Oct 2, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Remove Windows 10 Pre-Installed Apps

Introduction You just installed Windows 10 and have been getting the feel of Microsoft’s latest version and notice there is alot of extra stuff installed. Windows 10 comes with a bunch of pre-installed apps. Fortunately, you can use PowerShell to remove any app you don’t like. You will need Administrator privileges to remove them from your system. Step 1 – Open a PowerShell Session Open... read more

Sep 23, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Remove Spam Virus on Microsoft Edge on Windows 10

As more and more users upgrade their systems to Windows 10 and or buy new systems with Windows 10 we are seeing more and more issues with Microsoft Edge, Microsoft’s new browser. With new features and new experience of this new OS, users are starting to encounter lots of errors and computer viruses due to the imperfections of Windows 10 and Microsoft Edge browser. Since Windows 10 and Edge browser... read more

Sep 20, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How to Setup iSCSI on Windows 2008 R2

Here is one of those topics you do not see much, sure there are basics on setting up the Microsoft iSCSI Initiator but what about the details in adding the whole thing, well here it it is!. Overview In this post we will be configuring a NIC just for accessing the storage, configuring the iSCSI Initiator, then adding the storage to the server. Configure the iSCSI NICS on Server Before we can configure the... read more

Sep 18, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Force Delete NTUSER.DAT File on Windows 2003

Have you ever ran into the issue where you cannot delete the profile of a long gone user account on a server? Usually the file it complains about is ntuser.dat. Well no more worries. This is how you delete it using the User Profile Hive Cleanup Service. The User Profile Hive Cleanup service helps to ensure user sessions are completely terminated when a user logs off. System processes and applications... read more

Sep 16, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Retrieving Hyperthreading CPU Information on Windows 2008 R2 using PowerShell and CoreInfo

Sometimes you just need to get specific information about the processor and the settings on a server and you really don’t want to get into the BIOS and dig around and find it. There are many ways that we can do that but for this post let’s use PowerShell and a SysInternals tool called CoreInfo. This post is due to a customer request on information from a remote physical server. CoreInfo... read more