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Windows Key Shortcuts in Win10
16 Mar 2015 -
Removing Phantom Printers from Client PCs
06 Mar 2015 -
Driver Cleanup Remains a Solid Disk Space Reclamation Tactic
02 Mar 2015
Thanks to a recent article at MakeUseOf.com I came across this weekend, I've been wondering if there isn't some master repository of keyboard shortcuts for the latest and soon-to-be-greatest ...
I went to print a phone card for my wife this morning, and wound up lost for a while in the "Hall of Mirrors" section of the Windows OS. In this case, I knew I needed to print to the Dell color ...
Back in 2011, I blogged here about a program named DriverStore Explorer. Aka RAPR, this is a CodePlex project that when run in administrative mode enables users to see all drivers in the Windows ...
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OK, I'll Bite into Start10 ... Now What?
27 Feb 2015 -
Dastardly Driver Download Delivers Browser Hijack(s)
25 Feb 2015 -
Interesting Win10 Driver Problem on Dell Venue 11 Pro 7130
23 Feb 2015 -
Clean (Re)Install Benefits from Driver Backup Utility
20 Feb 2015 -
Don't Forget About RecImgMgr
18 Feb 2015 -
Puzzling Intel Chipset Situation
13 Feb 2015 -
KB 3001652 Goes Bad on Update Tuesday
11 Feb 2015
Anybody who's read this blog for any length of time has witnessed me repeatedly and enthusiastically recommending Stardock's great product, Start8, as a Windows start menu add-in/replacement for ...
This weekend, I installed a HighPoint RocketU 1144C on my production PC, in search of solutions to a USB 3 drive access problem. There's a PLX PCIe 8609 DMA controller on that board, apparently ...
By and large, I've got to give Dell credit for a winning solution in their 11" Venue Pro tablet with detachable keyboard. It's on par, features and power-wise with equivalent Surface Pro 3 models ...
In reading over an interesting article on Ars Technica this morning, I realized that many online sources (including the otherwise redoubtable Ars) that describe how to reinstall Windows to ...
Slimware Utilities is the company behind RecImg Manager, a program that can capture and restore modern-format Windows images. This is the same kind of image that Windows 8 or 10 uses, when you ...
I've been a big fan of the Intel Driver Update Utility for years, especially since the company published the standalone program version (v2.0) in mid-2014. With the introduction of the 10.x.x.x ...
Oho! Yesterday was "Update Tuesday," the second Tuesday of the month. Tuning into Windows Update just after lunch I noticed a big batch of updates (38 on Windows 8.1 systems with MS Office 2013 ...
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Windows 8.* Slowly Overtaking XP, 7 Still on TOP
09 Feb 2015 -
Win10 Gets Smart About Paging Files
06 Feb 2015 -
Universal Office apps for Win10 Now Up
04 Feb 2015 -
Next Win Server Release Breaks Lockstep with Win10
03 Feb 2015 -
Subduing the Wily and Recalcitrant Windows.edb in Win8.1
22 Jan 2015 -
TechNet Solution Guide Addresses WinDeployment Best Practices
19 Jan 2015 -
Seismic Shift in Windows Punditsphere
17 Jan 2015 -
Windows 7 Now Off Mainstream Support
14 Jan 2015 -
Dell Venue 11 Pro Shows Promise of Broadwell Tablets
12 Jan 2015 -
Update Tuesday: Evolving from Advance Notification to myBulletins
10 Jan 2015 -
CES Is On: Hope the Hype Hits!
05 Jan 2015 -
Yes, Virginia: Windows *DOES* Defrag SSDs (Sometimes)
02 Jan 2015 -
Grab the Latest Sysinternals Suite (FREE)
15 Sep 2014 -
Thurrott Previews the Surface Docking Station
28 Oct 2013 -
"Run as Administrator" Adds to WinDirStat File Visibility
19 Aug 2013 -
Rufus Beats Windows 7 USB Download Tool, Hands Down
06 Jun 2013 -
SATA II ICH10R vs. SATA III Marvel 9128 Controllers
17 Sep 2012 -
Dealing with the "Bezel Issue" and Windows 8
27 May 2012 -
Turn off Random IPv6 Address Generation in Windows 7
21 Oct 2011 -
The Real Secret Behind SLAT and Hyper-V for Windows 8
19 Sep 2011 -
Auto-Update for KB2310138 Spreads Consternation for MSE Users
27 Jul 2011 -
"Please Wait" Can Mean "Wait Forever..."
22 Jun 2010 -
Beware the TDSS Rootkit Removal Tool!!!
