Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Windows 8 and more How Tos
If you right click on the START button but do not see a context menu you likely have corrupted or missing folder: c:\User\<user>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\WinX The solution is just to copy this folder (and its three subfolders) from a working machine. In my case, I was able to copy these files from Read more…
If you want to see what your PC is doing during startup or shutdown you can set Windows to VERBOSE MODE. This can be accomplished in one of two ways: Registry Entry on the PC: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\System “VerboseStatus”=dword:00000001 . Group Policy: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System> DISPLAY HIGHLY Read more…
If you want to force a background image to your Windows 8.1 Lock Screen you can accomplish your mission using a registry key or Group Policy that sets that registry key for you. Download the Group Policy Templates for Windows 8.1 HERE and add them to your Group Policy Store Read more…
Well, according to Microsoft you cannot currently change the background image on Windows 8.1 Login Screen. I confirmed this with Microsoft Partner Support HERE . I believe this will change in future versions of Windows. That being said you can force a specific colour (or color for our American friends!) Read more…
If you are connected to a Windows 8 (or 8.1) PC using Remote Desktop (RDP) and you bring up the Charms Bar or you do a search for SHUTDOWN you will see only the DISCONNECT option: The solution is to use the old school keyboard shortcut of ALT+F4. This brings up the Read more…
Because the Dell Venue 8 and 11 tablets like the 7130 and 7130 have no keyboards you need to use a button combination to gain access to the BIOS. That order is: Power up the tablet from being powered off – reboot does not seem to work Press and HOLD Read more…
If you are seeing the dreaded “Print Processor Does Not Exist”, it means one of two things: Your PC has missing or corrupt print processor files. This is easy to fix if you have another 64bit PC without the print problem. In SERVICES stop the PRINT SPOOLER From a PC Read more…
If you just cannot remove a printer by: right clicking on a printer and find that you see nothing but hour glass you get to REMOVE DEVICE but it will not actually delete you have tried removing in PRINTER MANAGEMENT (yes, this is built into every version of Windows Vista, Read more…
OCT 1 2018 UPDATE: See our 2018 updated version of this article HERE. You could inject drivers directly into your image .WIM files as I have previously explained: Vista: how-to-inject-drivers-into-windows-pe-2-0-in-5-minutes-or-into-a-windows-vista-image Windows 7 & 8 how-to-inject-drivers-into-windows-pe-3-0-wim-in-5-minutes-or-into-a-windows-7-or-2008-r2-image oooorrrrr you can now just add drivers directly to your Windows Deployment (WDS) Server: Open Read more…
After some research I was surprised to find how complex some processes are. I wanted a simple Group Policy to deploy fonts and found that the most straight forward way to deploy fonts via GPO was to build an .MSI and then deploy the .MSI. This sounds harder than it Read more…
If you find the IE (Internet Explorer) will not install there are several things to try but I have found the most effective to be: UNINSTALL THE CURRENT VERSION OF INTERNET EXPLORER: CONTROL PANEL > PROGRAMS AND FEATURES > on the top left click VIEW INSTALLED UPDATES Either find INTERNET Read more…
If you RDP (remote desktop) to a Windows 7 or 8 PC and see only a black screen the computers involved appear to be arguing over screen resolution. The easy way to resolve it is to: Click on the black RDP windows (to select it) and press CTRL-ALT-END to bring Read more…
If you have Lync, Jabber, Skype or any other conferencing system in which you want to use more than one microphone, this tutorial is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHP1PZBPvc Download Virtual Audio Cable from this page (most likely you want the 64 bit version) Install Virtual Audio Cable – do NOT touch the software Read more…
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A neat new feature in Windows 8.1 is the ability to restrict a user to running a single application. This could be handy for: libraries that only want users to run their search app public PC’s that are only to be used for Internet Explorer retail stores that want run Read more…
If you have run your Windows Updates but still do not see UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 8.1 in the STORE APP, try launching Internet Explorer app and type: ms-windows-store:WindowsUpgrade into the address bar. For more details expand the first twisty on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-8/update-from-preview .