In 2025, we still see programs and applications freezing, not responding, and requiring us to kill the task via Task Manager.
However, with the latest version of Windows 11 25H2, we can do this straight from the taskbar.
In this post, I will show you how.
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One slight annoyance with IT Technicians would be preinstalled applications on new computers – we quite often have to remove ‘free’ subscriptions to an Anti-Virus that we don’t want or remove different cloud storage programs like Dropbox.
However, the preinstalled apps from the Microsoft Store is a different annoyance. Quite often you remove these manually or via a script for them to reappear on the next restart or by a feature update. In a business environment, we don’t want to have the Xbox App.
Through Microsoft Intune – we can now create a Configuration Profile to remove these preinstalled apps.
In this post I will show you to create this configuration profile.
Please note this only works for Windows 11 Enterprise and Education 25H2.
Read More »Activating a Windows Server, should be easier than it looks. I find that when something requires a command to be ran in Command Prompt or a PowerShell Script to be triggered, it can be quite daunting to technicians.
If you don’t fully understand that command – you could be worried about the damage you may inflict.
In this post, I will show you how to activate a Windows Server (2022).
Read More »When purchasing a new Windows computer from a manufacturer, mainly Dell – we have noticed that they like to install different language versions of Microsoft 365, and Microsoft OneNote.
The above can be totally fine, but as premade computers from a manufacturer – they are often packed with bloatware and unnecessary applications.
As I mainly deal with computers for businesses and clients who have their Microsoft 365 subscription, we much prefer to uninstall the above and install a fresh copy of Microsoft 365 (Office) directly from their account / subscription.
We can uninstall directly from Control Panel, but each one can take 2-3 minutes.
In this post, I will show you how I uninstall all the above with a few clicks.
Read More »There’s been an argument online about whether paid anti-virus software is still required in the modern age of computing.
Growing up with computers in the late 1990s and early 2000s, there was a need for anti-virus software; we also needed anti-spyware tools to feel protected when accessing the internet. However, there is an argument now that states just using Defender (Microsoft’s own AV solution) is enough.
If you choose whether to use a paid anti-virus or not is totally down to you.
But we still need to look out for scams – we still see a bombardment of notifications claiming that your anti-virus solution has expired. Such as;
Is the above a genuine prompt from Norton? In this post, I will explain on why it isn’t.
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