Category: Windows Desktop
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MsMpEng.exe High CPU Issue – replace with Avast! Free
I have a Windows 7 i3 laptop that has worked well for many years. I have always liked Microsoft Security Essentials because it just worked. However this is no longer the case. I am embracing the cloud and have installed OneDrive OneDrive for Business Dropbox Microsoft Office 365 including OneNote etc The sync activity associated…
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How to fix OneDrive for Business “1 file remaining” issue and other issues
At the moment (June 2015) Microsoft has three sync engines in the market, two are a bit rubbish and they plan to have a single one by Christmas. The good one is the consumer version of OneDrive that can be downloaded and installed into Windows 7. This works brilliantly which in the case of sync engines…
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How to upgrade from Office 2010 to Office 365 (Office 2013)
I am an IT consultant and I use my personal laptop for work with many clients. I am the happy owner of Microsoft Office Professional 2010 that I have configured nicely and used with no difficulty for many years. My set up is Windows 7 Home Premium Microsoft Office 2010 Word 2010 Excel 2010 Access 2010…
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How to create numbered appendices in Word 2013
I have wasted hours of my life trying to make Word number a document correctly. My first attempt was 25 years ago when I was doing my thesis. I gave up and retyped it in Tex. Time has moved on by Ph.D students are still fighting this war and one at least has won the…
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Ouch – PDF might not preserve your website
I have a some very valuable website content that I have archived by printing to PDF using Adobe Acrobat Professional. What follows is true for websites but also any other sort of file you want to preserve. The take-away from the post is that if you want to preserve digital content and be able to…
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List files, directories and sizes at the command prompt
Any Windows system administrator frequently has to find out why a disk is full and my favourite tool for this is Windirstat. Unfortunately Windirstat does not easily allow you to export the results to a CSV file for analysis. I intend to import the CSV file into Excel and then create a pivot table that…
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Turn your laptop into a WiFi hotspot
I travel to client’s offices and sometimes I might have a wired network connection but no WiFi connection. This sometimes happens when the WiFi is strongly secured or no-one knows the password. In this case it is really useful to be able to turn my laptop into a WiFi hotspot so I can use my…
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Why you will need a new desktop one day
The basic problem for PC manufacturers is that there is no reason to replacement. Most PCs will now happily run Microsoft Office and process video. What more do you need? Microsoft’s (possible) response, 3D everywhere; 3D interfaces (think Kinect), 3D printing and 3D visualisations. There is a good article here, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/29/windows_10_heralds_the_minecraftisation_of_microsoft/
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“copy as path” on the right-click menu in Windows Explorer
How many thousands of time have I copied the directory of a file onto the clipboard and then manually typed in the file name. Amazingly if you simply “shift” + “right click” on a file in Windows Explorer then the option “Copy as path” appears. It’s that simple. If you need further guidance look here.…
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How to backup data to OneDrive in “real-time”
I am setting up my daughter’s laptop for university. As a student she can purchase Microsoft 365 University edition for a small price for 4 years. This comes with 1 TB cloud storage called OneDrive. This is highly available, redundant storage that should be utilised as much as possible. When planning backup schemes we need…
Dr James Bayley 