Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Reverse block of Windows 10 upgrade to Windows 11

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On a PC that has been blocked from upgrading to Windows 11 you will see registry keys as below with similar values. To unblock the upgrade, ...
Friday, 27 June 2025

Adding SQL Permissions to Certificates in Windows

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 Faced with these certificate permissions how do you add the last two? The correct syntax is to add each of these. NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER NT...
Wednesday, 4 June 2025

Jet Reports Jet Service Tier Error

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 Jet Service Tier Error The SSL certificate could not be validated. The following error was received. Could not establish trust relationship...
Thursday, 1 May 2025

Turn off that annoying form filling pop-up in Edge

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 Go to  edge://wallet/settings Scroll to the bottom of the page and turn off Save and fill basic info This will not affect login boxes.
Tuesday, 18 March 2025

Turn off "Sign in to example.com with google.com"

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It's so annoying, here's how to turn it off. Go here in your Chrome settings: chrome://settings/content/federatedIdentityApi?search=...
Tuesday, 4 March 2025

RDS user gets 'User profile service failed the sign in, user profile cannot be loaded'

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When an RDS user gets 'User profile service failed the sign in, user profile cannot be loaded', check the following. Does the user h...
Monday, 23 December 2024

Set an RDS Session Host to stop new connections until a reboot

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Forgetting to put an RDS session host back in the pool can cause overloading of the remaining hosts. Using the following admin cmd commands ...
Thursday, 14 November 2024

Windows 10 context menus by default in Windows 11

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Get rid of the terrible context menu in Windows 11's Explorer. Run the following in CMD running in admin mode then launch Explorer and r...
Monday, 28 October 2024

Expand VHDX without Hyper-V

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Look up the VHDX filename including the path. In admin cmd diskpart select vdisk file="E:\EXAMPLE.vhdx" expand vdisk maximum=40000...
Tuesday, 10 September 2024

SQL Script to display sizes of all MS SQL databases in both MB and GB.

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 SELECT d.NAME     ,ROUND(SUM(CAST(mf.size AS bigint)) * 8 / 1024, 0) Size_MBs     ,(SUM(CAST(mf.size AS bigint)) * 8 / 1024) / 1024 AS Size...
Monday, 5 August 2024

Upgrading a HP ProBook 450 G6 from 768p to 1080p

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The LCD panel used in the ProBook 450 G6 has a 30pin connector which is very common in HP laptops, after suffering the 768p screen and findi...
Thursday, 30 May 2024

Use Excel to split a column of text

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Say you have a list of names and need to copy out the first name, last name and also combine them as a username for example first.last. Copy...