Cortana the voice assistant from Microsoft will be a separate app in the release of Windows 10 build 2004 or 20H1. In our case even disabling Cortana from the Group Policies did not work as effective as we would have liked. Weird bugs started appearing that disabled Cortana on the second screen but did not …
A common issue that I find when helping other people with their computers is that a lot of software is not up to date and sometimes even the out of date version that is installed has known security issues that can be resolved by updating to the latest version of that software. Now on Windows …
When looking around for an easy way to clean up servers and the accounts that use the servers I wanted a way to clear the Recycle Bins for all users. Consultants leave a lot of crap around on servers apparently. However because we use various versions of PowerShell there are various methods of doing so. …
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Normally I would suggest people to start running a virtual machine that needs backing up on something else other than VirtualBox however because of my recent migration from VMWare to VirtualBox this question arose. I am a Windows Insider and I use a VM to test the image and new features. During this process I …
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Just installing the updates might not be enough in some cases. Some computers needs registry values and keys created and set to enable the mitigations that Microsoft released for Windows 10. To smooth out this process I created a simple script for myself that allows you to remotely set the registry keys and values required …
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I am always changing my tools up to whatever at that time feels good to use. After the recent updates to Virtualbox I decided that I would like to use it again however the issue that I had at the time was that I had so many virtual machines that it was a pain for …
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So this post is about the hobby project I was referring to in the previous post. It is just an teaser for now but here goes. I am working on a replacement for the Windows Explorer. In my day to day work I come across the Windows Explorer a lot and I mean a lot …