Crucial SSD utility reports

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My crucial SSD utility reported that I should optimize my SSD performance by disabling 8.3 file name creation on all NTFS partitions. 

The use of 8.3 file names and directories for all long file names and directories on NTFS partitions may decrease directory enumeration performance. An 8.3-compliant file name refers to MS-DOS file-naming conventions. These conventions restrict file names to eight characters and optional extensions to three characters.

This article describes a method of disabling 8.3 file name creation on all NTFS partitions. 

Note: Although disabling 8.3 file name creation increases file performance under Windows, some applications (16-bit, 32-bit, or 64-bit) may not be able to find files and directories that have long file names.

Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012

To disable 8.3 name creation on all NTFS partitions, type fsutil.exe behavior set disable8dot3 1 at an elevated command prompt, and then press Enter.

This operation takes effect immediately (no restart required).

Notes 
When a volume is not specified, the operation updates the registry value:

• 0 - Enable 8dot3 name creation on all volumes on the system
• 1 - Disable 8dot3 name creation on all volumes on the system
• 2 - Set 8dot3 name creation on a per volume basis
• 3 - Disable 8dot3 name creation on all volumes except the system volume

When a volume is specified, the operation updates the individual volume's on disk flag. This operation is meaningful only if the registry value is set to 2.

• 0 - Enable 8dot3 name creation on this volume
• 1 - Disable 8dot3 name creation on this volume

For more information about FSUTIL.EXE 8dot3name, see the following TechNet article:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621566.aspx

Lubuntu Remote XRDP and VNC blank desktop [Solved]

I installed xrdp and x11vnc on my Lubuntu 16.04LTS box
Trying to access my Lubuntu using XRDP  and vnc gave me a blank desktop on my win10x64 desktop (using mstsc.exe for rdp)

I read somewhere to install lxde-common, so i did (apt-get install lxde-common)
And yeah it worked for xrdp (the screen icons are a bit different but I can live with that)
(no tweaking done)

To fix the blank desktop using VNC you have to uncomment 2 lines which are commented by default after installation of x11vnc (below the setting where the 2 lines are uncommented which fixed the blank desktop)

root@ub:~/.vnc# more xstartup
#!/bin/sh

# Uncomment the following two lines for normal desktop:
unset SESSION_MANAGER
exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc

[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] && exec /etc/vnc/xstartup
[ -r $HOME/.Xresources ] && xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
vncconfig -iconic &
x-terminal-emulator -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
x-window-manager &
root@ub:~/.vnc#

Strange is that I see some LXDE entries are added in the autostart which I have not done myself:

LUbuntu light-locker-settings didn't start (cannot activate screen dim)

Lubuntu based on Ubuntu 16.04LTS
When I click on Light locker settings it does not show the menu for light-locker and worse I noticed that my screen does not dim at all

In order to make Screen dim work I installed xscreensaver but did not work either: When i clicked on the screensaver icon in /usr/share/applications it said the following:

The XScreenSaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on ":0". Launch it now?

In order to launch it automatically  I added xscreensaver -nosplash   in
Preferences -> Default Applications for LXSession -> Autostart

Now it is automatically started and after I adjusted the timings for the screensaver it works as intended.

Deep sleep mode Nexus 5x and Whatsapp

I noticed that I did not receive whatsapp notifications on my phone while it was in sleep mode.

I'm going to see if disabling deep sleep for Whatsapp solves it.
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You can turn this off per app. Go to:

Settings > Battery 

Touch the menu icon (three dots)

Touch Battery Optimization and touch the down arrow, followed by All apps

Tap on the app that you want to turn off optimization

Select Don't Optimize and touch Done.

Patch update April 2016 issue [Solved]

Win7 64 bit fully patched (up to patch update April 2016) got into issues after receiving April update. Windows shutdown unexpectedly and after restart it looked like it came into a boot loop.
One of the things was >50% CPU for svchost and everything else brought the cpu to 100%
I suspected a temperature issue due to the high cpu but I came across an article which solved it.

What I did to resolve it was found in this article:
Set windows update to "Never check ..."
Reboot pc and now CPU load was back to normal
Install KB3145739 manually. Go to Microsoft website to download and then install.
Next you should restart and finally you can check for updates in manual mode.
Doing manual update after KB3145739 install showed 14 updates left
These patches installed fine while watching CPU load en CPU Temp and the pc went installing these patches without a hitch.

Windows 10 keeps reinstalling KB3119142

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KB3119142 (Update for Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Update 4 Redistributable Package) keeps downloading in the Windows 10 Update app. Windows apparently attempts to reinstall it each time, and each time it installs successfully according to the log screen.

Solution:
Right click the Windows Start Icon at the lower left of your screen in the taskbar and click on Programs and Features at the top of the list there. If you are familiar with Control Panel, you can also go there and click on Programs and Features.

Right click on the MS C++ 2012 listing there. Click on Change and then Repair. Restart your computer. I had the same problem since installing 11099 and found this answer on Win 10 Insider Forum and it worked for me.

After this it will successfully install the update and reports your machine as up to date