Fix “Failed to Lock the File” Error on VMWare Workstation 12

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One of my testing/sandbox computers, that’s not running on a UPS, was unexpectedly powered off the other day when a falling tree branch in my neighborhood took out a power line. Hours later when the power was back and I turned on my computer, one of my virtual machines running on VMware Workstation 12 wouldn’t … Read more

Finally Fix Cortana Search Crashing after Two Characters Typed on Windows 10

Yesterday my computer started exhibiting this bizarre behavior where typing two characters in the Cortana Search would crash the entire Taskbar – typing in the start button area would have the same behavior. I immediately tried the basic things first like restarting Cortana, Windows Explorer. I checked Services to make sure the Search service was … Read more

How use Python, or Any Program, via CMD Prompt without Full Path

For Windows 7/8/8.1/10: Right-click on “My Computer” or “This PC”. Select “Properties”. Click “Advanced System Settings”. Click “Environment Variables”. Under the “System Variables” sub-section select the Variable Path and click “Edit”. Append “;C:\Python27” to the existing path, click “Ok”, and “Ok” again. Restart CMD Prompt for the new path setting to take effect. Source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11287597/how-to-make-python-accessible-via-cmd-prompt-without-full-path

Fix Remote Desktop Problem Windows 10 Faulting module name: vorbis.acm

I was having a problem recently with Remote Desktop connections not working, Remote Desktop would just exit without any error while trying to connect. I checked Event Viewer and saw this entry: Faulting application name: mstsc.exe, version: 10.0.14393.447, time stamp: 0x5819bc5f Faulting module name: vorbis.acm, version: 0.0.3.6, time stamp: 0x50a51541Exception code: 0xc0000005 So after searching … Read more