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Sat, Feb 14, 2026 7:02 pm

Changing the time zone on a Microsoft Windows system from the command line

The timezone on a Microsoft Windows system can be changed from the command line by opening a command prompt window with administrator privileges and then typing timedate.cpl and hitting Enter, which opens a window where you can alter the timezone or you can use the tzutil utility to change the time zone using a command of the form tzutil /s "TimeZone" where TimeZone is the appropriate time zone identifier, e.g., tzutil /s "Eastern Standard Time".

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Fri, Feb 13, 2026 9:45 pm

Installing OpenSSH Server software on a Windows 10 system with PowerShell

OpenSSH Server for Windows 10 requires at least Windows 10 (build 1809). You can determine the build number for Windows 10 by typing winver in the Windows "Type here to search" field at the bottom of the screen or at a PowerShell prompt. Or you can use the systeminfo utility and pipe it's output into the findstr command, filtering on the line that has "OS" at the beginning of the line and also "Version" in the line.

PS C:\> systeminfo | findstr -B "OS" | findstr "Version"
OS Version:                10.0.19045 N/A Build 19045
PS C:\>

The SSH Client software may already be installed. You can determine if it is already installed by opening a PowerShell prompt and typing ssh. If it is installed, as it was on the Windows 10 Professional Version 22H2 (OS Build 19045.6466) system on which I wanted to set up the OpenSSH Server software, you will see a response like the following one:

PS C:\> ssh
usage: ssh [-46AaCfGgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-B bind_interface] [-b bind_address]
           [-c cipher_spec] [-D [bind_address:]port] [-E log_file]
           [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11] [-i identity_file]
           [-J destination] [-L address] [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec]
           [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-P tag] [-p port] [-Q query_option]
           [-R address] [-S ctl_path] [-W host:port] [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]]
           destination [command [argument ...]]
PS C:\>

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Sun, Feb 08, 2026 4:29 pm

Checking an NVMe drive's status in Ubuntu Linux with nvme-cli

You can check the health of a NVM Express (NVMe) drive on an Ubuntu Linux system using the nvme-cli command-line interface (CLI) application. The description for the package is as follows:

NVMe management command line interface

nvme-cli is a NVMe management command line interface. NVM Express™ (NVMe™) is a specification defining how host software communicates with non-volatile memory across a PCI Express® (PCIe®) bus. It is the industry standard for PCIe solid state drives (SSDs) in all form factors (U.2, M.2, AIC, EDSFF).

You can install nvme-cli throught the App Center on a Ubuntu Linux system.

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Fri, Feb 06, 2026 3:36 pm

Downloading YouTube videos on a Windows system with yt-dlp

YouTube recently changed its website (around January 4, 2026) so that programs that worked in the past for downloading YouTube videos, such as StreamFab, no longer work. My wife and I like to archive YouTube videos we find that have useful information we might wish to refer to again in the future, since we've sometimes found that when we try to view them again on YouTube that a channel where they were posted has disappeared along with all its videos. We have a YouTube premium subscription, which allows one to download videos, but they are stored in a blob file where they are not accessible to programs we use to view videos and there is no guarantee they will remain accessible even in YouTube's limited offline viewing method when a channel disappears. So we were very perturbed that YouTube has now made it very difficult to archive videos. StreamFab has been working very well for my wife and is easy to use, but I needed to look for an alternative for her. A couple of sites that still work that allow one to download YouTube videos are listed below, but downloading through those websites is slower and she found that for fairly large videos the downloads would fail.

https://ytdown.to/en2/
https://v6.www-y2mate.com/

Since I had WinPython, a free and open-source version of the Python programming language installed on a Windows laptop and she is using a Windows 11 system at the moment, though she wants to switch to Linux, I decided to try the yt-dlp Python program that allows one to download YouTube videos from a command-line interface (CLI).

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Mon, Feb 02, 2026 10:07 pm

Adding the capability to save webpages as a single file to Firefox

The Firefox web browser does not have the capability to save the contents of a webpage to a single file, such as an MHTML file, which is a web archive file format that allows one to save the HTML code, images etc. on a webpage into a single file. Though the capability is absent from Firefox, you can add the functionality of saving a page to a single file by installing Save Page WE, an add-on for Firefox by DW-dev. The extension provides the capability to "Save a complete web page (as currently displayed) as a single HTML file that can be opened in any browser. Save a single page, multiple selected pages or a list of page URLs. Automate saving from command line." The saved file is not an MHTML file, or one of the other common web archiving file formats, but it is a single HTML file that Firefox and other browsers can read. Save Page WE is implemented using the WebExtensions API and is available for both Firefox and Chrome with identical functions and user interfaces.

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Sun, Feb 01, 2026 3:27 pm

Viewing Payment Details for a Loan in the Desktop Version of Quicken

If you automatically update a loan's balance by downloading transactions from a bank's website, when you click on "Payment Details" in the Windows Classic Business & Personal desktop version of Quicken, you won't be able to actually view details on payments, such as the amount of principal and interest paid for each transaction. You can change the loan account's settings in Quicken to stop automatically updating the account by right-clicking on the account and then selecting "Edit/Delete account" then clicking on the "Online Services" tab and then clicking on the "Deactivate" button in the online setup portion of the window. When asked "Would you like to deactivate this service?", click on "Yes". You can then close the "Account Details" window. Then, when you choose "Payment Details", you should see the individual transactions for the account and you will be able to modify the opening balance, principal and interest for payments, if needed. If you then want to transfer money from another account, such as a checking account, as a payment on the loan, you may not see the account listed as one of the transfer options in the dropdown list for transfers, but if you type the account name in the Category field exactly as it appears in the account list and then hit the Tab key, the amount you specify will be transferred to the loan account.

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