I've been deploying more and more Snapdragon powered PCs for clients lately and generally they're really good. They are fast, the battery life is great and they run all the apps people are using – either natively or via translation....
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I've recently been building an SOE for a client using Windows 11 and Microsoft 365 with Autopilot and Intune. In order to streamline the whole process, I wanted to make a bootable Windows 11 installer that I could use to...
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None of the existing 64-bit printer drivers for Windows 10 or Windows 11 will work with Windows 11 on ARM. Xerox can make it tricky to find a print driver that works with Windows on ARM, and in many cases...
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I was setting up a new Surface Laptop (with a Snapdragon arm64 CPU in it – very nice) recently and as part of the setup procedure, I needed to upgrade it from Windows 11 Home to Windows 11 Pro so...
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I had a Mac recently that was really playing up with Spotlight. So much so that I couldn't even drag Macintosh HD into the Search Privacy window as it came up with an error – Privacy List Error: The item...
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I had an issue recently where a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 was unable to use the Microsoft Print to PDF printer. It was showing as installed in Optional Features, but it just wasn't there. After removing it from...
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A client of mine has got a couple of servers that I haven't touched in years and somewhere along the line I've lost track of the login credentials for them. I do however have the computers, and their passwords, saved...
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I had a company-owned MacBook Pro that was locked to an Apple ID using a company email address. Whilst I had the Apple ID password, I only discovered that the laptop was locked to a personal Apple ID after we...
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I recently took on a new client and in the process migrated their 3CX instance onto a new host as part of their onboarding process. In doing this, I took a backup of the previous system, spun up a new...
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I had a bunch of zip files from a Google Takeout that I needed to extract on macOS and deal with the contents. As it turns out, a LOT of the files in the archives had unicode characters in their...
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