So today I was working on Onedrive and a large Sharepoint document library. It would not sync some files and resetting the Onedrive client would still not allow me to delete some folders. Something is screwed up. I tried my FastCopy tool, which rarely lets me down, but unfortunately it still didn’t work. So instead I installed the Windows Subsystem… Read more →
Category: Windows 10
Stuck in reboot and cannot rename pending.xml file?
“We couldn’t complete the updates Undoing Changes Don’t turn off your computer” loop? Yes, so were we today and it was a pain in the ass to get that Pending.xml file out of there, even with full admin rights. We had a VM on HyperV, so we mounted the VHDX file and used FastCopy (Great Tool) to Delete it…. like… Read more →
Server stuck in endless Windows Update Reboot?
Yes, that happens from time to time. You have already cleaned up Windows Update, you have reset the Software Distribution folder. But yet your server still asks you to reboot every restart or worse, it does it for you without even prompting. The fix is actually quite easy (if you hit the same issue as me) Backup the following registry… Read more →
Dell XPS13 Slow speeds, high CPU especially with browsers
OK, so for months now my wife has been complaining. No no, its not what you think. I am, in fact, now picking up my socks off the floor. This problem was (from my perspective) a lot worse. A brand new Dell XPS13 laptop that was behaving abysmally slow when simply using a browser, and in general on other mundane… Read more →
Windows 10 Insider Build 10547 – Updates Greyed out
If, like me, you are a Windows Insider, and you are running on a domain… you may well hit this issue… The latest version of Windows Pro Insider Preview Build 10547 has made some changes to the update system that will sometime in a future build give users more information on why Windows 10 Updates are not showing. … Read more →