Uninstall and Hide Windows Updates
Sometimes Microsoft releases a bad update via Windows Update. It might be 3035583 that has been released multitple times to to push Windows 10 nag prompts to users. Or 3097877 …
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Free Up Memory for Hyper-V Guests
I run a small Server 2012 R2 machine that functions primarily as a Hyper-V server. It has 12 GB of RAM. The guests do not use dynamic RAM. Today I …
3CX 11 Fails to Start after Build 30295 Update
Today I installed 3CX version 11 with SP4 on a new, virtualized Windows Server 2008 R2 x64. The installer downloaded and installed the Visual C++ 2010 SP1 x64 redistributable. The …
Remote Desktop with Custom Port from Surface RT
Today I was helping a customer connect from an original Microsoft Surface tablet running Surface RT to a remote Windows 7 desktop computer. The desktop uses a custom RDP listening …
Synology: More than a NAS
I recently had the opportunity to attend a seminar showcasing Synology’s lineup of network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Their offering is truly impressive, with everything from two-disk home units up to …
Windows Update Operation 4913 of 11629
Usually Windows Updates shows you a percentage complete as the machine is rebooting. Yesterday for some reason, on one Windows 7 machine, I got a count of the “operations”: The …
Aspire R11 R3-131T and the 32GB Limit
Recently I purchased an Acer Aspire R3-131T-C28S from Walmart. I wanted to see how far I could get with a $199 computer. The answer? Pretty far, but not far enough. …
HitmanPro.Alert Crashes Windows 10 Upgrade
I was running HitmanPro.Alert 2.6.5.77 on a domain-joined Windows 8.1 Pro laptop. When I tried to upgrade to Windows 10 (using the online update or a USB key), it repeatedly …
Open Word 5 File in Word 2013
I have some Microsoft Word 5 files from 1990 that were not opening properly in Word 2013. I could see some text but not all, and the formatting was wrong. …
Changing the Passenger Standalone Log Level
I’m trying to debug an issue with Passenger Standalone 4.0.53 and had a hard time figuring out how to increase the log level. It turns out you have to create …