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Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 16.0.0.287. As always, you can download the executable file or get the MSI file so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog. The update is also now available to import through System Center…
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 16.0.0.257. As always, you can download the executable file or get the MSI file so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog. The update is also now available to import through System Center…
With older versions of Outlook (up to 2007) a NK2 file was used to store recently used email addresses so that you could then use them when you started to type an email like an auto-suggest system. This was great for users but a nightmare for IT techs as most users assume that these are…
We have recently dealt with a problem that a customer had reported to us about their Excel spreadsheet columns suddenly appearing as numbers instead of the expected letters. We doubted this very much as none of us had heard of it before, but no, there is was, columns as numbers just like this: This was…
We have been refurbishing an old Dell Precision M4300 this week and we have had nothing but problems with one driver missing. We downloaded all the drivers from the Dell support website but still it was showing as an Unknown Device: This had been driving use crazy and even though we had searched for the…
If you want to install VNC silently so that you can distribute it using systems like Configuration Manager then you will need the installation silent command line. To run the silent install you can use the below command line that will install the full VNC package silently and without restarting the end users computer. COMMAND…
Most professional people these days seem to have a LinkedIn account and it is very quickly turning into a marketing persons dream. I get a huge amount of sales and marketing people emailing and phoning me constantly trying to sell me stuff I nor my business want. Whenever I query where they got my details…
Filezilla Client 3.9.0.6 has been released and you can now download the latest version from the download button below. We will soon we created a MSI file for this version but maybe not until the new year due to other commitments over the festive period. DOWNLOAD COMMENTS If you have any questions or comments, please…
Following on from our recent posts about dodgy Microsoft updates, we thought we should post about how to uninstall Windows and Office Updates using WSUS. A lot of the issues people fast with dodgy Microsoft updates are when they are automatically or accidentally released through WSUS to your end users machines meaning that on their…
Adobe have now released an update to their Acrobat Reader software to take it up to version 11.0.10. You can now download the MSI, EXE and MSP files for this release from their FTP site which you can get to using the download button below: Downloads EXE File Download Download EXE Version 11 MSI Download…
Skype version 7.0 has now been released and if you would like to either add this to your Configuration Manager Software Catalog or even have it available through WDS or Group Policy, then you will want to download the MSI file for it. Skype do provide a direct download link for its Skype software and…
Adobe has released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 16.0.0.235. As always, you can download the executable file or get the MSI file so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog. The update is also now available to import through System Center…
After Microsoft released a bunch of updates this week that broke Excel, today we ran into issues with their updates breaking Internet Explorer! After some more updates were released through our WSUS server to client machines, users started to experience Internet Explorer crashes on load up making the browser virtually unusable. So, having to then…
We are a bit late with this one but Teamviewer have released version 10.0.36244 of their excellent remote control and support software. This is free to use software for personal use and is excellent if you want to help out a family member or even just remote control your home PC from somewhere else. You…
There seems to be some confusion lately over how to make our Windows 7 Lock Screen Changer utility work correctly. We have had a few reports of people who are trying to use the program getting the following error message when clicking on the Import button: This is because although you may be logged into…
If you are using shared mailboxes in Outlook, then you may find that when someone is sending an email from this mailbox, the sent email is going into the users own Sent Items folder rather than the Sent Items folder within the shared mailbox itself. This is because there is a delegation registry key that…
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 15.0.0.239. As always, you can download the executable file or get the MSI file so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog. The update is also now available to import through System Center…
If you would like to use your Microsoft Xbox One controller with your PC or laptop, you can do this by simply installing the correct drivers on your computer and using the charging USB cable. So, first of all, you should install the drivers, you can get these from the links below: Windows x64 Drivers…
If you have a requirement to add a secondary domain controller to your existing domain, then the video guide below should show you exactly the steps you need to take to carry this out. COMMENTS If you have any questions about setting up your secondary domain controller, then please feel free to leave a comment…
Mimecast have now released version 5.2.1020.11990 of their Outlook Client. This version of the MSO client now supports the following: Large File Sent Large File Receive Microsoft Outlook 2013 Other Microsoft Office 2013 Products (like Project and Visio 2013 no longer conflict with it) Windows 8.1/8/7 Mimecast Client Exchange Folder Replication There seems to be…
Adobe have released another update to their Adobe Flash Player software, this time taking it up to version 15.0.0.223. As always, you can download the executable file or get the MSI file so that you can load it into your Configuration Manager Software Catalog. The update is also now available to import through System Center…
We recently had a number of issues with getting Football Manager 2015 to run after downloading the game through Steam. Whenever it tried to update just before starting the game, Steam would pop up an error stating Incomplete Installation Error 55. Bit frustrating considering we paid £30 for a game we cannot now play! However,…
If you have managed to remove the recovery partitions from your OEM Windows 8.1 machine and are now in a position where you cannot restore your computer back to factory OEM settings, Microsoft now supply a way of downloading the OEM Windows 8.1 media so that you can reinstall a fully legal OEM version of…
Java have now released update 71 of version 7 of their Java Client software. The update is available as an offline installer and using our guide below, you can extract the MSI from it and use it for deployment by using Windows Updates to update current machines or add to your Configuration Manager Application Catalog…
