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In this short article we are going to define the top 50 Artificial Intelligence terms that everybody needs to know to survive the near future. If you want to understand the artificial intelligence revolution, you will need to understand every one of these AI related definitions. To make that easy, Read more…
Windows 11 was a bit rough when it was released as the successor to Windows 10 but today it is polished and ready for everyone… including you! There are thousands of fixes, hundreds of new functions and dozens of new features but we will focus on 10 things most people Read more…
In the fall of 2022, Microsoft announced a $10 Billion (yes, that a “B” for billion) dollar investment in a company named OpenAI that makes the fabled ChatGPT and they are scrambling to get the most out of that investment, but making integrating it into everything Microsoft makes, including Windows Read more…
By now most people that are paying attention to either Microsoft as a company or technical people know that Microsoft has branded their integration of Chatgpt as Copilot and Are integrating it into everything from Windows, to M365, to Dynamics, to Bing products just as fast as they can. The Read more…
ACCOUNT UNKNOWN User Profiles are most likely just chewing up disk space on your computer. They are the profiles from users that have been deleted in Active Directory or on your local computer. If you run an RDS server or have had alot of administrators, you can have a lot Read more…
There are some very confusing things about the Windows Recycle Bin that even experienced administrators don’t understand. When looking at Advanced System Properties > User Profiles it is important to note that the size of the profile listed does not include that user’s Recycle Bin and if you delete a Read more…
As shown in the screenshot below you may have seen: What is Microsoft Edge WebView2? Put simply Microsoft EdgeWebView2 is a stripped down version of the Microsoft Edge browser- based on Google Chrome that developers can use to run web code inside of applications you are using. Specifically, WebView2 can Read more…
It would seem incredibly simple to import your favorites into Microsoft edge, after you had exported them from Microsoft Edge, but it isn’t. Well, it isn’t difficult but it is far from obvious. How To Export Your Favorites From Microsoft Edge To export your favorites from Microsoft Edge, simply put Read more…
NOTE: This article and video demonstrate how to load drivers during a Windows 11 installation but the same process is used for Windows 10 and for Windows Server 2016 2019 and 2022. During the Windows installation process on a brand new or bare metal SSD hard drive, there is only Read more…
In an article we published yesterday, we provided a simple PowerShell script to export a list of all of your stale Active Directory user accounts to a simple text file with nice columns that you could manipulate in Excel. In this follow-up article, we explain how to easily see the Read more…
In this video, we will guide you through the process of using the Windows File Recovery tool (WINFR) to restore accidentally deleted files on Windows 10, Windows 11 and Windows Server. The Windows File Recovery tool is a free utility developed by Microsoft that allows you to recover deleted files Read more…
Sometimes you may find that you need to export the list of which security and distribution groups a user belongs to into a text file. This is sometimes done for auditing purposes and sometimes required because that amount of text in a CMD prompt is just oo hard to navigate. Read more…
If you see the Accumulated Too Many Security ID’s message when trying to log in, it means that you are a member of too many groups. The solution is to to into Active Directory and remove some groups from the MEMBER OF tab: Active Directory has a maximum of 1000 Read more…
Is your Windows Update broken? Obviously there are a lot of reasons why Windows Update can fail but here are some of the most common things that you can look for before you get into serious troubleshooting. When solving any technical problem it’s always best to start at the start Read more…
This is a follow up list to the top 200 worst passwords which we have HERE. This list shows the top 25 most common worst passwords used in the United States. This list was compiled by looking at recently hacked website information and filtering it by country; in this case Read more…
The Connected Devices Platform Service (CDPSvc) was first seen in Windows 10 1511 and while it was disabled by default, Microsoft changed it to start Automatically (Delayed Start) in Windows 10 1607. Some users have noted that the service is chewing most of their CPU from time to time and Read more…