ipconfig /flushdns now requires elevation?
Customers had started to report that ipconfig /flushdns now requires Local Administrator rights. C:\>ipconfig /flushdns The requested operation requires elevation. Not all customers are seeing Read More …
Category: Windows 10
Quick Assist!
The best free Windows Remote Assistance tool you’re (probably) never heard off. Debuting in Windows 10 v1607 (August 2016), it’s not well known. I tripped Read More …
“Access database in an inconsistent state”
The customer reported this issue after they upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 10. A couple of things led to this error. They were hosting Read More …
Time Travel Debugging in Windows 10
7 years ago I wrote about Microsoft’s useful Time Travel Debugging (TTD) tool. A customer had an issue running it recently, as TTDInject.exe was being Read More …
Working from home challenges–Remote Desktop Gateway Server does not work
The customer reported this issue from their Windows 10 v1909 laptop, connecting to a outsider vendors (OV) Windows 2016 RD Web Access box. Before we Read More …
Booting a UEFI enabled laptop
and it didn’t work with the NTFS formatted USB stick. Which is the clue to the issue there. Trying to install Windows 10 from a Read More …
Working from home challenges–Adding a printer
So we’re using Windows 10. And we’ve previously implemented Applocker, which prevents security threats such as Ransomware. Today’s challenge though? Adding a local Canon Inkjet Read More …
Adobe PDF printer hangs on Windows 10
with Adobe version 9.5 –> 11. The fix is to grant all “Users”, “Full Control” to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe\Acrobat PDFMaker Registry Key (on a 64-bit system, Read More …
The Windows 10 “Hardware Hash” for AutoPilot
You can get the script to export the value from a computer here. The main thing the script does is call WMI to get the Read More …
The Strange Case of “Sometimes I can see the Office Templates directory, and sometimes I can’t.”
One of our customers reported that they intermittently lost access to the Office Templates directory. Sometimes it worked well, and sometimes “it was gone!”. The Read More …