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Introduction If you are using a Synology network storage unit, there is a good chance that you will be adding and removing data from it all the time. For convenience, Synology has a built-in Recycle Bin, meaning that if you ever delete a file or folder, you can always retrieve it from the Recycle Bin, … Read more
We recently ran into an issue with Google Chrome crashing on opening with it showing the “Aw Snap” crash page like below: This seemed to spread through a number of users so looks like it was possibly some sort of update that had caused it, but we couldn’t figure out which one. However, we did … Read more
Have you ever been in a position where someone has deleted something that they shouldn’t have done in Active Directory and you desperately need to restore it? Well you can go through your backups and look at restoring that way, but there is a much simplier way to restore any Active Directory object. For having … Read more
We recently had a problem with our Nutanix Prism system and we had to rebuild the Prism server from scratch. After carrying out the rebuild, we managed to fix all the initial problems that we had been having. However, a few weeks later, we needed to run a few updates across the Nutanix system and … Read more
Like many others in the world at the moment, I’m stuck in my house in isolation from the CoronaVirus or CoVid-19 if you will. Apart from “working from home” I’m pretty bored and have watched everything on the TV worth watching. So I did what most people will end up doing and hit YouTube and … Read more
How to change the user roles of your WordPress users in bulk using myPHP Admin.
Introduction When Windows 10 was first released, Microsoft offered it for free to Windows 7 and 8 OEM customers. This was a limited time offer which did finish a while ago. However, what you may not know is that Microsoft actually still offer Windows 10 to OEM customers for free. Conditions To qualify for the … Read more
Sometimes an emoji can say it so much better than words…the facepalm, the eye roll or the pooh emoji, all say exactly what you want to without having to say it or name any names! You are probably used to creating emojis using your phones or tablets, but what if you use Microsoft Outlook and … Read more
Introduction If you are using the shortlink service Bitly, then you may from time to time want to export your Bitly URL links to Microsoft Excel format. It’s not entirely clear on how to do this and there is not much information out there either, so we thought we would write up a quick guide … Read more
Another set of Microsoft Updates comes around and yet another set of problems arise! Windows Search Bar Bug This time it’s the turn of the Windows 10 search bar to stop working. It seems that this particular bug hits when you click the Start button and type a search – nothing appears! Well, don’t worry … Read more
Introduction Although this is a fairly simple process for more experienced computers users, we have been asked this question a few times over the last few weeks. This seems to be due to more and more people getting network storage devices for Christmas and, instead of using the rubbish software you get with these devices … Read more
We are pleased to announce the release of the Shoretel Batch WAV Converter v3.0. There have been some improvements to make it more user-friendly and to have a much better folder structure. Windows This new version 3.0 will now also work with Windows 10 and includes all the updated sox.exe files required for the conversion … Read more