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If you have seen the That Suite Money commercials, it seems too good to be true. Just sign up and get $250. Here are the two videos we produced based on this article: The style of the commercial reminds us of the old Canadian House Hippo campaign which tells Canadians that just because something looks real, doesn’t mean that it is. And it also brings to mind what everyone’s mom said, “if its too good…
Microsoft has been working hard to bring Windows features to cell phones and cell phone features to Windows. One of those cool improvements is the Windows emoji keyboard. This little known function in Windows 10 allows you to just click to add your favorite icons to ANY text window. The Emoji keyboard works everywhere from Word and Excel to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers. So, how do you see and use the emoji keyboard? …
If you have security software that you can not uninstall using the normal methods like ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS there are several ways to succeed. 1 – Uninstall AV Using Command Line Script: Most software companies, especially those with enterprise / corporate products, have an easy way to uninstall their products using a command line instruction. You will need to Google your product to find the correct string. As an example, we Googled mcafee command line uninstall…
In this video we explore the 10 features in the Microsoft Edge Chrome based browser that you should be using but probably aren’t. We cover: Immersive Mode with Read Outloud PDF Markup Reopen Closed Tabs Home Page Daily News 9 Dot App Selector for Office365 Apps Coupons & Competitor Pricing Changing your search engine to Google or something else Cross platform experience on Mac, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux improves consistency Defender Smart Screen, even…
Unless you are very new to using Windows, you will know that Microsoft has made enormous strides in driver management over the decades. The Driver Roll Back feature has saved our butts a few times. However, there is still one area that is seriously lacking and that is the removal of old or unused drivers. Fortunately someone with the affable moniker LostInTheDark wrote a dandy freeware utility to manage the Windows driver store and posted…
If you are having problems with your printers or queues, there are several steps to take to clear the system and we will go through them in order of easiest to most difficult: 1 – Easy Print Resets Click START and type PRINTERS Click on the printer you want to remove and select REMOVE DEVICE button 2 – Intermediate Print System Resets Remove Windows printing Features: Click START and type FEATURES, then click on…
We wrote our own bookkeeping software in Visual FoxPro many years ago and several weeks ago we found that when we print we receive OLE ERROR CODE 0X8004006a: Invalid Clipboard Format and the system outputs a blank page. The problem occurs with soft printers like the MICROSOFT PRINT TO PDF and to hard printers like our Samsung C460FW, but only from this one app. The printers all seem to function without error on other apps…
It seems that every few years we have to create a new cookbook of how to stop Skype from starting up automatically at login. This is definitely a frustrating situation as Microsoft knows better than most they should not force software on users. Today the problem is that there are several different versions of Skype; the full desktop client, the Universal Windows App and the web client. The web app is easy enough to avoid;…
What is BIOS? BIOS is the acronym for Basic Input Output System. A BIOS is the firmware (meaning that it is changable code stored in a physical chip) that tells the operating system SOFTware what the physical HARDware is capable of. Without a UEFI / BIOS, Windows, Linux, Android, MacOS, iOS… would not know if the system needs a keyboard, has a touch screen, has unused memory slots, requires the hard drive to be decrypted…
Netbooks! Remember them? Well Intel does and they have stripped out the screen, keyboard and miniaturized the balance of parts into a USB sized stick that plugs directly into an HDMI port. They preloaded Windows 10 onto very slow SSD with a small amount of RAM and are charging between $120 to $300 depending on specs. Here is a 1 minute video from Intel explaining the first generation sticks: Compute Sticks are not new. They…
If you need a small PC to handle small tasks, like digital signage or extreme portability the Intel Compute Stick is something to consider. This tiny USB dongle sized all in one computer has 4GB of RAM, a real 4 Core Intel Atom CPU, 64GB SSD, WiFi, Bluetooth, 2 USB ports and more, but its real surprise is the price. It is just CDN$150 including a fully licensed Windows 10 Pro. Click to Expand The…
Put simply, a Permanent Denial of Service (aka PDoS) attack is a hack that intentionally causes physical damage to a device. WHY WOULD SOMEONE PDoS? DoS stands for “Denial of Service” and usually that means an attacker wants to temporarily block access to your system so they can extract money from you. PDoS attacks are by definition permanent so why would someone do that do you? 1 – Governments & Corporate Competitors Governments and…
Put in its simplest terms, a Progressive Web App (PWA) is just a web site that can function offline. The idea is that modern web browsers like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome now have built in enough functionality that “real” apps you would previously have downloaded and installed from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store are no longer necessary for many tasks. A simple example of this might be an airplane flight arrival…
Since the last Windows 10 upgrade one of our staff noticed that Windows File Explorer did not show their profile path (We are always on beta’s which change every few weeks to there is little point to explaining the build details). Specifically, the missing user is “Calgary” and so the profile is stored in C:\USERS\CALGA but as you can see in the screen shot below, that user name does not appear. If I manually enter…
We recently tried to connect to the administrative shares (i.e. C$, E$, admin$, …) on a PC that was not part of a Domain using a Microsoft Account that was setup on that remote PC. We were frustrated to find it errored out with “You might not have permission to use this network resource” After a few hours of poking around we found the root cause was in User Access Control (UAC). What is User…