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How to fix the Windows 10 Search Bar Bug

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 5 February 20209 September 2025
Posted in Guide, Evergreen, Microsoft

How to fix the Windows Search Bar Bug

Another set of Microsoft Updates comes around and yet another set of problems arise! Windows Search Bar Bug This time it’s the turn of the Windows 10 search bar to stop working. It seems that this particular bug hits when you click the Start button and type a search – nothing appears! Well, don’t worry

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 3 February 20209 September 2025
Posted in Guide, Evergreen, Microsoft

How to Add a Network Drive in Windows

Introduction Although this is a fairly simple process for more experienced computers users, we have been asked this question a few times over the last few weeks. This seems to be due to more and more people getting network storage devices for Christmas and, instead of using the rubbish software you get with these devices

A screenshot of a command prompt window open on a Microsoft Windows system displaying various service configuration statuses, identified by installer folder fields marked with a red rectangle.

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 20 January 20209 September 2025
Posted in Guide, Evergreen, Microsoft

Disk Space Cleanup on Windows Computers

Introduction Following on from our guide back in 2016 on how to save disk space when using an SSD drive, we now have two other ways of helping you to space disk space. These are fairly old methods but probably not very well known to those outside of the IT world. Branchcache The first method

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 9 December 20199 September 2025
Posted in Communication, Evergreen, Guide
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Lenovo Cellular with Vodafone Broadband App

Introduction I recently came across an issue where I had brand new Lenovo Thinkpad X390 Yoga 2 in 1 laptop with a fully working data SIM, however we could not get it to connect to the Vodafone (UK) broadband. The instructions seemed to be completely straight forward; just insert a working data SIM card, click

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 9 October 20199 September 2025
Posted in Guide, Evergreen, Microsoft, System Center

Resolving SCOM Console Alert Clearing Issues

We recently encountered a problem with our System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) console where some old alerts could not be removed or cleared. Despite confirming that the alerts were no longer relevant, every attempt to clear them resulted in a red X generic Microsoft error, causing the console to crash. What Caused the Issue? The

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 2 October 20199 September 2025
Posted in Blogging, Evergreen, Guide

WordPress – How to Exclude a Category from your Homepage

Introduction If you are a WordPress user, you may want to find a way of excluding a certain category from your main homepage. This could be if you post latest news articles but do not want them to clutter up your homepage. The reason I wanted to exclude a certain category was that I run

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 25 September 20199 September 2025
Posted in VLC Player, Evergreen, Guide

Convert MKV to MP4 using VLC Player

How to convert MKV to MP4 video format using just VLC Player.

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 27 August 20199 September 2025
Posted in Evergreen, Guide, Virtualisation

How to Fix a Nutanix CVM Stuck in Maintenance Mode

If you are using a Nutanix Hyperconvergence solution in your infrastructure environment, then you may have come across a problem where the Nutanix CVM gets stuck in Maintenance Mode. Fixing this issue is very simple, but you will need the following information before starting the fix: Prerequisites PuTTy or other SSH client Nutanix Cluster administrator

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 19 August 20199 September 2025
Posted in Evergreen, Guide, Microsoft

VMWare vCenter Appliance stuck at localhost login screen

If you reboot your VMWare vCenter Appliance, you may get into a situation where it reboots into the localhost login screen instead of the more familiar black and yellow/blue two tone layout with the management IP addresses shown like below: The first thing to do is not to panic. I have seen people get very

By - Andrew Armstrong
Posted on 29 July 20199 September 2025
Posted in Microsoft, Evergreen, Guide
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Windows Server 2019 Evaluation Product Keys

Following on from our popular posts for evaluation product keys for Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 R2 and Server 2016, this post brings us fully up to date with the evaluation keys for Server 2019. This forms part of our evaluation and KMS product key series where we have shared with you all the product

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How to fix the Windows Search Bar Bug

How to Add a Network Drive in Windows

Disk Space Cleanup on Windows Computers

Lenovo Cellular with Vodafone Broadband App

Resolving SCOM Console Alert Clearing Issues

WordPress – How to Exclude a Category from your Homepage

Convert MKV to MP4 using VLC Player

How to Fix a Nutanix CVM Stuck in Maintenance Mode

VMWare vCenter Appliance stuck at localhost login screen

Windows Server 2019 Evaluation Product Keys