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…
The Windows 10 update started rolling out to users a couple of days ago, 29th July to be exact. But not everyone has been able to upgrade yet. A lot of people are still waiting for that pesky pop up…
I’ve got 15 work laptops that needed to be upgraded to Windows 10, all are eligible for the free upgrade but some of them refused to upgrade via the ISO method saying the setup couldn’t verify the license key. At…
I recently tried to install Windows 10 on my laptop but on multiple occasions it returned to Windows 8.1 right after running the setup. HP Envy M6 Touch Smart Intel i5 4200U 8GB RAM Samsung 840 EVO 256GB MSATA…