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: Windows
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 ...
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 (awesome laptop by the way) when using it with my . If I didn’t move the mouse for 5 seconds (even if I was typing and so the lapt ...
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 ...
Solved: Dell Mouse Freezes After Seconds of Inactivity
I recently got a which I love and I paired it with a basic . Unfortunately, an issue that seems to come and go is the mouse freezing when it isn’t used for over 5 seconds. This is long enough t ...
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 ...
Delete the OneDrive – Personal folder from Windows Explorer
When I deploy OneDrive for Business on Windows 10 PCs, for some reason I’ve never understood, Windows 10 continues to show a OneDrive – Personal folder in Windows Explorer even though I do ...
Solved: PC or Mouse freeze on Windows 10 with DCom DistributedCOM Error (Event ID 10016)
I recently purchased two new with distinctly different base systems (one is an and the other an ) yet I’ve been seeing some odd behavior from both whereby the mouse cursor freezes or disappears ...