Sorry about the recent lack of updates on our site but we have been incredibly busy fixing “real world” IT issues! Its also the silly season for holidays so over the next month updates may be a little sparse but we will try our best! We recently came across a really good blog post by Daniel […]
Month: June 2014
WillyTheWorm v1.1 Released – Retro Snake Game
![WillyTheWorm v1.1 Released - Retro Snake Game 2 Screenshot of the "WillyTheWorm" game over screen displaying the message "game over! your final score is: 0" with an option to press enter to retry. The game speed](https://techygeekshome.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/31.png)
We are pleased to announce the release of WillyTheWorm version 1.1. We have been playing with creating a few very basic retro games for a while now and although these are really only more than testers and nothing to get too excited about, we thought we would release them for you to play with anyway […]
Windows 8.1 Bluetooth Issues – Bluetooth Devices Disconnecting
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We have recently had a number of reports of bluetooth devices like mice and keyboards randomly disconnecting since people have upgraded to Windows 8.1 Update 1. This can be extremely frustrating when you are flying along typing an email and you have nothing to show on your screen for your efforts! Most of the time, […]
DustyRacer Retro Racing Game v1.0 Released
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We are pleased to announce the release of DustyRacer v1.0. This is very much a test release and more of a practice in coding so please treat it as such! Your feedback and ideas are welcome but we are looking into building this up with lots of new features, like levels that speed up as […]
Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125 Released – MSI Download
![Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.125 Released - MSI Download 17 Adobe Flash Player MSI Package](https://techygeekshome.info/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Adobe-Flash-Player-1.jpg)
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 14.0.0.125. As always, you can download the executable file or get the MSI file so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog. The update is also now available to import through System Center […]
DustyNet Web Browser v2.1 Released
![DustyNet Web Browser v2.1 Released 18 DustyPad Version 2.1 Released](https://techygeekshome.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/DustyPad-Version-2.1-Released.png)
We are pleased to announce the release of our first web browser codenamed DustyNet. DustyNet is a simple and easy-to-use web browser. It is lightweight and standalone so can you run direct from a single executable file and even from a USB stick. This is a second release so if you find any bugs or […]
Controlling Concurrent Package Distribution
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We recently came across this excellent blog post about the configuration of distribution settings for Configuration Manager. We highly recommend that you read it if you have multiple remote distribution points as this may help to speed up the process of pushing out the packages. Controlling Concurrent Package Distribution
ConfigMgr 2012 – Log file to check package deletion progress
![ConfigMgr 2012 - Log file to check package deletion progress 20 System Center Configuration Manager SCCM](https://techygeekshome.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/system-center-configuration-manager.jpg)
When you delete packages, applications or images using your Configuration Manager Console, it will then start to process the removal of the files from your distribution points. Depending on how many distribution points you have, this can take some time to complete. We recently had a scenario where we had to remove nearly 100GB of […]
ConfigMgr OSD – Strange Task Sequence Failures Solved
![ConfigMgr OSD - Strange Task Sequence Failures Solved 23 ConfigMgr OSD – Strange Task Sequence Failures Solved](https://techygeekshome.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ConfigMgr-OSD-–-Strange-Task-Sequence-Failures-Solved.jpg)
We had reports from a customer this week about strange issues with their Configuration Manager OSD Task Sequences failing. The OSD seemed to work on most machines but a new batch of refurbished laptops would PXE boot but then would fail after the task sequence had been selected with a generic Microsoft error (you know […]
Deploying Dell BIOS Updates using the Application Model
We have just started to update our hardware BIOS’s during the Configuration Manager OSD process taking advantage of the Application model. It works extremely well and is very easy to setup. We used this excellent guide to help us so we thought that we would share this with our visitors for it to help you […]
Google Chrome MSI Download & Silent Install Switches
![Google Chrome MSI Download & Silent Install Switches 24 Google Chrome MSI 85 Installer](https://techygeekshome.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Chrome-Logo-wordmark.png)
If you are looking at deploying Google Chrome using systems like Configuration Manager, WDS, SCUP or Group Policy, you will want to use their MSI installer to make it much easier. You can now download the Google Chrome MSI installer from the Google Chrome website by clicking the download button below. Download Download Latest Google […]
Google Blogger – Remove information when searching on labels
If you use Google Blogger and you have searches or menu items based on labels, you might find that when you click on these you get the below information appear at the top of your posts: This can be extremely annoying when you are trying to make your site look as professional as possible, so […]