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Introduction Disk space cleanup is a critical must these days with a lot of people opting for a Solid State Drive (SSD) in their computers. SSD drives speed up the computer significantly but the downside is that they tend to be smaller capacity drives, especially if you go for the cheaper options like this Kingston […]
The current version of Windows 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 E1, […]
If you have an old 16-bit application that you need to run on Windows 7 or 8.1 or maybe even an old classic game you want to play, you will find that the chances are the modern operating systems will not run them and you will run into an error like this for Windows 7: […]
If you have a requirement to add a secondary domain controller to your existing domain, then the video guide below should show you exactly the steps you need to take to carry this out. Comments If you have any questions about setting up your secondary domain controller, then please feel free to leave a comment […]
If you have managed to remove the recovery partitions from your OEM Windows 8.1 machine and are now in a position where you cannot restore your computer back to factory OEM settings, Microsoft now supply a way of downloading the OEM Windows 8.1 media so that you can reinstall a fully legal OEM version of […]
We are pleased to announce the release of ImgWater – our free image watermarking tool. This is an updated product release and is designed to allow you to import an image, type your own text watermark and then save the image with your watermark embedded in it. As always, this is a freeware utility and […]
We are pleased to announce the release of Windows Lock Screen Changer. This small standalone utility is designed to change your Windows lock screen easily and quickly to a custom image of your own choosing. With this utility, you can import your own custom JPG image into the tool, preview the image to ensure you […]
If you have custom build images that you are using in your SCCM OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. However, there is a way of running Windows Updates against your custom WIM files offline and then simply redistributing your WIM file. Below is a guide on how to carry this […]
If you are trying to run Windows Update on a Windows XP machine, you may find that you are getting errors or that it gets stuck in a “Searching for updates” process. This may be that your Windows XP machine has not fully updated its own Windows Update Agent. To fix this, you should first […]
If you are using Microsoft DaRT 8 to enable you to be able to remote onto machines that are in WinPE during an OSD, then you will find that if you are using an operating system other than Windows 8 or above, you will struggle to install the DaRT Remote Viewer tool. To get around […]
To create a bootable Windows USB stick to install Windows, you can follow the instructions below. Plug in a USB stick up to 16GB, no smaller than 4GB and no bigger than 16GB or it will not work. Open an elevated command prompt. Type diskpart and press enter. Once in disk part, you should run […]
I thought it was time I started to test Windows 8, I’ll keep my opinions to myself on it for now but one of the many things that does not seem to work very well on it is the Windows Activation. Every time I tried to activate Windows it failed and I couldn’t find a […]