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Synaptics Touchpad Two Finger Tapping Enable

Synaptics TouchPad Driver with 2-Finger tap in Windows 10

March 16, 2018 Steve Talley 0

Background You may have updated to Windows 10 only to find that you do not have an appropriate Synaptics TouchPad driver. You used to be […]

Windows Remote Access

Enable Remote Desktop Connect in Windows Home

November 2, 2017 Steve Talley 0

Microsoft only allows you to connect to computers running Windows Pro or higher with the Remote Desktop Connection app. They do not allow the Windows […]

Disable the Clutter folder with PowerShell

Disable the new Clutter folder in Office 365

September 24, 2015 Steve Talley 0

If you would like to disable the Clutter folder recently added to Office 365, you can do so with a few simple PowerShell commands. Make […]

MDT Database Permissions

September 14, 2015 Steve Talley 0

The user account used for connecting to MDT must have access to the MDT database. Use SQL Management Studio Express to grant permission. Edit bootstrap.ini […]

Creating a customized image with MDT

January 19, 2014 Steve Talley 0

Please note, if you need customized  help with this, contact us for reasonably-priced help with MDT. No job is too small or too large. Making […]

SnagIt! 11 Automated and Silent Installation Instructions

December 18, 2013 Steve Talley 0

SnagIt! is a screen capture utility.On the SnagIt website, you can download an enterprise installation manual. Unfortunately, in my experience, this manual is incomplete, and […]

Windows 7 links to USB and DVD media

September 16, 2013 Jason Anderson 1

Microsoft has the ISO files for the Home, Professional, and Ultimate versions of Windows 7 available for download via the Digital River website. These ISOs […]

MDT: Define and create a new theme in Unattend.xml

June 12, 2013 Jason Anderson 0

In a deployment task sequence, you can edit the Unattend.xml file and define a custom background for the theme and which Aero color to use. […]

Pasco Index.DAT Viewer Time Correction

June 3, 2013 Jason Anderson 1

Pasco is an open source utility from McAfee that can analyze Internet Explorer index.dat files. It creates a tab-formatted file, which can be opened in […]

MDT: Issues restoring image with Internet Explorer 10 or 11

March 18, 2013 Steve Talley 9

Issue By default, Windows System Image Manager adds a specialize pass phase to configure Internet Explorer. Normally it doesn’t matter if you leave this configuration […]

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