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Solving the problem of resetting the contrast after upgrading Windows 10

Once my Windows 10 installed another update, at the end of 2017, I did not remember which version the update was made on.
Immediately after the update, the computer rebooted and at startup I noticed that the screen became darker, the contrast increased, the black color became really black, almost like on Apple devices, but in fact the colors became not natural and it was not really possible to work with graphics.
For the test, I ran a few games and noticed that when moving a character to CS:GO for example, on some maps, the chart becomes so dark that you can forget about the game.
At that time, the Asus GeForce GTX 1060 Dual 6GB video card was installed on the computer, tried to switch color profiles in the NVIDIA panel, auto contrast correction turned off, but after restarting the computer the problem appeared again.
After I pulled out the video card, the integrated Intel® HD Graphics 630 had the same problem and setting parameters in the panel did not help.
Updating drivers for both video cards did not work either.

As it turned out, along with the update, Microsoft added Calibration Loader to the autorun via Task Scheduler, it just spoiled everything.

To solve the problem, I disabled it in the task scheduler.

You can find the “Calibration Loader” by clicking “Start” – “Task Scheduler”, go to \Microsoft\Windows\WindowsColorSystem, where I saw:

Name: Calibration Loader
Location: \Microsoft\Windows\WindowsColorSystem
Author: Microsoft Corporation
Description: This task uses color calibration options.

In the “Triggers” tab, you must disable both the “Log on” and “When connecting to a user session” flip-flops. This can be done by selecting the trigger, clicking the “Change” button below and unchecking the “Enabled” checkbox.

After that, without the Calibration Loader everything began to be displayed well.

Troubleshooting in Thunderbird “The IMAP server does not support the selected authentication method”

I will share information on this issue that has arisen from me.
I noticed recently on one of the computers that the mail stopped loading in Mozilla Thunderbird and the following message was displayed:

The IMAP server “…” does not support the selected authentication method. Please change the “Authentication Method” in “Account Settings | Server Settings”.

Before that, the mail was successfully downloaded, nothing changed in the Thunderbird configuration and on the mail server.
On a neighboring computer with similar parameters, there was no problem.

As I found out, the problem was in ESET NOD32 Internet Security and after turning off its protection (not a firewall) – the problem disappeared.
It’s amazing that the problem did not appear right away, during mail setup for example.

Since this computer was changing hardware and reinstalling the OS, and also mistakenly installed ESET NOD32 Internet Security, I did not investigate the reason for the blockage, deleted it and installed ESET NOD32 Antivirus, which was always on this computer, with the hope to continue to investigate the problem if it repeats itself, but after that it disappeared and did not appear.

Configuring an FTP server on Windows Server 2008 R2

On the test, I will configure the FTP server on Windows Server 2008 R2.

Open the “Server Manager”, it can be found in the menu “Start” – “Administrative Tools”.

If the “Web Server IIS” role is installed, then select it and then click “Add Role Services” (not Add Roles), check “FTP Server” and click “Next” and “Install”.

If the “Web Server IIS” role is not installed, in the “Roles” click “Add Roles”, select “Web Server IIS”, remove the tick from unnecessary components and check “FTP Server”, then click “Next” and “Install”.

Open “IIS Manager”, click “Add FTP Site …”, specify any name and path to the directory where the data will be stored, in the next window we will indicate which users are allowed to connect.

On the left we select the created FTP site, open “FTP Authentication” and activate “Basic Authentication”.

This completes the basic configuration of the FTP server and can be connected to it.

See my other articles on the topic Windows Server.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Backup and Restore

For example, I will make a backup copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 and describe the process by items:

1) Open the “Server Manager”.

2) Select “Features” – “Add Features”, check “Windows Server Backup” and “Command-line Tools”, click the “Install” button and wait for the installation to complete.

3) Open the “Start” menu and select “Windows Server Backup”.
For the test, I clicked “Backup Once”, in the window that appears, I select the “Custom” configuration type and ticked the C drive and all the oslat except for the other local disks if they are (for example, drive D) in the next window, you can select the storage type where the backup a copy, for example “Local disks” and specify drive D, or “Remote shared folder” and specify the path, I was just running Samba on one of the Linux servers, so I connected the network folder and chose this option.
See also my article – Installing and Configuring Samba on Linux

After the process is complete, the folder “WindowsImageBackup” with a backup will appear on the disk or network share.

To restore the system from this backup, you can similarly click the “Start” – “Windows Server Backup” menu and select this backup, or if the server does not start, then start the Windows startup disk, select “System Restore” and specify this backup.

How to make a bootable USB flash drive using UltraISO

I’ll describe the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive with Windows using UltraISO:

1) Start UltraISO, select the required ISO image of the operating system by clicking the menu “File”> “Open”.

2) We connect the USB flash drive to the computer, in UltraISO we open the menu “Bootable”> “Write Disk Image …”.
There where “Disk Drive” we will select a USB flash drive and press the “Write” button below to start the process of copying files from the ISO image.
Before starting the copying, all data from the USB flash drive will be erased.

