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Installs and upgrades usually require more space than the install will need when it is done, and that can be a problem. We had a client that needed to upgrade a program installed on their servers C:\ and while the disk had enough free space to run the program, it Read more…
Welcome to our in-depth review of the Dell Inspiron 15 3520! We’ll cover everything you need to know about this budget-friendly laptop, from unboxing to performance benchmarks. Let’s dive in! 0:00 Intro0:39 Best Cheap Laptop?1:14 Unboxing Dell Inspiron 15 35201:25 Dell Inspiron 15 3520 Specifications & Ports3:39 What is Windows Read more…
We had a client who wanted to know how much space each user profile was consuming on their EdgeSoft folder. We determined the path was C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Local\ES and then ran this script to do the calculations: If you want to find the amount of data used for a different folder, just Read more…
One of our clients had a Java uninstall go “badly” and now the install is broken. Java is a significant security risk so the client asked us to manually remove it. We tried: but all failed, so we had to go very manual. How To Uninstall Java Manually 1 – Read more…
We had a client who wanted to clean out a Java uninstall that had gone badly. Java was still showing in APPS AND FEATURES (aka PROGRAMS AND FEATURES) but it had been uninstalled already. We knew that the uninstall registry path was HKLM > SOFTWARE > Microsoft > Windows > Read more…
Welcome to our in-depth review of the Microsoft SurfaceBook 7, powered by the ARM Snapdragon processor. In this video, we will take you through every aspect of this innovative device, from unboxing to performance benchmarks, and everything in between. Whether you’re considering purchasing this laptop or just curious about its Read more…
Today we had a client asking if their LogicMonitor software uses Java and if they can uninstall Java from their LogicMonitor collectors. The answers are, yes LogicMonitor uses Java but it is a fully embedded version that does not appear in APPS AND FEATURES. Any version that appears in APPS Read more…
A month ago we had a client that had a successful attack on their infrastructure and to protect themselves one of more than 100 changes included auditing a few folders. Specifically they wanted to have a listing stored somewhere every time someone accessed a particular folder. To enable folder auditing Read more…
We had a client with an odd partition configuration. As you can see in the screen shot to the right, the recovery partition appears after C: drive volume with data on it. The question is, it is safe to delete the Recovery Partition to all the C:\ to be easily Read more…
If you are a Microsoft partner you will probably have become aware that in January the Microsoft Action Pack that has been around for the better part of two decades is going away. There are several options but for most small partners the replacement is called the Partner Launch Benefits Read more…
Last week we had a customer with a Proxmox hyper-converged cluster to run their virtual machines who had notable performance problems. If you are not familiar with Proxmox just think of it as a free version of VMware, or Hyper-V with SCCM VM Manager. The fundamental issue was that even Read more…
One of our clients recently noticed a setting in Windows Defender > Virus & Threat Protection > Dev Drive Protection and asked us what the heck that is. This is what we told them: What Is a Dev Drive? Microsoft introduced Dev Drives at the Microsoft Build conference in May Read more…
Manage service provider that we help out from time to time called us with a curiosity today. It turns out that they just signed up a new corporate customer and our moving them off of ESET antivirus in favor of Windows Defender. The problem is they can’t uninstall ESET because Read more…
We recently had a client with several Windows Server presenting this error message when admins were attempting to RDP to them: REMOTE DESKTOP CONNECTIONThe remote computer that you are trying to connect to requires Network LevelAuthentication (NLA), but your Windows domain controller cannot be contacted to performNLA. If you are Read more…
We recently created a video on how to easily setup and operate MABS in which we explained the difference between Microsoft Data Protection Manager, Microsoft Azure Backup Service and the Microsoft Azure Backup Server (both confusingly accroymed MABS). Part of that video was created for a client who was having Read more…
On the weekend we had a customer who was trying to remove one of their Microsoft Office 365 activations (which we have instructions for here), but instead they deactivating their laptop completely: They user disabled their computer by: To undo this mistake and administrator needs to reenable the device by: Read more…