I have some VM’s running Windows 11 that don’t have a virtual TPM chip associated. So upgrading to 25H2 was proving difficult because Windows Update wouldn’t pull it down. Did some digging and found the option to run setup from and elevated command prompt using: setup.exe /product server That option worked great and allowed me…

Microsoft is changing things again. If you have WSUS running in your environment you may not be able to install the familiar RSAT tools (at least not without a little work). I’ve found a couple of sites that talk about disabling WSUS temporarily so you can install the RSAT tools using “Feature On Demand” option.…

At work we have a department that has about 40 printer objects installed.  These objects all have different printer preferences set.  When a new user logs into the PC those settings don’t carry over.  So you have to touch each printer and set the preferences again.  After doing some searching we found out where those…

It is rare that I install Windows 7 any more, but I had to do that today.  I started with a clean install of Windows 7 SP1.  When I got to the point I wanted to install Windows updates I started it and let it run.  It hung at the “Checking for Updates” screen.  Apparently,…

Insert or mount your Windows 10 disc. Open a Command Prompt as Administrator. Enter the following:  dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess NOTE:  Change “D:” after the /Source switch to the drive that contains the disc. This should work with Windows 7, 8, and 8.1.

Here is a link to a document I put together for preparing a USB drive for installing Windows 7 or 8. PDF Document

So I got a new laptop at work the other day. Just like any computer that I get I do a complete wipe and reload from the OS up just because I don’t like all the extra stuff that comes preloaded. So I grab my Windows 7 x64 with SP1 disc and do the install.…

I had a computer at work that was running Windows XP SP3 and it got infected with a fake AV product. I ran MalwareBytes on the computer and cleaned up the infection. I thought everything was working until the person tried to print. They got a message that said: “Before you can perform printer-related tasks…

We have had issues with WordPerfect being slow when opening files in the past. It was usually because a printer was offline. However, this time around the same problem was happening. The user could hit the Open button on the toolbar and could navigate to one folder, but when they tried to navigate into a…