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Assassin’s Creed Unity – Free on PC

17th April 201917th April 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

UBISOFT has released Assassin’s Creed Unity for free after the fire that devastated Paris’ Notre Dame cathedral. Assassin’s Creed Unity is set in Paris at the time of the French …

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Enable NTVDM

8th April 201910th March 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We were recently asked to enable NTVDM on a number of Windows devices in our corporate environment for our firmware engineers. Due to the amount of devices that we needed …

Guide / Microsoft / Virtualisation / Windows

Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter

12th November 20185th October 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

I have been using a physical computer for some time to run some automated programs that I use. However, that physical computer is now not in good shape and needs …

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Organization security policies block unauthenticated access

29th October 20183rd November 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Are you trying to access a network share using unauthenticated user credentials? – in simple terms, are you trying to access a network share without using a username and password? …

Group Policy Administrative Templates Catalog

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Group Policy Admin Templates Catalog

15th October 20183rd September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Group Policy is an awesome tool for IT Departments to ensure that their end user computers have the correct enforcement settings on them. It also ensures that company policies are …

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KB4457139 – Windows Server 2008 NIC Issues

2nd October 20182nd October 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

We have over the last week or so had problems with Windows Server 2008 servers where, although they seem to be connecting through the network without any problems, like filestores, …

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Windows Service Stuck in Stopping Mode

24th September 201830th November 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

A simple step by step guide on how to fix a Windows service stuck in stopping mode.

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KB4457144 – Windows 7 Rollup May Cause NIC Issues

11th September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Windows 7 seems to have been suffering a lot recently with Microsoft releasing updates on an almost weekly basis that breaks something within the still popular Operating System. You can …

Group Policy / Guide / Microsoft / MSI / SCCM / USP / Video Guides / Windows

Windows 10 God Mode – Setup and Deploy

6th August 201810th February 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

God Mode for Windows is nothing new but have you got Windows 10 God Mode setup and do you want to deploy to end users? As you may have seen …

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Enable Windows Task Scheduler History

18th July 201819th August 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 2 Comments.

How to enable Windows Task Scheduler History information if it is not showing on your computer or server

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Broken Microsoft Update – KB4338818

13th July 201811th August 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 12 Comments.

You may have installed Microsoft Update KB4338818 during Patch Tuesday and now your Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is broken right? Maybe even some Windows 7 machines? Well guess what? …

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AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard Review

1st July 20181st July 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Hard drives and partitions are not strange things in our life and work. You will meet some problems with partitions or hard disks when you buy a new computer, when …

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KB4284826 & KB4284867 Might Break Windows 7 Machines

18th June 201811th September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

Microsoft are really outdoing themselves at the moment as it seems that they have released another pair of updates for Windows 7 machines that reboots the computer when connecting to …

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Windows Server – Internet Security Blocking Downloads

13th June 201812th June 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

If you are an IT administrator then the chances are that you have come across issues with trying to download files directly from a website to your server. You would …

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CredSSP Error Breaks Remote Desktop Connections

1st June 201830th May 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

You may have come across a problem when trying to connect remotely to a server using remote desktop connection. If you are receiving a CredSSP error like the one below: …

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Microsoft Updates – More Faulty Updates – KB4103712

25th May 201811th September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

After our recent posts about Microsoft releasing faulty updates and breaking user computers, we have now found yet another Microsoft Update which has been causing a problem with machines rebooting …

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New Tuesday New Broken Microsoft Updates – KB4103713 & KB4130978

23rd May 201811th September 2018 - by A.J. Armstrong - 2 Comments.

So it looks like Microsoft have done it yet again! Yes more updates have been causing us problems and we have had to go through a number of user machines …

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Windows Server 2016 – Disable Server Manager on Startup

14th May 201814th March 2019 - by A.J. Armstrong - Leave a Comment

I don’t know about you, but Server Manager loading up every time I login to a Windows Server 2016 machine drives me nuts! This is especially annoying when using my …