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Running out of space suddenly on Windows machine

by CloudMan on June 4, 2013

Encountered interesting issue in last days on few different Windows machines running WIndows XP, 7 or Windows 8. SOmething for some reason suddenly starting taking too much space on hard disk and shortly the client computers were on the edge of running out of space. There was nothing extremely strange installed on those computers, they have only the typical [...]

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How to uninstall specific KB from Windows 7/8 or Server 2012 with WUSA command line

May 30, 2013

In latest operating systems such as , , you can find tool called WUSA.WUSA.EXE is a command line tool which helps to run ‘windows update standaloneinstaller’.The windows update stand-alone installer uses application programming interface of windows update agent to install update packages which have an .msu file name extension. Syntax : wusa /extract: [/log:] wusa [/quiet] [/norestart [...]

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How to Quickly Lock Your Screen in Mac OS X or access KeyChain

May 30, 2013

As I am new and trying to work with sometimes I need to have same features as I have on machine. One of the simple feature I need is to quickly lock my screen when I am walking away from my machine, so the screen is locked and require password before you can access the screen again. [...]

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How to uninstall Microsoft Office 2013 or Office 365

May 16, 2013

You can remove suites or automatically using a Fix it, through Control Panel in Windows, or manually. In case you were running any of the preview – trial version and running to issues to remove them .. use the Microsoft FixIt tool. It will automatically run on your machine and remove properly the version of Microsoft office [...]

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How to enable Google Now for users in Google Apps

May 13, 2013

I am sure you have already heard about the new predictive smart application from the Google workshop called Google Now. It is actually replacing the old known iGoogle. This is much nicer and cleaner application and what is important is very smart and provides you with the right current content based on your location at [...]

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Go-to guide for using Microsoft’s Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

May 2, 2013

Virtualization becomes more and more affordable solution for many any size businesses. I have found very good new book on this subject just released no long time ago on the subject of . This book is excellent resource and go to guide on the subject. is the place to start learning about this new operating [...]

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How to reset lost password in Apple Mac OS X Lion

April 30, 2013

Today was the day when I needed to work with Mac computers running Apple . Unfortunately no one in the office knew the password for the accounts on these machines. I had two options to deal with this. I can reboot and hold Control + R combinations of keys and wipe out the system — which is time consuming [...]

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