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 »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.
Read More »By default, your staff can allow consent for any app to access the organisation’s data. In reality you may find nothing wrong with this for Microsoft Services such as Teams, Outlook, but how about third-party apps?
Should you be allowing third-party apps within your M365 tenant?
Third-party apps can stem from trusted sources such as Adobe, Salesforce, but quite often, we come across third-party apps that require an unnecessary amount of permissions and access.
There is currently a whole plethora of ‘AI’ apps, that staff are sign into using their M365 account, giving them access, such as being able to Read their mailbox or Send As them.
In the realm of IT, you will hear the phrase – Least Privilege. This means granting users, applications, and systems the minimum necessary access rights to perform their tasks, and no more.
In our case, we want to give the user the minimum apps that allow them to perform their job. We may have a pre-approved list of applications that they can access. But we also want to prevent them from signing into unapproved applications.
I will show you how to set up Consent and Permissions for Enterprise Applications.
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