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We have the opportunity here for someone to take advantage of an amazing offer we can provide to you for a Microsoft Xbox One Package Deal for just £314.99 GBP. As part of the deal, you will receive the following: Xbox One console (including one wireless controller) Forza Horizon 2 for Xbox One 3-month Xbox Live Gold Membership 12-month EA …

Microsoft / Guide / Windows

DOSBox – 16-Bit Application Emulator

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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: Or this one for Windows …

Guide / System Center

Show Distribution Point in use during Task Sequence

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We recently came across issues where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) where running extremely slowly and we could not figure out why. After some investigation, we found out that one of our remote Distribution Points (DP) was not working correctly and that rebuilds on one of the sites where actually pulling the image and application data from another …

Virtualisation / Guide

VMWare ESXi 5.5 – Adding RealTek and Atheros Network Card Drivers

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We have been trying to set up a new virtual host using VMWare ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1 with an Atheros AR8161 network card. As this is one of the unsupported network cards, it kept failing upon the bootup setup process – as expected of course. As most of you will know, you can “inject” network card drivers into the ISO …

Guide / Microsoft

Create installation media for Windows 8.1

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If you need to download the Windows 8.1 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 8.1 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn to DVD and then this …

Guide / Microsoft / News

Microsoft Office 2016 Product Key

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Microsoft have now released the preview version of their upcoming Office 2016 release and you can now download a trial version from the list of choices below: Download Get Office 2016 Preview (32 bit) Get Office 2016 Preview (64 bit) Use the product key provided below to activate your trial: NKGG6-WBPCC-HXWMY-6DQGJ-CPQVG Once the trial period expires, you will have the …

Guide / Microsoft

The user profile service failed the logon error fix

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We recently had an issue where a Domain Controller was giving us this error when we were trying to remote (RDP) on to it: The user profile service failed the logon. no more threads can be created in the system The server itself was on a different site to us many miles away (different country!) so we could not simply …

Guide / Microsoft

Create Installation Media for Windows 7

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If you need to download the Windows 7 recovery media for your OEM version of your operating system, then you can do so by clicking the link below and entering the details from your licence sticker (COA). Windows 7 Recovery Software You can download the media to a USB stick or ISO file to burn to DVD and then this …

Guide / Microsoft

Dell Drivers FTP Site

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If you are looking for any Dell drivers and you cannot find them on the standard Dell support website, then you should take a look at their FTP site. This site has a huge amount of drivers on there that are not readily available on the standard support website. For example, Windows Vista x64 drivers are a nightmare to find …

Guide / Microsoft

Re-enable NPAPI in Google Chrome

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You may have recently noticed that if you are a Google Chrome user – your plugins have started to not work in certain situations. This can be for flash, silverlight or shockwave amongst others. This is the start of the end for NPAPI. Well, there is a reason for this…. On the Chromium blog there has been an announcement that Google …

Microsoft / News

Lync Online Client updated to Skype for Business 2013

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You may have noticed with the batch of Windows updates on 14th April that your Lync Online client has now been automatically updated to Skype for Business 2013. So what are the changes? below is the official Microsoft line… Changes are coming to Lync Online in Office 365. Lync is joining the Skype family, so in the coming months, Lync …

Guide / Microsoft

Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down or Reboot Video Demo

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Following on from our popular guide on how to fix your machine if you get corrupt Windows Updates and your machine is stuck on “Installing Updates..” shut down screen like the one below, we have been asked by a number of people to create a quick demo video – so we have. Below you will find a quick 3 minute …