Category: Windows 10
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Fixed: Microsoft Teams Meeting button missing in Outlook Desktop
My daughter’s lap is 5 years old and started misbehaving. I advised her to “reset” it and do a clean install of all the applications that she uses. After installing Microsoft Teams and then Microsoft Office the “Microsoft Teams Meeting” button was missing in the Outlook Desktop application. On inspection of Outlook I found that…
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Will Windows become a Linux emulation layer?
Amid the tedium of the new normal, a fun article to read. The argument is that Microsoft’s present and future is cloud services and therefore maintaining the Windows operating system will become a tedious expense that is better passed to the open source community (ie. people who write and test code with no expense to…
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Fixed: HP Photosmart C5100 Only Prints Last Page of Document
If your HP Photosmart C5100 or similar printer has started only printing the last page of any document then you have a issue with newly updated drivers. The standard steps to resolution are, Run the printing troubleshooter Delete the printer, remove the drivers and reinstall If you have tried these and they did not work…
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Windows 10 Creators Update: How to turn off focused inbox
If there is one thing that is guaranteed to make me fume with anger it is vendors mucking about with my email. I think that ordinary home users should use Office 365 and Microsoft email services. Outlook.com offers you a free mail account with an *@outlook.com address. You can also use it with other addresses…
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Windows 10 Parental Controls don’t work
I have been testing Windows 10 parental controls and they simply don’t work. Many others have this experience. http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-security/windows-10-family-safety-screen-time-limits-not/57689ce1-6638-4d44-8f2f-9af82138375c They simply do not reliably impose screen time limits and in some cases do not even successfully filter porn. A limitation (not a bug) is that filtering only works with IE and Edge so you must…
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How long does it take to reset Windows 10?
My own laptop has broken so I needed to borrow a new one from work. I took a pre-used Microsoft Surface 3. After I had transferred my data and applications it began behaving strangely. I ran and found that there were errors. Therefore I decided to reset the Microsoft Surface 3. “Reset” is a feature…
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Laptops and 2 in 1 for use with a pen
I am doing work in a school and we are developing our mobile device strategy carefully. At present we believe that devices with touch screens that support pen input may be very useful. We have several teachers who find that pen input on the Microsoft Surface range transforms the way that they work and want…
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What matters is WordPress and Office 365
Two years ago I placed a bet on what matters in IT and I said it was WordPress and Office 365. I think I won. WordPress powers 25% of the web and the new REST API coming out later this year will drive that upwards. There is a good article that discusses this here. Office…
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Adding a MicroSD card to a Surface Pro 4
I have a Surface Pro 4 with a 256 GB SSD and I am running a couple of virtual machines for development purposes. Each time I snapshot them it uses more storage and I am running low on space. To increase the storage space I have purchased a 128 GB Kingston MicroSD card these come…
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[Fixed] Windows 10 roaming profiles break Edge and other packaged applications
— Update 2017-12-15 — I think Roaming Profiles are now deprecated. I will be moving all my users to Local Profiles supplemented by User Experience Virtualisation (UE-V) over the next 12 months. See comments below. — I have recently been imaging Microsoft Surface 3 computers for use by staff in a school. All our staff…
Dr James Bayley 