In my case this issue was happening because Bluehost enabled it’s own caching functionality (after I enabled Cloudflare), causing issues such as intermittently not displaying my latest WordPress published post on my sites home page
Log in to your Bluehost Account Manager
Click the Websites tab from the side navigation
Locate the website you wish to disable caching for, and click SETTINGS then click on the SPEED tab in the following window
Now disable CACHING CONTROL and click on the CLEAR ALL button under “Clear Cache”
Your newer posts should now hopefully display on your websites home page (consistently across all browsers)
If your laptops SSD/NVME drive is Bitlocker encrypted and you’re not able to see/access the primary Windows 11 or 10 OS partition (typically the C:\ drive) in Windows Recovery (WinRE) whilst following Crowdstrikes remediation instructions at https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content-update-for-windows-hosts/ (this will be apparent as you won’t be prompted for a Bitlocker key when you access the Command Prompt in the Windows Recovery Environment)
To get around this you’ll need to boot into your laptops BIOS to enable an alternative storage boot option
The below steps should be safe to complete if your laptop is not configured with multiple physical drives enrolled in a raided configuration
Depending on your laptops manufacturer/model the BIOS may be accessible via F12, F1, F2 or Esc
1. Once in the BIOS look for “Storage” or “Advanced” options and enable the opposite storage boot option to the one currently selected. The storage boot options you need to look for may indicate (AHCI and RAID) or (AHCI/NVME and RAID On). Select the opposite storage option to the one currently selected then save your BIOS setting changes and exit the BIOS and shut the laptop down
2. Now turn on the laptop again and boot into Windows Recovery again (this should happen automatically). If not let Windows 11 or 10 fully boot and wait for the bluescreen, the bluescreen/reboot cycle may need to be repeated for up to fives times or more before you’ll be prompted to enter Windows Recovery again, but once this happens, launch the Command Prompt from
You should now be prompted to enter your Bitlocker Recovery Password (if you don’t have access to your Bitlocker Recovery Password then contact your domain administrator)
Once you’ve entered the Bitlocker Recovery Password your CMD dialog should auto launch to the X:\ drive
3. cd to %WINDIR%\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike or C:\windows\System32\drivers\CrowdStrike, and delete the C-00000291*.sys file as per Crowdstrikes instructions at https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/statement-on-falcon-content-update-for-windows-hosts/ then type “exit” to exit the CMD prompt
4. Very Important: The final step is to enter your laptop BIOS again before Windows 11 or 10 fully boots to the login screen and revert the storage boot option changes made in Step 2 to it’s original setting
5. Save your BIOS setting change again and exit the BIOS once more then let Windows 11 or 10 boot. The Crowdstrike bluescreen/reboot issue should now be resolved
If you’ve found some SAP approval buttons are no longer working in Chrome the issue may be down to a feature implemented in Chrome 88 but only enabled by default in recent versions of Chrome (versions 115 and 116)
The origin-agent-cluster header isn’t a security feature but a http header (for browsers that support the origin-agent-cluster feature/flag) that web developers can implement to change the default behaviour for a web page, putting it into an origin keyed agent cluster so that it is grouped with other pages that have the exact same origin
Same site but cross origin pages will then be excluded from the agent cluster. Your browser will then decide (if it has the origin-agent-cluster-default enabled and if your device has enough resources) to allocate same site but cross origin pages their own process or seperate threads
This can benefit web based applications such as video conferencing or other web based applications that can be resource intensive so each “instance” of a cross origin page don’t impact another cross origin page running in the same browser
If you’re affected by the SAP approval issue, depending on what you use SAP for in your organisation you’ll find you’re no longer able to approve items like invoices, expenses, holidays etc.
