ThioJoe covers a recent Windows Patch Tuesday update that temporarily broke HTTP/2 localhost connections and explains which apps were affected. He details Microsoft’s rollback solution and offers ...

Windows updates usually bring security enhancements, bug fixes and new features. Sometimes, though, these updates can also break parts of the operating system. Unfortunately, some updates for ...

Update 10/17/25: Microsoft fixes the bug using a KIR (Known Issue Rollback) update. More information added to end of story. Microsoft's October Windows 11 updates have broken the "localhost" ...

What just happened? Microsoft continues its tradition of making Windows a little more cumbersome with each monthly patch cycle. Following the October update, Windows 11 admins and developers are ...

The problem first surfaced on Microsoft's own support forums and quickly spread to Stack Overflow and Server Fault after the October 2025 cumulative update (KB5066835) landed, which appears to have ...

When you complete the proper installation of WordPress on the Xampp server, you may need to increase the phpMyAdmin upload size on XAMPP. By default, the maximum possible size of the file that can be ...

If you encounter the Localhost refused to connect error message when running any web server on your local Windows 11/10 computer, then this post is intended to help ...

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I would like to exclude the XAMPP local web server from the Nekoray VPN tunneling, but I cannot find a way to do that. I tried setting: Listen 127.0.0.1:80 - this has no effect. Listen 127.0.0.1 - ...

Let’s see how we do all this stuff. Firstly you want to create the root directory of the new subdomain. Go to C:/xampp/htdocs (this might be different for you depending on where you installed XAMPP).