Windows Client: Win 7 & 8… // Windows 2000, XP, Vista, 7, Windows 8 and more How Tos
SOLVED: Active Directory Account Keeps Locking
If your AD account becomes locked over and over again (especially after a recent password change), it is likely something on your PC/Server has cached the old password and is causing the account to lock. There are several ready places to look for this… and I will get to those in a moment, but in ...
SOLVED: Google Earth Stuck on Initializing Screen
After playing with this bizarre Google Earth (GE) problem for some time and reading dozens of very frustrated blogers end their threads with “… and the only way I could get it to work was to wipe my PC and perform a fresh Windows install”, I got creative. Being unable to launch Google Earth past ...
SOLVED: Can Media Center be added to Windows 8 Enterprise?
No… how is that for direct! I have confirmed with Microsoft Partner Support that Media Center will ONLY be available for Windows 8 Professional via the MEDIA CENTER ADD ON PACK to be released in October 2012. I have joined the many and asked Microsoft to change this as there are several very good uses for ...
SOLVED: Windows 8 Keyboard Shortcut Keys
Personally, the only one I find interesting is WIN+X which brings up EVENT VIEWER, POWER OPTIONS, DEVICE MANAGER, TASK MANAGER, RUN (very useful) and others. Keyboard Shortcut Details Windows + I Window Restart, Shutdown, Sleep, Taskbar Notification Icons like Network, Sound Control, Brightness, Notifications, Keyboard. Windows + X Menu for frequent Administrator Tasks Windows + 0 Opens 10th application on ...
SOLVED: How to Shut Down or Restart Windows From a Shortcut and What is Hybrid Shutdown in Windows 8
UPDATE: Oct 20, 2012: Turn the Windows 8 Start Button back on which includes the power options: urtech.ca/2012/10/solved-solved-solved-oh-joy-solved-how-to-add-the-start-button-into-windows-8 ORIGINAL POST BELOW: _________________ Like older versions of Windows, Windows 8 has a built in SHUTDOWN executable, which means you can easily create your own icons and add them to your Quick Launch bar or the pin them ...
SOLVED: XBOX 360 Can’t Connect To Windows 8
Well this was a tricky one. I installed Windows 8 Enterprise and found that my Xbox 360 VIDEO APP would not connect to my Win8 PC… or should I say any of my Win8 PC’s. Very frustrating considering they are all tied together by a Home Group and the Xbox was activated as an Extender ...
SOLVED: How to use Aero Peek and Aero Flip 3D in Windows 8
You can’t! Most Aero features have been removed from Windows 8 and that (sadly) includes Flip 3D. There was talk of this feature being tied to the Windows theme you were using, but I have tried several that used to include Aero Glass frames and none work (even though it did work on the beta’s). Note that ...
SOLVED: Windows Can’t Be Activated Right Now 0x8007232b – Windows 8
The solution is to: click START (gets you to the tiles) type RUN type slui 3 and press ENTER yes, SLUI: which stands for SOFTWARE LICENSING USER INTERFACE SLUI 1 brings up the activation status window SLUI 2 brings up the activation window SLUI 3 brings up the CHANGE PRODUCT KEY window SLUI 4 brings up the CALL ...
SOLVED: How to Shutdown or Restart a Windows 8 PC from a Remote Desktop (RDP) Session
In Windows 7 and Vista you could do this by clicking START, WINDOWS SECURITY and then RESTART. Apparently WINDOWS SECURITY link has been removed from Win8 sooo I can think of just two ways to easily reboot a Win8 machine from an RDP session: on the tile page type RUN (select APPS on the top right) ...
SOLVED: Windows Performance Tweaking Myths, AND How To Actually Make Your Windows PC Run Faster
I was going to write an article on all the crazy Windows performance improvement myths and then I found a great article which I have taken snippets from below (and provide a link to the full article below). The bottom line is this, Microsoft has a lot of massively intelligent people working in the Windows ...
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