# Hacks

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Unhang Windows PC

26 May 2025

I often found that Ctrl+Alt+Delete unhangs the Windows PC. I googled why?

The nutshell answer is : Ctrl+Alt+Delete is a secure attention sequence (SAS) triggers a system interrupt, effectively forcing the computer to respond. This is directly handled by the Windows operating system kernel. That means it can bypass most of the stuff that’s currently running (including frozen apps or even some parts of the graphical interface).

Cool to know this.

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Export your Kindle book highlights

24 January 2024

If you want to export your Kindle book highlights without the page location and color information, you can follow these steps:

  • Export the content in any format you prefer.
  • Paste the content in Visual Studio Code or any other text editor that supports regular expressions.
  • Use the regular expression Highlight \(yellow\) - Location [0-9]+ in the Find and Replace tool to replace Highlight (yellow) - Location 01.
  • Replace all the matches with an empty string.

This will remove the unwanted details from your highlights and leave only the text you want to keep.