Thursday, 30 March 2017

Disable Low Disk Space notification on new HP Laptops

Open the Registry Editor by clicking Start, then type regedit and hit Enter. Once it is launched simply navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer from the left sidebar.

Now right click the Explorer and choose New > DWORD (32bit) Value and name this as NoLowDiskSpaceChecks.

Now Double click it and set its value to 1.

Click OK and that’s it, now log off your computer and login back, you will no longer see the low disk space alerts

Thursday, 19 May 2016

Windows 10 - Disable automatic driver updates

Right-click the Start button and click Control Panel.
In the Control Panel, go to System and click Advanced system settings to open the System Properties window.
Open the Hardware tab and click Device Installation Settings.
When prompted with this message, click No and click Save Changes.

Thursday, 3 March 2016

Overwrite Free Space (Windows 7)

Open an administrator command prompt & use the following command

cipher /w:c

This will overwrite the free space on the C drive

Thursday, 3 December 2015

Windows 7 - Fix User Profile Error

To fix the user account profile, follow these steps: 

  1. Click Start, type regedit in the Search box, and then press ENTER.
  2. In Registry Editor, locate and then click the following registry subkey:
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList
  3. In the navigation pane, locate the folder that begins with S-1-5 (SID key) followed by a long number.
  4. Click each S-1-5 folder, locate the ProfileImagePath entry in the details pane, and then double-click to make sure that this is the user account profile that has the error.

    • If you have two folders starting with S-1-5 followed by some long numbers and one of them ended with .bak, you have to rename the .bak folder. To do this, follow these steps:
      1. Right-click the folder without .bak, and then click Rename. Type .ba, and then press ENTER.
      2. Right-click the folder that is named .bak, and then click Rename. Remove .bak at the end of the folder name, and then press ENTER.
      3. Right-click the folder that is named .ba, and then click Rename. Change the .ba to .bak at the end of the folder name, and then press ENTER.
    • If you have only one folder starting with S-1-5 that is followed by long numbers and ends with .bak. Right-click the folder, and then click Rename. Remove .bak at the end of the folder name, and then press ENTER.
  5. Click the folder without .bak in the details pane, double-click RefCount, type 0, and then click OK.
  6. Click the folder without .bak, in the details pane, double-click State, type 0, and then click OK.
  7. Close Registry Editor.
  8. Restart the computer.
  9. Log on again with your account.

Monday, 23 March 2015

Windows 7 Clean Boot

Log on to the computer by using an account that has administrator rights.

Click Start, type msconfig.exe in the Start Search box, and then press Enter to start the System Configuration utility.

On the General tab, click the Selective startup option, and then click to clear the Load startup items check box. (The Use Original Boot.ini check box is unavailable.)

On the Services tab, click to select the Hide all Microsoft services check box, and then click Disable all.

Click OK, and then click Restart.

Tuesday, 3 March 2015

OfficeServ - Cancel All Forwards

Cancelling all set forwards
To cancel any forwarding options you set (except Forward DND), dial [6][0][0]

Tuesday, 24 February 2015

Exchange 2013 - Full access to mailbox but don't add to Outlook 2013 profile

Use the following command in Exchange Powershell (admin mode).

Add-MailboxPermission -Identity KrazyK -User KrazyAdmin -AccessRights FullAccess -AutoMapping:$false

Run above command script to give domain access to mailbox, change KrazyK to logon username. The AutoMapping false command will ensure it does not copy mailbox to KrazyAdmin Outlook client.