HP Smart requires sign-in to scan – GDPR anyone?
As many users have discovered, HP made a change to the HP Smart multifunction printer utility in 2020 that means – all of sudden and with no option to decline, you need to create a HP.com accoun ...
Category Archives: Software
SOLVED: Slow upload/upstream for one device (Windows 10)
I recently had a very frustrating issue where my laptop was struggling to upload anything to anywhere (OneDrive, photo uploads, etc.) were appalling but other than that, everything was running fine. F ...
Windows Server 2022 performance issues & dashboard not loading
Spoiler alert: the problem for me was a recent update from Microsoft: KB5011497 I recently had one of those days when reconfiguring a domain controller I’d been playing with to start using it pr ...
Solution: Display Problems and/or Photoshop Crashing with Dell D6000 Dock
After a recent reinstall of Windows 10 on my laptop, I suddently discovered that Photoshop would no longer load – it crashed at the point of “initializing html surfaces”, presenting ...
Photoshop: Your graphics processor is incompatible
Today I upgraded to Photoshop 2022 (specifically version 23.0.0 20211013.r.36 623993d x64) and when I launched it, was greeted with the fairly unhelpful message “Your graphics processor is incom ...
Bluetooth Mouse Freezes after Inactivity
I noticed intermittent frustrating behaviour with my shiny new [easyazon_link keywords=”Dell Inspiron 7000″ locale=”US” tag=”bobmckay-20″]Dell Inspiron 7490[/easyaz ...
Outlook 365 Message Blank or Text Not Showing Correctly
Jump to workarounds at the bottom Tonight my wife asked me to take a look at her Outlook client as it was “being weird” with all her email messages either showing as blank or flashing up f ...
Splatoon 2 Abilities Cheatsheet (Printable PDF)
So myself and the kids are addicted to Splatoon 2 at the moment but don’t really know what all of the abiltiies (power ups) do, so I decided to try and find a cheatsheet we could print off and k ...
Solved: Dell Mouse Freezes After Seconds of Inactivity
I recently got a [easyazon_link keywords=”Dell Inspiron 7490″ locale=”US” tag=”bobmckay-20″]Dell Inspiron 7490[/easyazon_link] which I love and I paired it with a b ...
Outlook’s Simple Missing InfoSec Feature
As we all know, one of the biggest threats/risks to an organisations security are its users – every presentation you see has the ‘surprising’ statistic of just how many breaches star ...