Recently I met a new kind of screen locker while browsing. I could see it with Chrome and Edge in Windows 11. It opens a window which looks like a Windows defender and tells you to call to a number of the support. Of course, you will just pay too much for this call and that’s all. But it’s not easy to close this window. I will write how to do it.

You can add the service with PowerShell. New-Service and Get-service are available in PowerShell 5, for 'Remove-Service' PowerShell >= 6 required. Otherwise you can use 'sc.exe DELETE MyMegaServiceApplication'. You should execute it with as an administrator. Not any application you can start a service. As a .Net developer, I usually create .Net solutions, in this case you should create application based on 'worker service' template in VS 2022 or any other IDE.

Create a self-signed public certificate to authenticate your application in PowerShell

The error is:

Configuration loaded builds=0
listen_address not defined, metrics & debug endpoints disabled builds=0
[session_server].listen_address not defined, session endpoints disabled builds=0
In gitlab runners allor “Run untagged jobs: Indicates whether this runner can pick jobs without tags”, set the checkbox correspondingly.

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The commandlet 'Get-ChildItem' will give you all the default information about the folders inside. By default they are: Mode, LastWriteTime, Length (for files) and Name.

Get-ChildItem c:\Path

To exclude folders, files or file extensions in scanning by Windows Defender, you can use PowerShell. It’s recommended to use by administrators. With this PowerShell script (command) you can easily set exclusion for the Windows Defender. It is useful sometime and help to improve the performance.

I prefer not to store operation system Windows 10 and my files on the same drive. When I have to reinstall Windows and loose data on system drive, I will not remove my files if they are on another drive. That is why I recommend to store your files on the second drive.

To sync the time on a computer with Windows OS you can run the command in console:

w32tm /resync /force

It is a very common task to truncate log files. You don't notice them and they reach the limit size always not in the appropriate time. And when this moment occurs, it's much better to have a quick solution to decrease the size of log files. But even much better to clean logs automatically on the schedule.

During previous 5 years I have downloaded files from FTP server. Those were texts and images, that had been downloaded from FTP resources. During these 5 years its quantity became enormous – over 150 000 items in each folder. It worked automatically, that's why I hadn't paid attention to disc size and quantity of files. But once the space decreased too much.

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