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software - os with drivers - microcode - cpu simplified stack

SOLVED: Can Your CPU Run Better Than When It Was New? Introducing Field Updates

In recent years we have seen much talk about so called “field updates” to CPU’s from Intel and AMD. They are called field updates because they are updates made in the field (i.e. after they have shipped from the factory). Put simply a field update is just a “firmware” update Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 5 daysJuly 3, 2025 ago
how windows 11 scales up fonts - scaling evolution

SOLVED: Why Text on a Windows 11 Computers Look Better Than It Did Previously

We have a client looking at replacing all of their 1920×1080 (aka HD) screens with 2560×1440 (aka QHD) screens and they were concerned that staff would see fuzzy text if they scaled the resolution. The idea being that, the extra pixels on the same physical size screen would the text Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 weeksJune 27, 2025 ago
how to enable hardware graphics acceleration in Chrome and Edge Browsers

SOLVED: CPU Fan Turning On When Watching YouTube Videos

A few weeks ago we noticed that our CPU fan was turning on whenever even a single YouTube video was being played and because we have a high end 12th generation Intel Core i7 CPU that just shouldn’t happen. To figure out what was going on, we confirmed the CPU Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 weeksJune 25, 2025 ago
what is qos

SOLVED: What is Quality of Service (QOS) in Simple Terms?

We often have customers who don’t understand what used to be advanced networking techniques, that are now common and necessary. One of these that confuse our clients the most is Quality of Service (aka. QOS), so we wrote this basic primer we thought you might find useful too. 1. Simple Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 3 weeksJune 20, 2025 ago
ipscan

SOLVED: Simple Script To Ping IP Range

We were looking through some old scripts in our library and found the following which you might use to see if a device is actually using the IP’s address you have assigned to them (i.e. exclusions or reservations). Keep in mind that this is a simple ping test and that Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 3 weeks ago
what is Artifical Intelligence (AI) Host for the Microsoft Windows Operating System and Platform X64

SOLVED: What Is ‘Artifical Intelligence (AI) Host for the Microsoft Windows Operating System and Platform X64’

Earlier today one of our techs noticed “Artifical Intelligence (AI) Host for the Microsoft Windows Operating System and Platform X64” program running in the background of a few users. She was even more concerned when she noticed that her own Windows 11 Pro was not running that “Artifical Intelligence (AI) Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 1 monthMay 27, 2025 ago
Windows Phone Link Not Copy Paste Sharing Between PC and Phone

SOLVED: Copy Paste Not Working In Windows Phone Link

Readers of the site we’ll know that we’ve just upgraded all of our staff to Samsung Galaxy S25‘s and then added the new phones to our handy Windows Phone Link (the app that connects cell phones to Windows 11) . However, we found that Windows Phone Link was no longer Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsMay 21, 2025 ago
cant connect because the sign in requirements for your device and the network aren't compatible

SOLVED: WiFi Error – Can’t Connect Because The Sign In Requirements For Your Device and The Network Aren’t Compatible

We recently had a problem in our own corporate office with the following error when trying to connect to WiFi: As you might suspect this was quite unexpected and urgent. We run two different networks from our Cisco Access Points (AP’s) and our testing showed that our public “URTech Guest” Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsMay 20, 2025 ago
what program is locking a file in use

SOLVED: How To Determine What Program is Locking a File In Use

As you can see in the screen shot below after we turned off HIDE HIDDEN SYSTEM FILES, we could see that there was a dumpstack.log.tmp file which is not a good thing: When dumpstack.log.tmp appears there is a serious problem or bug check (commonly known as a Blue Screen of Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 months ago
windows 11 minisetup Something went wrong But you can try again OOBESETTINGSMULTIPAGE

SOLVED: Windows 11 Mini-Setup Error – Something went wrong but you can try again OOBESETTINGSMULTIPAGE

We were deploying some new windows 11 Dell laptops when we ran into this error on several of them when we were trying to sign in with new local accounts: Something went wrong But you can try again OOBESETTINGSMULTIPAGE There are a myriad of possible causes for this error from Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsMay 10, 2025 ago
How To Sysprep Customized Windows 11 With Ease 4

SOLVED: VIDEO: How To SysPrep a Customized Windows 11 Easily

If you’re looking to sysprep a customized Windows 11 setup with ease, this video has everything you need! Whether you’re preparing a system for deployment or troubleshooting common issues, this guide will walk you through the essential steps to ensure a smooth process. HERE ARE THE COMMANDS USED IN THIS Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsMay 9, 2025 ago
sched task to set default printer - actions - powershell

SOLVED: How To Set Default Printer When Logging In To A Specific Computer – OPTION 2

We recently wrote brief script and article explaining how to set a specific default printer using a simple PowerShell script and Logon GPO. However, we found an even easier way to do the same thing using a simple Scheduled Task: PowerShell Script to Set Default Printer Create The Scheduled Task Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsApril 30, 2025 ago
script to set default printer when loging into specific computer

SOLVED: How To Set Default Printer When Logging In To A Specific Computer

We have a client with a new RDS server and they want their all of their staff to have the “CutePDF Writer” as their default printer, but only when on that computer. To that end we wrote this script: NOTE: Change the YOUR COMPUTER NAME HERE to the name of Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsApril 29, 2025 ago
are these user profiles still being used

SOLVED: Which User Profiles Are Still Being Used?

We had a client with over 100 user profile folders in C:\USERS, so they wanted to know which ones are still being used and which ones are not. The first thing we did is to click on the START button and typed Advanced System Settings. Then we clicked the SETTINGS Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 2 monthsApril 25, 2025 ago
powershell export all local admins

SOLVED: Script to Export List of All Local Administrators

We brought on a new client with a lot of servers and as part of our due diligence, we needed to review all of the local administrators on each server. We wanted to make sure the previous MSP’s staff were removed and to provide list of questionable admins to our Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 3 monthsApril 21, 2025 ago
Script To Search For Specific Certificate

SOLVED: Script To Search For Specific Certificate

We had a computer with an expired certificate we could not find, but our monitoring software was alerting on. After some time, we gave up opening each certificate, one by one, to see if the thumbprint matched, and just wrote the script below. It searches through all the certificates on Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 3 monthsApril 8, 2025 ago

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