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In today’s high tech world we are all inundated with acronyms but in the new world of cloud technologies so many of the acronyms sound the same. We have covered PaaS, IaaS, SaaS in several other articles in the past but this one is designed for non-techs. This is part Read more…
In this article we explain what defrag is and why it is generally a bad idea to run it on an SSD. But that is a very simple answer to a much more nuanced truth that most websites and forums have wrong. Keep skimming through this article if you want Read more…
Most companies are worried about data exfiltration which is a fancy CTO / CISO way of saying data leaving your company. It used to be that most security and IT staff spent their days focusing nearly exclusively on hacks coming from outside the company, but today we see more and Read more…
If you use Trend Micro’s Worry Free Business Security (WFBS) antivirus and you added exceptions to a policy, you may want to verify those updates have been received and applied on destination machines. Initially I looked for registry entries and ini config files before I looked at the desktop client. Read more…
If you are new to licensing Microsoft products you are no doubt overwhelmed by the similarity of names Microsoft uses for its cloud products. In someway all of these relate to what the industry calls VDI or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and we have creates a free 30 minute “Zero to Read more…
If you want to understand Virtual Desktop Environments or VDI, then you are best to start playing with them. Microsoft has a good VDI solution named Azure Virtual Desktops and Amazon does too. In this video we explain everything you need to know to get started with Amazon Workspaces. We assume Read more…
We explain and demonstrate how Folder Redirection from Windows 10 / 11 to Windows Server 2022 works and doesn’t work! We assume you are a newbie and know very little about Windows Server or even Windows 10. We take you through the process step by step. To make this Windows Read more…
If you are looking for Snip & Sketch app in Windows 11, you will have difficulties locating it because Microsoft merged the old Snipping Tool and Snip & Sketch into one tool which they called the Snipping Tool. The confusion is caused by Snip & Sketch name still being applied Read more…
In this video we: unbox the HP Elitebook 840 G8 take the back off, explain the internal parts and how to disassemble them how to change the battery upgrade the RAM upgrade the storage M.2 SSD power the unit up and explain what is missing and what is great At Read more…
In this video we demonstrate how to easily install Windows 11 on a mid-2012 Intel based MacBook Pro. There are two things you will need to make this happen: Windows 11 Installation wrapper – This comes from AveYo’s GitHub site and you can download it from him HERE or you Read more…
Unless you have been living in a box, you know that Windows 11 is now generally available as a free upgrade to all those with Windows 10, but that does not mean that Microsoft has stopped development of Windows 10. Many Windows 10 PC’s cannot run Windows 11 without a Read more…
If you are trying to tighten up your security by adding Virtualization-Based Security (aka VBS) to your Windows 11 you might find this error: Core Isolation Memory Integrity Incompatible Drivers WDCSAM64_PREWIN8.SYS Driver date: 11/29/2017 Driver version: 1.2.0.0 Published name: oem26.inf This is an old driver that ships with both Windows 10 Read more…
We have previously explained that Windows 11 is little more than a skin on Windows 10. However that does not mean that there are not some big changes which actually make Windows 11 better than Windows 10. What it means is that there was and is no reason these changes Read more…
You don’t have to be Bill Gates or Chuck Peddle (the inventor of the personal computer) to understand that a safe word, like Secure, Trusted and Measured, before the word Boot, likely means this will improve the security of your computers startup process. However, even experienced IT professionals find this Read more…
If you have an M.2 SSD you might want to know how to figure out if it is healthy or not. These two screen shots show the health check results of our old Crucial P1 which is still in great shape (and likely will be for many years to come) Read more…
We have a Dell Inspiron 13 7000 from 2015 which has a black screen. The laptop powers up and the backlit keyboard turns on but the screen stays black. We show how to revive and repair this apparently dead laptop by pulling the battery and CMOS battery. The we find Read more…