This Gist repairs a Windows 11 Quick Settings panel where the Wi-Fi tile or network list is missing even though the wireless adapter is installed and may already be connected.
The important detail on recent Windows 11 builds is that Quick Settings can be
hosted by ShellHost.exe. Restarting only the older
ShellExperienceHost.exe may therefore have no effect.
| /** | |
| * yt-duration-scraper.js | |
| * | |
| * Scrapes all YouTube / video.js embeds on any page, | |
| * injects an info card beneath each player showing: | |
| * - video title | |
| * - video URL | |
| * - duration (fetched via the official YT IFrame API — no API key needed) | |
| * - type | |
| * - current page URL |
This note documents a real case where Internet Download Manager showed:
Permission denied. Please check your firewall settings and ensure that IDM has permits to access the Internet.
and the details line pointed at multiple HTTPS hosts on port 443.
The failure looked like a generic IDM networking problem, but the actual root cause was a set of local outbound Windows Firewall block rules targeting IDM's executables.
This note documents a real case where Internet Download Manager showed:
Cannot transfer the download to IDM
Error 0x80070005
The failure looked like a generic IDM or Chrome integration problem, but the actual root cause was a corrupted per-user COM override in the current Windows profile.
If your Ubuntu VM says it is using something like 27 GB, but Windows shows the VM folder taking 100+ GB, this is usually not a Linux mystery. It is a VMware virtual disk compaction issue.
VMware growable VMDKs expand when the guest writes data, but they do not automatically shrink when files are deleted inside Linux.
That means:
| # Invoke-VMGuest.ps1 | |
| # | |
| # PowerShell helper to run bash commands inside a VMware Workstation guest | |
| # and capture their output on the host. | |
| # | |
| # vmrun's runScriptInGuest silently discards stdout — this works around that | |
| # by redirecting output to a temp file in the guest, then pulling it back with | |
| # CopyFileFromGuestToHost. | |
| # | |
| # Requirements: |
Public disclosure date: 2026-03-27
Researcher: Mina Nageh Salama Zekry
This public reference summarizes three CVEs affecting ZTE ZXHN / H-series router web interfaces. It is intended as a clean reference for CVE and NVD records, with the full technical write-ups routed through LinkedIn posts.
