Windows 11 & Windows 10

SOLVED: How To Enable Verbose Highly Detailed Messages During Start Up or Shutdown Using Group Policy

If you want to see what your PC is doing during startup or shutdown you can set Windows to VERBOSE MODE. This can be accomplished in one of two ways: Registry Entry on the PC: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Policies\System “VerboseStatus”=dword:00000001 . Group Policy: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System> DISPLAY HIGHLY Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsApril 9, 2014 ago

SOLVED: How to Change the Wallpaper on the Windows 8.1 Lock Screen Using Group Policy

If you want to force a background image to your Windows 8.1 Lock Screen you can accomplish your mission using a registry key or Group Policy that sets that registry key for you. Download the Group Policy Templates for Windows 8.1 HERE and add them to your Group Policy Store Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsApril 7, 2014 ago

SOLVED: How to Change the Wallpaper on the Windows 8.1 Enterprise Login Screen

Well, according to Microsoft you cannot currently change the background image on Windows 8.1 Login Screen. I confirmed this with Microsoft Partner Support HERE . I believe this will change in future versions of Windows. That being said you can force a specific colour (or color for our American friends!) Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsApril 7, 2014 ago

SOLVED: How to Shutdown or Restart A Windows 8 PC from a Remote Desktop Session

If you are connected to a Windows 8 (or 8.1) PC using Remote Desktop (RDP) and you bring up the Charms Bar or you do a search for SHUTDOWN you will see only the DISCONNECT option: The solution is to use the old school keyboard shortcut of ALT+F4. This brings up the Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsApril 2, 2014 ago

SOLVED: How To Enter the BIOS on a Dell Venue 8 or 11 Tablet

Because the Dell Venue 8 and 11 tablets like the 7130 and 7130 have no keyboards you need to use a button combination to gain access to the BIOS. That order is: Power up the tablet from being powered off – reboot does not seem to work Press and HOLD Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsMarch 28, 2014 ago

SOLVED: Cannot Install Printer. The Print Processor Does Not Exist

If you are seeing the dreaded “Print Processor Does Not Exist”, it means one of two things: Your PC has missing or corrupt print processor files. This is easy to fix if you have another 64bit PC without the print problem. In SERVICES stop the PRINT SPOOLER From a PC Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsMarch 12, 2014 ago

SOLVED: How to Delete a Stuck Printer

If you just cannot remove a printer by: right clicking on a printer and find that you see nothing but hour glass you get to REMOVE DEVICE but it will not actually delete you have tried removing in PRINTER MANAGEMENT (yes, this is built into every version of Windows Vista, Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsMarch 12, 2014 ago

SOLVED: How to Add Drivers in WDS Windows Deployment Services

OCT 1 2018 UPDATE: See our 2018 updated version of this article HERE. You could inject drivers directly into your image .WIM files as I have previously explained: Vista: how-to-inject-drivers-into-windows-pe-2-0-in-5-minutes-or-into-a-windows-vista-image Windows 7 & 8 how-to-inject-drivers-into-windows-pe-3-0-wim-in-5-minutes-or-into-a-windows-7-or-2008-r2-image oooorrrrr you can now just add drivers directly to your Windows Deployment (WDS) Server: Open Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsMarch 12, 2014 ago

SOLVED: How To Deploy Fonts Using Group Policy

After some research I was surprised to find how complex some processes are. I wanted a simple Group Policy to deploy fonts and found that the most straight forward way to deploy fonts via GPO was to build an .MSI and then deploy the .MSI. This sounds harder than it Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 years ago

SOLVED: Can Not Install Internet Explorer 11 (or 10, or 9)

If you find the IE (Internet Explorer) will not install there are several things to try but I have found the most effective to be: UNINSTALL THE CURRENT VERSION OF INTERNET EXPLORER: CONTROL PANEL > PROGRAMS AND FEATURES > on the top left click VIEW INSTALLED UPDATES Either find INTERNET Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsFebruary 19, 2014 ago

SOLVED: Remote Desktop Shows Black Screen in Windows 7 and 8

If you RDP (remote desktop) to a Windows 7 or 8 PC and see only a black screen the computers involved appear to be arguing over screen resolution. The easy way to resolve it is to: Click on the black RDP windows (to select it) and press CTRL-ALT-END to bring Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 years ago

SOLVED: How to Combine Two or More Microphones Together Into One Stream

If you have Lync, Jabber, Skype or any other conferencing system in which you want to use more than one microphone, this tutorial is for you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQHP1PZBPvc Download Virtual Audio Cable from this page (most likely you want the 64 bit version) Install Virtual Audio Cable – do NOT touch the software Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsJanuary 31, 2014 ago

Windows Threshold For Sale

We purchased www.windowsthreshold.net and www.windowsthreshold.ca but have now decided we do not have a use for them so those domains are now for sale. Please contact us and make an offer if you want to buy either or both of these domains. In case you are wondering, Windows Threshold is the code Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 years ago

SOLVED: How To Enable KIOSK / ASSIGNED ACCESS Mode in Windows 8.1

A neat new feature in Windows 8.1 is the ability to restrict a user to running a single application. This could be handy for: libraries that only want users to run their search app public PC’s that are only to be used for Internet Explorer retail stores that want run Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 years ago

SOLVED: How To FORCE Windows 8 (or 8.1 Preview) to Update to Windows 8.1 Release

If you have run your Windows Updates but still do not see UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 8.1 in the STORE APP, try launching Internet Explorer app and type: ms-windows-store:WindowsUpgrade into the address bar. For more details expand the first twisty on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows-8/update-from-preview .

By Ian Matthews, 10 years ago

SOLVED: Windows 8.1 Will Not Install on Older AMD CPU’s like Athlon 64 and Opterton

If you have an older AMD CPU based system and you attempt to install or upgrade to Windows 8.1 you will see a message like: You can’t install Windows 8.1 because your processor doesn’t support CompareExchange128. This is true but there are three important points to note: 32BIT Windows 8.1 Read more…

By Ian Matthews, 10 yearsDecember 5, 2013 ago

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