Windows 10–VPN & “No Internet” Internet connection
So sometimes Windows 10 claims that there is No Internet when there is. I don’t know the actual cause yet, and a restart resolves the Read More …
Category: Windows 10
“Data Usage” summaries in Windows 10 & 11.
We had a customer ask the following: We’d like to report on how much network data each application is using as we suspect that Microsoft Read More …
Windows 10 – Designing and setting a custom Lock Screen Background.
In short: it needs to be in a 16:9 ratio by default, the image is changeable by you in c:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds\ (Windows will copy that image Read More …
Saturday Link Roundup-Assorted
Tables Generator I so dislike having to code HTML Tables manually, Tables Generator makes it easy. Personality Tests – summary from Atomic Habits Recently finished Read More …
Windows 10 SMB1 issues?
Had a report that a mapped network drive was dropping out. The drive was being hosted on Windows Server 2003. Don’t think I’ll have much Read More …
Quick Assist issue–not being able to “Give Assistance”
Or, “Quick Assist won’t give me a Code to assist someone else.” Troubleshooting this was difficult, as there isn’t much troubleshooting information out there. Here Read More …
“Someone has changed my Windows 10 Lockscreen …”
and I can’t change it back. Lockscreens are located in the C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\SystemData directory. You’ll need to Take Ownership of that directory in order to delete Read More …
WFH Challenge – “I’m not able to tether my iPhone to my Windows laptop”
Well you’ll be needing the Apple Mobile Device Ethernet Driver First check to see if you have the device drivers already, by browsing to: C:\Program Read More …
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 …
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 …