Posts from September 2024

Posts from September 2024 (4)

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  Published on

  2024-09-24 6:37 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  powertoyswindows11

  How to fix PowerToys FancyZones in Windows 11?

  This article explains how to fix an issue where FancyZones (from the fantastic Windows PowerToys toolset) fails to work because it conflicts with the built-in window management in Windows 11. I guess it's too much to ask for a level of coordination here from Microsoft... Oh well.

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  Published on

  2024-09-17 12:23 p.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  certificatesopensslpowershell

  How to export the whole SSL (or TLS) certificate chain based on the original using PowerShell?

  Every now and then, you run into a situation where you have a certificate for a website or service, but for one reason or another, you don't have the whole chain. You're missing some or all of the intermediaries, and even the root certificate, perhaps. This is something I run into constantly. This article explains how to fix it! Background In my day-to-day work, I maintain a number of customer systems running in Azure.

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  Published on

  2024-09-10 7:08 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  googlechrome

  How to solve keyboard shortcuts not working in Google Chrome on Windows?

  This article explains a fix to a puzzling issue I had with Google Chrome, where my keyboard shortcuts would seemingly randomly stop working and I'd need to click around (or change to another application with Alt+Tab) to get them working again. Luckily, the solution (or I guess it's more like a workaround, as usual) turned out to be simple.

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  Published on

  2024-09-03 2:43 a.m.

  Authors

  koskila

  Tags

  onenotewindows

  Search (and secretly, sync) broken in OneNote? A quick fix!

  This article explains how to fix sudden and surprising synchronization problem(s) in OneNote, that first surfaces as search (the one you open with CTRL+E, not the unified/M365-wide top bar search) not finding any results from the page content, even if it might find some from the page or section titles. This exciting story has it all: Manually triggering a job that should be automatic, finding some secret broken files and boldly removing them, and of course a daring registry hack!

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