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A (Windows 2016) server with a perfectly reasonable 200GB Windows partition was reporting as low on free disk space....
Reduce size of large WinSxS folder
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Remote Desktop Services user logged on with temporary profile
A user logging on to a Remote Desktop Services (RDS) server was shown a dialogue soon after logon indicating that they...
FullTrustNotifier.exe – System Error – VCRUNTIME140.dll and MSVCP140.dll not found
A Windows 11 machine randomly started popping up with system error dialogue boxes shortly after reboots and during...
Veeam B&R – “Some backup console’s plug-ins must be updated to the latest version” on every launch
A recently updated Veeam B&R console install then produced a rather annoying pop-up every time it was launched....
Add domain account as local administrator on remote computer
To add a domain account to the local Administrators group on a machine that is domain joined, but is remote from the...
Power Options only shows “Balanced” power plan
If you have configured a PC to never sleep - for remote access for example - and find that after a time it still...
Add static route on Mac – VPN connection on same subnet as local network
A remote Mac user needed to VPN into an office network, and then RDP onto their office machine, but their home network...
Connect to admin shares on non-domain joined system
Needing to add a non-domain joined Hyper-V host to a Veeam B&R server gave the usual issues with credentials,...
HP Failed to create Conexant Audio Factory, the SmartAudio will now exit
On many HP machines the user is plagued by an error dialogue that pops up repeatedly, and clicking OK simply delays...
Open embedded Excel object error: The server application, source file, or item cannot be found
A user, recently upgraded from Office 2013 to 365, received an error dialogue when trying to edit an embedded Excel...
Delete old shadow copies from Windows Server Backup drive to free up disk space
A single physical server (2016) running the basic Windows Server Backup to a locally connected USB drive ran low on...
Word/Excel 201x preview pane errors
An oldie but a goodie. A user still running Office 2013 started receiving odd errors when trying to open both Word and...