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January 9, 2017
Insider Build 15002 Released to the Fast Ring for Desktop

And the first Windows Insider Build to hit 2017 is 15002 for the PC.  Earlier today Dona Sarkar announced Build 15002 was ready and available.  Some notable improvements include tabbed previews in Edge and Windows Start Menu supporting drag and drop folders similar to the current behavior the phone UI supports. Head over here to […]

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January 4, 2017
2016 The Year of My Hard Drive Failures

I had another reminder today of either my perpetual bad luck the past 2 years in buying storage devices or just an overall trend of poor manufacturing.  As I went to plug in my 2 month old Seagate 1TB Backup Plus Slim Drive the dreaded clicking sound of death emanated from the enclosure. As you […]

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December 30, 2016
Microsoft Outlook Disappearing Folder “0w#25” Workaround

Outlook is my primary email app and for years has been dependable and stable.  However there has been a continuing issue I’ve run into the past couple of years that appears to be more of a bug than a make or break scenario. On occasion upon launching Outlook you might find a “missing folder” listed […]

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December 10, 2016
1and1 Cloud Server and Plesk Licensing Key Terminated

I'll extrapolate a little bit more later but today ran into an issue with a cloud server from 1and1. Logging into Plesk received a licensing key terminated message. Quickly looked up the issue online and none of the solutions at the Plesk forums pointed to a problem on the server end. So called tech support at […]

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December 10, 2016
WARNING! ... Windows Cumulative Update KB3201845 Causing Major Issues

Microsoft pushed Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1607 KB3201845 out the door this week. Apparently there are some major issues being caused by this update including the following complaints experienced by myself and a few others posting on Microsoft's forums: 1) Update fails to install resulting in a BSOD - Critical Process Died. Upon restart INACCESSIBLE BOOT […]

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