Tag: Windows 10
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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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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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[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…
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Edge and packaged apps won’t launch in Windows 10
We have a Windows 7 domain and don’t use any packaged applications. These were introduced with Windows 8 and allow the secure distribution and installation of apps from an app store. Windows 8 and Windows 10 both give access to the Windows Store and it is (or will be) possible to have a Company Store…
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A WMI filter to target Windows 10 computers
We have a domain with over 900 Windows 7 computers and we are starting to test Windows 10. It is useful to be able to target Group Policies at just Windows 10 devices and to do this we can use a WMI filter. Now we are introducing Windows 10 computers to our domain we need…
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Support Users with both Windows 10 and Windows 7 profiles
We are starting to test Windows 10 in our enterprise. We have roaming users and there are known issues around profile management. From AppSense, In fact, if you look into profile version compatibility (you should, it’s a fascinating read) you’ll see that profiles are only ever compatible between one desktop and one server. So, Windows…
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How to enable ACPI Shutdown in VirtualBox
A VirtualBox guest computer runs in a window. When you click [X] or click the Machine menu there is the option “ACPI Shutdown”. Ubuntu Guests To enable this on Ubuntu guests from https://community.bitnami.com/t/mac-host-controlled-shutdown-of-vbox-rubystack-3-2-1/2904 Windows Guests To enable this on Windows 10 guests Control Panel > Power Options > Choose what the power buttons do> When…
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