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Diagnosing High Memory Usage

A Windows 10 desktop is suddenly running high virtual memory until it stops responding altogether. Some commands I’m using to figure out what is chewing up the memory: Tasks filtered …

DevNodeClean: Deleting Unused Devices

Recently a Microsoft support agent used a tool that I wasn’t familiar with:  DevNodeClean. Basically Windows creates a device in registry for every new device that is connected—even if it’s …

A Good Phish Is Bad to Find

Today, in my Microsoft-hosted email account, I received an email telling me that my Office 365 account needs validation and has been temporarily suspended. I know that’s baloney because I …

UniFi VPN Fails after Edit

Yesterday, on my UniFI USG configuration, I made a small change to a site-to-site IPSec VPN. It broke—I could no longer connect to the remote site. I reverted the change. …