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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
SOLVED: Windows 10 Keyboard Typing Random Characters
UPDATE 30 Dec 2019: After visiting family and finding they had the same issue with random characters in the save dialog box, I realised the only common software we had on our systems other than the Wi ...
Which Versions of Windows Include Bitlocker?
BitLocker is Microsoft’s native windows encryption tool. It first appeared – albeit in a limited format – on Windows Vista and has been available on Pro or Enterprise Windows versio ...
Plesk dbg_entries.myd Huge File Size
During some recent house keeping on our web server, I found that a lot of hard drive space (9GB) was being eaten up by a MySQL database in the form of a file called dbg_entries.MYD within the Plesk bi ...
Server 2012 R2 Essentials “Cannot connect this computer to the network”
Last week I finally got around to replacing the ailing SBS 2011 Server with , prompted in part by finally migrating our email accounts to the cloud. I was very impressed with the ease with which it is ...
Solution: The task image is corrupt or has been tampered with
I recently had to move my computer from one domain to another and doing so caused a few glitches, one of which was it broke a scheduled task I had created. Every time I ran the Task Scheduler in Wind ...
Solution: Small Business Server (SBS) Windows Update Error 80072EFD
When checking on one of our Small Business Servers recently I discovered that it hadn’t updated itself in a while – I attempted to manually run the error but got a message saying that Wind ...