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Recently I had to export some image for CMYK printing. The print house was requesting a certain FOGRA color profile. I don't have any Adobe licenses and am doing all the image work on GIMP, so I had to do a bit of research. Googling around, I found two options to export images. A plugin called "Separate" and another plugin called Cyan . It looked like Separate is not maintained anymore , so Cyan was my choice. Here's how to do it: Download Cyan, Run Cyan once and select some profiles as "default" profiles. I'm a bit unsure why you need to do this, but this is how it works for some reason. Restart GIMP and you should see the Cyan drop down in the file menu. From there, you can select to export any file you've opened with GIMP. Close Cyan and browse to this location with Windows File Explorer: C:\Users\<YOUR USERNAME>\.config\Cyan\icc Copy any .icc color profile files you want to use to that folder. Now you can select those new profiles the next...

 I recently came across a great piece of open source software: Bloatbox . It allows you to remove unwanted bloatware that came with the Windows 10 installation. For some weird reason these cannot be uninstalled through the windows apps catalog. But now there is a cure for that. Download bloatbox from it's github page and run the .exe file. Then select the apps you want to remove and click Uninstall.   Here are some recommendations to remove: Microsoft.BingWeather Microsoft.GetHelp Microsoft.GetStarted Microsoft.MicrosoftSolitaireCollection Microsoft.People Microsoft.YourPhone

Suddenly, I started getting this error on a Lenovo ThinkPad, with Windows 10 64-bit: PowerMgr.exe 0x0000007E The specified module could not be found. Open Device Manager by pressing Windows button and typing "device manager" and hitting enter. Locate System Devices, and Lenovo Power Manager from there. Right-click and Select Uninstall Device. Select to Delete device driver and click OK. Then click on Action, Scan for hardware changes. The Lenovo Power Manager device will reappear. Reboot your PC. The problem should be fixed now!

I have a problem with Windows Update. An update fails every time, causing the computer to be locked out of new updates.  The problem is with update KB4565351. I'm using 64-bit Windows 10 version 1909, running on a ThinkPad X201 laptop. The update fails with error code 0x800706be. First try: Running Troubleshooter for Windows Update First I tried the troubleshooter for Windows Update. Like I expected, it did not find any problems. Oh, well. Second try: Resetting Windows update Next up, I tried this solution to reset Windows update: https://appuals.com/fix-windows-10-update-error-0x800706be/ It did not help. I still got the same error.  I also found another, slightly different solution for resetting the Windows Update. Third try: downloading the update manually from Microsoft Update Catalog Then, I tried downloading the KB4565351 manually from the Microsoft Update Catalog. I got the version for x64 Windows 10 1909. After downloading, I ran the package by double clicking on it. ...