techsupport Archives - Blog Encounters https://blogencounters.com/tag/techsupport/ More Useful, Everyday! Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:15:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://blogencounters.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/belogo-48x48.jpg techsupport Archives - Blog Encounters https://blogencounters.com/tag/techsupport/ 32 32 Unable To Upgrade pfSense 2.7.0 To 2.7.2 https://blogencounters.com/202312/unable-to-upgrade-pfsense-2-7-0-to-2-7-2/ https://blogencounters.com/202312/unable-to-upgrade-pfsense-2-7-0-to-2-7-2/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2023 04:12:56 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=6460 Estimated Reading Time: 2 Minutes

Unable To Upgrade pfSense 2.7.0 To 2.7.2 Issue When upgrading from pfSense 2.7.0 to 2.7.2 you may encounter the following error(s) from the console or web GUI: ERROR: It was not possible to determine pkg [Read More...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/202312/unable-to-upgrade-pfsense-2-7-0-to-2-7-2/feed/ 0 Reset Your GPU In Windows 10 (Without A Reboot) https://blogencounters.com/202001/reset-your-gpu-in-windows-10-without-a-reboot/ https://blogencounters.com/202001/reset-your-gpu-in-windows-10-without-a-reboot/#respond Tue, 21 Jan 2020 04:43:05 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=3951 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...]

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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...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/202001/office-365-e-mails-are-not-sent-550-5-18-bad-outbound-sender/feed/ 0 No Sound In Firefox Web Browser https://blogencounters.com/201901/no-sound-in-firefox-web-browser/ https://blogencounters.com/201901/no-sound-in-firefox-web-browser/#respond Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:48:05 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=3635 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...]

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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...]

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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...]

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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...]

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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...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/201805/remote-desktop-connection-fails-with-credssp-encryption-error/feed/ 0 Windows 10 Creators Update (1709) Hangs At 82% https://blogencounters.com/201804/windows-10-creators-update-1709-hangs-at-82/ https://blogencounters.com/201804/windows-10-creators-update-1709-hangs-at-82/#respond Fri, 13 Apr 2018 02:21:07 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=3469 Estimated Reading Time: 3 Minutes

Windows 10 Creators Update (1709) Hangs At 82% Yesterday, I took in a customer computer that hung on Windows Updates.  The Windows 10 1607 release was installed and working fine (an UPGRADE from the previous [Read More...]

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Windows 10 Settings Will Not Open From Start Menu Symptom Windows 10 “Settings Gear” in the start menu does nothing when clicked.  Using a right-click to create a start menu shortcut for settings does work.  [Read More...]

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Internet Explorer Fails To Open After Upgrade To Windows 10 v1709 Note: Windows 10 v1709 is also known as OS Build 16299.125 * Clicking any image in this article will make it larger * Issue [Read More...]

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Boot Microsoft Surface Laptop From USB The Microsoft Surface Laptop has a built in keyboard, but still follows the same process as Surface Pro units to boot from USB devices. The hotkeys <POWER> and <VOL [Read More...]

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Windows 7 Deleting Shortcuts Off Of Users Desktop If you have a shortcut to a network drive/file, USB drive or shortcut to other removable or network based location, Windows 7 may treat the shortcuts as [Read More...]

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Mapped Network Drives Not Showing Up In Windows Explorer When you map a drive in Windows from the command prompt, using the “net use” command, you may notice that it will not show up in [Read More...]

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Make Facebook Wall Videos Stop Auto-Playing With Sound (Mobile Devices) An annoying feature on Facebook where videos on your wall start blaring away automatically can be a problem, especially when you’re cruising your wall posts [Read More...]

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PHP Manager Fails To Install On IIS Via WebPI When attempting to install PHP on IIS 8 (2012 Server) or IIS 10 (2016, 2019 Server) you may get the following error during WebPI installation: We’re [Read More...]

