You can use Problem Steps Recorder to automatically capture the steps you take on a computer, including a text description of where you clicked and a picture of the screen during each click. Once you capture these steps, you can save them to a file that can be used by a support professional or someone…
We have had reports of people purchasing Need for Speed: Rivals for their Xbox One and installing the game, starting the tutorial at the beginning and then finding that the car does not move!! A quick fix for this is to completely power off your Xbox One console and start up the game again –…
If you are a regular visitor to our site, you may have noticed that over the last few days that we have been trialling a system called “Paywithatweet”. This is where people have to post a tweet or Facebook message to enable them to download any programs from our website. Well, after getting a lot…
We are pleased to announce the release of our Icon Converter software in a MSI format. This will allow you to distribute the application to a large amount of computers using tools such as Group Policy or SCCM. The MSI program is a purchasable item and will cost you £19.99 is now FREE for all!…
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We at TechyGeeksHome would like to wish all our visitors a very Merry Christmas. We would also like to thank you all for visiting our site and hope that in a small way that we have helped you in your IT moment of need! As always, if you have anything you would like us to…
I know this is a bit late but Microsoft have released a hot fix for Endpoint Protection clients. The knowledge base article is KB2907566 and can be found from the link below. Knowledge Base Article 2907566 Affected Products Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Endpoint Protection clients Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Endpoint…
We recently had a problem involving Java 7 update 55 where when added to the software catalog, users were getting the error messages as below upon installation: “Neither command line parameter specified is an existing directory.” We did some research and found out that the installer that we were using was not correct for standalone…
Sorry but we have been forced to remove this page as NitroPDF believe that we are giving out serial numbers illegally. Although this is just a tutorial for how to gather your OWN PAID FOR serial numbers using SCCM, it seems this is not good enough for NitroPDF or Google. So, we have had to…
UPDATE: Misty Iconverter v1.8 is now available – click the Downloads button to obtain We are pleased to announce the updated release of our popular icon conversation software, TGH Icon Converter. This is only a minor update with the following items having been amended: Site logo added to the program Code bug fixes 64-bit compatibility added Larger…
As a follow on to our previous post about using SCCM to collection Autodesk serial number information, we mentioned that we also had the ability to use this same function to collect serial number information for PDF-X Change. If you use exactly the same process as in the Autodesk guide, but using the below text…
In the past we have released SCCM Configuration Item VBScripts to collect Autodesk serial numbers and then inject this information in to the WMI to be collected by the next hardware inventory. After much researching and testing, we have now made a decision that this is not the best way to collect this source of…
We are pleased to announce the release of our updated utility – RemoveIE v3.4 This utility follows on the success of our previous release – RemoveIE10 v2.1 which can still be downloaded from our site. In this release, we have added the option to remove Internet Explorer 11 from your Windows 7 machines. This is…
If you have custom build images that you are using in your SCCM OSD environment, you may find that keeping them up to date is a real problem. However, there is a way of running Windows Updates against your custom WIM files offline and then simply redistributing your WIM file. Below is a guide on how to carry this…
If you are trying to run Windows Update on a Windows XP machine, you may find that you are getting errors or that it gets stuck in a “Searching for updates” process. This may be that your Windows XP machine has not fully updated its own Windows Update Agent. To fix this, you should first…
I have been asked to provide a solution to a situation where during SCCM OSD, they want to run Windows Updates across multiple sites worldwide using the local WSUS replica servers. So as an example, the main Headquarters office is in New York with the main WSUS server and then in Rome there is another…
You may sometimes come across Configuration Manager clients that are not working correctly. The tell-tale signs for this on a client machine are missing tabs, missing selections under the Actions tab and incorrect or missing information on the General tab. In short, your Configuration Manager Control Panel applet may look like below: I have had…
Skype have now released version 6.10 and have also made public a download location for the MSI. This is excellent news for those that wish to deploy Skype through Group Policy, SCCM or WDS so if you have been waiting for this, the link is below: Skype Latest Version MSI Download Link Free Subscription If…
