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 …
Category: Windows 10
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 …
“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 …