Windows Defender and Thunderbird

Because Windows Defender bogs down Thunderbird for no good reason, you can to disable real-time protection temporarily to get back to work:

1. Click Windows button and type 'Windows Defender settings'
2. Click on the Defender Security  Center
3. Click on Virus & threat protection
4. Click on Virus & threat protection settings

...correct! they didn't make the organization of Widows Defender intuitively easy did they?!

5. Turn Real-time protection off





You can add your Thunderbird profile directory into the "Add or remove exclusions" list and this should let you turn Real-time protection back on.

Microsoft, fix this!

Braun Mechanic light plastic crack

Tilting the light bar of Harbor Freight's Braun 390 lumen magnetic led work light (Part # 63958) can cause the plastic to fracture at it's base.   Therefore use the base, not the end of the light, to tilt the light bar.  

In this image, I used two zip ties to strengthen the plastic base.   The manufacturer needs to make this metal.

Update: 3d printing a tight fitted sleeve part is another way to go.  PLA plastic is some hard stuff.

Thunderbird Unresponsive script

This is not a howto fix but a gripe.    When moving large amounts of emails within Thunderbird, you'll frequently get this popup:



Of course, you want to click Continue so it completes but you'll also also want to see future LEGIT warnings too.  Mozilla folks should look into not displaying fake "unresponsive script" messages when the program is indeed actively moving the emails just fine.   This is too unnerving and a bug!

Check Your Vendor's TLS Certificate Expiration Dates

If you run a business that takes credit cards, then it's a pretty cool day when your credit card processor lets their SSL/TLS certificates expire.  Not only did they let this happen on one of their domains, it happened again on another important one.



Remember the day when you ran a business without needing to be dependent on this many variables?

The referenced assembly is not installed on your system

Press the WINDOWSKEY + R
It should give you a run box.
paste this into the field and click OK

%userprofile%\Appdata\Local\Apps\2.0

Browse into these folders and if all the files you see pertain to the
program you're having trouble with, then just delete all the folders
within the 2.0 directory.   Your program should then work.