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Windows 10 – Window System Image Backup fails error code (0x807800C5) (0x80070020)

There was a failure in preparing the backup image of one of the volumes in the backup set.
The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.

All I can tell you folks is what …

SQL Server Reporting Services – Opening an RDL in Older Version of Visual Studio Opens as XML

In order to fix this issue, you need to remove a few lines of code from the XML.

Replace xmlns with:

<Report xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/reporting/2008/01/reportdefinition" xmlns:rd="http://schemas.microsoft.com/SQLServer/reporting/reportdesigner">

Remove only the Report Section header and footer tags (leave the child elements)
```
<ReportSections>
<ReportSection>

..................................
```

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Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 – VS Freezes when Accessing Context-Menu on SSRS .rdl Reports

Sometimes when I attempt to deploy a report to my Reporting Services Server, Visual Studio freezes for a minute or more before bringing up the context menu. After some research, my problem was resolved by disabling the Image Optimizer extension. …

Visual Studio Community Edition 2017 – Locked File or Folder with Visual Studio Installer

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45839250/unable-to-update-visual-studio-installer

Quote: “The solution I found was to close down visual studio, go to “c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer”, rename the folder “Installer” to something else then run vs_installer.exe from the renamed folder.“…

Windows 10 – Use CHKDSK to fix problems with your hard drive

Raise an elevated command prompt.
Type in CHKDSK /f /r /x
1. /f parameter tells CHKDSK to fix errors that it finds.
2. /r parameter tells CHKDSK to repair to find the bad sectors and try and recover the readable information.
3. /x

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MVC 5 – Model State Always False and Data Received is NULL – The Save Action Variable Name Must Be the Same Name as Your Model Name When Receiving Just the Model Portion of Your View Model That Was Bound to Your View

I struggled with this one and learned something that was not taught in the tutorial I took on MVC 5. The instructor did not mention that when you receive a model into your Save action (Controller) instead of your view …

Microsoft Zune – Remember last album played

There may be many ways to save the last album played on the Zune, but here is one way.

1) Pick an album, pick a song, and start playing the song by pressing the center black button. Let the song

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Windows 10 – Microsoft Sticky Notes Crashes

This applies to Windows 10 version 1607 or newer.

If Notes crashed immediately after startup, here is how you can fix it.

Always try shutting down your PC and do a cold boot first to see if that fixes your …

Google Chrome – How to Stop Syncing History

How to stop syncing history and get rid of history on Google Server so it stops syncing between computers even though you change your settings to say not to sync history.

1) Go into each Google Chrome Settings an change …

Windows 10 – Change Windows Photo Viewer Yellow Background to White

Every time your video card drivers update, the default colors are changed to your video card color settings. This causes the background color of Photo Viewer to change to yellow.

To fix this, do the following:

Type color in the

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