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

[Solved] Win8.1 hangs on shutdown with Avast 2015 free

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Today I installed the patches from Microsoft together with Avast2015 Free.When I decided to reboot the PC it got stuck in either shutdown, please wait or Restart.

I read an article that stated that Avast 2015 was not compatible with the optional KB3000850.
After uninstalling this patch Avast did run without issues.

Update:
Avast has solved the issue. Before installing KB3000850 you should check if
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\aswsnx.sys should has a higher version than 1.0.2208.712
So check this version before installing this Microsoft update

Cakewalk UA-1G working perfect with Linux Mint

I use Cakewalk UA-1G as a USB AD-DA converter and I'm happy to report it is fully recognized by Linux mint and use it together with deadBeef -0.6.2

ClamAV on linux mint

This fixed it for me: thanks to Kinta-Japan
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>I've got the same problem: "'Filesystem filter driver is not loaded".
>ubuntu server 12.10 x64
>comodo 1.1.268025-1 x64

Please try this. But, it can't be guaranteed. 
I tested kernel 3.5.0, 3.6.11, 3.7.10 and 3.8.8 on Ubuntu 12.10(x64).
Please tell me result.

(1)
execute CAVL installer.

(2)
download driver.tar from http://www.bondoffamily-net.com/~kinta-chan/techknow/Linux/RedirFS/DownLoad.html

(3)
replace /opt/COMODO/driver.tar

(4)
execute post_setup.sh

Remove "open with" item from context menu

Sometimes you choose the wrong program and before you know it your right click context menu contains a unusable entry.  Removing this entry is simple if you know where to look.
By no means a new item but just archived because I was looking for it on the web and spent more time than I wished to get the right answer. The solution from HowToGeek did the trick:

browse to the following key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER \Software \Microsoft \Windows \CurrentVersion \ Explorer \FileExts\

Here you’ll see a list of all the file extensions that are registered on your computer.

Browse to the file extension you wish to edit, click the white triangle beside it to see the subfolders, and select OpenWithList.  In our test, we want to change the programs associated with PDF files, so we select the OpenWithList folder under .pdf.

Notice the names of the programs under the Data column on the right.  Right-click the value for the program you don’t want to see in the Open With menu and select Delete.