So, one of your employees learned how to upload the photo that appears next to their name in Outlook. Now, everyone is uploading glamour shots and pictures of their dogs. Some of them are uploading their picture upside-down and they can’t figure out how to change it. These pictures are normally used to identify employees, […]
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View and Remove Display Languages in Windows
Unnecessary display languages can use a huge chunk of disk space. According to Microsoft, “Having too many affects disk space, and can affect performance, especially while updating and servicing Windows.” In my own experience, language packs can take as much as 20-25GB of disk space. There are a lot of resources about installing and removing […]
Pixelated Text in Chrome
Sometimes the text quality in Chrome suddenly appears very pixelated. The solution to this is fairly simple, but can be frustrating to fix if you don’t know where to look. First, here’s an example of the janky text: This is the same text after enabling “LCD text antialiasing”: Here’s what you need to do to […]
N-central MSP Connect Option Grayed Out
On occasion, the MSP Connect function will cease to exist. No going away note. No mint on the pillow. It’s just gone. The Remote Control button is a lifeless gray: The MSP Connect option is gone from the drop-down menu: All the other functions appear to be working. The CPU and memory usage monitors appear […]
Getting the Model Number from a Command-line
This is a handy way to get the model of your computer from the command line. Should work on most systems: wmic csproduct get name This can be useful in a number of situations: Finding the model number on a remote computer where you can’t physically look for the model You don’t want to open […]
Blank Screen on Pixel 2 When Receiving a Call (UPDATED 26 Jan 2018)
This issue seems to be a problem with the current Phone app on the Pixel 2 when connected to Bluetooth. On my phone the app is listed as version 15.0.179075669. (I’d be interested to know if it affects other phone models – leave a comment.) When receiving an incoming call while connected to Bluetooth, the […]
Different Wallpapers for Each Monitor (Windows 10)
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 […]
Drag and Drop Message to Create New Appointment
This article is more of a stub. Please don’t judge me. In the olden days (back before Office 365) I used to drag my emails to the To-Do Bar calendar to create quick meetings or appointments. Dropping the dragged email on a date popped open a new meeting with the subject and body pre-filled. I […]
Windows 7 Stuck “Checking for Updates”
Have you tried patching a fresh install of Windows 7 lately? If you’re reading this then you’re probably stuck checking for updates right now. I’ve seen a lot of articles explaining tons of ways to fix the perpetually checking issue. Not only are the articles usually difficult to follow, but none of them worked for […]
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 […]