No error messages appear when you click on the buttons normally used to approve the above, they just seem to be completely unresponsive in Chrome versions 115 and 116
You may need to go back and disable the chrome://flags/#origin-agent-cluster-default flag later if Chrome is updated in the future (I can’t confirm this as I already have the latest version of Chrome installed)
Edge has yet to enable its equivalent edge://flags/#origin-agent-cluster-default flag by default so Edge can be used as an alternative browser if you don’t want to disable the chrome://flags/#origin-agent-cluster-default flag in Chrome
Like an issue I described in a previous post this issue only appears when you resume your PC/laptop from a hibernated state
If you’re affected by this problem the Samsung Flow Windows 10 app will attempt to connect to your mobile phone after you click on the “Smart View” option but will then display 4 spinning coloured dots and finally fail to connect to your phone
If you restart your laptop then launch Samsung Flow and try the “Smart View” option in the app you should then be able to reconnect to your mobile phone
If you’re having issues with the Phone Link app on Windows 10 displaying a completely black dialog box when it’s launched this may be because you’ve resumed your laptop from a hibernated state.
Try restarting your laptop and you should be able to connect to your phone afterward…
If your Teamviewer, Bomgar or any other remote desktop service is hanging or disconnecting the fix may be as simple as switching off Wifi channel optimisation on the broadband router your target computer is connecting to the internet on
This was required to resolve remote desktop session interruptions to a user with a Virgin Media Hub 3 device in their home
Uncheck the box highlighted in red below and “Apply Changes” to resolve the issue
I found the resolution to this issue last year (May 2019) but didn’t think to do a write-up at the time. Another issue involving WireShark refreshed my memory of this IPTV VLC problem on Windows 10 which is why I’m only drawing up this guide now
If you run into this problem you’ll be able to double click on “Network streams (SAP)” in VLC (like you had been able to on Windows 7), however when you try to open your IPTV channel list from the “All” dropdown nothing appears i.e. no channels appear for selection…
No SAP IPTV channels appear for selection
To troubleshoot this I monitored Wireshark captures in Windows 7 and compared them to Windows 10 with VLC running and found port 9875 opens on Windows 7 to listen for SAP announcements. This traffic however is dropped by the Defender firewall in Win 10 (confirmed by checking the Win 10 Defender Firewall logs)
Once VLC finds and lists all multicast IPTV streams available and the user selects an IPTV channel, port 5000 opens on Windows 7 to actually play the IPTV stream for the channel chosen. Traffic on port 5000 however is also dropped by Win 10’s Defender firewall
You may have spotted you can still connect to the IPTV stream via udp://@<encoderIP>:5000 in VLC (which confirms the stream is being broadcast) but the IPTV channels themselves aren’t being advertised in VLCs SAP announcements on Win 10
The key here is to understand that Win 10’s Defender firewall is lot stricter in the types of traffic its accepts by default
If there’s no rule in place for ports 9875 and 5000 Win 10’s Defender will drop that traffic. You can test this by disabling Defender then starting VLC again and the IPTV channel list will appear fine on Win 10 (just like it does in Windows 7)
So you’ll need to allow incoming traffic on ports 9875 and 5000 via Group Policy to allow traffic on those ports through (or open them yourself in Defender if your PC isn’t joined to a domain)
If you run into this issue there’s a simple fix to re-initiate the connection to Windows 10 if for any reason you’ve had to reinstall the Your Phone Companion app on your phone or had to reinstall the Your Phone app on Windows 10
If your phone indicates it’s “Reconnecting to PC” but never connects the below instructions should fix this issue
Go into Settings – Apps – Your Phone Companion
Select the Storage option then click on Clear Data
Launch the Your Phone Companion app once more and it should now be able to connect to your Windows 10 PC again
The above instructions may differ depending on phones manufacturer
If you use Bluehost and tried updating PHP to counter the error messages WordPress generates indicating the version of PHP your running is out of date, you may have subsequently came across the following error message after updating PHP from V5 to 7:
“Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress”
There’s a simple fix for this issue but its not documented anywhere on Bluehosts Support pages
Just login to the CPanel access the File Manager and rename your PHP.ini file to PHP.ini.bak
