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Category Archives: help desk
Good tweak or bad tweak? TweakHound helps you decide.
An excellent site to look at tweaks and optimization of your operating system is TweakHound. TweakHound gives step by step guides and hundreds of tweaks – they also help you look at these individually and explain why they are good … Continue reading
Default_error_stack files
You’ve discovered hundreds or even thousands of default_error_stack files. What should you do and what are they? These files tend to be driver errors and can be safely deleted. There were over 2.3 GB of these data files on my … Continue reading
Truly reset the TCP/IP stack – Fix network/internet problems
Having connection issues and no viruses or malware? Hardware OK? Try typing the following at a command prompt to fully reset the TCP/IP Stack- netsh winsock reset netsh int ip reset netsh interface ipv4 reset netsh interface ipv6 reset netsh interface … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server
Tagged Internet, internet issues, network issues, troubleshooting, windows networking, Winsock
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Multi-session remote access to Windows 10 Enterprise?
Multi-session remote access to Windows 10 Enterprise? Probably – Up to 10 simultaneous connections according to Computerworld. Read more
Need to check your PC for Meltdown or Spectre?
Need to check your PC for Meltdown or Spectre? Use Steve Gibson’s free tool to check if you are vulnerable. https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
Posted in Computer Security, Computer Software, Free Software, freeware, help desk, higher ed, higher education, Information Technology, malware, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Tagged Malware, Meltdown, Security, Spectre, Windows, Windows Meltdown, Windows Spectre
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SyMenu – Download over 1,000 utilities from NirSoft, SysInternals and more
SyMenu allows you to download utilities from NirSoft, SysInternals and more. Download the program from here and check the programs you want. Once you download the programs, you can use SyMenu to run the many programs (over 1200) from a … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Free Software, freeware, help desk, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Tagged freeware, Software, Windows
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Is your SSD or HDD dirty?
You can of course use the Windows GUI to check your SSD or HDD. But did you know that you should check your drives by typing the following (you can copy and paste in a elevated command prompt and change … Continue reading
SSL not showing green lock? Here’s some things to try.
Recently we did a certificate request with an IIS server and loaded the received certificates under Enterprise Trust and imported the certificate into IIS. When we visited the website, we noticed that the newly loaded server did not present a … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Security, Education, help desk, Information Technology, internet security;, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, network, Networking, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows Security, Windows Server
Tagged IIS, SSL Certificate, SSL Certificate Troubleshooting, SSL Lock, SSL Troubleshooting, windows server, Windows Server SSL Errors
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Windows Repair Toolkit
One of the best tools that is currently freeware, Windows Repair Toolkit truly lives up to its name. I discovered the Toolkit over at What’s On My PC and have been testing it over the past several weeks. … Continue reading
Speed up your network by disabling the HomeGroup
While we’ve discussed speeding up SQL connections by disabling LLMNR, there’s another way to speed up your network. If you are not using the HomeGroup feature, a quick way to speed up your network is to disable the services for … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Wireless
Tagged Network Performance, network speed, networking
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Cyber Summit – Memphis, TN June 2017
The Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security, The Tennessee Fusion Center and Central Service Association are proud to once again bring together individuals from education, government and industry to share in the latest information, strategies, best practices and innovative solutions … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, Business, Computer Security, Education, Hacking, help desk, Information Technology, internet security;, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Mobile Computing, Networking, ransomware, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows Security, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged computer security, cyber crime, cyber summit, cybercrime, Hacking, Memphis, Tennessee
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9 Popular Password Manager Apps Found Leaking Your Secrets
Source: 9 Popular Password Manager Apps Found Leaking Your Secrets
Change network adapter priorities in Windows 10 – PowerShell
First thing – disable network adapters you don’t use If you use Ethernet, disable everything but flow control Disable LLMNR Adjust NTLM Perform test with Totusoft’s network speed test Next, avoid latency of your network card by adjusting the network … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged computer hardware, microsoft network, Microsoft Networking, microsoft windows, network, networking, PowerShell, Windows 10, wireless networking
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Internet or network application slow? You may need to temporarily disable Nagle’s Algorithm
With the Nagle-Algorithm, Windows takes small packets and packages them in to more manageable and efficient sizes. If you have poor latency, you might try to disable the Nagle-Algorithm. Nagle’s algorithm helps to control congestion when small packets are … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, help desk, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Tagged Internet, internet troubleshooting, Nagle's Algorithm, networking, Windows 10, windows networking
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Is your AHCI Link Power Management viewable from the Power Options Console?
If you can’t see your AHCI Link Power Management from the Power Options, there is a way to add it. Always backup your computer before modifying the registry. You can add the GUID to the registry by going opening the … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, Computers, Hardware, help desk, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, storage, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Tagged Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows power management
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Check and repair your SSD or HDD using PowerShell
Want to use PowerShell to scan or repair your drive(s)? Use the commands below to check your drives. Need to run a quick check? Type the following using PowerShell as the Administrator. Repair-Volume -DriveLetter C -SpotFix If you need to … Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Hardware, help desk, higher ed, higher education, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows 10, storage, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server
Tagged Hardware, HDD, PowerShell, SSD, SSD Optimization, troubleshooting
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NetSpot Review – Wi-Fi survey app for Windows
In this three part series we review NetSpot a Wi-Fi survey app for Mac and Windows. In this part, we look at the Microsoft Windows version of NetSpot. NetSpot performs accurate Wi-Fi surveys that allows you to use a map … Continue reading
Posted in computer troubleshooting, Computers, Free Software, help desk, Industry, Information Technology, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Wireless
Tagged NetSpot, networking, Wireless, Wireless Maps, Wireless Networks, Wireless surveys, wireless troubleshooting
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Windows Cleanup shows 3.99TB? Is my math wrong?
Apparently there is a bug that shows 3.99TB of Windows Update Cleanup when you run the disk cleanup application in Windows 10. With the plethora of updates that Microsoft has thrown at everyone, this would seem about right, however, you … Continue reading
Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller performance issues
UPDATE-2016 driver now available! (Driver number will be different than what is in this article! (Direct Link to New 12/2016 Driver) If you have the Realteck PCIe GBE Family Controller adapter and are experiencing performance issues on your network, download … Continue reading
Posted in computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, higher education, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server
Tagged network, networking, Realtek Drivers, Windows, windows drivers
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DHCP issues with KB3201845
If you have issues after applying KB3201845, Rick over at Whats On My PC may have first found it. Apparently Microsoft is displaying a banner on their Windows 10 History page that says to restart NOT shutdown. We experienced … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, Computers, help desk, higher ed, higher education, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows Server
Tagged Microsoft, Microsoft Windows 10, Windows 10, Windows 10 Troubleshooting, Windows 10 Updates
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