How-To Guides for Windows, Server & IT Tutorials

How do I type a Powershell “Pipe”?

1 May 202623 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

This may seem like a very simple thing to most techies out there, but we have had this question asked to us a number of times with people using the incorrect keys to type a Powershell pipe. So, how do you type a Powershell “Pipe”? A Powershell pipe can be seen below in the example … Read more

How to reset your HP LaserJet P2015 to Factory Default Settings

1 May 202619 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

Reset HP LaserJet P2015 printer to factory settings.

Exchange Server – Why are the emails in plain text format?

1 May 202618 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We recently noticed an issue with our lab Exchange server where it was sending emails by default in plain text format rather than in HTML format. We could not figure out why the server was doing this, but after some research we found out that it had to do with the settings for the “Remote … Read more

Microsoft Exchange – Export Mailbox Sizes to Excel

1 May 202617 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you want to export an Exchange mailbox database list to Excel so that you can see how large users’ mailboxes are, you can do this using the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). All you need to do is to login to your Exchange server with your mailbox database on, open up the Exchange Management Shell … Read more

How to Extract a zip file using 7-Zip

1 May 202615 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We get asked a lot of highly technical questions which we do try our best to answer and post guides on this website, however, sometimes we also get asked basic questions like “How do I open a zip file?”.

To most of us this is second nature, but there are a lot of people out there that do not know how to do things like this, so we made a quick video to show you the basics on how to do this.

You can obviously use the built in Windows extracting but we personally hate it and always install and use 7-Zip so this video is based on you having 7-Zip installed.

Video Demo

You can download 7-Zip by Googling it.

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SQL Reporting Services Error – Maximum request length exceeded

1 May 202611 March 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

When running or trying to create a large report in SSRS, you may come across an error stating the below: Error 2: There was an exception running the extensions specified in the config file. Maximum request length exceeded. It took us a while to figure this one out but it is actually very simple. After … Read more

How to boot into Windows 8 Safe Mode

1 May 202627 February 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We have had a number of people asking us about how to boot Windows 8 into Safe Mode, mostly so that they can carry out the Windows Update fix as detailed in our guide here: Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down You should take a look at oiur guide which gives you all the various … Read more

Windows Movie Maker – Silent Unattended Installation

1 May 202629 January 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you want to install Windows Movie Maker silently, maybe for distribution using a system like Configuration Manager or Group Policy, then you can follow the guide below to do this. First of all, you will need to download the offline installer from the download location below: Download Then you can create to distribution package … Read more

Microsoft Excel – Columns Displaying Numbers instead of Letters

1 May 202620 January 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We have recently dealt with a problem that a customer had reported to us about their Excel spreadsheet columns suddenly appearing as numbers instead of the expected letters. We doubted this very much as none of us had heard of it before, but no, there is was, columns as numbers just like this: This was … Read more

Dell Wireless 360 Bluetooth Module Drivers

1 May 202612 January 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

We have been refurbishing an old Dell Precision M4300 this week and we have had nothing but problems with one driver missing. We downloaded all the drivers from the Dell support website but still it was showing as an Unknown Device: This had been driving use crazy and even though we had searched for the … Read more

VNC Silent Installation Command Line

1 May 20262 January 2015 by Andrew Armstrong

If you want to install VNC silently so that you can distribute it using systems like Configuration Manager then you will need the installation silent command line. To run the silent install you can use the below command line that will install the full VNC package silently and without restarting the end users computer. Command … Read more