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Disable Web Search in Windows 10 Search Bar

One of the worst features is the data leakage that comes out of your Windows 10 computer, every single time you search it for a local app. What I mean by this is when I click on my search bar, next to the start button…Say I search for Putty. It shows me Web results first, then my Putty app second. Now anyone monitoring a network can see the constant stream of requests coming out of a network and fingerprint the applications in use. HUUUUUGE issue in my opinion.

To disable this feature do the following

Click the Type here to search bar

Type Edit group policy

Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search

Double click the Allow Cloud Search policy and set to Disabled. Click Ok to save

Double click the Don’t search the web or allow web results in search policy and set to Disabled. Click Ok to save

Double click the Don’t search the web or allow web results in search over metered connections policy and set to Disabled. Click Ok to save

That is it. Your data leakage settings have been changed.

Writing OctoPrint to SD Card

Quick How-To using a Windows 10 Computer

Simply put, you need to download a third party application to write the OctoPi image to an SD Card. I suggest Etcher for this

Download Etcher from https://www.balena.io/etcher/
Install Etcher onto your Windows 10 computer
Download the OctoPrint image from https://octopi.octoprint.org/latest to your local hard drive on your Windows 10 computer
Unzip the OctoPrint image once the download finishes
Plug your SD Card into the Windows 10 Computer
Open balenaEtcher
Click Select Image
Select your OctoPrint***.img file
Your SD Card should be automatically found and selected by Etcher
Click Flash
The image will now be written to the SD Card
When the image has completed writing you will see the message Flash Complete!
You can now insert the OctoPrint SD Card into the Raspberry Pi and fire it up



Thanks for reading

Hardware that I use:
Raspberry Pi 4 (4gb)
https://amzn.to/3q551IO

SanDisk 32GB Ultra microSDHC UHS-I Memory Card with Adapter
https://amzn.to/2Vfvo0y

CanaKit 3.5A Raspberry Pi 4 Power Supply (USB-C)
https://amzn.to/3fNTYPu

CanaKit Raspberry Pi 4 Micro HDMI Cable – 6 Feet
https://amzn.to/33u5hr9

Western Digital 500GB WD_Black SN750 NVMe
https://amzn.to/3nZ5pH4

Plugable USB C to M.2 NVMe Tool-free Enclosure
https://amzn.to/3lflV3L

Installing Python on Windows 10 – for Makerbot Firmware Upgrades

This is a quick article on which Python version you will need to assist with manually uploading the Makerbot Firmware.

If you are trying to manually upload firmware for the Makerbot Replicator 2, and you try to use the most recent version of Python (version 3.8 at the time of this writing), it simply will not allow you to run the Makerbot firmware upload tool. If you see the following error when you run the tool, you will know what I mean:

C:\Users\%username%\Downloads\winBotTool_76_G\winBotTool_76_G>Traceback (most
recent call last):
  File “C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py”,
line 193, in _run_module_as_main
    return _run_code(code, main_globals, None,
  File “C:\Program
Files\WindowsApps\PythonSoftwareFoundation.Python.3.8_3.8.752.0_x64__qbz5n2kfra8p0\lib\runpy.py”,
line 86, in _run_code
    exec(code, run_globals)
  File “bot_tool_v1\__main__.py”, line 2, in <module>
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 991, in _find_and_load
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 971, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 914, in _find_spec
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>”, line 1342, in find_spec
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>”, line 1316, in _get_spec
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>”, line 1297, in
_legacy_get_spec
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap>”, line 414, in spec_from_loader
  File “<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>”, line 649, in
spec_from_file_location
  File “<frozen zipimport>”, line 191, in get_filename
  File “<frozen zipimport>”, line 713, in _get_module_code
  File “<frozen zipimport>”, line 647, in _compile_source
  File “bot_tool_v1\bot_tool.py”, line 37
    yield (str(value[1]), str(value[0]))
                                       ^
TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation

To fix this error above, simply remove Python 3.8 and install Python 2.7 from the following link:

https://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.17/python-2.7.17.amd64.msi

Windows 10 – Office 365 Error [SOLVED]

“Product Notice. There was a problem checking this devices license status.Please sign in with the Office 365 account this device was activated with”: “Product Notice. There was a problem checking this devices license status.

This message will appear at the top of your office programs when you start it up. If it persists within Outlook, Word, etc, even after you have authenticated, the fix for this is as follows:

Close all of your Office 365 products

Navigate to the White Box next to your Start button and type CMD

The Command Prompt application will appear, Right Click on the app and select Run as Administrator

Now type: cd C:\program files\Microsoft office\office16   and press Enter

Next, type the following: cscript ospp.vbs /dstatus

This will take a minute to run and it will show you all the Keys within this directory. They usually show up as something like HY6LU or KY78N and so on. Make a note of each of these keys.

Now in your command prompt, type: cscript ospp.vbs /unpkey:HY6LU and press Enter. You WILL want to change HY6LU with the keys that you had made a note of above. Repeat this step for every key you have. Once you have cycled through all the keys, you can reboot your computer, and your office programs should work again without this error

Display Wifi Passwords Stored on a Windows 10 Computer

Show All Stored Wireless Keys

Open a Command Prompt on the Windows 10 Computer and type:

netsh wlan show profiles

Identify the network you want to show the password for…Ex. HOME

netsh wlan show profile name=HOME key=clear

Look for the line that says Key Content and that will be your wireless password.

