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Why a Windows 11 VM Shows Nearly 100% Memory Usage in Proxmox VE

A Windows 11 VM in Proxmox VE was showing nearly 100% memory usage in monitoring. Inside Windows Task Manager, however, actual memory usage was only…

A safer Windows slowdown triage: 30 minutes before you reinstall

When a Windows machine becomes slow, reinstalling the operating system is often treated as the first move. It should usually be much later in the pr…

A Windows Desktop App Is “Not Responding”: Diagnose the Wait Before Reinstalling

A frozen desktop window is a state, not a diagnosis. Windows adds Not Responding when the UI thread stops processing messages for long enough. That…

wmic is gone and your Node process tree is silently wrong on Windows 11

The last post I wrote here ended on a line I had to go and check: killing a shell does not kill what the shell started. This is what I found underne…

Isolation, file ownership and cleanup: the boring half of running coding agents in parallel on Windows

Someone left a comment on my last post that was a better outline than the post was: Parallel agents are only practical when the workspace boundaries…

Shipping a Python desktop app to real users: everything that breaks after PyInstaller succeeds

I built a desktop app in Python (PySide6 + MediaPipe + ONNX, ~33k lines) and shipped it to real beta users on macOS and Windows. Building the app to…

MCP servers won't start on Windows: the 'C:\Program' space-in-path fix

You follow all the setup steps. Node is installed the normal way, on the default path. You drop an MCP server into your Claude Desktop config, point…

Windows silently stops delivering WH_KEYBOARD_LL hook events when a Chromium window has focus (and the diagnostic hook hides it)

I ship a push-to-talk dictation app for Windows ( VocalCode ). Hold a key, talk, release, text appears at the cursor. The "hold a key" part is a low…

Running several coding agents in parallel on Windows, without WSL or tmux

I work on NestMux, so read this the way you would read anything written by someone with a stake in it. Everything I claim about other tools comes fr…

One Letter Broke Four Toolchains. A Symlink Didn't Fix It.

Three Sessions, Four Broken Toolchains When configuring an automated coding assistant or build workflow, one of the most effective safety constraint…

PDFGeek: a free, offline PDF toolkit for Windows

Hi DEV! I built PDFGeek because I kept hitting the same wall: I'd need to merge two PDFs, end up on some web tool, and find myself about to upload a…

Why WSL2 Is Slow on /mnt/c, and How to Find the Exact Operation Costing You Time

cp crawls. npm install takes forever. The exact same command, run one directory over, is instant. If you've used WSL2 long enough, you may have hit…

I Built a Windows Security Suite That Doesn't Need Your Account

What if a security application didn't need your email? No account. No cloud dashboard. No telemetry. No subscription. Just a Windows executable runn…

🔒 I Stopped Testing ATLOCK by Asking “Does It Work?”

A security feature working once is not very interesting. The more important question is: What happens when everything goes wrong? That's the questio…

I Didn't Encrypt the Files. I Changed Who Windows Allows to Touch Them.

When I started building ATLOCK, I initially thought about file protection as an encryption problem. Then I realized something: Encryption and access…

Secure Boot's October 2026 Deadline: Two Years' Notice Wasn't Enough

The deadline nobody missed Every expiry story we've written here has the same shape. A certificate lapses, nobody was watching, something breaks, an…

Why Is My Windows Disk Usage at 100% When I'm Not Doing Anything?

Have you ever opened Task Manager and noticed that your Windows disk usage is stuck at 100% even though you aren't doing anything? The computer may…

I Don't Want 87 More Downloads. I Want 87 More People to Test My Software.

Akhouri Systems has reached 513 downloads. My next milestone is 600. That means I need 87 more. But after building ATLOCK for months, I've realized…

Why Does a New Windows Process Appear Every Time I Start My PC?

Have you ever opened Windows Task Manager and noticed a process you don't remember installing? You close it. You restart your computer. And there it…

10 Signs Your Windows PC May Be Compromised and How to Monitor Them

Have you ever opened your Windows computer and noticed something strange? A program you do not remember installing. A process with an unfamiliar nam…

One Extra Slash: Hunting a Windows Path Bug Down to a Single Formatter

This is my entry for DEV's Summer Bug Smash — Smash Stories. Not every good bug is an epic. Some of them are one character long, and the interesting…

Fiddler Web Debugger in 2026

From Setup to Signal: Building My First Wazuh SIEM with Sysmon and Atomic Red Team

Introduction Setting up a SIEM sounds simple until you have to prove that it is actually seeing what you think it is seeing. For this project, I add…

From Zero to 500+ Downloads: A Small Milestone for Akhouri Systems

few months ago, Akhouri Systems existed only as an idea. Today, our projects have collectively crossed 500+ downloads. 🎉 For many companies, that's…

Neutralizing the Shield: The Escalation of BYOVD Attacks in Kernel-Level Evasion

The contemporary threat landscape is characterized by a strategic shift toward the subversion of endpoint security primitives. As Endpoint Detection…

Advantages and disadvantages of Windows NT 3.1

I Built a Security App. Then I Tried to Break It Myself.

The day I thought my application was finally "finished"... I stopped being its developer. And became its attacker. That mindset changed everything.…

Building a Cross-Platform Disk Usage Analyzer in C

I wanted a low-level C project that touches memory management, recursive filesystem traversal, and platform-specific APIs — so I built a terminal di…

My WSL2 VM Kept Losing Network Every Five Minutes

Every five minutes or so, my entire Windows machine would drop off the network for a few seconds — not just WSL, the whole host. Browser tabs would…

How a simple Downloads organizer is being used to stop ScreenConnect scams

I created Mouzi because my "Downloads" folder looked like a digital dumping ground. The app has grown significantly since then, but I never expected…