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I ran into a great tip yesterday on X, that is too good not to pass on: Holy hannah! Disabling web search on the start menu makes it so much faster and effective. No lag at all anymore! HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search Make a new DWORD (32-bit) called: BingSearchEnabled Ensure the value = 0— Albert Thomas, Cooling...
I recently ran into a problem with random failures of my ASP.NET Core Web application on IIS where I would get the dreaded ACNM Error Page (ASP.NET Core Module): This is on what used to a be a stable app that's been running without issues for a few years, and that uses Shadow Copy for execution. I wrote about Shadow Copy Execution previously. Recently...
I've been using HTML to PDF generation for quite some time for a variety of purposes specifically in Markdown Monster. There are many solutions available - some good, some bad and many very expensive - but I've had good success in the past with the wkHtml2Pdf which is an open source solution that uses a standalone executable on Windows that allows...
It's that time of year again to upgrade to a new machine, and one of the first things I often do once the machine is set up is run some performance tests of a simple ASP.NET application that tests raw request throughput of a couple of JSON do-nothing requests. Mind you, this isn't indicative of any kind of real world application performance, but...
Some time ago I wrote about retrieving raw HTTP request content from an incoming request and - surprisingly - it's one of the most popular posts on this blog. The post discusses a few ways how you can capture raw request content in ASP.NET Core applications in situations when traditional model binding/mapping doesn't work and you need to access the...
For unfathomable reasons, Windows 11 is actively discouraging the Sharing Tab on the Windows Explorer Properties Context Menu, where it used to sit by default. I'm talking about this tab when you select a drive or folder: From which you can then create a shared folder/drive and set permissions: In Windows 11 this tab is not visible by default,...
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