Windows

Laptop Power Management

Power management is a critical thing to understand in laptops. It’s possible to buy an expensive laptop and end up not using it because of bad power management practices.

Is Windows Bad

It’s what we know. Windows is a tool and has evolved over the years while dominating the PC Market since the 90s. So it begs the question, is it bad?

Disable Win Defender

Windows Defender can be a massive drain on system performance and often can have a lot of false positives. While I recommend Anti-virus for most, I don’t like having it enabled on my systems that aren’t used for web browsing.

Save HOURS of work with Regex

RegEx is a formidable tool that many just don’t understand, but can save literally thousands of hours of work.

Shrink VMWare VMDK File

This goes over reducing the size of a VMDK file using open-vm-tools and is used often in VMWare environments.

You are NOT safe in Windows

Thank you to all the Microsoft Windows users from all the Technicians that work on this operating system. Without your continued use, we wouldn’t have jobs.

Why I Hate Windows Defender

Windows Defender is often seen as a good antivirus, but I want to inform you of a cost noone sees but developers because of Defender.

Is Antivirus Worthless?

To many advanced users, Antivirus IS worthless. That is because it uses system resources and provides more annoyances than benefits. However, for many users it is required as they will not know what is a virus or not.

Future Internet

Renewing website domains, paying for web hosting, and having them expire are all going to be a thing of the past. Using IPFS (Inter-planetary File System) is a way to store websites decentralized and without any money. How fast or how slow it will be, is determined by how popular it is with IPFS nodes. This guide shows how to host a website, owning a web domain forever, and redirecting these domains to traditional website hosts.

The Ultimate Windows Utility

Refined over years, this utility goes beyond debloating Windows:

• Install and update hundreds of apps via WinGet with a single click
• Apply safe, practical tweaks for performance and privacy
• Use proven Windows Update presets used in business environments
• Build a custom debloated Windows 11 ISO with Win11 Creator
• Automate your setup across multiple PCs