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Rebuild Windows Search Index Without Losing Data

If Windows Search stops returning results or behaves slowly, rebuilding the index often fixes it....

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Fix Python UnicodeDecodeError 'charmap' Codec

You're reading a file in Python and get:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'charmap' ...


                    
                    
                        
                            
                            
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                                Fixing VSCode IntelliSense Not Working for Go
                                
You open a Go project in VSCode, start typing, and get no autocompletions, no hover info, no erro...
                            
                        
                    
                    
                    
                        
                            
                            
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                                Fix Windows Search Indexing Not Working for Outlook
                                
If you open Outlook and search for an old email, contact, or appointment and nothing appears, or ...
                            
                        
                    
                    
                    
                        
                            
                            
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                                Fixing Nginx Permission Denied on Mounted Drive
                                
When you mount an external drive and point Nginx to serve files from it, you may get a 403 Forbid...
                            
                        
                    
                    
                    
                        
                            
                            
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                                Git Fatal: Refusing to Merge Unrelated Histories – Workaround
                                
You try to merge two Git branches and get this error:
fatal: refusing to merge unre...



        
            
                
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