Tag: Windows

Full-text search for documents in a folder

Posted by Alex On October 19, 2021

What if you need to find a specific document among tens or hundreds? If you know the name of the document, then searching is quite simple – many programs, including the standard Windows Explorer, can search by file name. To find a file by name, open Windows Explorer (file manager), navigate to the folder where you want to search, and...

What is Windows Admin Center and do regular users need it?

Posted by Alex On August 18, 2021

What is Windows Admin Center Windows Admin Center is an interface for managing Windows servers and Windows workstations. Microsoft is currently actively promoting this tool as an assistant to system administrators for configuring Windows servers and workstations. Through Windows Admin Center, you can manage and configure both a local computer and a remote one. In Windows Admin Center computers are...

Error “Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require the following PHP extensions to be installed: mysqli, openssl” (SOLVED)

Posted by Alex On August 9, 2021

This post explains the causes of the error and how to fix it. When self-installing the web server on Windows, for example, following the guide “How to install Apache web server with PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin on Windows”, when trying to open the phpMyAdmin address, an error may occur: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require the...

How to check PowerShell version in Windows 11

Posted by Alex On August 8, 2021

Finding your version of PowerShell will help you find out which PowerShell features you have access to. The PowerShell command lets you specify a version number, and we'll show you how. How to find out the installed version of PowerShell There is a PowerShell utility to find the version number, which is what we are going to use. First, press...

How to install the latest PowerShell on Windows 11

Posted by Alex On August 8, 2021

What's new in PowerShell 7 PowerShell 5.1 is installed by default in Windows 10 and Windows 11. In recent years, there has been an active development of new versions of PowerShell 7.*: 7.0, 7.1. PowerShell 7.2 beta is currently in development You can view the PowerShell 6.* and PowerShell 7.* changelog on this page: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/tree/master/CHANGELOG Despite the rapid development of...

How to change the default web browser in Windows 11

Posted by Alex On August 7, 2021

Whatever the name and whatever engine the preinstalled web browser in Windows is based on, most users launch it only once – in order to download their favorite Google Chrome or Firefox. This tutorial will show you how to make Google Chrome, Firefox or any other web browser the default on Windows 11. Download your favorite browser: Google Chrome you...

How to install Squid proxy on Windows

Posted by Alex On June 15, 2021

Squid is a high performance caching proxy for web clients supporting FTP, gopher, ICAP, ICP, HTCP and HTTP data objects. Squid reduces network bandwidth, data transfer and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently requested web pages. Squid has extensive access control and is a great server accelerator. It runs on most of the available operating systems, including Windows,...

How to Configure Tor to Work Through a Bridge Relay and Proxy in Windows

Posted by Alex On June 7, 2021

If you want to install Tor as a service on Windows, then you need the Expert Bundle. It can be downloaded from this page of the official website. From the downloaded archive (in my case, the file is called tor-win32-0.4.5.8.zip), unpack the Tor folder to the root of the C drive. Configuring Tor to Work Through a Bridge Relay Theory:...

How to check if my router supports IPv6

Posted by Alex On June 7, 2021

How to open a site on IPv6 The fastest and easiest way to find out if a router can work with IPv6 is to check if it can open a site with an IPv6 address. Use the service “Do I have IPv6”. This website allows you to connect to it in a variety of ways – just follow the link...

How to disable autostart of programs and services in Windows

Posted by Alex On May 26, 2021

Auto-loading programs and services that you are not using is a waste of system resources. The automatic launch of a large number of programs can slow down your computer. This article will show you how to check which programs start automatically when you turn on your computer and disable those you don't need. In addition to programs, we will also...
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