As much as I love and use Microsoft Teams, way too often I noticed it was using over 8% CPU in idle state. My computer ran hot, slower than it should and the battery drained faster than usual. Especially during video-calls the CPU use would spike to 50 or 60%, which was abnormally high. (fyi. …
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Autoruns is a tiny portable app by SysInternals for all versions of Windows. It is an essential free tool that lists everything that happens during a fresh boot of Windows. And it allows you to enable/disable items with the tick of a box. Download Autoruns here. Thorough optimization of the boot process is delicate, but …
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If you use a DLNA of UPnP Media Server to stream videos from your (e.g.) Synology NAS to your LG C9 or CX OLED TV, you may experience subtitles not always loading properly. Even though you have an SRT file in the same directory as the movie file or many subtitles are embedded in your …
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Many video players don’t support embedded subtitles in MKV files. Few people know it’s quite easy to extract one or many subtitles as .SRT files. The search for this solution gave me quite a headache, so I’m happy to share it with you. The right combination of MKV TOOLNIX + gMKVExtractGUI, both free tools, works …
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All my ratings and (smart) playlists are configured to perfection in its library and the files are all stored on my Synology NAS. I like iTunes, but it hasn’t been easy combining it with Android and streaming the library all around the house via UPnP DLNA devices (like LG WebOS, a Telenet Digicorder, and the …
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Whenever you enter an URL in your browser, your internet provider will translate it to its specific IP-address. Then you’ll receive the requested content. This translation is handled on their DNS (Domain Name Server). This usually works just fine, but certain countries or geopolitical zones have a tendency to block or redirect specific websites, and …
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