As part of my day to day work I find my self forced into a Windows 7, Microsoft Office environment. This is already painful enough having to slog through the crippling security restrictions imposed on me by corporate InfoSec and … Continue reading
Today, after the July 2018 Patch Tuesday session for my wife’s Surface tablet she started complaining about everything locking up and her computer crashing. This was a problem because she had a large number of documents to scan in, which … Continue reading
So the last day or so I’ve been fighting with my Intel NUC and windows 10. Basically windows would update and then poof no video. After trying to determine the problem I decided it had to be video drivers. On … Continue reading
Windows 10 (at the time of this writing) apparently suffers from a host resolution bug inside of the “DNS Client” service. The bug results in host resolution failure. (DNS lookup failures) This can be addressed (sometimes) by flushing the DNS … Continue reading
One thing that’s been constantly bugging me, as well as my wife is the fact that in general, Samba (SMB) connectivity from our Windows 7 machines is spotty at best. In general we can connect, and transfer data to and … Continue reading
So yesterday the wife was complaining to me that her Adobe Lightroom installation was not working correctly. The problem she was having had to do with importing files into Lightroom. Basically what was going on was she would open Lightroom … Continue reading
Today I had the task of updating my backup system, for a long time I didn’t bother rolling backups because, well I just didn’t care. However I now wanted to set something up. I remembered long ago that I had … Continue reading
After successfully installing Windows 7 SP1 on my wife’s new workstation I noticed right away that the system was no longer able to access my Samba NAS. After searching around for a while and trying various tips, such as making … Continue reading
So… Unforantly for me, I had to reinstall Windows 7 on my wife’s work station. Personally I can’t stand Microsoft OS’s so this was quite the chore. To make things easier I decided to just install via USB disk (Who … Continue reading