How should I disable or stop Microsoft Edge from opening PDF files by default. Most of us know how to disable PDF viewer in Google Chrome but MS Edge with the latest Chromium browser and it does things differently. Follow below steps to avoid Edge opening PDF files.
Read More »How to Disable or Stop Microsoft Edge from Opening PDF FilesSometimes, documents you’re printing get stuck in the printer’s queue, preventing further documents from being printed. Here’s how to fix it when that happens.
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What happens when Windows 8 or 8.1 shows the following mysterious message whenever you try to connect to your wireless network?
This connection has limited or no connectivity. No internet access
Or maybe you’ve seen this short message:
The connection is limited
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In many companies the network has been configured for Windows PC’s to connect to a local server for Microsoft Updates. Usually running Windows Server Updates Server or WSUS for short.
If it [WSUS] has an issue and updates aren’t being pulled down, but you need to update a PC urgently, then you can do the following to turn off WSUS for that PC, which will then permit you to get updates directly from Microsoft Servers.
Windows will create a temporary profile when it is unable to read the user profile files. Commonly users might not notice unless they run into some problems.
This will lead to some unusual experience like even though temp profile user is an administrator, the account may not able to perform the administrative operations.
Read More »Delete a Temp/Corrupted User Profile in Windows Server 2008 and later
Green means encrypted, Blue means compressed.
Files & folders names in blue or green is nothing but the feature in Windows called as NTFS (New Technology File System) file system. If the file or folder is compressed to save space on your hard disk and when a file or folder gets compressed, Windows shows its name in blue color to make them easier to identify. Similarly, if a file or folder is encrypted, name is shown in green color.
Read More »Windows show Some Files and Folder Names in Blue or Green Color in Windows Explorer
Windows 10 Pro, Education and Enterprise editions come with a built-in hypervisor client Hyper-V allowing users to create and run other operating systems on a virtual machine. Although Hyper-V is mainly designed to run Windows guests it can also be used to virtually install other operating systems like various Linux versions.
If you ever have trouble with a service being stuck in a ‘starting’ or ‘stopping’ state, you can run a couple of simple commands to kill the service as mentioned in the steps below:
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