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If you are looking for Snip & Sketch app in Windows 11, you will have difficulties locating it because Microsoft merged the old Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch into one tool which they called the Snipping Tool. The confusion is caused by Snip & Sketch name still being applied Read more…
In this video we: unbox the HP Elitebook 840 G8 take the back off, explain the internal parts and how to disassemble them how to change the battery upgrade the RAM upgrade the storage M.2 SSD power the unit up and explain what is missing and what is great At Read more…
In this video we demonstrate how to easily install Windows 11 on a mid-2012 Intel based MacBook Pro. There are two things you will need to make this happen: Windows 11 Installation wrapper – This comes from AveYo’s GitHub site and you can download it from him HERE or you Read more…
Unless you have been living in a box, you know that Windows 11 is now generally available as a free upgrade to all those with Windows 10, but that does not mean that Microsoft has stopped development of Windows 10. Many Windows 10 PC’s cannot run Windows 11 without a Read more…
If you are trying to tighten up your security by adding Virtualization-Based Security (aka VBS) to your Windows 11 you might find this error: Core Isolation Memory Integrity Incompatible Drivers WDCSAM64_PREWIN8.SYS Driver date: 11/29/2017 Driver version: 1.2.0.0 Published name: oem26.inf This is an old driver that ships with both Windows 10 Read more…
We have previously explained that Windows 11 is little more than a skin on Windows 10. However that does not mean that there are not some big changes which actually make Windows 11 better than Windows 10. What it means is that there was and is no reason these changes Read more…
You don’t have to be Bill Gates or Chuck Peddle (the inventor of the personal computer) to understand that a safe word, like Secure, Trusted and Measured, before the word Boot, likely means this will improve the security of your computers startup process. However, even experienced IT professionals find this Read more…
If you have an M.2 SSD you might want to know how to figure out if it is healthy or not. These two screen shots show the health check results of our old Crucial P1 which is still in great shape (and likely will be for many years to come) Read more…
We have a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 from 2015 which has a black screen. The laptop powers up and the backlit keyboard turns on but the screen stays black. We show how to revive and repair this apparently dead laptop by pulling the battery and CMOS battery. The we find Read more…
There are four interesting new keyboard shortcut key combinations specifically for Windows 11 and here they are: New Windows 11 Shortcut Keys: Windows Key + Z : Snap Layouts Windows Key + W: Widgets Windows Key + A : Action Center Windows Key + N : Notification Center The Read more…
We recently had a very strange Windows 10 problem in which the machine would become non-responsive about 30 seconds after boot up. If we signed in quickly, we could sometimes get the desktop to load, but not always. The user told us that the last thing she had done was Read more…
Eight years ago we wrote THIS article explaining the difference between TCP/IP printer ports and the then new WSD printer ports. In 2021 we find IPP ports are confusing people: What Is an IPP Port? First lets explain what IPP stands for. IPP is an acronym for Internet Printing Protocol Read more…
If you have either of the following printer error messages in Windows 11 or Windows 10, we have a work around that may help. Printers: Operation Could Not Be Completed Error 0x00000bc4 We Can’t Install This Printer Right Now #740 In both cases the problem appears to be with Read more…
Recently we provided THIS video explaining how to install Windows 11 on a hardware that does not meet the minimum requirements. This naturally lead one of our viewers, Rahul Nema, to ask: “…(After installing Win11 on unsupported hardware), will future Windows security updates and cumulative updates working without any problem? Read more…
Windows 11 checks for many things before allowing installation or upgrades but it allows for five of them to be bypassed: a compatible CPU check a hard drive / storage check making sure you have at least a 64GB drive a RAM check ensuring you have at least 4GB a Read more…
In this video we demonstrate how to check if your computer has meets the requirements to run Windows 11. We ran this on a compute stick named a Terryza W5/T5 Pro and were surprised to find that its only deficiency was the CPU. It turns out that Intel Atom X6 Read more…