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You may have come across an issue with Windows 10 where when you click the Start button or try and access some programs on the taskbar, nothing happens. This is a known issue with Windows 10 and seems to have been caused by a Windows Update although unproven at this time. There are a large … Read more
The A to Z of Windows keyboard shortcut keys. If you notice any that do not work or do something different, or you know what J & Y do (!) then please leave us a message using our comments system at the bottom of this post. Key Press Process Win + A Action Center Win … Read more
Most people will have now updated to Windows 10 or be in the process of doing so. One of the things that you will find missing is the number of games available to you in contrast to the built-in games with Windows 7. This is mostly due to the number of games you can now … Read more
Some users have reported to us having issues in activating Windows 10. Well there are many ways of activating Windows 10 apart from the usual way through the Windows System dialog page. First of all, you can use an elevated command prompt and type in the following commands: Set the Product Key: slmgr /ipk “YOUR … Read more
Since the WordPress update to version 4.5, you may have noticed that your WP Tab Widget may not be working. There is an update coming out soon to fix this, however, in the meantime for a quick fix, you can add the following code to your themes “function.php” file: if (!is_admin()) { wp_deregister_script(‘jquery’); wp_register_script(‘jquery’, (“https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.3/jquery.min.js”), … Read more
You may have seen our post recently about the WordPress plugin JetPack causing our site to crash due to massive resource usage. Well, as we had removed JetPack, we wanted another site stats plugin so we tried WP Statistics. This proved to be even worse, completely taking all our hosting down completely for 16 minutes … Read more
If you want to insert into your Word document, the total number of pages contained within it, then you can follow this simple guide to do this. In your Word document, click your cursor where you want the total number of page to be visible. Click the “Insert” tab on your Word ribbon: You then … Read more
You may have seen our previous post about changing a user mailbox into a shared mailbox in Exchange – but what if you want to do it the other way around and change a shared mailbox into a user mailbox? Well, see below…. There is a simple PowerShell command that you can run within Exchange … Read more
If you want to change a user mailbox in Exchange to a shared mailbox, then there is a simple powershell command that you can run within Exchange Management Shell (EMS) to carry this out. Just open up EMS and use this command: Set-Mailbox “user mailbox name” -Type:Shared where “user mailbox name” – is the name … Read more
If you need to create a shared mailbox in Exchange Server 2007, then you should first gather the following information about the mailbox: Mailbox Name Organisational Unit that the mailbox will sit in Mailbox Server/Database User Principal Name Once you have this information, you should start up Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and run the following … Read more
If you would like to run your own troubleshooting on Windows 10, then you can do this by going through the Control Panel and selecting the Troubleshooting option. To get into the Control Panel, simply right click on the Start Menu button at the bottom left and select Control Panel. When you open the Control Panel, … Read more
This is a guide on how to capture Microsoft Office updates from a machine and then use these captured updates to either streamline a fully updated installation of Microsoft Office, or it can be used with Configuration Manager to ensure that you are pushing out the software fully patched. The reason we started using this … Read more