If you have Windows 10 Enterprise or Education you should be able to use a GPO to set a custom lock and home screen. Unfortunately, Windows 10 1703 broke that and it has been driving many IT staff crazy trying to fix it. …
In early versions of Windows 10 it was not readily possible to downgrade from Windows 10 Enterprise to Win 10 Pro. In fact, the supported process was to perform a clean install. The dance around that was to make some registry …
If you have a corrupt profile in Windows 10 there are two easy ways to remove it and rebuild it: 1: REMOVE CORRUPT WINDOWS PROFILE USING GUI: CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM AND SECURITY > SYSTEM > ADVANCED SYSTEM SETTINGS (from the …
If your Office 2016 ProPlus was installed using the Office Deployment Toolkit (ODT) then you may be not know what branch of Office you are using. Fortunately there are two easy ways to determine which Branch of Office 365 ProPlus …
If you have Windows 10 1703 or newer your Internet Explorer will have a “Edge Tab” to the right of your “new tab” tab. This means people will frequently launch the Edge Browser when they are really trying to open …
One of the features Microsoft introduced into Outlook is to reply in the READING PANE rather than in a separate window. While I appreciate that this cleans up the interface, it does make navigating into old messages while composing new …
If you run Windows 10 in a corporate settings you will likely want to set a few default entries in the START menu and TASKBAR. If nothing else you will likely want to remove the default junk that Microsoft clutters …
If you have Sophos Safeguard you likely have annoying popup messages saying things like: Sophos Safeguard: Communicating With Server Sophos Safeguard: No New Settings Available Sophos Safeguard: Synchronization with Sophos Safeguard server succeeded These will occur several times a day and …
Navigant Research just posted their assessment of autonomous vehicle systems companies in 2017. This report is fascinating for a number of reasons including: Ford & GM are way ahead of Tesla Uber is near the bottom of the list even though they …
If you have Office365 Office 2016, by default you are running a product that is 4 months old. This is called the Deferred Channel. For a variety of good reasons you may want to change to the Current Channel: Testing …
Office 2016 from Office365 will stay in the “Channel” it was installed with even if you change from Deferred to Current or Current to Deferred in Office365. There are three ways to force Office365 Office 2016 to change channels and …
If you want to disable Backstage View when saving in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, … you can set it with a Group Policy Object (GPO), a script or manually HOW TO DISABLE OFFICE BACKSTAGE MANUALLY: To disable the Backstage View manually, just click: …
If you have Office 2016 and you want to block your staff from easily saving content in the cloud, you can disable the SHARE button using the following Group Policy Object (GPO): User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> “Office Product …
Below is a complete list of Windows variables. If you are writing any sort of script, PowerShell, or command line you will need to know: The variable for username is %username% The variable for the Windows Directory is %windir% or …
The path to users Startup folder in Windows 10 is: %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startupie. C:\Users\JimmyJo\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup You can open a users Startup folder by going through Windows Explorer, command line or by right clicking on the START button and typing the command shell:startup . The …
This page provides the master list of the things you need to do to correct mouse lag on 4k screens. If you have connected your PC to a 4K screen you will often see a subtle but visual notable lag …