Wednesday, July 22, 2020

How to get back Local User and Group Management (lusrmgr.msc) snap-in for Windows 10

If you have tried to add back Local User and Group Management (lusrmgr.msc) and it fails on Windows 10 Home and Education versions. Below is solution.

Try this first to bring back snap-in using; 
  1. Open Run and type mmc.exe then press Enter.
  2. Click File then Add/Remove Snap-in.
  3. A small window should pop up, click Local Users and Groups then click Add >.
  4. Choose Local computer for the Target Machine then click Finish and to complete it click OK.

This should add the Local Users and Groups Snap-in to lusrmgr.msc. It will fail for some Windows Editions.
















Here's how to get lusrmgr.msc back for Windows 10

A developer has created a open-source version available here
https://github.com/proviq/lusrmgr/releases/download/1.6.1/lusrmgr.exe


Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Tip! How to clear/delete many/lots/bulk/hundreds of emails from Outlook.com online

Here's a tip about deleting emails from Outlook.com online. 

It seems due to the caching nature of Outlook.com, when you search for a email to delete, you have to wait for all the result to return. The very first search does not always return all the matched emails especially if there are over hundred matches. You have to search again and again.

Tip!

On average, I have found that search for the desired email a minimum of 3 times and scroll to the bottom of the window on the 3rd search to finally get all the matched emails 
and then choose Delete all button. This applies to approx. 75 matches or more and/or many pages. 


Searching for promo@... 3 times and scroll to end of page returning over 100 matches

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

How to clear cookies from Emacs

In Emacs, you can generally select a buffer and delete using the command C-x h C-w .

However, the cookie buffer .%* *url cookies* is read-only and you cannot delete it from inside of Emacs.






































Here's how to delete EWW Browser cookies from Emacs.

Paste this into your into Run [WIN+R], to open the Emacs cookie folder or in Windows Explorer

%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\.emacs.d\url


cache
cookies
cookies~

Delete cookies and cookies~ files. You can blow of the cache folder, if you need to. It contains downloaded images from pages you visit. It may contain 1x1 .GIF trackers. 


Here's how to install Emacs and browse
https://metadataconsulting.blogspot.com/2020/04/How-to-get-a-Text-Browser-for-Windows-7-10-Surf-the-web-in-text-only-no-ads.html