At the end of the process, the USB flash drive will be ready.

How to record games clips in Windows using the Xbox panel?

Since the Xbox gaming panel is built into Windows 10, no additional programs are needed to record the video, just by pressing two Win+G keys simultaneously in the game.
After pressing Win+G, the Xbox gaming panel should open, in which you must click on the red circle (you can also use the combination of keys Win+Alt+R to start and stop video recording).
Using the keys Win+Alt+PrntScr, you can take a screenshot, and Win+Alt+T – show or hide the timer.

The Xbox game panel can also be opened by pressing the Xbox button on the gamepad.

Video clips are saved in MP4 format, to the \Video\Clips\ current user’s directory.

See also:
How to record games clips

The solution to the error 0x80073712. Component store has been corrupted

To fix the error “0x80073712. Component store has been corrupted” you need to open a CMD with administrator rights and run the following commands:

Checking the component store:

Dism /Online /Cleanup-Image /CheckHealth

Recovery:

Dism.exe /Online /Cleanup-Image /Restorehealth

For Powershell, the command looks like this:

Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth

You can also restore from the original installation disk by inserting a disk and executing commands in Powershell:

Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth -Source Е:\sources\install.wim:1

where E is the drive letter, and figure 1 is the edition number on the disk.

After the procedures, it is advisable to check the system files by typing the following at the command prompt:

sfc /SCANNOW

How to change the drive letter in Windows

For different versions of Windows, the procedure for changing the drive letter is almost the same.

To change the drive letter in Windows 8, click “Start“, type “Control Panel” on the screen, select “Control Panel” – “Administration” – “Computer Management” – “Disk Management“.
On the right disk, right-click the bears and select “Change Drive Letter and Path …“, click “Change…” in the window that opens, select “Assign the folowing drive latter” if it is not selected and select the desired letter, click “OK” to finish. Click “Yes” to confirm.

You can also open the Computer Management window by typing “compmgmt.msc” on the command line or in the search bar.

Windows Hot Keys List

Here is the list of Windows hot keys:
Win + E (Explorer)
Win + Pause (Properties of the system)
Win + F1 (Windows Help)
Win + F (Search for files)
Win + Сtrl + F (Computer search)
Ctrl + Esc или Win (Menu Start)
Ctrl + Shift + Esc (Task Manager)
Win + D (Collapse all windows)
Win + R (The Run window)
Win + L (Block)
Printscreen (Screenshot)
Alt + Printscreen (Screenshot of the active window)
Win + Tab или Win + Shift + Tab (Switch between windows)
Alt +Tab (Easy switching between windows)
Ctrl + N (Creating a new object, document, opening a new window)
Ctrl + P (Printing)
Ctrl + Z (Undo the last action)
Alt + Enter (In some applications, switching to full screen mode and back)
F5 (updating the window)

Work with text:
Ctrl + A (select all)
Ctrl + C или Ctrl + Insert (copy to clipboard)
Ctrl + X или Shift + Delete (cut to clipboard)
Ctrl + V или Shift + Insert (paste from clipboard)
Ctrl + S (saving a document or project)
Ctrl + O (opening an object or document)
Ctrl + Home (move to the beginning of the document)
Ctrl + End (move to the end of the document)
Ctrl + Shift + left/right arrow (text selection by words)
Ctrl + left/right arrow (move the cursor by words)

Working with files:
Alt + Enter (When a selected object in the directory opens its properties)
F2 (object renaming)
Shift + F10 (context menu, like right-click)
Shift + Delete (the irrevocable removal of the object, bypassing the basket)
Enter (similar to double-clicking a mouse)
Delete (object deletion)
Ctrl + click (arbitrary selection)
Shift + click (highlight adjacent objects)
Ctrl + Shift + dragging with the mouse (create a shortcut)
Ctrl + dragging with the mouse (copying an object)
Shift + dragging with the mouse (object movement)

Working with dialog boxes:
Tab (move forward by options)
Shift + Tab (move to options backward)
Ctrl + Tab (moving tabs forward)
Ctrl + Shift + Tab (moving tabs backward)

When inserting a disk into the CD-ROM, the Shift key cancels the autorun of the contents of the disk.

How to remove hiberfil.sys file

The file hiberfil.sys is created and used by the operating system for the correct operation of the sleep mode. When the computer goes into sleep mode, all data from the RAM is stored in this file. The size of this file is usually not less than the amount of computer RAM (RAM).

If you need to delete the hiberfil.sys file, you will have to disable sleep and hibernation on your computer. To do this, open “Control Panel” -> “Power Supply” -> “Power Scheme Setup” and in the window that opens, click “Never” and click “OK” in the opposite window.
Next, you need to type the following command in the command line or “execute” (Windows + R):

powercfg -h off

powercfg –hibernate –off

and click “OK”. The hiberfil.sys file will be deleted automatically.
If you suddenly changed your mind and decided to return to hibernation, then you can run the command:

powercfg -h on

These manipulations must be performed on behalf of the administrator.