Can I run Docker Desktop on Windows without admin privileges?

As of Docker Desktop 2.4 (possibly earlier, I haven’t tested) this is supported. From the Windows installation instructions: If your admin account is different to your user account, you must add the user to the docker-users group. Run Computer Management as an administrator and navigate to Local Users and Groups > Groups > docker-users. Right-click … Read more

Setting window size on desktop for a Windows 10 UWP app

Try setting PreferredLaunchViewSize in your MainPage‘s constructor like this: public MainPage() { this.InitializeComponent(); ApplicationView.PreferredLaunchViewSize = new Size(480, 800); ApplicationView.PreferredLaunchWindowingMode = ApplicationViewWindowingMode.PreferredLaunchViewSize; } As @kol also pointed out, if you want any size smaller than the default 500×320, you will need to manually reset it: ApplicationView.GetForCurrentView().SetPreferredMinSize(new Size(200, 100));

How to stop backgrounddownload exe

This however does not stop VS from recreating BackgoundDownload.exe in ‘random’ temp directories and trying again. There must be some other missed option. Perhaps disabling the scheduled task in ‘task scheduler’ would finalize the change. Through control panel, or other means, open ‘Task Scheduler’. in the navigation pane on the left side, navigate to “Task … Read more

What is the proper way of using JDK on WSL2 on Windows 10?

Run the following commands as a user with sudo privileges or root to update the packages index and install the OpenJDK 11 JDK package: $ sudo apt update $ sudo apt install openjdk-11-jdk Once the installation is complete, you can verify it by checking the Java version: $ java -version The output should look something … Read more

Could not start Windows Service, Error 1064

Thanks to @Siderite Zackwehdex’s comment, I was able to find the full stack trace of the underlying exception in EventViewer, under: Windows Logs\Application In my case, my service is named “HttpDispatcher”, which appears in the “Source” column in the top pane. I could see immediately it was due to a dependency issue where my .NET … Read more

What does “Beta: Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support” actually do?

You can see it in ProcMon. It seems to set the REG_SZ values ACP, MACCP, and OEMCP in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Nls\CodePage to 65001. I’m not entirely sure but it might be related to the variable gAnsiCodePage in KernelBase.dll, which GetACP reads. If you really want to, you might be able to change it dynamically for your program … Read more

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)