USB and Power Management?
DaleA question rolled in from a customer “We’re having issues with our audio headsets randomly disconnecting, is there a sleep setting for USBs?” Yes there is! USB Selective Suspend. Two…
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.…
Desktop Wallpaper–Tile Stretch Fit Fill Center Span
The customer sent me a request to update their Desktop Wallpaper, with the comment Don’t use fit as it upsets the “look” of the wallpaper. We mostly use “Fill”, so…
“Try an improved Quick Assist experience”
Or as I read it “Microsoft backtracks on removing Quick Assist from the Windows Operating system.” In June, we moved Quick Assist to the Microsoft Store to help improve performance…
Inside jokes–Microsoft WIndows Edition
I was revisiting the issue of Windows File System Tunnelling today , 12 years after I wrote the original article. Some things never change, such as a feature introduced in…
Saturday Link Roundup–mostly DNS + some Internet Explorer
Allow Google Cast to connect to Cast devices on all IP addresses … or my Microsoft Edge was using SSDP, enable though it was disabled, to connect http://www.dial-multiscreen.org/ DNS TTL…
Quick Assist–Microsoft breaks QA for Enterprises, and shrugs it’s shoulders.
So Microsoft decided to deploy a new version from the Microsoft Store. There were a couple of reasons given: or was it because of Skype for Business deprecation? Of course…
Windows LegalNoticeText
Not something we do often, and when we do, I tend to forget the “rules” of LegalNotice. I’ve written this down, like some other posts, as a memory aide.History1993 was…
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…
WFH Challenge – Cylance anti-virus vs. Oracle VirtualBox–Round 2
(Round 1 was posted here.) This time the error happened to me. And it was Cylance this time. I’d been upgraded to Cylance Protect 2.1.1580.42 overnight. I’ve let our Cylance…