I was amalgamating all of my old backups oneto a single USB drive when I stumbled on a DVD from 2006 that had a large file named “Web1-Primary_BU_Mar12_06.bkf” . After a few minutes of thinking I remembered that .BKF stands for BacKup File and remembered that “Windows Backup” had been […]
We had a fun Dell Venue 11 tablet running a full version of Windows 8.1 home but we decided to sell it and thought that most people would want Windows 10. This brings up some questions: How to source Windows 10? Will Win 10 64 bit work on the Venue […]
A disk “partition” is just a logical slice of a hard drive. Logical means that you still only have a single drive but it is virtually cut into pieces so that if one partition has a problem, the whole disk will not fail. Let’s look at each of the different […]
Windows 10 was originally supposed to ship new versions (not just patches, but actually new features) 4 or more times per year but that was reduced several times to what we have in 2020 which is two releases: a substantial new version each Spring named after the year and half […]
If you have a Windows 10 PC that just will not upgrade to the next build there are several things you can do. In the instance shown in the screen shots below, I was seeing: Windows Update sit on DOWNLOADING for hours and then failing with THERE WERE PROBLEMS INSTALLING […]
Online security is a significant concern for many people. As a result, more people have adopted various measures to enhance the security of their Windows devices. While doing so, most people barely notice the numerous simple things that they can do to secure their Windows 10. For instance, there are […]
Every new release of Windows 10 brings thousands of changes and hundreds of enhancements but because it is a mature product, most of these are obscure. Windows 10 20H1 (aka 2004, which will be released in a few weeks) is no different. We have been using the new build for […]
Over the years more and more products have set themselves to automatically startup. In the mid-2000’s Microsoft decided that these performance sucking startups were getting annoying enough to start exposing them to end users and there have been several built in tools to view and manage start up apps. We […]
In Windows 10 Pro, Enterprise and Education there is an option to create a local user account (aka. Offline Account) but Windows 10 Home 1909 and newer no longer has that option. Fortunately, there is an easy way to force it, don’t connect to the internet. What does don’t connect […]
Here are the 16 different ways to launch the SETTINGS app in Windows 10: USE THE START BUTTON TO OPEN THE SETTINGS APP Click on the START button, then the cog icon . START BUTTON CONTEXT MENU DIRECTLY Right click on the START button, select SETTINGS . START BUTTON CONTEXT […]
If you have Office365 ProPlus (aka Office 2016/2019) you will know that it updates constantly. Originally patches were released weekly but from 2018 one they are released monthly. To be clear, Office365 Pro Plus patches are released on the second Tuesday of each month (aka Patch Tuesday), just like Windows […]
If you have been running a network for a while, you likely are: using Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) or SCCM with WSUS to manage Windows patches and download them locally using local file shares for Office patching. Historically, this minimized network traffic but in recent versions of Windows 10, […]
TensorFlow is an open-source, free software library that runs in Python. It provides dataflow and differentiable programming that is useful in Machine Learning and Google is major proponent of it. However, the installation instructions for Windows are not fully accurate and took me several hours to grind through line by […]
Click HERE to download our AutoUnattended.xml answer file for Windows 10 1909 (2019H2). WARNING: This answer file will automatically wipe your hard disk clean and setup the required partitions from scratch. This answer file: Wipes the current disk clean and sets up new partitions Sets the PC, Keyboard and User […]
Microsoft changed the release cycle of Windows products from every two or three years to potentially every week. This was part of CEO Satya Nadella‘s plan to modernize Microsoft. The software world had changed to a must faster paced model of releasing new code and new products. Nadella’s recent history at […]
Many devices shipped with Windows 10 S mode as a security measure, but “S” mode devices only allow programs from the Store to be installed. This may be great for schools, children and other security intensive applications but for most people you will want to install apps from other sources […]