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Make Windows 10 Stop Asking For A Password When Resuming From Sleep Windows 10 handles resuming from sleep a bit differently than former versions of Windows.  For example, our Windows 7 power policies that are [Read More...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/201702/make-windows-10-stop-asking-password-resuming-sleep/feed/ 0 Setting A Reliable Time Server For Your PDC Emulator https://blogencounters.com/201702/setting-reliable-time-server-pdc-emulator/ https://blogencounters.com/201702/setting-reliable-time-server-pdc-emulator/#respond Mon, 13 Feb 2017 19:34:16 +0000 http://blogencounters.com/?p=2607 Estimated Reading Time: 3 Minutes

Setting A Reliable Time Server For Your PDC Emulator In this article we’ll cover setting up a reliable time server for your PDC emulator.  This is an essential step to ensure your domain controllers/workstations all [Read More...]

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Urgent WordPress Upgrade Alert For those running WordPress to host their blogs/website, please be aware a recent vulnerability has been discovered on WordPress v4.7.1 and older that allows remote execution of some SQL commands.  Attackers [Read More...]

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Internet Explorer Missing ‘Continue To This Website’ Option Using Internet Explorer 10 or 11 and visiting a website with a weak or untrusted SSL certificate, such as those typically found on some home routers, legacy [Read More...]

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Installing .NET 3.5 On Windows 10 Workstations Windows 10 has .NET 4.5 pre-installed by default, however many applications still in use require the .NET 3.5 framework to be installed.  Both 3.5 and 4.5 can run [Read More...]

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Windows 10 Version Numbers Updated Builds Added : February 2023 There are a few ways you can check your current version of Windows 10 – here are two quick and easy ways: METHOD #1 : [Read More...]

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Visitors Cannot Submit Comments On Your WordPress Site Although you may have comments enabled on your WordPress site, you may find that visitors still can’t post comments on your posts.  They will be presented with [Read More...]

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Windows 10 Default Printer Feature Starting with Windows 10, release 1511, there is a new feature called “Let Windows Manage My Default Printer“.  This setting allows Windows to make the last printer you printed to [Read More...]

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How Can I Play DVDs In Windows 10 For Free? Microsoft Windows has never really been able to play DVDs natively because of the lack of necessary playback codecs.  DVD based codecs are licensed and [Read More...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/201612/can-play-dvds-windows-10-free/feed/ 0 Windows 10 Sysprep Was Not Able To Validate Your Windows Installation https://blogencounters.com/201612/windows-10-sysprep-not-able-validate-windows-installation/ https://blogencounters.com/201612/windows-10-sysprep-not-able-validate-windows-installation/#comments Tue, 13 Dec 2016 20:41:42 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=2138 Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes

Windows 10 Sysprep Was Not Able To Validate Your Windows Installation If you have built a Windows 10 reference (master) machine and you are ready to sysprep, but upon running sysprep, you are presented with [Read More...]

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Prove Your Humanity Login Feature In WordPress Over the past few months, many WordPress users may have noticed a math question appearing on the login screen.  Along with the username/password boxes, an additional selection box [Read More...]

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Mass Storage Device – Satellite A105-S4384 – Windows 7 ISSUE If you have recently reloaded your Toshiba Satellite A105-S4384 laptop due to hard drive crash or for some other reason with Windows 7 32bit or [Read More...]

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]]> https://blogencounters.com/201612/mass-storage-device-satellite-a105-s4384-windows-7/feed/ 0 VSS Based Backups Failing (0x8000FFFF) On Legacy O/S https://blogencounters.com/201612/vss-based-backups-failing-0x8000ffff-legacy-os/ https://blogencounters.com/201612/vss-based-backups-failing-0x8000ffff-legacy-os/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2016 05:02:23 +0000 https://blogencounters.com/?p=1822 Estimated Reading Time: 4 Minutes

VSS Based Backups Failing (0x8000FFFF) On Legacy O/S You are on page 1/2. Editors note: Although this article is intended for Windows XP and Server 2003 family products, which are all defunct operating systems as [Read More...]

