If you've ever setup a Windows VM in unRAID, you've probably noticed that the mouse cursor is almost invisible in unRAID's noVNC window. Installing the virtio video driver helps some, but it's still very difficult to locate. I've tried a few solutions to enhance the visibility of the mouse cursor, but the best and simplest trick I've found is to invert the cursor's color. Before...
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MacBook Pro & Windows 10 Hanging (Workaround)
In an attempt to extend the life of my aging 13" MacBook Pro (2014), I purchased a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO along with the requisite NGFF to M.2 adapter. Not only did this quadruple the disk space I previously had, but according to benchmarks, doubled my read and write speeds as well. This upgrade wasn't without its headaches though, including me having to reinstall macOS & Windows despite having...
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Windows 10 (1903) Unresponsive After RDP Disconnect
There's a major bug in the current release of Windows 10 (1903). The latest iteration of Windows 10, which technically came out 5 months ago, recently became available to me as a Windows update. Since then I noticed I wasn't able to remote to my Windows 10 VM's until they were rebooted. It wasn't until I started digging that I realized it was happening after I disconnected from a previous...
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Microsoft Edge Hates My Intranet Sites
Recently, I noticed that this very site, Labsrc.com, wouldn't load in Microsoft Edge. On my Windows 10 PC, I was able to open the site in every other browser, Firefox, Chrome, IE, etc., except Microsoft's successor to Internet Explorer. I initially started worrying that there was some change I made that was causing Edge to hang and that all my Microsoft readers were crashing their browsers because of me. I...
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When an Admin isn’t an Admin, More Windows Samba Drama
If you read my last post, you'll know that the latest release of Windows 10 introduced an issue when connecting to public Samba shares. I showed you how this problem can be solved through the use of a local GPO. I thought that would be the last of my file sharing problems, but as usual I was sorely mistaken. Recently, I had trouble connecting to a password protected Windows share...
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