VIDEO: Social Media Is Killing Us
These videos, in reverse order, are my favourites at explaining why Social Media is killing us. Two of them have one notable awards. “We are sacrificing CONVERSATION for CONNECTION…” to people we...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Display the Detailed Properties of an Exchange Send Connector
To see the Detailed Properties of an Exchange Send Connector you can use a simple Exchange Management Shell command: Get-SendConnector | list Share This With Your Friends Now:
View ArticleSOLVED: REMOTEAPP AND DESKTOP CONNECTIONS Error 0x80072efe
If you see ERROR 0x80072efe in your RemoteApp and Desktop Connections WORK RESOURCES window, you likely need to poke a hole in your Antivirus. I my case, I just turned off Kaspersky, updated, and then...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to CALL Microsoft on the PHONE to Activate your Windows or Office...
Below is the help file from a Windows Activation screen. It contains all of the phone numbers Microsoft has worldwide for its activation centers: To activate your product over the telephone, use one...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Create Links To “POST TO FACEBOOK”, “TWEET THIS” or Other...
If you want to create buttons in your email or on your website that link to a particular web page, what you need to do is copy the complete address you want to reference and append it to the links...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Disable Password Expiry and Password Complexity Rules in...
If you want to stop Office 365 passwords from expiring and / or you want to eliminate the password complexity requirements you must use PowerShell as these changes are not permitted through the Office...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Make Windows Defender to Update Automatically
There are two ways to set Windows Defender (Security Essentials) to automatically update and the first is to set WINDOWS UPDATE to automatically install all updates. The other way is to create a new...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Find the MAC Address of Your WiFi Card on a Samsung S3 Android...
If you need the MAC address from your cell phone, you are on the right page: Android 4.4 MAC Address – Samsung Galaxy S3 Get into your SETTINGS: From any screen swipe down from the top of the screen to...
View ArticleApple iPhone 6 Specifications and iWatch – A Total Yawn
Today Apple released the iPhone 6 to the drooling masses. It turns out the masses should be drooling… from the sleep that is. Below are the major features and specifications of the iPhone 6 HD...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Change The Session Time out Settings on a Remote Desktop...
In Server 2012 what used to be called REMOTE DESKTOP MANAGEMENT SERVER (RDMS) which contains most of the Remote Desktop configuration settings, is now buried in the new SERVER MANAGER under QUICK...
View ArticleSOLVED: Cannot Install 3.5 On Windows 8.1Error 0x800F0906 and 0x800F081F
If you are unable to install .NET 3.5 on Windows 8 or 8.1 and end up with errors like 0x800F0906 and 0x800F081F you will find that errors relate to corrupt or limited access to the source files. In...
View Article5 Passwords You Should Never Use
There are soooo many stories in the news about hackers cracking passwords. Sometimes these hacks are based on flaws in security systems (i.e. like ways around automatic account locking after 3 failed...
View ArticleSOLVED: Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file –...
After installing a Windows 8.1 image on a Surface Pro 3 tablet, built using the approved Microsoft method of: sysprep /oobe /generalize /shutdown /unattend:C:\Autounattend.xml with the AutoUnattend...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Change Your Email Signature on an Android 4 Samsung Galaxy S3
The process to change (or set) your email signature on an Android 4 Samsung Galaxy S3 S4 or S5 is quite easy: Open your email Click the MENU button (hidden button to the left of the physical HOME bar...
View ArticleVIDEO SHOCKER: Windows 9 Gets a START Menu
Yes, boys and girls there is some sanity left at Microsoft. After removing such useful features as transparent window frames, Win+Tab movement and the Start BUTTON from Windows 8, they have re-added...
View ArticleSolved: Where is Windows 10 Server?
Now that Windows 9… I mean Windows 10 desktop client has been released in Beta, you may be asking yourself, where is Windows 10 Server (likely to be named Windows Server 2015)? Well, that is a fine...
View ArticleSOLVED: Overtype / Insert Is Not Working in Word 2013
The short answer is, you are correct. Microsoft has intentionally disabled that functionality in Word 2013. In Excel 2013 the INSERT key still overtypes as you would expect. The long answer is, you...
View ArticleSOLVED: Windows 8.1 Update 1 Does Not Show Title Bar With X Close and Minimize
That is correct… if you are using your finger or a stylus. What!? Microsoft decided that if TOUCH is being used title bars on Apps will NOT appear but if you use a MOUSE they will. The short answer...
View ArticleNEWS: Apple iPhone 6 #cameragate #bendgate #hairgate #dyegate
All I seem to hear about Apple these days are problems with the iPhone 6 and how the company has lost it’s mojo in general. Tonight a friend of mine was saying how unhappy he is that his iPhone 6 plus...
View ArticleSOLVED: How to Enter to BIOS on a Windows 8 Asus T100 Tablet
SHORT ANSWER: The Asus T100 is a normal PC and so you can enter the BIOS by rapidly pressing the F2 key on boot up. LONG ANSWER: To be precise the Asus T100 and most newer computers have scrapped the...
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