Thursday, 15 June 2017

VPN Slow Link Connection

If you have a slow link on the VPN it will not show all folders on the mapped drives.

On Windows 10 goto windows explorer & under Home/Easy Access select Work Online.
On Windows 7 ??

Watchguard VPN Install

Connect to watchguard VPN https://:444/sslvpn.html. change ipaddress to firewall ip & port number to whatever the SSLVPN is set on? You can check the port number on the firewall under SSLVPN settings.

Logon as the user & download software to install.

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Windows 10 - Remove Onedrive from Windows Explorer

Open regedit & Search for 018D5C66 & the first key you find should be 

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{018D5C66-4533-4307-9B53-224DE2ED1FE6}

Set the value of System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree to 0 & it's done.

Friday, 31 March 2017

Remove XBOX from Windows 10

Run Powershell as an administrator & type in the following command

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.XboxApp | Remove-AppxPackage

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