You’ve got Windows 10 and two sweet monitors, but seeing the same picture on both screens is giving you a déjà vu headache. FORTUNATELY, this can be easily remedied. Put both images that you want to use in the same folder Select both images that you want to use for the background Right-click one of the […]
Category: Microsoft
N-central error: “…the specified account must have local administrator rights.”
Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to use a tool called N-central. It’s a SolarWinds product targeted towards MSPs. This isn’t the time nor the place to go into any kind of review of the product. Rather, this will be a starting point for what I suspect will be many necessary articles pertaining to N-central. On […]
“Windows could not complete the installation” Error – HOME Edition
This article is specifically aimed at users of Windows Home Edition. This is intended to help you fix the error that reads, “Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the installation.” At the error message, do the following: Press SHIFT+F10 to open the command prompt Type net user administrator <password> […]
Clean Install of Windows 10
You can perform a “clean” install of Windows 10. Eventually. The basic steps are these: Upgrade your previous Windows install to Windows 10 When the upgrade is complete, run a tool such as ProduKey to find your new Windows 10 key Run the Windows 10 install from media (DVD or USB) When prompted, enter the Windows […]
Disable Web Search in Windows 10
Do you wish Windows 10 would just let you search your stuff without giving you a bunch of useless web results from Bing? Bing? It’s a simple matter to disable web results when you’re searching in Windows 10. Just make the following change: Click the search box or button (pictured below) Click the Settings button […]
Remove OneDrive from Windows 10
This will remove OneDrive, but not uninstall it. For all intents and purposes I think this is a very effective solution. Remove OneDrive via Group Policy I’ve seen a lot of creative solutions for removing OneDrive but I think my way is better. You’ll need to be an administrator to do this. You’ll also need the Pro, […]
Remotely Modifying the Registry Using Regedit
This is one of my favorite tricks. I use this trick when someone’s Adobe suddenly decides to update so aggressively that the computer slows to a crawl. Or when Java keeps prompting to update even though auto updates are disabled. You can easily connect to the machine, make the change and the user never needs […]
Enable Remote Registry Access
By default, Windows does not allow remote access to the registry. To access the registry remotely you’ll first need start the Remote Registry service. There are multiple ways to achieve this; we’ll cover three ways here: Manually start the service (good option when building an image, not so good if the device is already remote) […]
UPDATED: “Windows could not complete the installation” Error After Joining a Domain During SysPrep
If you’re here, I’m sorry. You must be wearing quite a frown. The good news is that this error can be resolved, and without much trouble. While preparing an image you may get an error when you restart Windows that reads, “Windows could not complete the installation. To install Windows on this computer, restart the […]
Move a List or Calendar to a Different SharePoint Site
This process can be used to move either a list or calendar to another SharePoint site (including contents, if required) or to create a template to be used on the same site. SharePoint sees calendars as a type of list, so the process is similar regardless of whether you’re moving a list or a calendar. […]