In the simplest terms, Device Guard is a new Windows 10 optional feature that controls access to boot processes and memory while also blocking any software that is not specifically approved (like a whitelist). Windows Device Guard is actually a set of three features: Platform and Secure Boot locks down Read more…
UPDATE OCT 1 2019 – Everything is still completely accurate but if you want to know how to remove all stuck partitions and recreate a volume through command line CLICK HERE. __________________ If you install a hard disk from an old PC into your current PC, you might find a Read more…
If you are an administrator, you will have seen an application that has locked up a computer. These ‘run away’ programs sometimes cause users to give up in frustration and just power down their PC’s which may result in them loosing unsaved work. The question is how to END TASK Read more…
Windows Media Player was removed from Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (November 2017). Microsoft would rather you use their new FILMS & TV app but if you would like to use it there is an easy way to get it back. To Install Windows Media Player In Windows 10 Fall Read more…
I have been trying to get a simple CMD script or PowerShell or even a utility to get Windows 10 to download and install Windows Updates for about a year. It has not gone well. Note that Angus Briggs at PDQ support told me about a very simple PowerShell command that will Read more…
If your Windows 10 Start Menu icons and tiles turn dark and / or get a ‘download progress bar’ under them you can easily reset them. In previous versions of Windows 10, if your start menu icons stopped working you could resolve it but was a quite a task. In Windows 10 Read more…
In early versions of Windows 10 it was not readily possible to downgrade from Windows 10 Enterprise to Win 10 Pro. In fact, the supported process was to perform a clean install. The dance around that was to make some registry changes and then perform an in place upgrade using a Read more…
If you have a corrupt profile in Windows 10 there are two easy ways to remove it and rebuild it: 1: REMOVE CORRUPT WINDOWS PROFILE USING GUI: CONTROL PANEL > SYSTEM AND SECURITY > SYSTEM > ADVANCED SYSTEM SETTINGS (from the menu on the LEFT) . Click SETTINGS button in the USER Read more…
If you have Windows 10 1703 or newer your Internet Explorer will have a “Edge Tab” to the right of your “new tab” tab. This means people will frequently launch the Edge Browser when they are really trying to open a new tab. Microsoft calls this ‘assisting people to migrate Read more…
Version 6 of Mitel’s Unified Communications agent now called MiCollab has had troubles connecting to the MAS / MGB server on Windows 10 since the early summer of 2016. As you can see in the screenshot to the right it displays CONNECTION LOST even though it is correctly configured and Read more…
UPDATE: VALIDATED THIS PROCESS ON WINDOWS 10 1909 – SEPT 18 2020 If you have Windows 10 clients on a WSUS server and you want to confirm that they are receiving patches from that WSUS server and not going directly to Microsoft to update, you used to just read the Read more…
If you have deployed Windows 10 Anniversary 1607 and are using Windows Defender you should be very interested in the new BLOCK ON FIRST SIGHT feature. When a user runs a program that Defender has never seen before, BLOCK ON FIRST SIGHT, sends a metadata about the file to a Microsoft cloud service. Read more…
If your Edge browser has be hijacked or has some other serious problem in Edge in Windows 10 we will show you how to remove and re-add Microsoft Edge which will perform a hard reset on it. This is the only way to perform a full repair on Edge. Edge is hard baked into Read more…
UPDATE: June 2, 2020 – Microsoft has changed the way they manage Cortana so in newer builds of Windows 10 the work is MUCH easier. See THIS article. If, like me, your Windows 10 Cortana is non-responsive (or you just don’t want Cortana) we will show you how to remove Read more…
To allow WSUS (and presumably SCCM) to support Windows 10 Anniversary, Microsoft released a patch last month which blew up a number of WSUS servers. They have now released KB3159706 which is supposed to fix that problem and support Windows 10 Anniversary. This patch installs on WSUS servers through the Read more…
Microsoft has acknowledged that Windows 10 sometimes has problems with the START button and developed a free repair tool. You can download and run this tool directly from Microsoft. Over the last year our most popular pages have been How to repair the Windows 10 Start Menu when you click Read more…