Sometimes it can be difficult to find out what’s wrong with the WiFi connection on your computer. Windows 10 has a built in method to generate a WiFi report that can be used to find the cause of the problem. In Windows 10 you can create a WiFi report the following way. Open a command…Continue reading WiFi troubleshooting Windows 10

Whenever you connect to a remote server via RDP, you will automatically get the last session’s resolution. When your own RDP resolution is higher than the last one, then the new RDP session resolution will increase to match your own resolution. However, when the last RDP session was created with a higher resolution, then you…Continue reading RDP smart sizing

You can enable or disable the Windows firewall on a remote computer. Download the Sysinternals Suite from the sysinternals website: http://download.sysinternals.com/files/SysinternalsSuite.zip Extract this zip file and see if PsExec.exe is in there. Disable the firewall state without stopping the firewall services on a remote computer. Pre-Windows 2008 method: psexec \\remotecomputer.mydomain.com “netsh firewall set opmode disable”…Continue reading Control Windows firewall state on a remote computer

As a Windows administrator it can be a pain to get used to the new Windows 2012 graphical user interface (GUI). One thing i really dislike is trying to get to the Windows Update feature while being connected to the server via a VMware Remote Console. For some reason the mouse cursor won’t show me…Continue reading Windows 2012 God Mode