Windows 10 Home S Mode

A customer went to a local retail store and purchase a small PC. Almost all computers purchased this way have Windows 10 Home. If they need Pro, we upgrade it online. It’s a pretty simple process. In this case, the customer wanted to install Office 365. It would...

Windows 10 v1809 rollout for all

Although v1809 has been available for sometime. You had to force the install. The normal Windows Update did not find it. In some cases, you could manually ‘Check for updates’ and it would show up. But not always. And I don’t know why. The next method...

Windows 7 patch in Janauary breaks networking

Article from ZDNet. It says that a Windows 7 patch, released in January treats some licenses as fake. It locks out network features. https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-killer-windows-7-patch-breaks-networking-bricks-legit-not-genuine-pcs/

Windows 10 v1809 rollout

The current version of Windows 10 is v1803. Microsoft had a bunch of issues with v1809. It was initially released in October 2018. The initial rollout was stopped. I ran Windows Updates on a couple of machines in the last 24 hours. Two updated to v1809. My PC did not....

Windows 10 v1809 released – again

In early October, we were able to download v1809. Then they found an issue. On some number of upgrades, it was not keeping some of the user folders. Their documents were lost. We didn’t find this issue. It didn’t occur every time. At lease two of our...