Windows 11 & Windows 10

One of our tech’s working in another city had a client with an auditor’s penetration test report indicating their SNMP was accessible on the internet from three different servers. They wanted to know if that was a bad thing and if it is bad, how they can test for it Read more…

If you’ve ever worked in group policy, you know that the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) hasn’t changed very much since it was introduced in Windows 2000 way back in 1999. One critical feature that’s been missing since day one, is the ability to search through a Group Policies to Read more…

With the advent of virtual machines came the notion that because hard drives can be expanded in the future you should set them to be as small as they possibly can be at the start. As a result our technicians are constantly having to clean up C:\ to make space. Read more…

We had a client who needed to know exactly what was installed on all of their servers in an effort to prepare for an audit. This client is quite small and only had about a dozen servers so instead of writing a script that remotely logs into each server and Read more…

If you are working on corporate network you may see important security popups that tell you the place you are launching a file or program from is not local. What this is trying to keep you safe from is accidentally opening files and programs from unsafe locations like random websites Read more…

If you work in the IT Department with Microsoft Windows technologies, you frequently need to determine details of a Windows Service. To help our Windows technicians we created this list of the top 100 Windows services in use today, along with a bit of detail to help them determine what Read more…

Ever wondered what browser cookies are and how they affect your browsing experience? In this video, we break down the basics of browser cookies, explaining what they are, how they work, and why they’re important. 0:00 Introduction0:32 What are in Browser Cookies1:26 How To Delete One Cookie In Browser2:36 Outro Read more…

Yesterday we had a client with a large number of servers that was unable to locate the server was hosting their Q:\ drive. You can use the NET USE command in Command Prompt to determine the name of the server hosting the Q:\ mapped drive. Here’s how you can do Read more…

As you can see in the screenshot below we have a client with a small seed drive of just 64 GB that was almost completely out of space. The image shows that they had 2.6 GB of space free but we took that after we had cleared 1.5 GB of Read more…

We recently worked with a client who had a mission critical server they did not want to power down to make hardware changes to. They were thinking because the server was a modern Windows Server 2019 running on VMware 7 with Memory Hot Add enabled, that they could avoid powering Read more…

Why Microsoft Renamed Superfetch to SysMain Superfetch, a feature introduced by Microsoft in Windows Vista, was renamed to SysMain in later versions of Windows, starting with Windows 10. This change, while largely unnoticed by everyday users, marked a strategic update to improve the functionality and clarity of the Windows operating Read more…

We had a client who accidentally expanded the volume size on a VMware disk and then wanted to undo that change. Specifically the client had used vmware cloud director to expand the size of a disk but caught their mistake right away and had not expanded the volume in Windows Read more…

We recently had a client who was used to copying files from one folder to another on their server via a file share from their desktop and not see the date modified information change on those files. However we recently migrated them to a new server and now whenever they Read more…