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How to increase the maximum number of pinned items on the taskbar in windows?

You can do this with a registry change, 

Whenever making registry changes be sure to do a full backup first, I am not responsible for your mistakes.

Open your registry editor (regedit)

goto 

Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced

right click on advanced and add new DWORD value "JumpListItems_Maximum" and assign the desired value in decimal format.

In most cases you do not need to restart anything, if you would like you can restart explorer using the task manager.
open task manager: Ctrl+Alt+DEL select task manager and under the processes tab right click on "Windows Explorer" and choose restart.

That's it, your done.

Error 0x80004005 | an unexpected error is keeping you from copying the folder / file when using remote desktop

This error generally happens when rdpclip has become unstable. To solve this issue you can simply restart the rdpclip.exe application.

To do this open task manager, click on "Details" then find rdpclip.exe

Now end task on rdpclip.exe

Next you can restart the rdpclip.exe by running a new task

Enter rdpclip and click "OK"

That's it, your done and the problem should be solved.

 

How to use PuTTY to test SMTP on an email server.

If you have not already, you can download PuTTY from putty.org

Once you open PuTTY you can input the mail server name or IP address you are attempting to connect to into the Host Name field. Then update the port to 25 and the connection type to "Telnet".

When you click connect you should see something like this:

Other responses:

  • If you do not receive a response, the connection was blocked by the mail server.
  • If you receive "Cannot connect to host on port 25" the mail server is likely offline or is having network routing issues.

You can also run a few commands to test

Data error (cyclic redundancy check) when copying files and how to bypass it

You can quickly bypass this error by using robocopy,

use run as administrator to open a command prompt and do the following:

robocopy /e /is /v /eta [driveletter]:\sourcefolder [driveletter]:\destinationfolder

/e Copies all subdirectories.

/is Includes the same files.

/v Produces verbose output, and shows all skipped files.

/eta Shows the ETA of the copied files.

3ware 3DM2 Error, ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

This error is caused because 3dm2 uses a no longer supported SSL cipher. Normally in order to fix this issue you would just issue an updated SSL cert but 3DM2 does not offer this option, so you will need to open up a legacy browser. 

On windows you will need to run internet explorer

then open the local server address, https://localhost:888/ 

It is possible you will need to go into internet explorer > internet options > advanced and enable addition SSL protocols as well.