12 May 2010 -
Making SSDs Work on Windows 7
21 Feb 2010 -
Get ready for Microsoft Morro
12 Jun 2009 -
Patch Tuesday June09: A Real Whopper!
10 Jun 2009
Every now and then, I have to check in over at NetMarketShare.com, to see what's happening with the distribution of desktop OSes that the company detects on the Internet. This morning, I couldn't ...
In working on a Windows 10 story for SearchEnterpriseDesktop this week, I came to an interesting realization. In Windows 10, MS has finally broken with tradition when it comes to sizing the paging ...
Drat! It was with interest and curiosity that I jumped up to the Windows Store (beta) a few minutes ago, hoping to download and install the latest so-called "Universal Office apps for Windows 10" ...
Amidst the TechNet blogs let loose last weekend, this interesting little item from the Server & Cloud Blog let it be known that, for the first time since the Windows Vista era, the next release ...
I am a great fan of checking in on my disks from time to time, especially my system/boot disk, which goes by C: on my system. The last time I fired up WinDirStat on my production system, my eyes ...
From the "better late than never" school of information sharing, I just found an October 2014 TechNet Solution Guide that many Windows administrators are likely to find captivating. It's entitled ...
Huh? What's a "Punditsphere?" Glad you asked! It's the group of industry insiders, experts, gurus, and gadabouts that attach themselves to specific technology platforms, tools, and operating ...
OK folks, here's a transition point for you to note. As of today, January 14, Windows 7 is no longer on mainstream support at Microsoft. Going forward, it will get no new functionality, no new ...
About two months ago, I purchased a Dell Venue 11 Pro model 7130, when I read that it featured a Broadwell "M" class CPU in a compact 11" format. By the time all was said and done I spent around ...
For the past year or so, Patch Tuesday has been remonikered Update Tuesday. In a blog post from the Microsoft Security Response Center on Thursday, January 8, Chris Betz discussed the topic of ...
Now that the holidays are behind us, and the New Year is unrolling before is, it's time for that annual technology extravaganza known as the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), still one of the ...
Two persistent myths that attach to SSDs running under "modern" Windows OSes (version 7 and higher) are as follows: (a) defragging such disks is a bad idea (b) Windows doesn't defrag such disks by ...
For those not already in the know, Sysinternals is the name of a former company that's now part of Microsoft that's long been a source for some of the very best Windows monitoring, management, and ...
The much-awaited and anticipated Surface Docking Station from Microsoft gets a once-over in a recent piece from Paul Thurrot. The piece is entitled "Surface Docking Station: First Impressions and ...
I've written repeatedly about a great, free SourceForge utility called WinDirStat for this blog over the years. But just this morning, I learned something about the program I didn't know -- namely ...
These days ultrabooks and tablets make DVDs passé for Windows installs. UFDs (USB Flash Drives, that is) are the way to go. I'd discovered the free Microsoft Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool at the ...
Last week, after upgrading my 119 GB (actual) SATA II OCZ Vertex-2 SSD to a 167 GB (actual) SATA III Intel 520 SSD, I quickly realized that the SATA III Marvell 9128 controller on my Asus P6X58D-E ...
Almost any of the touchscreens you might buy today (especially those offered at more reasonable prices) will have bezels around the edge. By definition, a bezel forms a raised edge around the ...
If you read this blog regularly, you already know that a team of authors -- including Jeff Carrell (the lead), James Pyles, Tom Lancaster, Mark Mirrotto, and myself -- are reworking a college ...
So now that I've been introduced to Second Level Address Translation (SLAT) as a requirement for Hyper-V on the upcoming release of Windows 8 (see my recent blog on this discovery at edtittel.com: ...
OK, so if you're running Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) installed then you must figure out what to do with an update that Microsoft pushed yesterday in its increasingly typical "2nd Patch ...
According to MS KB Article 983551 (6/10/2010; Rev: 2.0) some computers running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 can freeze at the "Please wait" display that precedes appearance of the desktop on ...
In the latest (May 2010) issue of Virus Bulletin, I read Alisa Shevchencko's story "TDSS Infections - Quarterly Report" with some interest and a lively appreciation of the TDSS rootkit malware and ...
By now, everybody's aware of the speed and power consumption or battery life benefits that solid state drives (SSDs) can confer on desktop and notebook PCs, respectively — at least, for those ...
Last November, MS announced its plans to create a no-cost consumer security software product. Code-named "Morro," this solution is supposed to debut in H209 and be able to deal with viruses, ...
OK, so yesterday's Patch Tuesday does the deed for June. It's a monster: 10 security bulletins, 31 vulnerabilities addressed, and involving most versions of Windows itself, IE, and various MS ...