Feb 12
Having trouble with your Windows activation on an OEM device? You might be able to fix it by retrieving the key from the bios. Run this in Powershell (Elevation should not be needed) If your device came with a license this command will show the key (looks like this: XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX) Next you’ll want to check …
Feb 11
Hi all, Last Thursday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25295 to the Dev Channel. Upgrades went smooth here, spotted some new stuff: Task Manager shows a different results in performance & details tab (Feedback Hub: https://aka.ms/AAjlw92) As shown in the screenshot above CPU load seems 100% while the processor is only throttled at 1.93 Ghz, …
Feb 05
Running the previous build of Windows 11 or Windows 10 and the new build is not showing up for you? Checked updates in setting with no new build available? This might be due to policies set on your device trough Group policies or Intune set by you company admin. If those are not interfering with …
Jan 28
Need to split audio from a video file or just remove the sound track? This has become quite easy with the new inbox Windows 11 app ‘Clipchamp – Video editor’ If the app has not landed on your device yet or was removed, you can grab it in the Microsoft Store > here < lots …
Jan 21
Hi all, last Thusday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25281 to the Dev Channel. Notepad is getting Tabs, currently rolling out to devices in the dev channel. Dedicated Blog Post Snipping Tool is running into a strange issue when using deffent DPI scaled monitors, the resulting snip might be missing a part in the resulting …
Jan 14
Hi all, Last Thursday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25276 to the Dev Channel. A strange issue affecting only a few upgrades is a very long wait at a little over 64% complete, is feels like the update is just stuck but if you give it time the upgrade completes without error. It happened to …
Jan 14
Yesterday, January 13th an unintentional impact was triggered by a pattern update (1.381.2140.0) to users that had the ASR rule “Block Win32 API calls from Office macro” set to block mode. The impact was hard to miss, shortcuts pinned to taskbar & in the start menu went missing. The best thing to do was change …
Jan 07
Hi all, Happy 2023 !, last Thursday Microsoft released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25272 to the Dev Channel, the 1st Insider release of the new year! My 1st impression after upgrade was ‘this feels faster’ than before… hard to quantify but overall performance & response seems even faster than with previous builds Startup pane in Task …
