It is difficult to understand what Microsoft if offering these days. It was hard enough when there was just Office 365 with the E1 E3 and E5 packages but today Microsoft is offering 3 different bundles (Office, Windows & Microsoft) each with their own E1 E3 and E5 sub-bundles. What Read more
MINOR UPDATE: Aug 19 2019 – Windows Timeline is a new feature in the just released Windows 10 Spring 2018 (1803) build that lets you easily see and resume your activities from the last 30 days: What Windows Timeline Includes: Windows Timeline will only display apps that support Timeline and Read more
UPDATE Saturday Jan 6 – 2018: There are now two known flaws named “Meltdown” and “Spectre”. Spectre still has not been detailed but applies to virtually all CPU’s including x86 and ARM. It is now known that Intel (and possibly other CPU manufacturers) have a very serious design flaw with Read more
If you are working for an old application you may be presented with the error: Component ‘MSCOMCTL.OCX’ or one if its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid: In this case you have two tasks to complete and neither of them are obvious: DOWNLOAD MSCOMCTL.OCX MSCOMCTL.OCX is 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
If you want to edit the list of suggested TAGS in the Windows file system, you are going to be disappointed. The list of tags is made up of names you have typed in manually plus a hard coded list from Microsoft. Below is a response I received from “Jason” at Read more
It appears that Microsoft has depricated Gadgets in favour of Tiled Apps in Windows 8, so know you have four choices: Use the half dozen Gadgets built into Windows 7 andVista Use the 35 or so more Windows Gadgets found on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/personalize/gadgets?SignedIn=1 Search (Bing, Google…) for specific Gadgets and download Read more
The answer; convert the files. Microsoft Windows Television (WTV) format is not supported on Windows Starter or Basic and very few video converters support .WTV format. However, you can go to any of the following to: cnet.com/1770-5_1-0.html?query=mcebuddy&tag=srch . mcebuddy.com videohelp.com/tools/MCEBuddy and download this free tool and convert your .WTV formated files to .MP4 Read more
This disaster recovery tool is often shown for only for Windows 7, Vista and XP (both 32bit and 64bit) but their site says it also works with Windows Server 2008 R2, 2008, 2003… This program can easily be used to recover lost data, backup or clone disks, edit the registry, undo Read more
“…That’s 700,000 a day, 21 million a month or 63 million per quarter. What about iOS? Apple won’t likely reveal numbers until January, when announcing holiday quarter results. Don’t expect them to be anywhere near as high, but not trailing way far behind, either. Android activations are lopsided, mostly from Read more
Microsofts highly rated free antivirus “Security Essentials” has a new version which is available to the public as a beta as of November 29, 2011 . From my testing and other reviews it seems the biggest improvement is in performance during scanning; it now uses even fewer resources than version Read more
The following the my approved process for patching VM’s: Wait at least one week after “Patch Tuesday”; this gives Microsoft time to have others beta test the patches and for Microsoft to pull / adjust problem patches Shut Down (VM equivalent of Power Off) any running Virtual Machines Copy the Read more
When attempting an in-place upgrade or an upgrade from a previous version of Windows, you may see the COMPATABILITY REPORT error stating: Windows needs to be restarted so necessary changes to system files can be made before continuing. After restarting this alert flag may not be cleared. Fortunately there are Read more
I recently had Unix stations copy some files onto a Windows 2008 Server. The problem was that some of those files used Windows restricted file names like “COM1” and “LPT1” so if you try to delete or rename it, you will receive an error like FILE DOES NOT EXIST. After Read more
Windows Vista / 7 /8 / 10 and Office 2007 through 2016 have the capacity to work in languages other than English to accommodate your customers needs. Sometimes, just writing THANK YOU in a clients/vendors local language will show you appreciate them and may advance our relationship. Other times we need more precise translations and Read more
I recently completed a Lunch & Learn on how to EASILY take any number of still photos / graphics and add it to video clips to make a single video using just FREE Microsoft software. The primary tool is Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 and this course covers: preparation adding Read more