Have you ever looked at your Hyper-V storage folder and realized a single virtual machine is consuming way more space than it should? I recently ran into this scenario with a Windows Server VM running SharePoint 2019. When inspecting the storage, I noticed that there were 3 separate virtual disks assigned to this single machine: Read more»
It took me almost three years to find out why my laptop always had Wi-Fi connection issues with Azure and Microsoft services. Honestly, this piece of garbage software pushed me to my absolute limit. Read more»
I – and I think many other people – often use VS Code for code formatting. You can easily format a selected block of text by pressing Ctrl + K, Ctrl + F, or format the entire file using Shift + Alt + F. But how do you do the exact opposite? Read more»
If you see the message “Please wait for printer connection or cancel” when trying to print in Windows 11, Windows is usually attempting to select what it thinks is the most suitable printer automatically. This often happens when you use network printers. Read more»
The size of the file C:\Users\Realdevtipsuser\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data\ext4.vhdx was 51 GB. I couldn’t determine who was using that file or why. Since “Docker” was in the path, it made sense to check Docker settings. And I found the answer: Docker Desktop uses WSL2 storage. Read more»
When you want to send to your colleague a text with C# code or any other language, you can make the code look just like in an IDE – colored and highlighted. If you type three backticks “` at the beginning of a line in Microsoft Teams and press Enter, you can write properly formatted […] Read more»
After importing a WSL distribution and copying files from one WSL instance to another, I ended up with thousands of files with :Zone.Identifier at the end of their names. Zone.Identifier is a Windows security metadata stream that marks files downloaded from the Internet. Read more»
I often use Linux, even though Windows is my main operating system. For me, Windows works best for everyday tasks, while Linux is ideal for servers and development environments. Some people agree with this approach; others prefer a single OS for everything. Read more»
How to manage Wi-Fi cionnections from the command line? I like to do lots of things with it. With the command ‘netsh wlan show profiles‘ you can get the list of all the known wifi-connections. You need these values to operate with them further. Read more»
Here’s an example of a pipeline sequence in PowerShell — a simple but powerful concept.Imagine you forgot to clean up your old log files. Or, as I had to do today, you open the dreaded folder ‘inetpub/mailroot/Badmail’ on a dev server and see thousands of files. Read more»
