Category: Windows
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How to add a static IP to a Virtualbox on your laptop
I believe that all development should be done on virtual machines because of the ability to backup and restore them as simple files. I use my Microsoft Surface Pro 4 as the host and and have two guests; a Windows 10 development box with IntelliJ and PuTTY on it and a Bitnami WordPress appliance that…
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NPL Time Server
Today my PC clock was wrong by 30 minutes and it would not synchronize with time.windows.com. Eventually I found the UK time server, ntp1.npl.co.uk This worked fine.
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FIXED: “One or more network protocols are missing on this computer”
–Updates — 2016-03-11 Updated to note requirement to remove non-Microsoft anti-virus and firewalls 2016-01-24 refactored to give clearer path 2016-04-05 updated to remove anti-malware and suggest replacing the network card. 2016-04-06 updated to include restoring to a system restore point — I have a lovely new Microsoft Surface Pro 4 but after the November 2015…
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How to force OneDrive to sync
I often take a photo with my phone so that I can use it on my PC. I use OneDrive’s automatic Camera Roll upload so it goes upto OneDrive in the cloud. Sometimes the PC does not notice the change in cloud and bring down the file. To force the PC to sync it is…
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Firefox shoots itself in the foot
Firefox has been my favourite browser for some time because of its low memory footprint and wide range of plugins. However it is now shooting itself in the foot. Since version 43 it has been requiring plug-ins to be signed. This is good for security but because some of the plugins that I use are…
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How to fix corrupt Windows 10
I have a Microsoft Surface 4 Pro and very nice it is too. Unfortunately it is shipped with the very first version of Windows 10 and after I updated it to the November 2015 edition version 10.0.10586.0 I had lots of networking problems. It kept claiming that I had no TCP/IP sockets. This could…
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Firefox does not play nice with Cortana
I hate using hunt and peck on the on-screen keyboard. I have started to use Cortana a lot when using my #surface Pro 4 in #tablet mode. For example, I can just say “Hey Cortana, goto bbc.com” and Cortana will open the bbc in Firefox 43.0.1 which is my default browser. After I started doing…
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Why you should use a Windows 10 PIN
Windows 10 suggests that you use a PIN to login to your computer and says that this is more secure than a password. These seems odd because obviously there are fewer possible values. This article explains the reasoning about PINs. In short, your Microsoft Account credentials are the crown jewels that you want to protect.…
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A workaround for Outlook.com not supporting attachments in appointments
Outlook.com is a free email and calendar server provided by Microsoft. It supports Exchange ActiveSync (commonly known as EAS) is a communications protocol designed for the synchronization of email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes from a messaging server to a smartphone or other mobile devices. EAS support is good because in practice it means that…
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Windows 10 USB headset microphone issues
To cut a very long story short. The plug and play installation of the driver failed. It was necessary to manually install the default driver in the Windows 10 distribution. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10/fix-sound-problems#v1h=tab01
Dr James Bayley 