Jan - 01 2025

These steps will install the Local Group Policy Editor for both Windows 10 Home Edition and Windows 11 Home Edition. In the Start menu search for Command Prompt – choose Run as administrator on the right hand side or right click the Command Prompt icon and choose Run as administrator Enter the following command and […]

Dec - 16 2024

If you are a admin and you need the BitLocker recovery key for one of your Microsoft 365 users go into Microsoft Entra. In Microsoft Entra choose Users, All Users click the name of the user you are looking for the BitLocker key for, choose Devices for that user. Click the device you need the […]

Oct - 02 2024

Microsoft on October 1, 2024 released Windows 11 version 24H2. When the Copilot + laptops were released with the Snapdragon X processors these were the first computers released with Windows 11 version 24H2.  Now Microsoft has released the update for more computers with Intel and AMD processors today October 1, 2024. Windows 11 version 24H2 […]

Oct - 02 2024

Microsoft on October 1, 2024 released Office 2024 for Mac and Office 2024 for Windows.  There are 2 versions of the software Office Home 2024 at $149.99 which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote for Windows or Mac.  Office Home and Business 2024 for $249.99 has all of the same programs with the addition of […]

Sep - 17 2024

If you are joining a Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer to Azure Active Directory it will prompt you about setting up Windows Hello for Business.  Depending on the user or purpose of this computer you may not want to enable that feature.  In setting up that feature it will use either Facial recognition, Fingerprint […]

Apr - 12 2024

When using the Adobe Acrobat PDF printer you may receive an error of Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: xshow To fix that problem go into Control Panel, Devices and Printers Right click the Adobe PDF printer and choose Printer properties Advanced tab, click Printing Defaults Uncheck the Rely on system fonts only; do not use document fonts […]

Feb - 09 2024

If you are getting This device is already enrolled 8018000A error when trying to join a Windows 10 or Windows 11 computer to Azure AD or Microsoft Entra ID. Open Regedit and look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Enrollments – below this key you will find other subkeys with xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx where each x is a hexadecimal number check each […]

Jan - 15 2024

Microsoft released KB5034441 (Windows 10 21H2 and 22H2) or KB5034440 (Windows 11 21H2) to fix a BitLocker access issue found in Windows Recovery Environment.  This update fails on many computers and it is due to the partition on the drive that holds the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) software.  If there is not enough room (250MB […]

Jan - 10 2024

Items to check for 0x80072EFD error in either Windows 10 or Windows 11 Make sure you are able to access the Internet from your browser, if not check if your Internet service is down. Open Control Panel, Internet Options, Connections tab. LAN settings button, make sure Automatically detect settings is checked. If this is checked […]

Dec - 26 2023

If you do not have the widget button displaying in the lower left corner of your screen here are some steps to fix it. Check in Settings, Personalization, Taskbar make sure Widgets is On. If Widgets is on and you either have a box with blue outlines around it or just a sun and clouds […]

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