I don’t often install anything from the Windows App Store. I’m not a fan..the terribly unhelpful UI I’m about to moan about being one of those reasons. This morning there was something I wanted to try that was only available there. So I found the app in question. Tried to install it and was presented
Category: Windows
The System Administrator Has Set Policies To Prevent This Installation
I saw this error message while trying to install Adobe Reader this week and was sure I’d written about it before. I clearly hadn’t as I found it in my “to blog” section in OneNote. First thing that sprang to mind was that it might be related to a Software Restriction Policy but I couldn’t
Task Manager Closes Straight After Opening
I was trying to install a program on my laptop and was having some problems. It looked like the installer was stuck so I wanted to use task manager to kill the process. Unfortunately, as soon as I opened Task Manager it would immediately close. I had seen something like this a long time ago
Error 0x80073701 When Adding Or Removing Server Roles
Last week I was removing a really old Window Server 2008 domain controller. As part of that process I needed to remove the Active Directory Certificate Services role. It took an absolute age and looked like nothing was happening for a while. Eventually I got an error code “0x80073701. The referenced assembly could not be
Windows 10 Broken After 1803 install
I’ve been meaning to document this somewhere for ages as a note for future reference! When my PC in the office updated to Windows 10 1803 I had a bit of a problem… Logging in took an age and I was then presented with the following error C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\Desktop refers to a location that is unavailable.
DNS Server Can’t Resolve Against Itself
What an exciting, eye catching headline! We took a call from a potentially new customer who were unhappy with their current support provider. I went to take a look at the system and the main technical issues they were describing all seemed to be DNS related. There were immediately several things that jumped out to
Command Prompt and the Clipboard
Filed under “I didn’t know you could do that”. Something I discovered recently I thought it was one of those things I’d just missed over the years but after a conversation I had in the office I thought it might be worth sharing here too. Normally when working with the command prompt if you want
Linx 8 Tablet
I was recently fortunate enough to win a Linx 8 tablet in a competition the Microsoft UK partner team were running. Up until this point my tablet of choice was an original Surface RT. Unfortunately, in recent months I’ve used that tablet more and more just for Office. It’s immensely useful for OneNote and Outlook
Close Programs To Prevent Information Loss
I felt like such a noob when I realised what this was I thought I’d publicly shame myself so it doesn’t happen again. For a few weeks I’d been getting pop-ups on my computer warning about low memory and impending data loss! Internet Explorer or Chrome were usually the programs it reported needed to be closed
Activate Remote Desktop Remotely–Revisited
I wrote about how to achieve this way back in 2007! It’s one of the more popular things I’ve written about and I still refer back to it pretty often. The steps were for Windows XP and mostly worked for Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. That said there are more options available now