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…
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…
We were recently setting up a test lab with an old version of Exchange 2007 to replicate a customers environment and we had created the required 250 users in Active Directory using some scripts but we also had to then create the mailboxes for these accounts. Not wanting to sit there manually creating all these…
As you may have noticed yesterday we have had a number of issues with our hosting company nuking our hosting for seemingly no reason! This took out all our websites for about 7 hours yesterday and in the end we had to fix the problem that they created ourselves. As a result we will be…
We are pleased to announce the release of Ultimate Settings Panel version 5.3. We have now fixed all the reported bugs and amended the logo on the About screen to our new one. We have also added some new buttons to the Options page for our Social Media sites. Note that we have also removed the…
With the new year we are delighted to announce the launch of our new logo… We will be migrating all our sites and social media accounts to this new logo over the coming weeks and will also be updating our freeware where we need to so look out for the new versions coming soon. We…
If you are having problems with updating your Windows 7 machine, then you should download the monthly update rollups now provided by Microsoft. These contain a large amount of updates to a particular date and are released each month. Once you have downloaded the update file and installed it, you should then only have a…
With 2016 coming to an end we now have our annual stats for our website and as usual, we thought we would share these with our visitors. It has been a great year for us this year and our visitor stats have nearly doubled from 2015. We have also in 2016 released the full Pro…
We are running a competition today on our Twitter account to win a copy of Mortal Kombat Komplete Edition on PC. To enter, just follow us on Twitter and retweet this tweet. We will announce the winner on our Twitter account by the end of the week. Good Luck!
Apple are currently testing their iOS version 10.3 ready for a possible release on 10th January. Possible new features include a brand new cinema mode. Rumours include that the new feature should appear on the control centre and its icon is to be in the shape of popcorn. This could be a new way to dim your…
We would like to wish all of our visitors a very Happy New Year. 2016 was a great year for us and we hope that 2017 will be happy and prosperous for you all. Happy New Year!
We were recently talking to a friend about EA Access subscription and he said that it is a nightmare to cancel the subscription once you have activated it. Well we have had a look into it and it seems fairly straight forward to us but thought we would write up a quick post about how…
Sophos has always been an excellent anti-virus package for corporate users but you can now get Sophos for home use completely free of charge. You can create yourself an account with Sophos and then install on up to 10 computers for family and friends and also centrally manage them from a web console. Having been…
To enable an inactive add-in that keeps unloading on restart in Outlook you should follow these steps: First shut down Outlook, then uninstall the software providing the add-in from your machine. Then go into regedit whilst logged in as the affected user and go to the following location: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office15.0\Outlook\Resiliency Delete the REG_BINARY keys found in…
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…
Over the last few days our Ultimate Settings Panel support forums seem to have been attacked by spam bots and screwed them all up! We have been here before with support forums so we are taking the decision to close them and we will now offer support via either a comments page or maybe a…
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…
We would like to wish all our of visitors a very Merry Christmas today and we hope you got everything that you wished for and spent the day with the people you care about the most! Merry Christmas from all at TechyGeeksHome.
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…
So Christmas is almost upon us and I have decided it’s time for a self imposed tech detox for a few weeks and to spend some valuable time with the family. This means that I will not be updating the site very much at all for the next few weeks apart from a few pre-scheduled…
We have teamed up with CDKeys.com to offer our site visitors a great discount on Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Legacy Edition on PC. You can now order a digital download code for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare Digital Legacy Edition for just £27.99 down from £69.99 – all you have to do is click the link…
We have teamed up with CDKeys.com to offer our site visitors a great discount on Assassin’s Creed Unity on the Xbox One console. You can now order a digital download code for Assassin’s Creed Unity for just £1.49 – all you have to do is click the link below and process payment. You will then receive the…
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 24.0.0.186. 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…
Notepad++ has now been upgraded to version 7.2.2. You can download this latest version by clicking the download button below: Download Notepad++ v7.2.2 Notepad++ v7.2.2 bug-fixes: Fix auto-updater setting toggles between startups bug. Fix “Replace All” button shortcut accelerator in Replce dialog not working regression. Fix unusual plugin update prompt after upgrade to 7.2.1 version. We…
For those of you that are into the long running football simulation series Football Manager – we have just come across the game on offer on Amazon for just £18.00! Just click the link below to go to the offer and take advantage whilst you can. Football Manager 2017 Limited Edition – £18.00 Please note…
If you are using Exchange in our organisation and have dynamic distribution groups, you may want to get all the information about the individual users within these distribution groups and also list their email addresses. To do this, open up an Exchange Management Shell console and run the following script: $group = Get-DynamicDistributionGroup –identity “yourDL”…
Since asp.net web development team understands that working with images; you don’t always need web control. There are better options to this and in this post, they will talk about these options. Read this post to know more. Introduction For working with images in Asp.net, it is not always required to make use of web…
WCF WCF stands for Windows Communication Foundation. A communication-oriented set of APIs and a “runtime” inside .NET to make two (or more) systems talk to one another. It basically replaces ASMX (ASP.NET web services), .NET remoting (object remoting) and a few other communication-related API’s and products in the .NET space. It can and should be…
Google have now released a new version of their Chrome browser, version 55.0.2883.75. 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…
We have had a few people ask us how we wrap our code snippets on this site with the yellow background. This is a very simple piece of code using the <pre> function. You can customise it as much as you like with different fonts, sizes, colours and borders but this is our default to…
