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Finding and force-closing a locked file on a Windows SMB share - 2026-09-18
Someone leaves for the day with a spreadsheet still open over the network, or a desktop app crashes without releasing its file handle, and now everyone else gets: "The document filename is locked for editing by another user." Three ways to find and clear that lock, from oldest…
RDP into Windows 11 with a Microsoft account: the password, not the PIN, and `MicrosoftAccount\` - 2026-09-28
RDP to a Windows 11 PC signed in with a Microsoft account usually fails for two reasons. RDP needs the account's password, not the Windows Hello PIN. And the username often has to name the account provider explicitly.
Oh My Posh in PowerShell and in WSL2 zsh, with one config file - 2026-09-28
Oh My Posh draws the same prompt in any shell from one JSON config. On a Windows machine with WSL2, that means PowerShell and the Linux zsh can share a prompt. There are two installs, one font, and one file. Tested with Oh My Posh 29.14, PowerShell 7.6 and zsh 5.9.
Installing PowerShell 7 on Windows, Debian and RHEL, the way Microsoft documents it - 2026-09-29
PowerShell 7 (pwsh) is the cross-platform PowerShell. On Windows, it installs next to Windows PowerShell 5.1 (powershell.exe) rather than replacing it. On Linux, Microsoft's preferred source is its own package repository, packages.microsoft.com ("PMC"). Commands below are from…