“We couldn’t update system reserved partition” error upgrading to Windows 11
DaleWe were upgrading part of our laptop fleet to Windows 11. The Windows 11 Upgrade Verifier said we'd have no issues, yet we did. The root cause of our upgrade…
Restricting an AD user account to particular workstations–one gotcha
We locked down one of our generic user accounts to a particular workstation, for good security reasons. Windows OSHub has a good writeup on how and why you do it.…
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 issue.(though I do suspect my corporate…
“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 Teams is using a lot of…
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 and store it’s own copy…
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 reading Atomic Habits by James…
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 luck here, the two possible…
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 are some things to try.…
“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 the contents. One way to…
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 Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\NetDrivers If…