A third of students using ‘distracting’ classroom iPads for play, not work: study “…Researchers surveyed 6,057 students, who were enrolled in Grades 6 through 10, and 302 teachers about their experiences so far in using tablets daily in the classroom. …
After working with Microsoft Partner Support (generally I have good response from this group) on and off for a few months, I called Microsoft support and had a SQL tech walk me through the issue. There is a handy query …
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Alberta when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, …
As of todays date, you can not merge two Google Accounts . If you have two Google accounts for whatever reason (in my case I had YouTube and Android/Google Play Store accounts, which now are really just Google Accounts) the …
If you have upgraded your Android device (in my case a Samsung S3) to Android 4.3 you likely have found that the camera flash goes off randomly. Well, it is not so random after all; I found that on the …
If you have an older AMD CPU based system and you attempt to install or upgrade to Windows 8.1 you will see a message like: You can’t install Windows 8.1 because your processor doesn’t support CompareExchange128. This is true but …
If you are working with, well almost anything network intensive these days, like Antivirus or management tools, your Reverse DNS (rDNS) lookups need to be in good shape. If you find that you can not resolve IP’s back to a …
No, under Windows 8 SSD’s and RAID’s are ignored by SuperFetch. SuperFetch, under Windows 8 / 8.1 and newer will only run against spinning disk even though the service is running apparently on all disks… it is not working on SSD’s. You …
In versions of Windows 7 and 8 (but NOT 8.1) this tool displayed performance numbers called the WINDOWS PERFORMANCE INDEX shown in the SYSTEM INFORMATION. In Windows 8.1 WINDOWS PERFORMANCE INDEX is gone but WinSAT still exists and can be …
As you likely already know, SSD are not hard disks, they are memory with a finite number of writes so regularly defraging an SSD will significantly reduce its life. In Windows 8, you may see your SSD still show up …
If you see the “V Virtual Machine you likely were working on Windows 8.1 or Server 2012 R2 and you elected to create GEN2 VM during the setup process. This was a mistake. HyperV Gen2 VM’s are only supported by Server …
Crucial has posted a lovely infographic explaining that: DDR4 memory has the capability to double the available density per module DDR4 will use up to 20% less voltage than DDR3 DDR4 will enable mainstream data rates that are at least twice as …
The new Dell Venue 8 Pro with the equally amazing and new Intel Atom processor Z3740D which IS a 64 bit CPU so why does this hardware only run 32 bit Windows 8.1? That is because Dell wants to use Microsoft’s …
Connected Standby was introduced in Windows 8 to allow (primarily portable devices like tablets and phones) and is Microsoft’s proprietary ‘fast wake’ standard. Below are the important specs: Devices with Connected Standby must wake up in less than 300ms… that …
If you need to move your WSUS content files to a new hard drive on the same server do the following: On the new drive create a folder named WSUS and a subfolder named WSUSContent Launch a CMD window as …
If you want to see what is happening with SHA or NAP take a look a this: ON THE USERS PC Check the EVENT VIEWER: Applications and Services Logs > Microsoft > Windows > Network Access Protection > Operational In …