Office 365 slow when typing and constant high CPU

Lately, my Office 365 started to misbehave. Launching Excel was so slow that it usually ended with "There was a problem sending the command to the program" and typing into Word was a PITA; it would take 2-4 seconds for text to show up after typing. A quick look at the process revealed that there …

Speaker fill not working in Windows 10

I recently tried to attach a subwoofer to my desktop computer, but when playing music, there was no sound coming out of it, even if I had the "Speaker fill" option enabled. A possible solution is to replace the High Definition Audio driver with an older version (specifically, the one from 27/02/2017). To do so, …

Fix: can not enable Javascript in IE11

Today I had to re-sync my OneDrive library on my Windows 8.1 laptop but before I could log in I got stuck on a "Javascript is required" error message. I checked, double-check and re-checked that all Javascript options were enabled in Internet Explorer 11. I completely reset the browser, wiping all my settings, I re-installed …

session setup failed: NT_STATUS_NOT_SUPPORTED

While trying to browse the Windows Shares of my Virtualized Windows I ran accross following error:   Purely for reference, this is the last part of the ouput with debug level 10 To fix this, go to the Windows host and open the Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). Go to Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > …

The great switcharoo

A long time I have worked with Windows 8.1 as the host and Linux Mint 18 as the guest operating system on my laptop. Lately, the Windows host just served as shell for running Office 365, OneDrive and Outlook. Considering that it runs full disk encryption (the worst of its kind) and a bloaty anti-virus …