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Category Archives: troubleshooting
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
Updating Drivers? Don’t forget the chipset!
While I’d like to guess that over 98% of the computers that I have worked on that are privately owned; the drivers were out of date or missing critical drivers that other drivers rely on. Here’s what I mean. If … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, windows 10 privacy, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server
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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
Slow SQL Connection or Network in Windows 10 – Update
Finally found a small problem with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. After upgrading, we have discovered that Windows was responding slow to our SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server / other versions. What we discovered is below. Slow response … Continue reading
Diagnosing your network and measuring speed.
Diagnosing your network? Here’s a GUI program to ping and get averages and speeds over a period of time – nine years ago we featured Performance Pinging by Carsten Schmidt and cannot find a working website from the author to … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Free Software, freeware, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows Server
Tagged freeware, network, network speed, network speed test, networking, troubleshooting
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GeGeek Toolkit – An interview with Jason
Years ago we found GeGeek.com (Credit goes to Rick over at What’s on My PC) and realized that the website and Toolkit was an unreal resource and treasure for young IT Professionals. Recently we struck a conversation with Jason of GeGeek … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Education, Free Software, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows Security, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged GeGeek, GEGeek Toolkit, Software, Whats On My PC
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IO Graphs in Wireshark-TCP Spurious Retransmission events
TCP Spurious Retransmissions may be seen from time to time when using Wireshark. How do you see them? Capture some data with Wireshark on your workstation or server. Click on Statistics, IO Graphs and click throughout the graph on the … Continue reading
I get a “stopped working” error when I start Office applications on my PC
You might get this error when you start the Office 2016 or Office 2013 versions of Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, or Visio on your PC: Microsoft Excel has stopped working. Microsoft Word has stopped working. Microsoft Outlook has stopped … Continue reading
Posted in Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Technology, troubleshooting
Tagged MS Office errors, Office Errors, Office Troubleshooting
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Fix Windows Update errors by using the DISM or System Update Readiness tool
At an elevated command prompt (command prompt as administrator) – type DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth What should you try first? – Try the PowerShell post we made on an earlier date to check for updates. Open PowerShell as an Administrator … Continue reading
Have a web server you’ve recently added a SSL certificate on and SQL is not starting?
Here’s a solution if you SQL isn’t starting – SQL Dude’s Blog NARTAC also makes a software to help you tweak and strengthen ciphers and protocols. IIS Crypto can be downloaded here. You can also test your site or other … Continue reading
Windows won’t update? Download the Servicing Stack Update (SSU)
There are several things you can do when Windows won’t update. With Windows 10, you can open an elevated command prompt and type – DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth You can also Download the Windows Update Troubleshooter Ultimately, you can use the … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Software, computer troubleshooting, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows Server
Tagged microsoft windows, SSU, Windows, windows troubleshooting, Windows updates
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TightVNC for Android – Control your computers from a mobile device.
Need to manage your computers or servers while on the go? Here’s one thing you can do. Go to the Google Play Store and download TightVNC Viewer. You will have to load TightVNC Server on the computers you want to … Continue reading
Export your drivers using PNPUTIL
Want to export your drivers so that you have them later? Open a command prompt or PowerShell as an administrator Next create a folder to hold your drivers Type pnputil /export-driver * c:\smalldriver (This is my folder on a small … Continue reading
Posted in Computer hardware, computer troubleshooting, Computers, Information Technology, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
Tagged Backup drivers, drivers, export drivers, Windows
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Winsat formal – measure your computer’s native performance
Want to truly measure your computer’s native performance? Use Winsat formal to see how the video, CPU and HDD/SSD performs. Open a elevated command prompt and type Winsat formal Want to measure just the disk? Type the following and substitute … Continue reading
Find rogue APs with Xirrus Wi-Fi Inspector using signal strength and sound
Xirrus Wi-Fi inspector is a free tool you can use to gather information about wi-fi around you. You can also use this tool to locate APs via sound very similar to using radar and sound. Have an AP you … 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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Can’t delete your printer? Try some of these tips.
Printers either install and work flawlessly or they don’t install or give constant problems. Try these tips. Start fresh by removing the printer and following the steps below – remember, these tips are NOT just for deleting the printer but … Continue reading
Networking and Internet problems? Try this
Are you having problems with networking or using the internet? Open a command prompt as an administrator. Run the following commands (or copy and paste into the cmd prompt) – route -f ipconfig /release ipconfig /renew arp -d nbtstat -R … Continue reading
Posted in computer troubleshooting, Home Networking, Information Technology, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, network, Networking, Technology, troubleshooting, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server, Wireless
Tagged internet troubleshooting, network, Network Troubleshooting
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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
DotNet 3.5 failed or won’t install Server 2012
If DotNet 3.5 won’t install or fails to install on Server 2012 (Under Features), there is a work around. You may see this when installing – Cancel the installation Insert your Windows DVD and open PowerShell – Type the following … Continue reading
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