As I’m sure most people have experienced, there is always that one piece of software that cannot function on anything other than ancient hardware or an unsupported OS. In my example today, I am dealing with an ancient piece of physical hardware, sitting under someone’s desk, running Windows XP Pro. Before the spinning rust blew […]
One of my biggest pet peeves when installing software is when the installer outright says to you “you cannot change these values after otherwise you’ll need to reinstall”. It’s like the developer is speaking to their grandfather assisting them reset their WIFI – “unplug it and plug it back in”. With SPF, you’re prompted during […]
Another day, another hiccup in the usually amazing procedure of using WDS for quick mass deployments of OS images. Today’s annoyance comes courtesy of using an Intel NUC that only has USB 3.0 ports and no way to force them into USB 2.0 mode. Why is this an issue? Because after deploying a Windows 7 image […]
I was having issues getting a desktop to install updates recently from my company’s WSUS server. Being that I was in a time crunch and needed these updates installed within the next 24 hours, I decided to take the desktop off the domain and grab the Windows Updates directly over the internet from Microsoft. Spoiler […]