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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…
When you connect to a network for the first time, Windows 11 will ask if you want to turn on sharing between PCs and connect to network devices like printers. The problem is a lot of people don’t know whether this should be on or off the first time they Read more…
How to Take Screenshots: Snipping Tool Tips, Scrolling Web page Captures,and Element Node Frames, all for free. You don’t need Snagit, Greenshot, Jing or any other special utility programs. Taking screenshots is an essential skill, whether you’re trying to capture a moment on your screen, save important information, or create Read more…
The number to the right of the users name in the users tab of task manager simply indicates the number of processes that that individual has running. You can click the > twisty to the left of their name to expand the list and see what programs are running under Read more…
One of our technicians ran into a seemingly complex Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) alert which turned out to be a quick fix and something we thought you would be interested in: A new BITS job could not be created. The current job count for the user XYZ\urt.imatthews (60) is Read more…
Today one of our clients had a server with 16GB of RAM that had almost no software on it but was completely max’ed on memory. They did a quick calculation and found that the PROCESSES tab in Task Manager totaled to about 4GB. They wanted to know where the other Read more…
Your ISP might have more information about your personal life than you expected. Of course, the data you provide when you sign up for an internet plan is already revealing. It’s certainly enough for identity theft if it fell into the wrong hands. But, although your ISP probably isn’t watching Read more…
In a word, yes, NetBIOS should be disabled. As always there are some scenarios in which this is not the case but it would be extremely rare to still be using NetBIOS on Windows desktops and servers. Brief History of NetBIOS NetBIOS (Network Basic Input/Output System) has an interesting history: Read more…
At Up & Running we spend 95% of our time in the corporate space but periodically a client has us deal with retail products and yesterday was one of those days. The client needed to purchase a dozens of printers for work from home staff and wanted to know the Read more…
PowerShell 5.1 will co-exist nicely with PowerShell 7 and the PowerShell 7 install does NOT require a reboot so you can safely upgrade during business hours
If you are seeing this message when working on a PowerShell script that is trying to connect to a Microsoft service requiring MFA (multi factor authentication), you may notice that the window is actually Internet Explorer: The solution is to set all of the Microsoft pages to be Trusted Sites Read more…
If you see the following error when trying to rename a computer or join a computer to an Active Directory Domain, there is a simple fix: “The following error occurred attempting to join the domain. This device is joined to Azure AD. To join an Active Directory Domain you must Read more…
We recently had a client that removed Microsoft teams from a server and they wanted all of the residue from each user profile deleted. A quick check showed that there was three folders under each user that we needed to delete in order to reclaim the space on the server Read more…