Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch (LTSB) differs from the primary fork of Windows 10 (so called Current Branch CB) in more than just future enhancements. Win 10 LTSB has three very notable programs removed from it: CORTANA: Microsoft’s personal assistant, voice command feature that works… pretty well, is just […]
May 20th 2016 UPDATE: We have a solution to disabling the STORE in Windows 10 Pro using a Group Policy Object . To avoid confusion I started a new post HERE. JANUARY 28 2016 UPDATE: I have found this GPO to cause the STORE to fail to download apps but […]
If you have a Windows 10 PC, you have about 80MB worth of useless content called RETAILDEMO OFFLINE CONTENT. As you might expect this content is the demo that is used in retail stores to show off Windows 10 to potential consumers. HOW TO TURN ON RETAILDEMO OFFLINE CONTENT: WARNING: […]
The shortest description I can come with is, Containers are deduplication for Virtual Machines. In other words, Containers is the term used to describe sharing of common files and memory space typically applied to Virtual Machines. The notion is that classic VM’s operate completely independent of each other, in complete isolation, […]
Devices with less than 8″ of screen will have their desktop restricted to a “Apps” that are downloadable from the Store: …Taking to Twitter to clarify media queries, Belfiore explained that any device with an integrated display of 8″ or larger diagonal size will be treated as a ‘desktop’ device […]
In an effort to both improve performance and decrease the footprint of Windows 10, Microsoft has compacted it into a smaller package through several techniques: Windows Vista 7 and 8 had a “Recovery Partition” that was hidden but still consumed between 4GB and 12GB of disk space. That partition was […]
UPDATE JANUARY 10, 2020: Some of these no longer function, so we have a a complete list of ways to open the SETTINGS APP here: 16 Different Ways To Start Settings App Windows 10 _________________ If you are having problems with the START button or just want to write a […]
Windows Update for Business is a new product from Microsoft that will be made available for free to corporate customers using Windows 10. As of today’s date, the software has not been released and little is known beyond Microsoft’s brief explanations. The key points are that WUFB will: allow IT […]
As most of you will already know Microsoft is changing the way they release software. Instead of bringing out a “new version” of Windows with new features every few years (Windows XP, then Vista, then 7, then 8…) they are going to provide new features every few months in Windows […]
The short answer is that there will not be a “Media Center” available for Windows 10. To make this omission more slightly palatable to loyal Media Center users, Microsoft is making WINDOWS DVD PLAYER available for free to any Windows 7 or 8 PC running Media Center, that is upgraded to […]
Dec 2015 UPDATE: There ARE two ways to do a bare metal Windows 10 install from a machine with a Windows 7 or 8 licence: PREVIOUS INTALL: If you had previously installed the November 2015 update (called TH2, 1511 and 10586) to Windows 10 and activated the machine using any key (i.e. […]
If you need to output your PowerPoint at high resolution you can change the TIFF export quality to 300DPI with a simply Registry modification. How To Set PowerPoint To Export High Res TIFFs: You do NOT need to close PowerPoint before you make this change. Open RegEdit.exe Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\<###>\PowerPoint\Options Select EDIT […]
I accidentally surfed to purolotor.com rather than Purolator.com and was taken to wndow-security.com which redirected to wndow-security.com/win/massage887sx.html which showed a fake (but very real looking Norton alert like the one to the right. The only way for me to keep the popup window from re-opening was to quickly END TASK […]
The simple math is that if you run any version of Windows 7 or 8 (other than Windows Enterprise) you will be allowed to automatically update through Windows Update to an equivalent version of Windows 10. For example: if your company runs Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 8.1 Pro on its machines, all will nicely […]
In Windows 10 there is a Notification Tile named QUIET HOURS that has many people confused. Quiet Hours are actually a feature that was released in Windows 8, that disables ALL notifications during the set times. This means things like new WiFi hotspots that are detected, or new email in […]
These are the least secure Operating Systems in 2014 as measured by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). As usual, Apple is way ahead of the pack in being the worst in security: Operating system # of vulnerabilities # of HIGH vulnerabilities # of MEDIUM vulnerabilities # of LOW vulnerabilities 1- […]