Browse practical Windows guides, tutorials, and troubleshooting tips covering Windows 10 and Windows 11. This category includes step-by-step fixes, optimisation techniques, and how-to content for everyday users, IT professionals, and home lab enthusiasts.
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 creating an image for Enterprise deployment then you may not want all the junk apps that come built into Windows 10. We are talking about Candy Crush and Metro etc… So, how do you get rid of them from the WIM file that you have created for your image? Luckily there has … 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
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