRADIUS to hand out DNS servers, and how to prove your VPN or NAS is actually using it.
Thread: Troubleshooting notes ↗The Settings app route into Intune, which of its three options to pick, and why the device might show up as personal when you didn't want it to.
Thread: Getting devices into Intune ↗What ClientOtherError really counts in Azure Files metrics, how to find which calls cause it, and what to look for in the client library code making them.
Thread: Troubleshooting notes ↗Integrity-test every ZIP, 7z, RAR and TAR in a folder, then optionally repack the good ones into a single format. Broken archives never get touched.
Thread: Archive conversion workshop ↗Find out which Chrome version a machine is really running, whether an update is stuck waiting on a restart, and kick Google's updater into checking now.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗Stop the spooler, clear out the wedged job files, and bring it back up, with -WhatIf and an option to leave recent jobs alone.
Thread: Spring cleaning for Windows PCs ↗