Windows Essentials 2012 will be reaching its end of life in January 2017. This means that you will no longer be able to download the software from Microsoft. However, we have downloaded the offline full installer for Windows Essentials 2012 and you can download it from us. Just click the button below to download the offline…
Download To download, simply scroll down towards the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as detailed below: Instructions For full instructions on how to use MSI installers to distribute to multiple computers, please see our MSI Installer…
So you have Windows 10 and you want to know what your product key is so that you can keep this as a record. Not everyone will want to do this, but some do so here is a quick and simple way of finding your Windows 10 product key. Right click on the Start Button…
If you are a laptop or Surface user then you might be interested in looking through a report on your battery and you can do this by running a very simple command within Windows. All you need to do is to open a Command Prompt by right clicking on your Windows 10 Start button and…
This post details how to setup Outlook client for use with online mail services. This is just a quick reminder for ourselves and is taken from the Microsoft website but feel free to use this information. Gmail accounts Before you can add a Gmail account to Outlook, you’ll need to Prepare your Gmail account for…
We have had a few requests from visitors to our site asking how they an activate Windows XP. Well, the simple answer is, you can’t and you should upgrade to Windows 10. However, saying you can’t is not quite right… As most of you will already know, Microsoft have ended support for Windows XP some…
If you are using WSUS in your environment and you find that your Windows 10 clients are failing to download or install any Feature Upgrades (to 1607 or any CU updates) then you can give this fix a try. You should first ensure that you have not approved any of these upgrades before installing the…
To inject Windows Updates into custom-built images that you are using in your Configuration Manager OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. If you are happy with the image itself and do not want to make any changes to it, why should you need to rebuild and…
We are pleased to announce the new release of Windows Lock Screen Changer version 1.7. This small standalone utility is designed to change your Windows lock screen easily and quickly to a custom image of your own choosing. With this utility, you can import your own custom JPG image into the tool, preview the image…
You can now download Windows Easy Transfer for Windows 10 for us right here. Microsoft had not included it in Windows 10 for some reason but download this file, extract it and run the MigSetup.exe file to start. Instructions Full guide on how to use Windows Easy Transfer in Windows 10 is available here. Note…
In previous versions of Windows it was always pretty simple to add a program into the start up. You just dragged a shortcut (or the program itself) into the start up folder from the Start button menu and job done. In Windows 10, it is not quite as simple as that. To add an item…
If you are having issues on Windows 10 when opening File Explorer then you may find that when you go into Quick Access that it crashes. This is a problem with the links that are within your Quick Access so you need to clear these and this is how to carry that process out. Open…
If you need to enable your Windows Telnet Client (like for use with our new Ultimate Settings Panel Tricks Panel) then it is a very simple process: For Windows 7: Click Start > Control Panel. Click Programs and Features. Click Turn Windows features on or off. In the Windows Features dialog box, check the Telnet…
Call it evolutionary, revolutionary, contemporary, or just captivating. The world’s dominant OS has been the staple technology running millions of devices owned by individuals and businesses across the world over the last 3 decades. Millennial’s would remember growing up playing Minesweeper as their first PC game and probably cannot imagine a world without Windows. Let’s…
Are you fed up of restarting or shutting down you computer and it then comes up with the dreaded “Configuring Windows Updates – Do Not Power Off Your Computer”? Well, there is a quick fix to get around this and allow your machine to shut down immediately. All you have to do is to open…
If you want to use the Microsoft Updates Catalog, then you may find that you come across an error with the add-on refusing to load like this: So to fix this you sure first of all make sure that you are using Internet Explorer and not Firefox, Chrome or even Edge. Then, if it still…
Are you fed up of having to login to your Windows 10 computer everytime you boot up or restart? Well there is a simple way of turning this feature off allowing your machine to boot straight into Windows. All you have to do is follow the simple steps as per below and your machine should…
If you are using Windows and you are receiving this error message: a required privilege is not held by client Then you can follow the guide below to fix this problem. Instructions This guide assumes that you are using Windows 10 although the process should be very similar if you are using Windows 8.1 or…
Although the public cut off for getting your free Windows 10 upgrade was 29th July 2016, there is still a way you can get this free upgrade. Microsoft will still allow the free upgrade to happen for Windows 10 customers who use assistive technologies. The official line from Microsoft is: “We are not restricting the free upgrade…
If you are trying to run Windows Updates on your Windows 7 machine but it is seemingly stuck on “Checking for Updates” for hours, then there is a fix for it. You should download the Microsoft fix using the download button below and install this before trying to run the updates again. Download KB3135445 If…
If you are looking at upgrading your user machines up to Windows 10 1607 then you can do this quickly and easily using an inplace task sequence with Configuration Manager. All you need to do is create an operating system upgrade source for Windows 10 1607 and then create the upgrade task sequence and deploy…
We have had a few people asking us where the Windows 10 Anniversary Update in WSUS as they cannot find it. This is because it is not released through WSUS until August 16th so synchronise your WSUS in just over a weeks time and you should then see if appear in your list of WSUS…
With the release of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, we have had a few people telling us that they do not seem to be getting the update available in the Windows Update. So, to speed things up a bit, you can download the required file to manually start the upgrade process. All you need to…
You may have noticed this annoying message keep appearing in your Windows 10 notification area: If you are fed up of this, you should take a look at this excellent guide on how to disable it when using SCCM OSD: Disable apps to help improve performance
If you are using Windows 10 in your corporate environment then you may want to have the available language packs to either install manually or through deployment systems like SCCM, Group Policy or WSUS. When we were looking for the language pack files, we found it very difficult to find them on the internet so…
This Windows 10 language pack includes languages for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. How to Download To download, simply scroll down toward the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as demonstrated below: How to Install…
This Windows 10 language pack includes languages for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. How to Download To download, simply scroll down toward the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as demonstrated below: How to Install…
Download To download, simply scroll down towards the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as detailed below: Prerequisites This language pack is for Windows 10 only. Instructions Full instructions on how to install language packs are…
This Windows 10 language pack includes languages for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. How to Download To download, simply scroll down toward the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as demonstrated below: How to Install…
This Windows 10 language pack includes languages for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. How to Download To download, simply scroll down toward the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as demonstrated below: How to Install…
This Windows 10 language pack includes languages for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. How to Download To download, simply scroll down toward the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as demonstrated below: How to Install…
This Windows 10 language pack includes languages for Windows 32-bit and 64-bit operating systems. How to Download To download, simply scroll down toward the bottom of this page and you will see the options for this download. Ensure you select the correct one and click the blue Download button as demonstrated below: How to Install…
