In the Windows DNS cache, records of domain names with their IP addresses to which were accessed are stored. When a user opens a site for the first time, a DNS server is accessed; upon subsequent openings of a site, Windows already takes information from the cache. Therefore, if a new IP address has been assigned to a domain, then the system will access the old one for a while based on the data in the cache.
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The bat! How to open attached images with an external program
Once I noticed that in the mail client The Bat! the attached images are opened by the built-in viewer in which it is impossible to see the whole image and very few functions.
Continue reading “The bat! How to open attached images with an external program”PING does not work on Windows
Once I noticed that when I try to execute the ping command, a message appears on the Windows command line:
“ping” is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch file
Continue reading “PING does not work on Windows”Installing Windows on a GPT Disk
To create a bootable flash drive, open the command line as administrator and enter the commands:
Continue reading “Installing Windows on a GPT Disk”Sending e-mail through the console utility Blat in Windows
Official website for downloading the program: www.blat.net
To execute commands with the program, you need to go to the directory where it is located, either specify the full path, or copy to the system directory.
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I will describe the points how to configure a VPN connection in Windows 8:
Continue reading “How to set up a VPN connection in Windows 8”Question marks instead of Russian letters, a solution to the problem with Windows encoding
I noticed on one computer that instead of Russian letters on the command line and in some programs question marks are displayed.
Continue reading “Question marks instead of Russian letters, a solution to the problem with Windows encoding”Resolving a program startup error due to the absence of MSVCR100.dll
I noticed after installing and starting the game Grand Theft Auto V and Counter-Strike Source the following error:
Continue reading “Resolving a program startup error due to the absence of MSVCR100.dll”How to make a bootable USB flash drive with Windows
The easiest way is to download the Rufus utility from rufus.ie, or WinSetupFromUSB from www.winsetupfromusb.com.
Or the official Windows USB / DVD Download Tool:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/windows-usb-dvd-download-tool
How to clean WinSxS folder on Windows
I noticed recently on one computer that there was almost no free space on the system disk.
By comparing the sizes of the directories, I determined that the folder at C:/Windows/WinSxS is the largest, about 40 gigabytes.