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.
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
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
If you would like to run your own troubleshooting on Windows 10, then you can do this by going through the Control Panel and selecting the Troubleshooting option. To get into the Control Panel, simply right click on the Start Menu button at the bottom left and select Control Panel. When you open the Control Panel, … Read more
If you want to go back to the past (and some people do!) and you want Windows Photo Viewer back in Windows 10, then there is a little tweak you can do to make it work. There is a simple registry edit that you need to make and that will make your images open in … Read more
We recently came across an issue where when trying to connect a bluetooth mouse, it kept coming up asking to enter a passkey. Well, with it being a mouse you cannot enter a code so how do you fix it? You need to look in the registry and remove the address for it. Identifying the … Read more
If you are looking for the restore media for your Windows machine, then you can download the official media (if you have a licence of course!) from the official Microsoft website. All you have to do is click the link below: Microsoft Windows Download Page Then fill out your details with your licence key information … Read more
Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 includes Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, Windows PowerShell cmdlets and providers, and command-line tools for managing roles and features that run on Windows Server Technical Preview.
We recently came across an issue where our Configuration Manager Operating System Deployments (OSD) were failing at the activating Windows step. Having spent far too much time looking into why it was doing this, we eventually found out that it was our proxy servers that were blocking access it the Microsoft activation servers.
We 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 … Read more