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Category Archives: Windows 7
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While I’d like to guess that over 98% of the computers that I have worked on that are privately owned; the drivers were out of date or missing critical drivers that other drivers rely on.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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Need System Information? Use PowerShell
If you need system information about your BIOS, Motherboard and more, open PowerShell as an Administrator and past the following into PowerShell – Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_ComputerSystem Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_BIOS Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_Baseboard Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_Processor Get-WMIObject -Class Win32_LogicalDisk Get-WMIObject -Class … Continue reading
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
Error 1935 while installing Office
If you receive the error 1935, take the following steps- Make sure you have C++ Redistributables Link Uninstall Office (Make sure you have any documents backed up) Run the Office Installation Cleaner (easy fix two found in Option Two at the … 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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Should you disable 8dot3 for performance and security?
Microsoft did recommend to disable short names in a security guide some times back. There is evidence that file operations in directories (folders) that contain a large number of file can be slowed by short file name creations. So does … Continue reading
Posted in Computer Security, Microsoft, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows 10, Technology, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 10 Quick Tips, Windows 7, Windows Security, Windows Server
Tagged 8dot3, Server, short file name, Windows, windows server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012
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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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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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GeGeek Toolkit Review 2018 ver. 11.41
We did a review of GeGeek’s Toolkit back in 2014 after hearing about the website and toolkit from Rick over at “What’s On My PC’. Recently, Jason of GeGeek reached out to us and gave us the latest release of … Continue reading
Understanding DNS
Here’s a couple of articles over the basics of DNS services Quick review of flushdns, registerdns, and DNS queries Active Directory Internal Naming and DNS Strategy Understanding DNS How to flush the DNS cache on Mac, Linux or Windows Lost … Continue reading
Posted in computer troubleshooting, Computers, Home Networking, 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 dns, DNS Network, networking, Windows DNS
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vEthernet adapters left after uninstalling Hyper-V
If you have ever installed Hyper-V, you may have noticed left over vEthernet adapters. You may also noticed that you have issues with TCP/IP. Here’s what to do. Open a command prompt or PowerShell as an Administrator Type netcfg -d … Continue reading
Privacy – Use WebRTC Network Limiter for Chrome
Other than using a VPN, you can use WebRTC Network Limiter for Chrome to help protect information that may leak on the internet. Go to IPLeak.net – Analyze your computer and follow the tips listed at the end of the … Continue reading
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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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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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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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
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
Network Throttling Index
Did you know that Windows implements a network throttling mechanism that will restrict and slow network traffic when regular (not multimedia) traffic is transferred? This traffic can be around 10ish packets per ms which is just over 100 megabits per … Continue reading
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