Issue Trying to upgrade an existing Windows 8.1 Pro installation to Windows 10 Technical Preview (build 9926) (via Windows Update). After Windows Update downloads installation files (over 2GB), the upgrade begins, but soon after it fails with error: Modern Setup HostModern Setup Host has stopped workingA problem caused the program to stop working correctly, Windows will…

Issue Users can’t login on a single workstation in Windows Server 2008R domain. Following error message is displayed: The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed. There are no other issues on the network and none of the other computers are affected.

I recently had a task to install 32bit Windows 7 or Windows 8 on a 13” MacBook Pro with Retina. 32bit Windows version was important as the only reason for this installation was to run a certain legacy 16bit application. Yes, I’m not joking – some people still use 16bit software! There was also a…

Issue Users cannot open certain .msg files on the network. Opening such file fails with error: Cannot open file: <path\to\file.msg>. The file may not exist, you may not have permission to open it, or it may be open in another program. Right-dick the folder that contains the file, and then dick Properties to check your…

Normally Microsoft Visio opens all documents in the same instance / window. As with MS Excel, one way around this is to stop opening files by double clicking on them. Instead, you open a new blank Visio window from the start menu, and then open your documents via File > Open. This works, but is…

There are many little utilities (such as Unlocker) that can display which application is locking a particular file and can try to unlock it. If you like more control or don’t want to install any software on the affected computer, you can use Sysinternals Process Explorer to do the same thing. You can download version 16.04 from…

Windows has a useful feature that allows to automatically change your default printer depending on which network your laptop is connected to. Thre are few requirements – first of all, you must use Professional, Business, or another premium version of Windows 7 or Windows 8. It will not work in Home versions. Also, you must use…

Issue Google Chrome refuses to display DrayTek Vigor 2820 login page over HTTPS connection. The following error is displayed: This webpage is not availableA secure connection cannot be established because this site uses an unsupported protocol.Error code: ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH

If you are having issues trying to find a correct driver for a device on one PC, but have a working driver on another computer, you can easily transfer the driver from one PC to another. Windows stores a copy of each installed driver in C:\Windows\System32\DriverStore\FileRepository folder.

Note: This method doesn’t work on Windows 10 / Server 2016 and higher. Issue Non-admin users cannot run (or even see) scheduled tasks created by users with admin rights. Resolution Scheduled tasks are saved in C:\Windows\System32\Tasks folder as xml files (with no extension). To allow non-admin users to view and run a task, find the task(s)…

Issue Can’t re-deploy application apk that was already installed on a device via Android Studio. Application build would complete fine, but apk install stops with following warning: Installation failed since the device possibly has stale dexed jars that don’t match the current version (dexopt error).In order to proceed, you have to uninstall the existing application.WARNING: Uninstalling…

Not sure if this was a Google Picasa bug or by design but when I recently tried to add folders on an SD card to the Google Picasa Folder Manager it didn’t work. The SD card (drive D:) would simply not appear in the Folder Manger. After a bit of digging I found a way to add…