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Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes Issue After installation of Windows Updates (Oct 2023) stand-alone, random Hyper-V VM’s fail to start with error: Synthetic SCSI Controller (ID): failed to power on with error ‘incorrect function’ Attachment <filename.vhdx> failed to open because [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: < 1 Minute Reset Your GPU In Windows 10 (Without A Reboot) Issue: Ever had your displays get out of whack, maybe random artifacts on the screen, abnormal font/icon sizes, etc?  There is a quick hotkey combination you [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: 3 Minutes Office 365 E-mails Are Not Sent (550 5.18 Bad Outbound Sender) Issue: When a user sends an email, it does not reach the recipient, instead getting a non-delivery kick back reporting the following error: 550 [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows Operating Systems (January 2020) Summary: On January 14, 2020, Microsoft released software fixes to address 49 vulnerabilities as part of their monthly Patch Tuesday announcement. Among the vulnerabilities patched were [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes The BlueKeep (CVE-2019-0708) Vulnerability Quick Summary A recently discovered, critical, flaw affecting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) in multiple versions of Microsoft Windows has been discovered. Both Microsoft and the Department Of Homeland Security strongly urges [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: 3 Minutes No Sound In Firefox Web Browser It took a while to figure this one out.  All other Windows apps have sound…  Youtube videos play fine in Chrome, Internet Explorer and even Edge…  But Firefox is [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes Microsoft Windows Defender Dialog Popups Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 can all use Windows Defender, the free virus protection from Microsoft.  Normally pop-ups from the program would easily handled, for example [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes WordPress Contact Form 7 And ReCAPTCHA v3 I noticed after upgrading all of our websites to all new and improved Google reCaptcha v3 that SPAM started flying in…  There were over 20 messages within a [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: < 1 Minute Excel 2016 – General Mail Failure Error Issue With the 1709 Creator Update or later update for Windows 10 applied, Excel 2016 starts throwing a ‘General Mail Failure.  Quit Microsoft Excel, Restart The Mail System [Read More…]

Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes Remote Desktop Connection Fails With CredSSP Encryption Error Updated: 06-25-2018 to include Windows 7 information. After applying the 2018-05 security update for Windows 7, Windows 10/Server 2016, you may notice remote desktop to some servers [Read More…]