Many of our clients know their Volume License / Open License / Open Business / Open Value / Enterprise / Education Windows Server activation keys but they do not have an ISO for their product. The easy solution is to log into the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center (MSVLSC) and Read more…
Are you using the standard DISM command to activate your Windows and finding it is stuck at 10%: Dism /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /AcceptEula /ProductKey:12345-12345-12345-12345-12345 Deployment Image Servicing and Management toolVersion: 10.0.14393.0Image Version: 10.0.14393.0Starting to update components…Starting to install product key…Finished installing product key.Removing package Microsoft-Windows-ServerStandardEvalEdition~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~10.0.14393.0[===== Read more…
If you are struggling to activate your Windows Server and see ERROR 0X0C004F074 The Software Licensing Service reported that the computer could not be activatedwe have the answer. What does error is probably trying to tell you is that The server is trying to connect to a key management server Read more…
If you are an administrator, or even just a curious power user, there will come a time when you will want to know who shutdown a computer, or who logged off of a computer last. How To Tell Who Shutdown a Windows Computer If you want to know who logged Read more…
A friend of the company just bought the coolest rugidized mobile phone we have ever used (full video review of the Ulafone Power Armor 18T HERE), but he was perturbed that people sending him texts could tell if he had received and read them. That got us the question of Read more…
Today we had a good question from a frustrated client. One of their users had their laptop stolen so the administrator logged into Microsoft 365 / Azure and disabled their account. About an hour or later the user came into the office picked up a loner laptop and was able Read more…
In this short article we are going to explain several things that all tech’s need to understand both the Delivery Optimization service in Windows. 1 – What is the Windows Delivery Optimization Service (WUDO)? The Windows Delivery Optimization Service (aka WUDO) let’s your computer pull parts of updates from computers Read more…
Are you looking for the best portable gaming monitor? Then you’re in the right place! In this video, we’ll be taking a look at the Dopesplay DR1561G, a top-of-the-line gaming monitor that’s perfect for portable use. This portable monitor is also ideal for corporate travellers as it is only 1.8lbs. Read more…
If you find that your Microsoft Edge browser is no longer entering the username and password fields for you come up we have a simple fix. For some reason auto fill was turned off after an update to Edge and you just have to turn it back on (step 11 Read more…
Is the the Yaber Pro Y9 the best projector ever, definitely not, but it might just be the best cheap projector ever. Do you need an inexpensive hike but high quality projector that is portable enough to even use outside as well as inside? Well the Yaber Pro Y9 might Read more…
In this video, we’ll show you how to easily find the root cause of a Windows Blue Screen / Green Screen of Death. We’ll show you how to open, read, and analyze mini-dump files from crashes. Whether you’re experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) or a Green Screen of Read more…
This one has bothered us for a while and tonight I decided to dig in and figure it out. With a number of our clients we have to log into the console to do patching and the only way we could run that in the past was to manually start Read more…
We have several popular and expanding resources to explain what that icon is on your Android mobile phone including: However, we have not explained how you can easily figure out what the icons are in the top right corner of your Android mobile phone, so we decided to explain it Read more…
We’ve recently had a situation in which a client could not see a number of files on their C drive even though they had turned on hidden files, as you can see in the see: However if you look at the bottom right corner of that screenshot you will see Read more…
A common question we have receive every year is, What files can be safely deleted from my C drive to free up space? As a result we have written several articles explaining what files and folders can safely be deleted including THIS one from a few months ago, but today Read more…
If you are new to Microsoft Edge as a browser you might be surprised to find that under the hood it’s actually running on Google Chrome which is why so many of the features are so similar. However there is still a pile of new icons and new features in Read more…