Windows 10 fixes
“Windows cannot access drive. You do not have permission to access \share. ” We were stumped by this error on one of the internal machines we had set up as a shared server. We turned off password protected sharing but…
The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) lets you run a Linux environment that includes most CLI tools, utilities, and applications. These are run directly from within Windows, unmodified, and without the overhead of a conventional virtual machine or dualboot environment.…
One of our machines threw this error when we tried to install the latest Intel display driver from their website. This happens when your computer manufacturer changes a setting in the bundled driver indicating that drivers only obtained from the…
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) let’s you do a lot of interesting stuff inside Windows, biggest of which is installing Linux applications. We’ll look into installing MariaDB on Ubuntu running inside WSL. Before we start, make sure you have WSL…
Seems we aren’t the only ones experiencing a black screen in a remote desktop session on Windows 10 after the 1809 update after it’s been left unattended for a while, there are a number of people complaining of a similar…
A lot of machines lately have been experiencing issues with updating this update, we’re going to walk through fixing this error. This is how the update history windows looks like on one of our machines The process of fixing this…
So far only one of our systems received the Windows 10 Anniversary update (build 1607). This had us a little antsy, thankfully Microsoft gives you the option to force install the update. Here’s how: First make sure you don’t already…
The Windows anniversary update is finally out, this is good news. This means the new Windows Subsystem for Linux aka BASH is now available for non-Windows Insider users. Before you start, you need to make sure that you are updated to…
If you visit the shutdown menu on a Windows machine from inside a remote desktop session you won’t get the standard Shutdown / Restart options but instead only Lock and Sign out. To reboot the machine open command prompt as…
I almost broke something, twice! Once figuring out the issue, and the second time when I found the solution. I had this one machine which refused to connect to another machine via Remote Desktop Connection whereas I could connect via another…