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Windows 11 Services to Disable

2025-04-25 Randy Usegnu

In the XDA Developers article ‘5 services I disabled to improve Windows performance’, the author demonstrates how turning off five unnecessary background services can free up CPU and memory, reduce disk thrashing, and speed up boot times. Services to disable How to disable Restart your PC to apply changes. You can re-enable any service at

Synaptic touchpad on Manjaro

2024-10-062024-10-06 Randy Usegnu

The Synaptic touchpad on Manjaro will stop responding and/or get glitchy after using it for about 10 minutes. You either have to press the F7 (toggle touchpad) key, so for a temporary fix I made a bash script to run xdotool to disable/enable the touchpad, then added it to a cron job to run every

Getting Gnome-Software to work in Fedora 30

2019-07-27 Randy Usegnu

Sometimes when opening gnome-software nothing will be displayed like below: To get gnome-software to reload and work again, open a terminal and just type “killall gnome-software” then open gnome-software again.

Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux Gaming

2019-07-262024-12-25 Randy Usegnu

Setting up a Bluetooth Controller for Linux GamingPosted by LordDaveTheKind, 24 January 2019 at 9:34 pm UTC | Views: 10,611 Recently I solved an issue for setting up my Wireless (via Bluetooth) controller on Steam for Linux, and decided to elaborate a little better about my experience, and share my results and observations with you all. The controller I