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Mar/16

Windows 10 Waking From Sleep

Filed Under Windows at 7th March 2016 0:01 by

Overview Since switching to Windows 10 I have been seeing the computer being woken up from sleep from random events here are some of the things I looked at to solve the wake up issue. Setup Set the computer to … Continue reading →

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Sep/15

Document Organisation Part 2 – Management

Filed Under Windows, Workflow at 28th September 2015 0:01 by

Overview Similar to my photo organisation post I have also looked into doing something similar for documents. The goal is become paperless or at least less reliant on paper documentation. When I embarked on this workflow optimisation I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Sep/15

Document Organisation Part 1 – Physical To Virtual Documents

Filed Under Windows, Workflow at 14th September 2015 0:01 by
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Overview This is the first post of a series where I describe the electronic documentation management system I use. It’s a system that works fairly well for me and I hope it can pass on this information and even better … Continue reading →

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Aug/15

Make Windows Update Time More Often

Filed Under Windows at 31st August 2015 0:01 by

Overview Microsoft Windows doesn’t update the clock enough times in the day and when you have a motherboard with a dodgy clock it doesn’t help when the time drifts. Thankfully the time synchronization can be controlled using the Task Scheduler … Continue reading →

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Jul/15

Windows 8 Sticky Edges

Filed Under Windows at 27th July 2015 0:01 by

Similar to Ubuntu Microsoft has decided to add a bit of resistance on the edges of a multi-monitor display setup. This allows the system to popup a menu (like the charm bar) before allowing your cursor to move to the … Continue reading →

02

Mar/15

Virtualbox Stopped Working After Installing Hypervisor

Filed Under Windows at 2nd March 2015 0:01 by

I got the message when I tried to run one of my VMs and got this or similar message about 64bit support: VT-x/AMD-V hardware acceleration is not available on your system. Your 64-bit guest will fail to detect a 64-bit … Continue reading →

03

Feb/15

Windows file name(s) are too long

Filed Under Windows at 3rd February 2015 21:55 by

I wanted to delete some Windows 8 store cache files but an error came up when I tried to delete them from Explorer. I found a cool way to get around this as Windows have a limitation of not just … Continue reading →

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Feb/15

Flashing Nexus 7 2013 4.4 to Android 5.0 Lollipop

Filed Under Mobile Phone, Windows at 2nd February 2015 0:01 by

Overview Flashing a new OS onto a tablet requires a computer and and USB cable so it doesn’t require a lot. All the stock images from Google are freely available to download. This is provided as a guide only and … Continue reading →