Tweak Windows Computer

 Posted on July 3, 2026  |  1 minutes  |  126 words  |  Shipeng Sun

With the skyrocketing cost of memory, drive, and other computer components primarily caused by AI and data center rush, it once more becomes beneficial and even necessary to tweak our “old” Windows computers. Here are a few free yet popular and powerful tools. Winutil: A curated compilation of Windows system tasks streamline installs, debloat with tweaks, troubleshoot with config, and configure Windows updates. Run it fresh on every new Windows install. [Read More]
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Computation on Windows Arm64 Computers

 Posted on April 10, 2025  |  6 minutes  |  1183 words  |  Shipeng Sun

Microsoft and other manufacturers had been releasing more arm64-based laptops and tablets. However, it is still quite inconvenient to set those computers for scientific computation in Python, R, etc. Overall, it is not recommended to use an arm64 Windows computer for data science works. Here are a few possible solutions. General Solution In general, we can use it as a Linux computer with WSL2. However, not all computational platforms/environments are available on Linux systems like Ubuntu. [Read More]
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Disable Global Protect (PAN) Autostart

 Posted on April 10, 2025  |  2 minutes  |  239 words  |  Shipeng Sun

Global Protect from Palo Alto Networks (PAN) is a widely used VPN client. However, it is quite annoying that the program will automatically start even when we just occasionally use the VPN to connect to remote computers. Here are a few clues to disable the autostart of Global Protect on Windows and Mac, respectively. Windows 11 Computers It seems PAN plays the game quite well. It is not easy to use the normal methods to disable the auto start. [Read More]
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Read New on new Reader

 Posted on July 17, 2022  |  1 minutes  |  164 words  |  Shipeng Sun

Acquired a new ebook reader Rakuten Kobo Elipsa. The device has a good size at 10 inch. It also supports Dropbox for loading books and OverDrive for borrowing from public libraries. A few useful settings: DoubleCommander: A open-source alternative to TotalCommander. A more powerful and more convenient file explorer. Briss: A open source PDF cropper. It is running on Java. Windows removes Java by default, but many programs, like ArcGIS Pro, installed their own Java Running Environment (JRE). [Read More]
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