Category: NZTekonverse -> Windows
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Resolving long path errors deleting files in Windows
One of the most detested situations in just about any version of Windows is to receive the message that the path to a file or folder is too long. There are a number of variations of this message but one that is commonly seen when trying to delete files is “The source filenames are larger…
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How to stop the popup notifications in Windows 10
If you have computers that are used continuously or exclusively for presentation then you may want to look at ways of stopping popup or toast notifications in Windows 10. After all one of the most annoying notifications is the one for new updates which is modal and therefore unable to be ignored, then it opens…
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Using Windows 7 Photo Viewer in Windows 10
There is a great reason for this 🙂 I like the Windows Photo Viewer which offers one-handed zooming with the mouse wheel and you just use the arrow keys on the keyboard to move to the next image. On the new Windows 10 photo viewer you have to press Ctrl to zoom with the mouse…
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Changing Windows 10 update settings
If you have Windows 10 Pro, Education or Enterprise, you may yearn for the original (since Windows XP) granularity of Windows Update settings. The GUI offered in 10’s regular Settings screen only gives a limited range of options, and unlike many of the areas of the settings screen, the Control Panel version of the Updates…
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Nokia Lumia 635 a worthy replacement for Lumia 520
Not quite two years ago I blogged that I was getting a Lumia 520 phone, which was thrown in free with the Smart 45 plan I was on. The Lumia 520 held up quite well; it got dropped more times than I would have liked, but spending most of its time in a pouch meant…
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Using Powershell to monitor AD account creation
http://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/76915-automatic-report-about-newly-created-user-accounts-to-an-e-mail Here’s a neat article about how to monitor event logs on a domain controller that cause a script to run whenever a new user account is created. The main limitation I see is it will only work on the DC that the account was created on. We really need a generic one that will…