With the recent issues with ransomware and the Wannacry attack, you really should now have SMBv1 disabled on your machines. If you are still working on this or maybe not even started yet, then here we will show you a few examples of what to do to protect yourselves from future SMBv1 vulnerability and ransomware […]
Year: 2017
How to Disable Cortana in Windows 10’s Anniversary Update
Everyone is now aware of Microsoft‘s talking assistant, Cortana. However, what if you hate Cortana and you want her removed from your computer? Well, there is an excellent guide on how to do this over at howtogeek.com: How to Disable Cortana Just follow their simple guide, reboot your computer and Cortana will be no more!
How to fix the “The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk” error
If you are trying to format a second disk on your computer (or server) and you are getting this error: “The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk.” Then this could be because the disk is write-protected. To get around this, you can use the diskpart utility built into Windows. Open up […]
Windows Server Core – Create a new disk using diskpart
If you are using Microsoft Server 2016 you will notice that it is now in the server core setup. If you have experience of using Server Core then you should be fine, but if you have not, it can be a little daunting. Is the simple process of adding a new virtual hard disk completely […]
Are Microsoft using your computer as a Windows Update distribution point?
Since the upgrade to Windows 10, you may not be aware but your computer may be being used by Microsoft to help distribute Windows Updates. There is a setting within Windows 10 which allows your machine to send updates to other Windows 10 computers on your local network and even on the Internet! What? How […]
Windows 10 Group Policy ADMX Templates
Overview Administrative Templates files are divided into .admx files and language-specific .adml files for use by Group Policy administrators. The changes that are implemented in these files let administrators configure the same set of policies by using two languages. Administrators can configure policies by using the language-specific .adml files and the language-neutral .admx files. Administrative […]
Announcement – HTTPS Upgrade
We are delighted to announce that we have now upgraded our website and added a SSL certificate allowing us to now use encrypted traffic using the HTTPS protocol. You will now notice that we have a nice secure site with the green bar and padlock: This is something that we have wanted to enable for […]
Windows Service Tweaker to speed up Windows 10
The current version of Windows 10 is pretty good and users will find that using the operating system is pretty straight forward and much improved on the first versions and previous operating systems like Windows Vista. However, on some older computers and even on some newer computers with low end processors like Celeron or AMD’s […]
How to Uninstall Windows 10 Built In Apps
Windows 10 comes with a large amount of built in apps, most of which are useful, but some are not and you may want to uninstall them, however you might find that when you right click on an app you want to uninstall, the uninstall option is not there: However with any 3rd party apps […]
Windows Store – Web Security Whitelist
We recently had a request for help regarding Windows 10 computers not being able to download apps from the Windows Store when sat behind a web security platform. The problem was that end users could load up the Windows Store and browse for what they wanted to install but when clicking on the install button, […]
Technological Inventions In The Gaming Field
The field of gaming is not left out as the world embraces technology as its way of life. We can say that virtually every aspect of the human race has witnessed some breathtaking technological inventions in the past, and these are geared towards making our lives better. In the gaming field, there have been a […]
Dropbox Phishing Email
You may have received an email recently that looks like it has been sent to you from Dropbox about a PDF file that “your contact” has shared with you. The body of the email will look something like this: This is a phishing email and the real sending is trying to get your Dropbox login […]
