Happy New Year 2017!
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December 2016
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How to cancel EA Access subscription on Xbox One
We were recently talking to a friend about EA Access subscription and he said that it is a nightmare to cancel the subscription once you have activated it. Well we have had a look into it and it seems fairly straight forward to us but thought we would write up a quick post about how…
Sophos Anti-Virus and Web Protection Free for Home Users
Sophos has always been an excellent anti-virus package for corporate users but you can now get Sophos for home use completely free of charge. You can create yourself an account with Sophos and then install on up to 10 computers for family and friends and also centrally manage them from a web console. Having been…
Enabling inactive Mimecast Outlook Plugin add-in that keeps being unloaded in Outlook
To enable an inactive add-in that keeps unloading on restart in Outlook you should follow these steps: First shut down Outlook, then uninstall the software providing the add-in from your machine. Then go into regedit whilst logged in as the affected user and go to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office15.0\Outlook\Resiliency Delete the REG_BINARY keys found in…
Outlook Mail Server Settings
This post details how to setup Outlook client for use with online mail services. This is just a quick reminder for ourselves and is taken from the Microsoft website but feel free to use this information. Gmail accounts Before you can add a Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to Prepare your Gmail account for…
Ultimate Settings Panel – Support Function
Over the last few days our Ultimate Settings Panel support forums seem to have been attacked by spam bots and screwed them all up! We have been here before with support forums so we are taking the decision to close them and we will now offer support via either a comments page or maybe a…
Windows XP Activation
We have had a few requests from visitors to our site asking how they an activate Windows XP. Well, the simple answer is, you can’t and you should upgrade to Windows 10. However, saying you can’t is not quite right… As most of you will already know, Microsoft have ended support for Windows XP some…
WSUS – Windows 10 Feature Upgrades Fail Fix
If you are using WSUS in your environment and you find that your Windows 10 clients are failing to download or install any Feature Upgrades (to 1607 or any CU updates) then you can give this fix a try. You should first ensure that you have not approved any of these upgrades before installing the…
Merry Christmas 2016
We would like to wish all our of visitors a very Merry Christmas today and we hope you got everything that you wished for and spent the day with the people you care about the most! Merry Christmas from all at TechyGeeksHome.
Inject Windows Updates into WIM Image Files Using PowerShell
To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and…
Christmas Tech Detox
So Christmas is almost upon us and I have decided it’s time for a self imposed tech detox for a few weeks and to spend some valuable time with the family. This means that I will not be updating the site very much at all for the next few weeks apart from a few pre-scheduled…
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Legacy Edition – £27.99 Offer
We have teamed up with CDKeys.com to offer our site visitors a great discount on Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Legacy Edition on PC. You can now order a digital download code for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Legacy Edition for just £27.99 down from £69.99 – all you have to do is click the link…
Assassin’s Creed Unity – £1.49 Offer
We have teamed up with CDKeys.com to offer our site visitors a great discount on Assassin’s Creed Unity on the Xbox One console. You can now order a digital download code for Assassin’s Creed Unity for just £1.49 – all you have to do is click the link below and process payment. You will then receive the…
Adobe Flash Player MSI Installers v24.0.0.186
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 24.0.0.186. As always, you can download the executable file but if you want the MSI files so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog, you can get that here. The update is also…
Notepad++ v7.2.2 Released
Notepad++ has now been upgraded to version 7.2.2. You can download this latest version by clicking the download button below: Download Notepad++ v7.2.2 Notepad++ v7.2.2 bug-fixes: Fix auto-updater setting toggles between startups bug. Fix “Replace All” button shortcut accelerator in Replce dialog not working regression. Fix unusual plugin update prompt after upgrade to 7.2.1 version. We…
Football Manager 2017 Limited Edition – £18.00
For those of you that are into the long running football simulation series Football Manager – we have just come across the game on offer on Amazon for just £18.00! Just click the link below to go to the offer and take advantage whilst you can. Football Manager 2017 Limited Edition – £18.00 Please note…
Exchange – Get Dynamic Distribution Group Individual Members Email Addresses
If you are using Exchange in our organisation and have dynamic distribution groups, you may want to get all the information about the individual users within these distribution groups and also list their email addresses. To do this, open up an Exchange Management Shell console and run the following script: $group = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup –identity “yourDL”…
Manipulating Images using Image Processor in Asp.Net
Since asp.net web development team understands that working with images; you don’t always need web control. There are better options to this and in this post, they will talk about these options. Read this post to know more. Introduction For working with images in Asp.net, it is not always required to make use of web…
Custom Generic Logging for WFC WebServices
WCF WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. A communication-oriented set of APIs and a “runtime” inside .NET to make two (or more) systems talk to one another. It basically replaces ASMX (ASP.NET web services), .NET remoting (object remoting) and a few other communication-related API’s and products in the .NET space. It can and should be…
Google Chrome version 55.0.2883.75 Released and MSI Installer
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 55.0.2883.75. 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 direct from…
WordPress – Code snippet display
We have had a few people ask us how we wrap our code snippets on this site with the yellow background. This is a very simple piece of code using the <pre> function. You can customise it as much as you like with different fonts, sizes, colours and borders but this is our default to…
X-Plane 11 Demo Released
The demo of the excellent flight simulator, X-Plane 11 is now available to download and play. Just click the button below to download the free demo now and take to the skies! X-Plane 11 Demo
