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Supercharge Your WordPress Site with AutomationTools.ai WordPress Autoblogger
In today’s digital landscape, owning a WordPress site is a necessity for businesses and individuals looking to establish an online presence. However, maintaining and growing that presence requires more than just a basic hosting plan. By hosting your WordPress site on a VPS (Virtual Private Server) provided by Cheap Windows VPS and integrating AutomationTools.ai’s WordPress…
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How to Mount Physical and Network Drives in WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux)
There are several ways to mount and access physical, virtual, or network drives in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). By default, the WSL environment mounts all Windows logical drives to the /mnt/ directory. In addition, you can access the WSL file system directly from File Explorer running on the Windows host by using the UNC…
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How to Change Network Connection (Adapter) Priorities in Windows: A Step-by-Step Guide
Sometimes, you may need to manually configure network connection priorities to route traffic correctly on a Windows computer with multiple network adapters (Ethernet, Wi-Fi, VPN). Windows automatically assigns priorities for network adapters based on connection (link) speed. The higher the connection speed, the higher the priority of such a network adapter (the lower the interface…
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Migrating VMs from VMware ESXi to Proxmox
The recently released Proxmox VE 8.2 hypervisor has a built-in wizard for importing virtual machines directly from VMware ESXi hosts. This post explains several scenarios of migrating VMs from VMware ESXi (vCenter) to the Proxmox host. Importing VMware ESXi Virtual Machines to Proxmox Let’s look at how to migrate a configured VM from an ESXi…
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Troubleshooting: Unable to Access Shared Folders on NAS in Windows 11 24H2
Microsoft recently announced that mandatory SMB packet signing for access to shared network folders will be enabled by default in Windows 11 24H2. This may cause problems when accessing shared folders on NAS (Network Attached Storage) devices where SMB signing is not supported or disabled by default. SMB Signing is one of the security features…
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How to Map a SharePoint Online Library as a Network Drive in Windows
Connecting SharePoint Online document libraries through the OneDrive client or using the Web interface are the preferred and recommended ways to access document library files on SharePoint. But you can also mount SharePoint Online and OneDrive site libraries in Windows as regular network drives. You can map a SharePoint Online network drive manually or by…
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Easy Steps to Set or Change the Default Printer in Windows 10 and 11
Microsoft has changed how the default printer is assigned in Windows 10 and 11. Windows now always sets the default printer to the last printer the user successfully printed to in the current location. This means that if you print to different printers, the default printer may constantly change. Let’s look at how to set…
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How to Test Your Internet Speed Using Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell
Many online services allow you to test your Internet connection speed in real-time. If you need to regularly collect Internet connection speed metrics from your provider for monitoring, you can use the popular Speedtest console client from Ookla. Let’s look at how to measure the speed of an Internet connection using the Windows command prompt…
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How to Configure File and Folder Access Auditing on Windows Using Group Policy (GPO)
The file system audit policy in Windows allows to monitor all access events to specific files and folders on a disk. An administrator can enable the audit policy to identify file and folder creation, read, modification, and deletion events on the NTFS file system. File system auditing is most commonly used to control access and…
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How to Install Any OS from an ISO Image over the Network Using iVentoy
Ventoy is a lightweight PXE multiboot server app that stores bootable ISO images of various operating systems (Windows, Linux, VMware, LiveCD based on WinPE or Linux, etc.), allowing computers to boot and install operating systems over a LAN. To run a network boot PXE server, copy the ISO files with the operating system distros into…