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Today sees the release of “Threshold 2” – a major update for Windows 10. This update includes new features and upgrades to the operating system and also some display and theme changes that were originally planned for the first release. This is the first major new feature update for the Windows operating system using its new model of delivering updates …
Windows 10 Major Update – Threshold 2 Read MoreIf you have users that are still using Windows Live Meeting, you may want the MSI installer to be able to distribute it through Group Policy, WDS or Configuration Manager. So, we have extracted the MSI from the main installer and made it available on our Filestore microsite. DOWNLOAD Visit our Filestore microsite by clicking the button below to get …
Windows Live Meeting MSI Installer Download Read MoreWe know we are a bit late with posting this as the update was released last week and Microsoft have reportedly fixed it now, but thought we would post anyway in case anyone is still having any issues with this update. Microsoft have yet again released another Windows Update which has caused corruption and crashing on Windows computers. So, having …
KB3097877 – Another Faulty Windows Update Released by Microsoft Read MoreWe have posted a number of guides about automatically upgrading your computer up to Windows 10 using Windows Updates, however, if you are still having problems, there is one final way of manually going through the Windows 10 upgrade process. First of all, you need to download the Windows 10 Media Creator file which you can get from our downloads …
Manual Windows 10 Upgrade Guide Read MoreYou may have started to receive an error message when you are opening Office documents from a “network” location like SharePoint, OneDrive or an actual network drive today – this is due to yet another Microsoft update causing problems! The error you will probably be receiving is this one: “Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine” After some quick …
FIX – Incompatible Office products are installed on your machine – KB3085509 Read MoreWe today ran into an issue where our SCCM OSD PXE boot was not working. It was coming up with a very confusing message stating: “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed” This led us to start looking at the hard drive and the drivers, however, the solution was completely different. The problem was that the RamDiskTFTPBlockSize we …
SCCM OSD – “A required device isn’t connected or cannot be accessed” Read MoreWith the recent release of Microsoft Office 2016 and the subsequent release to volume licence users on VLSC, a lot of people will be rushing into upgrading to the latest version. However, be careful with compatibility with your corporate Exchange servers… Outlook 2016 will work with the following Exchange Server versions: Exchange Server 2016 Exchange Server 2013 Exchange Server 2010 …
Office 2016 – Outlook and Exchange Compatibility Read MoreYou may notice that if you are running either Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 that your task manager is showing very high disk usage like the screenshot below: The reason for this is that Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10 automatically manages your machines virtual memory and paging file size by default. This is usually not the best configuration for …
High Disk Usage on Windows 10 & Windows 8.1 Read MoreIf you have got the Windows 10 upgrade tray icon on your Windows 7 or 8 computer and you do not want the upgrade, you may want to remove the annoying icon from your tray. To do this, you need to remove a Windows Update and then hide it so that it does not return. To do this, go into …
Remove Windows 10 Upgrade Tray Icon Read MoreWith the recent release of Microsoft Office 2016 to the public, the VLSC version has now been released to volume licence customers. So you can now download the various versions of Office 2016 by logging into your VLSC and searching for it or browsing for it. We will be testing it over the next few days and will add some …
Microsoft Office 2016 – Released to VLSC Customers Read MoreAre you having problems with slow internet at home? are you on fibre but still only getting a few megabytes download speeds when running a broadband speed test? a lot of people think that this is due to the actual internet connection (and to be fair – in some cases it probably is!), but there is something else that you …
Fix slow internet on wireless connections Read MoreYou may come across a requirement to have the full offline installers for Dot Net 3.5 for Windows 8, 10 or Server 2012. This can be for older applications that require Dot Net 3.5 or 2.0. You may also need offline installers if you have WSUS in your environment and you cannot install the added features using Windows Update. So …
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