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  • EpicInstaller on Windows Server 2022/2025 and Windows 10/11 (error 2738)

    Since Microsoft deprecated vbscript.dll in October 2023, several installations, including the Epic Installer, have encountered significant issues. Users attempting to install the Epic Installer are frequently met with the error message: “The error code is 2738”. This error is particularly frustrating as the Windows… Read More

  • Error “Group(s) not found: ui (via –with)” installing PrivateGPT 0.4 on WSL

    Note: the below assumes you already have followed any other guide, but you have gotten an error up to that point. The below will pick up directly where you left off in the your original guide. As of a few days ago, when you… Read More

  • Automatic Subtitle creation and translation (to English) with OpenAI’s Whisper

    I’ve been having the issue over the last decades that the available subtitles from the well known sites are quite often not suitable for the videos that I have saved locally. Often downloaded videos, especially from YouTube, don’t have sub-titles, which is a requirement… Read More

  • Automate downloading of Youtube Channels with YT-DLP and PowerShell

    Script Update 12-04-2025 due to Chrome cookie changes (Changed to Firefox) and YT-DLP changes. Watching or listening to Youtube playlists can be very frustrating with all the ads that are being thrown at you and this seems to have gotten worse over the years.… Read More

  • Re-Encode h264/x264 to h265 without noticeable quality loss with PowerShell and FFmpeg

    Over the years I’ve gathered a lot of videos from various sources. Some of these are uncompressed and take up various gigabytes of space, each! Even though storage is getting cheaper, I don’t really want to spend €200,- (each) for 16TB spinning disks, so… Read More

  • Install Private-GPT 0.2 on Windows Server 2019/2022

    Total time is about 30min, depending on your hardware and internet connection. This will install PrivateGPT on a Windows 2019/2022 machine and run everything (including the LLMs) locally. After installation, no further Internet connection required for most operations. Read More

  • PrivateGPT: ImportError: docx2txt is required to read Microsoft Word files

    When trying to interact with Microsoft Word files, PrivateGPT throws out an error and does not want to parse it:ImportError: docx2txt is required to read Microsoft Word files: pip install docx2txt When actually installing docx2txt with pip, the error is still there. For some… Read More

  • Folder backups with PowerShell

    Why pay for an expensive backup solution in your home-lab when you can install PowerShell for free? The script below will handle simple backups for you. You only have to add it to the Windows Scheduler or create a Cron job. This Script’s features:… Read More

  • “We couldn’t update system reserved partition” error when Installing/Upgrading Windows 11 Insider Preview

    Caution: This may cause your system to hang on boot. I must admit, I haven’t done a fresh install of this system since upgrading to Windows 10 1903, moving the NVMe drive from an older laptop to this machine, updating the OS about every… Read More

  • Drivers Windows XP x32 for Gericom X5-Force 1830

    In the late 1990s and early to mid-2000s Gericom released various laptop models and was fairly popular in western Europe. These laptops were sold under the brands Gericom (mainly Germany), Advent (mainly in the UK and Ireland) and in Spain under a brand named… Read More