If you are an administrator, you will have seen an application that has locked up a computer. These ‘run away’ programs sometimes cause users to give up in frustration and just power down their PC’s which may result in them loosing unsaved work. The question is how to END TASK […]
UPDATED: March 7 2024 If you are using Backup Exec you are aware that there is a trust relationship that is required between the backup exec and any clients computers that it is backing up. That trust is established through certificates which are NOT managed by Windows Certificate Manager (certlm.mmc). […]
As shown in the screenshot below you may have seen: What is Microsoft Edge WebView2? Put simply Microsoft EdgeWebView2 is a stripped down version of the Microsoft Edge browser- based on Google Chrome that developers can use to run web code inside of applications you are using. Specifically, WebView2 can […]
UPDATED: Aug 17 2023 We had a client with a server that did not have updated information in Azure Sentinel side, but passed all of the validation and communication tests on the Azure Arc client side (i.e. on the clients file server). NOTE: If you want to know how to […]
What is Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry? Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry is a program built into Windows to collect statistics on how a your computer and its program are operating. It reports the to Microsoft who can then try to tweak their software (usually the operating system, like Windows 10 or 11) in […]
Camtasia is a wonderful screen capture and video editing tool but it has always had one big recurring problem, it crashes… a lot. We have used Camtasia for more than a decade, starting with Camtasia version 6. It is often said that wise consumers avoid all first versions of software […]
If you are a Windows IT Administrator there will come a day when you find a computer is locked up in some way and you need to at least try and fix it, before you give up and power cycle it. Fortunately there are few easy commands and methods to […]
If you are a system administrator or even a desktop support person, finding out information on a remote users computer is something you need to know how to do. Fortunately, Microsoft has made quite a number of commands easy to use. Here are some of the remote commands we use […]
If you are installing (or configuring) software on your Window 7, 8 or 10 PC, you may see ERROR 2503 followed by ERROR 2502: Fortunately there is both a fix and workaround for this problem: HOW TO FIX ERROR 2503 2502: Set the permissions on C:\WINDOWS\TEMP to AUTHENTICATED USERS = FULL CONTROL […]
I accidentally surfed to purolotor.com rather than Purolator.com and was taken to wndow-security.com which redirected to wndow-security.com/win/massage887sx.html which showed a fake (but very real looking Norton alert like the one to the right. The only way for me to keep the popup window from re-opening was to quickly END TASK […]
UPDATE: March 2017: If the easy command line path solution does not solve your issue, check out http://www.urtech.ca/2016/02/solved-how-to-fix-error-2503-2502-on-windows-10-when-installing-software/ I was recently working on a Sophos encryption install on a Surface Pro 3 but was presented with “Error code 2502” followed by “Error code 2503” . Sophos was not helpful with this […]
If in both normal boot and Safe Mode you see just a black screen with mouse pointer you can try several things to resolve the issue. For me all was well until I ran through a series of reboots for Windows Updates and my Windows 7 64 bit Professional PC […]
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 […]
If you can’t get your Symantec Backup Exec Server Services to start and you see errors like: The Backup Exec Server service on Local Computer started and then stopped. Some services stop automatically if they are not in use by other services or programs. and in the Windows Event Log […]