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How To Use Clipchamp! Dive into Microsoft’s free video editing tool, perfect for beginners and experts alike. Explore free vs premium features, AI tools, background removal, captions, screen recording, vertical video creation, free photos and overlays, exporting MP4s, advanced timelines, audio separation, and more. Best Free video editing software. 0:00 Read more…
There are several causes of having WiFi turn off, or not being able to start WiFi on Windows 11. In our case, we were working on a Dell Latitude E6430 running Windows 11 24H2 and it was making us crazy. 1 – WiFi Off – Physical Switch Fix Some laptops, Read more…
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…
Because of the Browser Wars of the 2000’s, internet browsers have become a “personal statement” but in real life, all of the current browsers perform very well in most applications. Here are some recent benchmarks (higher number is better) you might find useful. Note they are all quite close, but Read more…
Last week we had a client with the Domain Controller that was off by more than three and a half minutes from the PDC. In case you’re not sure yes that is bad. If it gets to five minutes it can be catastrophically bad. What Happens When DC’s Have Different Read more…
The brown box icon on some of your icons relate to OneDrive and what is now called “FILES ON DEMAND”. OneDrive’s Files On-Demand feature allows you to access all your files in OneDrive without having to download them and use storage space on your device. That icon came with a Read more…
We have one of our very long standing clients wanting to know why some things are being done on a particular server at about 5:30 AM most mornings. We looked through backup schedules, scheduled tasks, and SQL maintenance plans and other things and couldn’t find anything particularly useful. We also Read more…
If you work with most companies there will come a time when you will need to clean out user profiles that have just too much temporary file junk in them. Earlier this month we spent a few hours developing the script below that deletes: Just run this script in an Read more…
If you are trying to change settings on a printer and you see this error: Printer Settings Could Not Be Saved. This Operation Is Not Supported The solution is likely to disable SHARING.
If you work on Azure Virtual Machines, there will come a time when you need to add CPU or memory. Does A VM Need To Be Off To Resize It? While you do not need to have a VM powered down or de-allocated to make the “size” change, it will Read more…
If you have downloaded Microsoft Edge before you will see this screen: So you have a choice between downloading Microsoft Edge For: You have likely wondered what the difference is. Put simply, the browser core is the same, but the different versions update on different schedules and use slightly different Read more…
If you are trying to expand a disk volume, you may find that the Recovery Partition is blocking the expansion. A few months ago we wrote a short article explaining that it is safe to delete the recovery partition and you can take a snapshot in VMware prior to removal, Read more…
There have been changes in the way Azure is processing some of our old scripts, so we spent some time re-writing them. As such this article is intended to replace a July 2024 article with the same title. This script will create and delete snapshots for all Azure subscriptions and Read more…
In this short video we provide a full explanation of how to use a new free PC optimizing tool from Microsoft called PC Manager which you can download directly from Microsoft HERE.: 0:00 Introduction0:54 Download PC Manager1:24 Install Microsoft PC Manager1:47 What Does Boost Do in PC Manager3:00 Health Check3:31 Read more…
If you work in the IT field and have anything to do with hardware or security, you need to have an awareness of CPU microcode. What is CPU Microcode? You can think of microcode as firmware for your CPU, and like other firmware it is updatable which means it is Read more…
One of our smaller customers had sent us this alert from their LogicMonitor system: LMD436411 warn – BLACK-HV-HOST2 HyperV Virtual Machines – BLACK-TOR-SQL03 operationalStatusThe Hyper-V host BLACK-HV-HOST2 is reporting that VM BLACK-TOR-SQL03 is in an operational state of 3.0, which puts this device in a state of warn. What’s The Read more…