A tip for the masses. Once a user is done on your network, erase your network from their device….otherwise your password can be compromised and your privacy is at risk.

AND if you have the ability to have a guest network at your house, set it up. Keep your network secure.

Loki Wallet 3.0.2 & 2.0.2 Crashing in Windows 10

How to update and fix the issue above

For weeks I have been fighting with the Loki wallet on my Windows 10 VM. I even went out and built a fresh laptop with a fresh install of Windows 10, only to have LOKI crash once I put in my password.

If you are experiencing these issues too, you are not alone.

To fix this issue, I had completely wiped LOKI off of my computer. Searched the C: drive for *loki* and wiped everything. The only reason I could do this is because I had my keys backed up along with my personal seed. IF YOUR KEYS AND SEED ARE NOT BACKED UP, DO NOT DELETE ANYTHING!

So, with a fresh computer, free of loki, I downloaded the new GUI wallet from:

https://github.com/loki-project/loki-electron-gui-wallet/releases

Once the app is downloaded, install it as usual and then launch the app.

On the first time it runs, you will want to set it up to download the blockchain locally. Do not select the remote options. Then you will want to input your wallet seed. Make sure you backup the keys. Setup your wallet password, and let it sync with the blockchain. You will FINALLY see a working version of LOKI! Finally!

I am not sure what ruined their Festive Freya or Summer Sigyn, but thankfully that bug doesn’t affect their Electron wallet.

Running Check Disk on an ESXI VM

Windows 10 VM on an ESXi 6.7 Host

It couldn’t be easier. You don’t need to do it from the command line anymore. No more reboot needed. No more 7 hour waits…

Double click This PC from your desktop

Right click the drive you want to check

Select Properties

Select the Tools tab

Click Check

Click Scan Drive to start

Once it is finished….Follow these steps to view the Check Disk (CHKDSK) results:

Open Control Panel

Select Administrative Tools

Click Event Viewer

Open the Windows Logs

Select Application log

Right Click the Application log

Click Find

Type wininit in the dialog box

Click Find Next

Click the Source/wininit line once it is found

In the lower pane, the CHKDSK log will show

Read through it carefully

Z-Enemy 1.26 on Windows 10 with NVIDIA 1080TI Cards and CUDA 10.0

  • Mining

How to Mine Ravencoin on Windows

Here is the quick and dirty:

Install the latest NVIDIA drivers:
https://www.nvidia.com/content/DriverDownload-March2009/confirmation.php?url=/Windows/417.22/417.22-desktop-win10-64bit-international-whql.exe&lang=us&type=TITAN

Reboot

Download and install Visual Studio Community Edition
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

Install the software

Reboot

Now you will want to Download CUDA 10
https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads?target_os=Windows&target_arch=x86_64&target_version=10&target_type=exelocal

Select Windows > x86_64 > 10 > exe (local)

Download z-enemy 1.26 from here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3378390.0       

Or direct from this link:
!hOQyzS5T!MNgW0srchmQHSgbpM5D0nKaiABG_6l44i-MYF-iUeEA

Extract the files to your Desktop

Find the mining pool/coin combination that you want to use

Right click on the batch file

Select Edit

Insert your wallet address in place of the currently listed wallet

Save the file and Exit

Double Click on the Batch file, and your miner will begin

Monitor it for a while, and adjust as necessary, then let it run without interference

Decrypt Windows 10 Folder

How To Decrypt Your Files On Another Computer

This guide is part 2 of an earlier guide.  This explains how to access your files from another system, or restore them to a new computer.  The earlier guide can be found here:

https://tacticalware.com/windows-10-encrypted-folder/

Press the Windows + R keys on your keyboard to open the Run box

Type in certmgr.msc and click Ok

Right click on the Personal folder

Select All Tasks

Click on Import

Store Location should be Current User, and Click Next

Click Browse, navigate to your backup copy of the keys and select them

Click Next

Where prompted, type in the Password for your private key

Check the boxes to:

Mark the key as exportable

and  Include all extended properties

Now you can click Next

Click Automatically select the certificate store based on the type of certificate

Click on Next

Select Finish

There will be a dialog box that shows up which says The import was successful

Click Ok to close the box, and you can close out of the certmgr window

Now, try opening up the encrypted files/folder and you should have access

Deleting Linux Partitions on USB Drive From Windows 10

How to Delete Linux Partitions on USB Drive using DISKPART on Windows 10

On your Windows 10 computer, insert the linux USB drive

Press the Windows + R button on your keyboard

In the newly launched RUN box, type:

diskpart

And press Enter

From the DISKPART box, type in the following commands

list disk

Now find your USB Drive.  My USB Drive is Disk 1, so I will use that for the rest of the guide.

select disk 1

list partition

select partition 1

delete partition 1 override

select partition 2

delete partition 2 override

Do those steps until you have deleted all of the partitions.  Close the dialog box.  Remove the Drive, and you are ready to go with a new, fresh, unformatted drive.