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If you are a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 user then you may have noticed recently that after a batch of Windows Updates, you now have a Windows 10 icon in your system tray (bottom right). Clicking this icon brings up a small utility that enables you to be able to reserve your free copy of Windows 10 upon its …
How to reserve your copy of Windows 10 for FREE! Read MoreIf you have a requirement to have Silverlight installed as a silent install, like for deployment through System Center Configuration Manager, then you can use the following guide to allow you to do this. First of all, you will need to download the full installer which you can get from the download link below: Download Silent Installation To then install …
Silverlight Silent Installation and Uninstall Read MoreIf 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 …
DOSBox – 16-Bit Application Emulator Read MoreIf 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 …
Create installation media for Windows 8.1 Read MoreWe 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 …
The user profile service failed the logon error fix Read MoreIf 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 …
Create Installation Media for Windows 7 Read MoreIf 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 …
Dell Drivers FTP Site Read MoreYou 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 …
Re-enable NPAPI in Google Chrome Read MoreFollowing 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 …
Windows Updates Stuck on Shut Down or Reboot Video Demo Read MoreYou can now download the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for both Windows 10 and Windows 8.1. This allows you to manage your servers for options like DHCP, Active Directory and DNS amongst many others. To download the RSAT installation files, simply click the version you require below: DOWNLOAD RSAT for Windows 8.1 RSAT for Windows 10 COMMENTS If you …
Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows 10 & Windows 8.1 Read MoreFollowing on from our previous post about Windows Server 2008 R2 evaluation keys, we thought we should bring things up to date with Windows Server 2012 R2. If you are trying to evaluate Windows Server 2012 R2 then you will need to activate the software once you have completed the installation. We have seen a number of people struggling with …
Windows Server 2012 R2 Evaluation Product Keys Read MoreWe 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 ways there are of rebooting …
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