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Mouse lags in top right corner
· ☕ 1 min read
You happen to own an ATI video card, and updated to Catalyst 10.12. Now most likely you have this weird mouse lag in the top right corner of the screen. Some people report it appearing in other corners as well, both while gaming and staying on Windows desktop.

Disable hibernation in Windows 7
· ☕ 1 min read
If you are like me, and wonder where all the space on C drive went, you might have also stumbled across hiberfil.sys file, which is usually taking a couple of gigs. This is especially important if you are running your system on precious SSD space.

Tortoise SVN - No overlay icons after upgrade
· ☕ 1 min read
Just updated my TortoiseSVN client at home from 1.6.9 to 1.6.11 and found that I can no longer use overlay icons, either in Explorer or in Total Commander (more used to the latter). It appeared as if Tortoise shell extension was not loaded. I tried a restart - same thing.

Cannot connect to server using Hyper-V manager
· ☕ 2 min read
You should be reading this article if you are seeing any of the two (or both) screens - Windows Security / Your credentials did not work. Your system administrator does not allow the use of default credentials to log on to the remote computer XXXXX because its identity is not fully verified. Please enter new credentials. AND/OR Remote Desktop Connection. Your system administrator does not allow you to connect to this remote computer. For assistance, contact your system administrator or technical support.

Exchange - STORE.EXE Eating Too Much Memory?
· ☕ 2 min read
Suppose you are small enough not to want multiple servers each doing exactly one role. If you consider Exchange with the above requirement, you probably have the same problem we used to have. Memory consumption! STORE.EXE takes almost all available memory, no matter how much you allocate to the server. This might not seem like a big problem... until you disable page file, to make sure you server runs on memory, and not on a hard drive.