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- October 30, 2015
30 Oct'15
Are Win10 Installs Losing Momentum?
Between a couple of interesting stories reported at NeoWin.net and WinBeta.org recently, the rapid rise of Windows 10 installs appears to be slowing down from its initial explosive rate. Although ...
- October 28, 2015
28 Oct'15
Dell promises to innovate on next-gen Windows 10 PCs
Like a captain on a sinking ship, Dell remains committed to the PC market, and looks to hardware innovations and Windows 10 as the bailing buckets.
- October 28, 2015
28 Oct'15
Persistent Windows.old Folder Surrenders to Command Line Prompt
Among my various desktops, laptops, and tablets, I've got an 16-month-old Surface Pro 3 purchased in August 2014. In working with the boot/sys drive recently I noticed I still had a windows.old ...
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- October 26, 2015
26 Oct'15
Win10 Build 10565: Bitten by the Dread KB3105208
If there are some distinctions to which Window10 testers should not aspire to attain, I'd have to say falling prey to the boot/system failures now widely associated with the recent KB3105208 ...
- October 23, 2015
23 Oct'15
Stop Win10 from Automatic Reboot After Updates
There has been plenty of heated discussion about the way MS has handled updates in Windows 10. Much of that discussion has centered around Windows 10's update push behavior, which forces updates on ...
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- October 22, 2015
22 Oct'15
Dell, Microsoft CEOs discuss Windows 10 PC strategies
The Microsoft-Dell partnership got competitive this year with Microsoft's first 2-in-1 device, but Dell's Windows 10 laptops differ in one important area.
- October 21, 2015
21 Oct'15
Interesting Network Printer Shenanigans on Win10
I've got a Samsung ML-2850 monochrome laser printer on my network, and I've been chasing around various ways to interact with it lately. It seems that unless you've got access to a print server, ...
- October 19, 2015
19 Oct'15
Simple Trick Fixes DISM /source syntax issues
I've been messing around with the MS Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) tool since it made its debut along with Windows 8, when it replaced the ImageX tool built into previous Windows ...
- October 16, 2015
16 Oct'15
Oops! MS ticks "Upgrade to Win10" in WU on Win7&8.1 PCs
Since the latest Patch/Update Tuesday earlier this week on 10/13, the computer trade press has been rife with stories about Microsoft's accidental enablement of the Upgrade to Windows 10 option on ...
- October 14, 2015
14 Oct'15
MS Eases Activation in Latest Win10 Preview Build
I've been steering clear of writing about Windows 10 Preview builds since the 10240 Build became publicly available starting on July 29, mostly in the interests of addressing the Windows 10 version ...
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- October 09, 2015
09 Oct'15
NetBIOS Tweak May Be Needed for Win10 NAS Access
In response to a question from an old friend and colleague, I started researching what might cause a NAS connection to vanish following an upgrade to Windows 10. It turns out that certain network ...
- October 07, 2015
07 Oct'15
Surface Book Ups the Hybrid PC Ante
I've been following Microsoft's progress in laying out and elaborating its Surface vision since the first version (and the RT model) emerged in 2012 or thereabouts. I went so far as to buy into the ...
- October 05, 2015
05 Oct'15
Reset/Refresh Windows Update to Fix WU Errors
Occasionally, Windows Update will flake out on test or end-user machines that grab updates online. Typical symptoms include error codes like those documented in the KB938205 article "Windows Update ...
- October 02, 2015
02 Oct'15
Handy Utility Displays IP Neighborhood
In getting a Windows 10 environment to work properly, one soon discovers that reloading printer drivers on some desktops proves necessary. Recently, I've found this to be mandated for the networked ...
- October 01, 2015
01 Oct'15
Can Windows 10 tip the upgrade scales?
Much of the buzz around Windows 10 has been about how it atones for the sins of Windows 8. Experts say that the new operating system is more similar to Windows 7, while still including some of the ...