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 Read more
If you are like me, your 125MB Windows Server 2008 R2 logs are jammed with “Event 5156: Windows Filtering Platform has permitted a connection”: I could not figure out how to disable this because in LOCAL SECURITY POLICY it was greyed out, which I know means it is controlled by Read more
This was a frustrating error that, if I had slowed down for 2 minutes, would have been easy for me to figure out what was wrong. The issue was that the Exchange Power Shell – Management Shell cmdlets was not in the location Exchange expected sooooo, I had to run the Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 + Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
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 Read more
The code is the same for both MASTER RESET and MASTER CLEAR and it is: 183729
Count the blue shirts in this photo, then count the number of customers and you can see why layoffs are in order: …Rumored layoffs, hours cutbacks and hiring freezes led to an immediate response from Apple, that seemingly puts new retail chief John Browett in a tight spot… Read more
There are at least two different english manuals for the Samsung Galaxy S3 World Model with 4 CPU Cores: http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/model/GT-I9300MBAVOD-downloads?isManualDownload=true North American (Canada & US) Model with 2 CPU Cores http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/model/SGH-I727DARRWC-downloads?isManualDownload=true
Below are three brief videos I recorded explaining how to use the your S3: UPDATE: DEC 5, 2012 – Under Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, DRIVING MODE has been relegated to SETTINGS > LANGUAGE AND INPUT > TEXT TO SPEECH OUTPUT > DRIVING MODE . The button on the notification screen Read more
I have been looking at this “N” (see right) for weeks and have not figured out what it is doing. I have turned off WiFi so it should not find an 802.11 N networks. This was making me nuts. It turns out that “N” relates to NEAR FEILD COMMUNICATION. If Read more