Making IT Happen
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 […]
We have taken the decision to shut down our neglected sister website, gaminggeekshome and we have now merged all the posts from that site into our site here at techygeekshome.info. Most posts are pretty old so you will have to search through our archive to find them or click the “Gaming” tab on the menu […]
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 […]
Apple have today released iOS 8.2 – you can get the update now by going into your settings on your iPads, iPhones and iPods and updating your device. The big news is that Apple have decided to stick an advertisement app on the home screen for the Apple Watch – NOT COOL APPLE! This is […]
If you are interested in Speed Painting Videos then we came across an excellent YouTube Channel recently with many great paintings on it for you to take a look at. You can even make a request to the author for them to create your own paintings! Speed Painting YouTube Channel You should go over to […]
If you were already not aware, Google Earth Pro is now available to use for free! The cost for this product was around $450 a year on subscription but since January 2015 you can directly download and login to the service for free. Google themselves released a blog post about this which you can read […]
We have had a number of requests to create a PuTTy MSI installer, so we have! You can now download the PuTTy MSI installer from our SourceForge project page by clicking the download button below: Download This puts the putty.exe file into your Program Files location and then creates a Desktop shortcut on the users […]
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 […]
Microsoft have done it again!! They have released another Windows Update which has obviously not been fully tested and this one has caused Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client to stop working. So if you are trying to figure out why your VPN will not connect all of a sudden – this is probably why. The update […]
Microsoft have yet again released another Windows Update which has caused corruption and crashing on Windows computers. So, having spent a few hours searching for todays culprit, we found that the update causing the issue is this one: KB3001652 It turns out that its an update for Visual Studio 2010 so it may not affect […]
Mimecast have now released version 5.3.1122.13000 of their Outlook Client. This version of the MSO client now supports the following: Large File Sent Large File Receive Microsoft Outlook 2013 Other Microsoft Office 2013 Products (like Project and Visio 2013 no longer conflict with it) Windows 8.1/8/7 Mimecast Client Exchange Folder Replication Active Directory Integration There […]
We use social networking sites to push out updates on our latest posts so that our visitors can keep up to date and not miss any information that they may want to see. We have a huge following on Facebook and Google+ however for some reason we hardly have any Twitter followers at all! So, […]