Win10 Fixes

Anything windows 10, laptops, pc's and upgrades

Stop File explorer opening on startup
Normally occurs when upgrading a machine from Win 7 to Win 10.  On startup the file explorer window automatically opens even when it is not in the start...
Wed, 23 May, 2018 at 12:32 PM
Broken Printers in Windows 10 (Normally after upgrade)
Get errors like "printer could not be found" or when you remove the follow you queues and try and re-add them it won't work. Stop "Pr...
Fri, 31 Jan, 2020 at 8:56 AM
Outlook can't sign in, no password prompt, fails to register device
NEW FIX The account will not show in the "Access work or School" menu anymore, so instead you need to do the following: Open regedit as ad...
Wed, 18 Aug, 2021 at 11:41 AM
File Explorer keeps crashing
File explorer just instantly crashes when opened. Try the below first, I think this is the permanent fix. Open the user folder shortcut from the desktop...
Mon, 4 Mar, 2019 at 7:55 AM
Windows Updates Error
If you are ever unable to boot into windows because of windows updates failing then try one of these two commands.  First get to the windows recovery to...
Wed, 8 Aug, 2018 at 9:05 AM
Disk space full because of onedrive
With Sharepoint and Onedrive locally downloading every file a user opens, it can lead to the C drive running out of space. To send all the locally saved...
Wed, 29 Apr, 2020 at 11:18 AM
Mapping Drives to AS400 SMB1 error
Sometimes (generally on new machines) you will get an SMB1 protocol error when trying to map a drive to Athena or Minerva. Its an older protocol which is di...
Thu, 1 Nov, 2018 at 10:19 AM
Mapping Drives to AS400 (Access Denied)
Sometimes you will not be able to map a drive to the AS400 with the access denied message even when you are typing in the correct credentials. Try the f...
Mon, 10 Dec, 2018 at 4:16 PM
Win10 version upgrade failure
If you get this error when trying to update to the latest version of windows 10 you need to rename the inetsrv folder to fix. To rename the folder ...
Fri, 31 Jan, 2020 at 8:56 AM
Exporting/Importing Chrome Passwords
You can export passwords from chrome and import them again onto a new machine. Useful for when transferring a users data from an old machine. Go to ...
Tue, 19 May, 2020 at 11:36 AM