Category Archives: Windows

I’m on a security course in Abingdon (Sophos XG Firewall Architects course to be precise); the day has ended and I’ve headed off to the local Premier Inn to settle in for the evening.  I get up to my room, … Read More »

I had a problem recently on one of our client’s servers – I was trying to get them up to date but I couldn’t even check for updates.  The Windows Update control panel also presented me with this lovely message: … Read More »

One of my friends contacted me the other day with a problem he’d had for a while now.  Ever since he’d upgraded to Windows 10 he wasn’t able to burn any music, let alone see his DVD drive in Windows. … Read More »

I had a problem I’d been facing for a while while creating new folders on our network shares.  On creation and renaming the folder windows explorer would hang, finally erroring with the following mesage: “A unexpected error is keeping you … Read More »

…So I can across a problem on my PC just the other day where there was 1 particular update was causing a crash every time it tried to install, but of course I then coiuldn’t carry out any other subsequent … Read More »

The other day I had a task I needed to carry out on a customer’s server – I needed to know if there were any new files created during a certain period in a folder structure.  The key here was … Read More »

Windows 10 has been promoted by Microsoft as being the ‘last’ version of windows and will simply be fed continuous updates.  With that in mind how do I know which version I’m actually running?  Here are 4 ways you can find … Read More »