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Upgrade or Change Windows 10 Product Key

If you are trying to change (or upgrade) your Windows 10 edition, but are running into activation errors, here are the commands you can run in order to get activated: 1 - Open up your command prompt in elevated (Administrator) mode. Run these commands in this order, one at a time, WITHOUT the quotes! After…
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IE, Chrome, Firefox – Timeout errors

Just a quick tip, if you open up a browser (and ARE connected to the internet) but seem to be getting timeout or unreachable errors on any site you go to. Do a quick check and see if you have Malwarebytes installed. This program more than likely is causing that issue. Why? Well, it tries…
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Installing Office 2019 – with MAK Key

Here are a few steps required to install Office 2019 with MAK license of Office. Download and run the Office Deployment ToolIt will create the configuration.xml (See example below for edits you will need to do).Open a Admin privileged command prompt and navigate to the location of the setup.exe and configuration.xml files (Both files should…
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How to clone a hard drive to a new solid state disk (SSD)

Installing a solid-state drive (SSD) is one of the best upgrades you can make to your computer, but migrating your Windows installation can be tricky, because your data might not all fit on the drive. UPDATE: If you are doing lots of cloning, make it easy and simply buy a offline clone device from Amazon:…
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Deploying a Remote desktop session server (RDSH) Server in a Work-group

This Post will show you how to deploy a Remote desktop session server (RDSH) in a workgroup (non Domain). Credit: ryanmangansitblog.com This deployment is Session based and will allow the use of desktop sessions. The down side to having a none domain joined Session host is that you will need to create users on the host…
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DHCP service not starting

Basically, the DHCP service service would not start after they experienced a power outage.  After a quick investigation I quickly discovered the DHCP database was corrupted.  I found this out via the Event Logs > System. The DHCP database is located here: C:\WINDOWS\System32\dhcp\dhcp.mdb I just went in (after making sure all client computers were off)…
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Batch rename file extensions

Simple but can be very useful. Open up a command prompt Go the file folder containing the files you need to rename Enter this: ren *.(current extension name) *.(extension you want) If done correctly it will rename all the file extensions to the specified one! Example: ren *.jpg *.png <<< this will rename all jpg…
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