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Noosphere Ventures and FAI (World Air Sports Federation) formed a strategic collaboration on February 2nd 2017. This collaboration formed Global Technical Partnership of Noosphere Ventures and FAI. Max Polyakov, Noosphere Ventures’ Managing Partner signed the Technical collaboration agreement. The other people who signed that agreement are the World Air Sports Federation president (Frits Brink) and the […]
Have you recently upgraded your machine to Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition (1709) and can now no longer access your network drives or home NAS drives? Well, we have just run into this issue where after installing the 1709 update, we could not access our (slightly old) WD MyBook Live network attached storage device. When […]
With Microsoft‘s release of the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (1709), you may want to have the ability to choose when to update your personal or corporate machines and maybe without access to the internet. So how can you do that? Microsoft seem these days to want to update all our machines using Windows Update. […]
Well it looks like Adobe might have made a bit of a mess of the previous update as there are a few reports of flash based programs crashing after the version 27.0.0.159 release. Adobe have very quickly released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 27.0.0.170. As […]
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 62.0.3202.62. If you are looking at deploying Google Chrome using systems like Configuration Manager, WDS, SCUP or Group Policy, you will want to use their MSI installer to make it much easier. You can now download the Google Chrome MSI installer direct from […]
Microsoft have now brought back the OneDrive Files on Demand feature with the latest release and here is how you get it. First of all, you need to make sure you have the latest version of OneDrive, you can upgrade to Windows 1709 or you can download the installer by clicking the link below: OneDrive […]
With the release of the Windows 1709 (Fall Creators Update), Microsoft have today also released an updated version of the Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10. You can download the installer from Microsoft by clicking the button below: Download RSAT 1709 Free Subscription If you want to be notified when we post more quality guides […]
We have now uploaded to our Java micro site, the MSI installers and Offline Installers for the latest Java version release. The versions that have been added are: Java 8 Update 151 x86 MSI Installer Java 8 Update 151 x64 MSI Installer Java 8 Update 151 x86 Offline Installer Java 8 Update 151 x64 Offline […]
Microsoft release the next version of Windows 10 today called the Fall Creators Update. This update will become available to the general public as it is rolled out over the next few days and weeks. This means that just running your normal Microsoft Updates will be enough for it to upgrade and load onto your […]
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 27.0.0.159. As always, you can download the executable file but if you want the MSI files so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog, you can get that here. The update is also […]
If you are using Jetpack on your WordPress site then you may have noticed that the options to activate and deactivate modules within Jetpack are no longer easily accessible. This can be annoying if you are looking for some extra features from Jetpack for your website, but there is an easy way to get these […]
So Microsoft have done it again, released a batch of updates and our machines start to blue screen! Problem Updates From what we have experienced so far are that the following updates are the culprits and should be uninstalled where possible: KB4015217 KB4041676 KB4041691 Removing the Updates If you still have access to Windows, open […]
As many WordPress administrators will know, spam users signing up to your blogs is a real pain and hard to administer. We had over 70,000 junk spam user accounts on our site and we decided it was time to have a clear out. But where to start? We started by going into the Users section […]
If you are using Windows Server 2012 or 2016 then you may want to change your server from GUI to Core for security purposes. To do this, open up an elevated Powershell command box and run the following command: Uninstall-WindowsFeature User-Interfaces-Infra This will run through the uninstall of the GUI process and once complete, you […]
The retail marketing in the present times is more competitive than ever. The increase in competition is not just because of the growth of retail stores in sight but also a majority of online stores that are pertaining the customer’s interests. Although online shopping is convenient and cheaper for a few customers, most people still […]
If you are looking to gather information about long file names that are over 255 characters on your filestores, then there is a very simple utility you can use which will export this information to a text file. The utility is called simply TLPD and is available as a free download from Sourceforge. Once you have […]
We have recently been provided with some free software to give away to our visitors from PCWinSoft. So you can now get the following software completely free: SuperLauncher ScreenBackTracker 1AV SWF Video Converter The full details on these giveaways can be seen below: Product: SuperLauncher Installer: https://www.pcwinsoft.com/download/SPLaunchInstAG.exe Version: 1.9.4.80 Landing page to get the licence […]
With the recent issues with ransomware and the Wannacry attack, you really should now have SMBv1 disabled on your machines. If you are still working on this or maybe not even started yet, then here we will show you a few examples of what to do to protect yourselves from future SMBv1 vulnerability and ransomware […]
Everyone is now aware of Microsoft‘s talking assistant, Cortana. However, what if you hate Cortana and you want her removed from your computer? Well, there is an excellent guide on how to do this over at howtogeek.com: How to Disable Cortana Just follow their simple guide, reboot your computer and Cortana will be no more! […]
If you are trying to format a second disk on your computer (or server) and you are getting this error: “The disk is write-protected. Remove the write-protection or use another disk.” Then this could be because the disk is write-protected. To get around this, you can use the diskpart utility built into Windows. Open up […]
