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How to Add an Image to a PDF with Able2Extract Pro 11

Twenty years ago, our office spaces were overloaded with paper documents. All kinds of documents like financial reports, weekly projections, income statements and much more were stored in paper form. In the ‘90s, we experienced massive technology growth and during that period one new term came across “paperless offices”. “Paperless offices” meant that companies were trying to use as little …

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Microsoft Windows 10 Edition Evaluation Product Keys

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After our recent post about providing our visitors with a number of evaluation and KMS Microsoft product keys, please see below the latest set in this series. These are the full range of Microsoft Evaluation keys for all editions of Windows 10. Windows 10 Edition Product Key Windows 10 Professional W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX Windows 10 Professional N MH37W-N47XK-V7XM9-C7227-GCQG9 Windows 10 Enterprise NPPR9-FWDCX-D2C8J-H872K-2YT43 …

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Windows 10 Version 1709 Language Pack Downloads

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With the release of Microsoft Windows 10 version 1709 (Fall Creators Update), you may have a need for the updated operating system language packs. So, below is a full list of downloadable language pack files. 2024 Update Included in this latest up-to-date Windows Language Pack download are the 32-bit and 64-bit language packs for 38 different languages and also the …

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Xbox Live Gold Free Games for November 2017

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So it’s the start of a new month and Xbox Live Gold members can again download some free games! It’s not a great month for the free games this month with some titles I’ve never even heard of, but they are free so download and have a go anyway! The full set of available games in November are as below: …

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Group Policy Corruption – Fix the processing of Group Policy failed error

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If you are getting Group Policies that are not applying to a users machine, you may well come across this error: The processing of Group Policy failed. Windows could not apply the registry-based policy settings for the Group Policy object LocalGPO. Group Policy settings will not be resolved until this event is resolved. This can be a corrupt registry.pol file …

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Updates fail or time out when WSUS is used during an MDT or SCCM capture

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This guide assumes that you use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT build 8443) or Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) capturing Windows. You capture a task sequence, and the capture computer does not have Internet access. When the task sequence is running and the computer is checking for updates (pre-application installation), the installation freezes for 2 hours while searching for updates. After …

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SCCM – SQL Query for all Laptops

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If you are using Configuration Manager, you will be aware that you can create a number of custom reports using the SCCM SQL data and SSRS to produce the reports. The best way to start creating a custom report is to ensure that you get your SQL query correct first. We have written hundreds of various queries over the years …

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Windows 10 1709 Fall Creators Update – SCCM Build and Capture Task Sequence Failing

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We recently had put together a SCCM Build and Capture task sequence to update our images up to Windows 10 version 1709. We copied the install.wim from the sources folder of the Windows 10 v1709 ISO and added this as our operating system capture image. We took our existing task sequence (which has lots of things in it like Office …

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How to factory reset your Sky+ HD Box

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If you have the need to factory reset your Sky+ HD box, then there is a few simple steps that you need to follow. Guide First press the Services button on your Sky remote which will take you into the Services section: Then press 0, 0, 1 then press the Select button to take you into the engineers section: Press …

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update – Cannot access network shares fix

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Have you recently upgraded your machine to Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition (1709) and can now no longer access your network drives or home NAS drives? Well, we have just run into this issue where after installing the 1709 update, we could not access our (slightly old) WD MyBook Live network attached storage device. When we tried to access the …

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How to download Windows 10 Fall Creators Update ISO offline installers

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With Microsoft‘s release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709), you may want to have the ability to choose when to update your personal or corporate machines and maybe without access to the internet. So how can you do that? Microsoft seem these days to want to update all our machines using Windows Update. This is fine in theory …

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OneDrive – Turn on Files on Demand

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Microsoft have now brought back the OneDrive Files on Demand feature with the latest release and here is how you get it. First of all, you need to make sure you have the latest version of OneDrive, you can upgrade to Windows 1709 or you can download the installer by clicking the link below: OneDrive Download Files On-Demand works with …