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Windows Update Error 0x80070002 Generally means that there is a corrupt file in the windows update download cache. Easiest way to fix this is to simply stop the Windows Update service and then delete the entire windows update cache before attempting the Windows Update again. Try you Windows Update again. Read more…
We recently dealt with a series of clients who were having difficulty installing a January 2024 Windows Update KB5034441 because it inquired required the Windows Recovery Partition to be at least 200MB in size and they just didn’t have it. If you’re working on physical machines, it’s not a problem Read more…
It is not uncommon for users and even newbie techs to think that files are on your computers’ hard drive are being processed directly by the CPU, but they are not. The CPU cannot work on files from hard drive, because it is far too slow. To manipulate files, the Read more…
We have been receiving a lot of questions about the new Intel core Ultra Series CPU’s. In response, we have created several articles explaining what makes the Core Ultra different and also in our review of the Dell latitude 5450 laptop. However we think it’s probably useful to have a Read more…
It’s not news to anyone who follows the industry that Intel has fallen behind in the performance race. Chip companies like AMD, NVIDIA, ARM, and Qualcomm, all have superior performance in some category. If that’s true, why are Intel CPU’s in more new corporate computers than all of the others Read more…
If desktop computers and laptops have been performing artificial intelligence tasks for the last few years, what’s this new category of computer called an “AI PC” all about? While it is certainly true that you can run artificial intelligence processes on desktop and laptop computers made after 2020, especially if Read more…
If you’ve worked on a domain, you know how important it is to have all of your servers and clients running at exactly the same time. When they get out of sync things get ugly. You can use the w32tm command-line tool to diagnose problems occurring with Windows Time. From Read more…
Modern Setup Host, also known as SetupHost.exe, is a core component of the Windows Operating System. It’s a system process which prepares your computer for updates and facilitates the system setup when you upgrade your OS newer version (i.e. Windows 11 20H1 to 20H2 or Win10 to Win11). What Is Read more…
We had just completed an article on what the Ultra means in Intel Core Ultra, when one of our clients asked which CPU’s she should be buying now. Here was our response: Given these two facts I wouldn’t consider purchasing a computer that was not running in Intel Core Ultra Read more…
If you’ve been following the stock market or the chip industry in any way you will know that Intel started falling behind competitors in the early 2010’s. Companies like TSMC are now a generation ahead of Intel in manufacturing, while AMD and ARM (which sell their designs to thousands of Read more…
In our case we needed to upgrade an existing MDOT to NVME SSD from two terabytes to four terabytes and didn’t want to lose or damage our windows installation. We really did not want to reinstall everything from scratch. So we simply downloaded diskgenius for free and ran through the Read more…
We recently had a customers server have several User Profile issues and we were not able to log onto the server. The solution was to delete the user profiles remotely using this simple PowerShell command which was:
We recently had a client struggle to troubleshoot their WiFi network problems for 2 months before asking us to help. The new they need to remove the WiFi network from some Windows 10 and Windows 11 computers but the FORGET network button was grayed out. They realized the problem was Read more…
Today we had a client that added a second hard drive to his very impressive laptop. The problem is he wants the data on the second hard drive to be backed up and available on his OneDrive, but one drive does not allow you to specify additional folders. Put simply, Read more…
We’ve recently had a situation in which users in most offices could connect to our DFS namespaces without any problem at all, but users in two of the remote offices would just receive connection errors. It is recommended that you have at least one DFS server in each site but Read more…
We have used DISM (Deployment Image Servicing and Management) tools for many years but were surprised to see this message popup on a users Windows 11 desktop: App or process blocked: DismHost.exeProtected folder: \Device\Harddisk\Volume3Blocked by: Controlled folder access Most companies and users are not using Controlled Folder Access feature in Read more…