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In the last part of our KMS and evaluation product key series, we are going to show you how to extend the life of your Windows evaluation for up to one whole year! First of all, your initial evaluation period will allow you 30 days of use of Windows. You can then “re-arm” this up … Read more
As you are probably aware, we provide Java client installation packages when they are released so that you can keep your systems up to date. A lot of people recently have been asking about the uninstall of the old Java clients when installing the new ones. Well, below is a full guide on how to … Read more
You should have noticed by now that the default internet browser Microsoft want you to use is their new Edge browser. Well, ok, its fine for home browsing but a lot of companies have legacy programs that still need Internet Explorer 11 to run them. So, how do you get your SCCM Operating System Deployment … Read more
If you are installing or upgrading to Windows 10, you may have come across this annoying useless error “Something went wrong” or “Something Happened…”. Helpful Microsoft, thanks for the information. But what does it mean? Well, to be honest, it could mean anything depending on what you are doing on your machine, but we recently found … Read more
So today we built a new custom Windows 10 image on a virtual machine and created our new SCCM capture media from the very latest version and every single time we ran the capture it failed at the Sysprep step. Infuriated by this as we have done captures hundreds of times, we started the annoying method … Read more
If, like us, you have converted from Google’s Blogger platform to WordPress, then you will have probably redirected all your posts from your old platform to your new one. Work’s great huh? well yes it does – for normal tablet and computer browsers, but have you tested it with an iPhone browser? You may find … Read more
If you are a user of Cisco VPN client then you may come across this error during either installation or when you try to uninstall the client: This is usually due to a corruption in the Windows operating system configuration and can happen if you have more than one VPN client installed (or attempted install). … Read more
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