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Android Error RH01 When Accessing Google Play Store If you receive a Google Play Store error on your Android based device with error code “RH01” – then a simple fix may be able to resolve [Read More...]

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Fingerprint And PIN Options Unavailable In Windows 10 Update 1607 After installing Windows 10 Professional (Pro) or Enterprise (Ent) the PIN and fingerprint sign-in options are unavailable (greyed out) and the buttons are disabled.  This [Read More...]

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Router Wake On LAN Configuration Options WOL or Wake-On-LAN is a very useful mechanism to keep your personal computer sleeping when not in use.  This saves power and wear and tear on the computer and [Read More...]

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Power Shortcut Is Missing On Windows 8.1 Metro Screen ISSUE The power shortcut is missing on Windows 8.1 Metro Screen (sleep, shutdown, restart options). APPLIES TO Windows 8.1, Surface Pro 3, Surface Pro 4 CAUSE [Read More...]

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Windows 7 Takes Forever To Check For Updates In Windows 7, if you have not updated for a long time (been offline) or freshly re-installed from an older CD/DVD or thumbdrive – you may notice [Read More...]

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File Uploads Stop Around 25-30mb In IIS7/7.5/8/8.5 ISSUE You are running a website using Windows IIS Server (IIS7, IIS7.5, IIS8 or IIS8.5) and are finding that 3rd party PHP-based upload utilities, such as Extplorer, WordPress [Read More...]

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Wireless : Signal, Noise, SNR : What Do These Mean? Wireless signal quality is based on 2 different variables, Signal Strength and Noise.  When troubleshooting wireless issues, we often find that many are confused as [Read More...]

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Cannot Run .EXE Files After Malware Cleanup Issue: You can no longer run .exe files on your Windows computer after virus/malware/spyware infection because everything you try to launch claims to be infected with a virus.  [Read More...]

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APC UPS Will Potentially Explode If Showing This Error When Turning It On There aren’t too many times where network electronics can scare you, but this is one of them.  For the second time in [Read More...]

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Unable To Open WSUS Console After Windows Update KB3148812 Or KB3159706 You are on page 1/2. After running Windows Updates on your Window Server Updates Services (WSUS) Server, you find that the WSUS management console [Read More...]

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Windows 10 Computers Showing As Windows Vista On Server 2012R2 WSUS In the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) management panel, you might notice your Windows 10 computers are showing up as Windows Vista computers.  This [Read More...]

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Unable To Launch Legacy Java Applications With Java 7.x Installed You are on page 1/2. You are unable to launch older Java applications with Java 7 Update 45 or higher installed due to new security [Read More...]

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Cisco ISE 2.1 FQDN Bleeding edge technology can be frustrating to say the least.  I am creating this blog because I cannot find anything outside of Cisco’s website on ISE 2.1. I found an interesting [Read More...]

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HTTPS Partial Encryption With kk Star Ratings Plugin (yellow padlock and/or ! on padlock – noted with Firefox web browser) If you have enabled an SSL certificate (secure site) on your WordPress site and find [Read More...]

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Restart Windows 8.1 Or Windows 10 From Remote Desktop RDC If you remote desktop to a Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 machine, you might notice that you only have the ability to “Lock”, “Sign Out” [Read More...]

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What Do The Cisco Wireless Access Point Lights Mean? We’ve all seen the boxes stuck to the ceilings with blinking lights.  Some know intuitively that these devices are providing our wireless electronics with a network [Read More...]

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Removing Your Mail Server From Popular Blacklists – Includes links to popular blacklist checkers too – You are on page 1/2. If you run an e-mail server, one day it’s bound to happen… You’re going [Read More...]

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Recommended WordPress Plugins For Your Website You are on page 1/2. So, you have a WordPress site and want to know what the best and/or recommended plugins are?  Using this guide can help you on [Read More...]

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Change Your Password From A Remote Desktop Session RDC (Access Lock, Sign Out, Change A Password, Task Manager Menu) If you remote desktop to a Windows 8.1, Windows 10 machine or even a Server 2008/2012 [Read More...]

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