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  • Windows Desktop Icons Are White
    If your icons have turned white or not displayed correctly you may have a corrupt icon cache. To reset the icon cache open Powershell/CMD in the directory below. Exit all Explorer windows or kill task in Task Manager to allow deletion of the files below Delete all iconcache.db files in %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Explorer Open another Powershell/CMD window… Read more: Windows Desktop Icons Are White
  • WSL Ubuntu Reclaim Space on Vdisk Image Using Diskpart in Windows
    Possible Disk Image locations If using Docker Desktop, exit the program and shutdown WSL(use terminate if wsl starts up again automatically), check nothing is running Start Diskpart with elevated privileges Attach the image file and compress the image
  • Docker Import Mysql Database
    To import a mysql database via Docker use the following command. Use the code below to obtain the mysql-container name.
  • Redis Viewer Tableplus
    A useful tool for testing applications with Redis integration. https://tableplus.com
  • Explorer Slow Not Refreshing
    Possible fixes for Windows explorer not refreshing files when moving/copying etc… Delete files from recent list Then restart explorer.exe in task manager. Remove any redundant or broken links from Quick Access menu