Monday, October 16, 2023

Disabling critical battery action

 I have an old laptop with an almost dead battery, which I always use tethered to a power source, mostly as a media device connected to my TV. Occasionally, I need to move it, and if it's open, Windows realizes that the battery is very weak and decides to hibernate, as that's the default critical battery action. This can become very frustrating. The good news is that you can easily address this issue using Windows' powercfg command.

Tuesday, July 4, 2023

Installing Windows 11 in QEMU on Supported Hardware

When attempting to install Windows 11 in QEMU, you may encounter the "unsupported hardware" message. This occurs because QEMU does not enable TPM 2.0 support by default.

Saturday, May 6, 2023

Copy contacts from outlook to gmail

To transfer your contacts from Outlook to Gmail and keep the pictures, you need to export them as vCard files (vcf) and then import them into Google Contacts. However, Outlook does not support exporting multiple contacts as vCard files at once and neither does Google Contacts support importing multiple vCard files at once. You can use a workaround to export your contacts in batches and then combine them into a single file. Here are the steps: