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  HP 150NW Admin Login I had this issue today when I was trying to web into the network interface of a HP 150NW network printer, the default username and password credentials. After searching the printer i found no password for the admin login, and also no information online worked for default credentials, it turns out it is the WPS code that you need to enter. Username : admin Password : WPS Code To get this code hold down the paper button on the printer which will print off your summary pages including the WPS code. Next web to the IP address of the printer, and then click login. Enter the admin username and WPS passkey and you will now have admin access and be able to change the IP address etc etc. If this helps Please think about a little tip for me (all goes to my kids) current rate is £3

  1.        Select one of the operating systems in the bluescreen bootup 2.        Login as an administrator account 3.        Stop bitlocker drive protection if you do not have the recovery key 4.        Type msconfig 5.        Select boot 6.        Delete the top entry that has the squiggle 7.        Close and reboot your machine.

I had an issue this week with a PC that would boot to windows but then have no keyboards working, also in even viewer it would show keyboard devices with errors. The fix was a Regedit. Open Regedit Navigate to  Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4d36e96b-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}   In there go to Upper Filters and remove the HP items so it should just read kbdclass. save and reboot your machine. Fingers crossed it boots up with a keyboard this time! Buy me a beer :)  

I had an issue today with the system tray being full of blank icons, you could see nothing and it was causing explorer to crash Run regedit navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\LocalSettings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify  Delete the two keys IconStreams and PastIconStream  Stop task explorere.exe  run explorer.exe   all the icons should now be where they are suppose to be

So todays issue revolves around office 2013 and exchange 365 accounts.  I had an issue with a user's machine that just kept asking for the password but would not accept it, the login box kept coming back up. Turns out 2013 uses an old auth method so we need to force it to use the new method. So using regedit you need to add the below key Registry key Type Value HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange\AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover REG_DWORD 1 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\EnableADAL REG_DWORD 1 HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\15.0\Common\Identity\Version REG_DWORD 1 You May also create a reg key file if you wanted to do a few machines Enable modern authentication for Office 2013 clients Close Outlook. Copy and paste the following text into Notepad: text Copy Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Exchange] "AlwaysUseMSOAuthForAutoDiscover"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CURRE...

If you are migrating from exchange on site to exchange 365 you may notice the machines will still look locally for the auto discover reference and not go to your new 365 setup. In Exchange PowerShell on your SBS server run the below command - Set-ClientAccessServer –Identity “your CAS servername” –AutoDiscoverServiceInternalUri $NULL *Putting your server name in the command. After this has been done the machines will no longer look locally for the auto discover record Buy me a beer :)  

Had an issue today in outlook where the sign-in window to add the credentials kept on disappearing, little bit annoying for the user as no emails were coming through. Tracked it down to a registry change, once this was added the login box popped up as normal. Go to the registry editor (Win+R; regedit)   go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> Software -> Microsoft ->Office -> 16.0 ->Common -> Identity   Inside "Identity", create a new REG_DWORD value called "EnableADAL" and leave the value at 0   the login window is slightly different but it works :)   Buy me a beer :)  

The Problem Terminal service grace period has expired This in turn prevents any remote desktop connection to the server, which is a problem if this is how you connect to the server. I had to do a remote registry to the server and then remote reboot. The Solution There is a registry key located HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Terminal Server\RCM\GracePeriod Inside that container will be a binary key, all you need to do is delete that key and reboot the server, upon reboot everything should be working again. Buy me a beer :)  

When your server is display system model Null in the SMH this is because your agents are not installed correctly. I found the best place to get your agents is here https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_44340a785c7640afa24634c39f once downloaded install and reopen the HSM your system model should now be showing the details you need.

I had a n issue with a PC not seeing mapped drives within an old program on windows 10. Their software support had no answers so found the below fix, 1. Open regedit 2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> System 3. On the right, you will see ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin,... etc. 4. click on empty space, ADD DWORD(32bit), then name it "EnableLinkedConnections". Double click it and set the data to 1. 5. Reboot and you will see the mapped drives showing This gave me my mapped drives back within the software!

So the most annoying thing about windows 10 if you use lots of VPN's is the fact its now 4 steps to get connected, very annoying. If you want to fix this then please do the below. Open regedit (WIN+R and type regedit.exe) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Settings\Network Take ownership of the “Network” key/folder (right click, Permissions) Select “Advanced” in the Permissions window In the Advanced window, select “Change” where the owner field is (at the top of the window) Type in your username and save your changes. Close the advanced window Now select “Administrators” in the security tab Make sure “Full control” is selected, then apply changes Now that’s done, double click “ReplaceVan” Change it’s value to 2 Enjoy connecting and disconnecting from your VPNs in one place! After doing the above you get the same interface for VPN's as you did in windows 8 ie bottom right hand corner near the clock, and they a...

So I had a HP Probook 450 G1 which was losing network connection quite often, like every 10 mins after searching around I found that it was infact a BIOS problem. HP advise to upgrade the BIOS to 1.20 from the base 1.05 link here http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5405166&swItemId=ob_136070_1&swEnvOid=4059 Also upgrade the driver version for the wireless card from the 2013 version to the 2015 version http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5405166&swItemId=ob_148570_1&swEnvOid=4059 have not had a disconnection since.

in an elevated command prompt run the following command "vssadmin list writers" The Vss writers will be displayed, if any are showing a failed state check the list below and restart the correct service via services.msc ASR Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy BITS Writer BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service COM+ REGDB Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy DFS Replication service writer DFSR DFS Replication DHCP Jet Writer DHCPServer DHCP Server FRS Writer NtFrs File Replication FSRM writer srmsvc File Server Resource Manager IIS Config Writer AppHostSvc Application Host Helper Service IIS Metabase Writer IISADMIN IIS Admin Service Microsoft Exchange Writer MSExchangeIS Microsoft Exchange Information Store Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer vmms Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management NTDS NTDS Active Directory Domain Services OSearch VSS Writer OSearch Office SharePoint Server Search OSearch14 VSS Writer OSearch14 SharePoint Server Search 14 Registry Writer VSS Volume Sh...

So I turned my laptop on today and noticed a windows icon lurking in the taskbar, which is new! On clicking on the icon the below window pops up. This is not spyware or malware this is a legit bit of software from Microsoft. There is a button at the bottom left to press to register for your free version of windows 10, just click it and it will go away. Scrolling through the windows shows a bit of info, but if I am honest there is nothing to see in there. Release date for windows 10 is July 29th, not long to go!

Had this problem today. When you try and do a backup to a USB drive it comes up with an error because it has been unplugged and not safely ejected. To fix this problem attach the hard drive to a pc and it will come up with a warning saying it needs to be scanned, do this! Once it has finished attach it back on the nas and the drive will be available again to use, if you are using the backup feature on the readynas please select eject after backup this will give the drive a safe unplug.

I have created a batch file that will scan your local network to determine which machine is your local browser master. All you have to do is copy and paste the below into a batch file and then run it on any pc on the network. Script details TITLE Browse Master Finder Color 18 cls @ECHO OFF ECHO This script is property of Mike. This script is to discover Browse Master. ECHO. ECHO.  for /f "delims=\= " %%C in ('net view ^| find " \\"' ) do @echo -Checking %%C && @nbtstat -a %%C | find "MSBROWSE" pause If I helped buy me a beer :)  

Decided to make my own template which supports a4 printing, if ifs any good copy and paste :) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!--     uniCenta oPOS - Touch friendly Point Of Sale     Copyright (c) 2009-2012 uniCenta.     http://sourceforge.net/projects/unicentaopos     This file is part of uniCenta oPOS.     uniCenta oPOS is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify     it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by     the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or     (at your option) any later version.     uniCenta oPOS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,     but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of     MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the     GNU General Public Licens...

Had the error process1_initialization_failed today while working on a sbs2011 server, just blue screened on reboot and was unable to get into the O/S. Tried everything from deleting the boot up cache to changing the partition boot order nothing worked, until a brainwave hit! The server itself has the same boot up structure as windows 7 but the recover screen is different, as in it doesn't try to fix any problems before it gets tot he screen where you can select recover, memory test and command prompt. T he brainwave was to use a windows 7 disc and boot from CD, this detected that the previous boot was a fail so tried to fix the problem for me, and hooray it did! If you get this problem try booting from a windows 7 disc and let it run a boot repair, you never know might save your bacon! Mike Buy me a beer :)  

So I had a crazy machine today. The pc was running like a 1.2 Vauxhall nova (slow) unable to install anything, intel driver assist was not working - just painful! Then I noticed this on the computer description page! service pack 3 v.3264 !!! I had to find out what this was and it turns out to be a beta release of SP3! I decided just to run the SP3 download off the MS site as windows updates were not working, link here Windows XP SP3 full package After downloading and installing all was working fine, windows was more responsive, updates worked and I was happy, so I thought I would share! Buy me a beer :)  

Good morning everyone, Todays task was a fresh format of a Pavilion dm1. No recovery image due to the hard drive failing so all the drivers had to be installed manually :( Below are the links to the essentials Graphics Adaptor - ATI Graphics http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp54501-55000/sp54964.exe Wireless - Broadcom sp53663 http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp53501-54000/sp53663.exe Bluetooth - Broadcom sp54662 http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp54501-55000/sp54662.exe Windows update pulled in the remaining If I helped buy me a beer :)