How To Recycle Old Electronics While it may seem harmless on the outside, simply throwing away electronics or appliances is dangerous for a multitude of reasons. This is why it’s extremely important to dispose of or recycle old electronics properly. Often times, places such as Staples, Best Buy, or other electronics retailers may even purchase […]
Read MoreGoogle Chrome Rolling Out Tab Throttling
In our previous blog post, we explored Microsoft Edge’s sleeping tabs beta feature. If you’ve noticed improved performance in other browsers recently, you’re not mistaken. Google Chrome’s tab throttling feature is beginning to roll out in versions 87 and 88. According to Google, by reducing how often background tabs can refresh, it “reduces CPU […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Edge Sleeping Tabs In Beta
Microsoft Edge is introducing Sleeping Tabs into its beta browser. Sleeping tabs will improve memory and CPU performance for those with multiple tabs open at once. By putting inactive tabs “to sleep,” your computer is able to reallocate important resources to your active tabs and processes, optimizing its performance. They found, on average, that […]
Read MoreFive Tips To Avoid Phishing Scams
It should be no surprise that phishing scams are on the rise in 2020. While the quantity of these attacks have increased, so has the quality. Earlier this summer, Microsoft seized 6 domains that stole information from businesses by creating domains that looks similar to Microsoft’s and asking for login information from users. This attempt […]
Read MoreMicrosoft Teams Retiring Support For Internet Explorer 11
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced its timeline to phase out support for its long-standing browser to offer better a better experience to its users. The timeline goes into effect this week as Microsoft Teams retired its support for Internet Explorer 11 on November 30th. This is the first step Microsoft is taking to phase out […]
Read MoreWork From Home Security Tips For Businesses
Cyber security attacks were already projected to see massive growth from 2019 to 2020 and now with the mass migration of employees working from home, cyber criminals have become even smarter with ransomware attacks already rising 24% from last year. Our five work from home security tips help guide businesses through the basic steps to keep […]
Read MoreWindows 7 End of Extended Support
If you haven’t heard, Windows 7 extended support is going end of life January 14th, 2020. What does this mean? It means that Microsoft will no longer provide security patching or operating system updates for Windows 7. Is my computer going to stop working? No, your computer will continue to operate, however as time goes […]
Read MoreVM Will Not Clone
I ran into an interesting issue where a Windows 10 VM wouldn’t clone. This was a fresh installation of Windows 10 based from an ISO customized with MSMG, which is by far one of the best methods when removing the junk from Windows 10, especially the unwanted apps. Make sure to document your removals and […]
Read MoreBenefits of Monitoring
There are many benefits of monitoring. As we develop technology, we develop ways to make sure the technology runs correctly. Imagine if your car didn’t tell you when there’s an issue with your engine or if your tire pressure light didn’t come on when you had a leak? The same can be applied to a […]
Read MoreWindows Update Boot Loop
I’m guessing you’re in the situation where Windows decided to “Update and Shutdown/Restart”, but when your system comes back up, it continues to update and reboot over, and over, and over, and over. Well, that’s typically caused by a corrupt Windows update or the VM isn’t saving it’s changes. Here’s a way to stop your […]
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