Category Archives: Microsoft

Windows 7 Updates Won’t Work or are Terribly Slow

For those of you who have older hardware and are sticking with Windows 7, this may help you out if you ever re-image/start over with your computer or just can't get Windows 7 Updates to install/work anymore. One of the main causes of this is that the new Microsoft update process requires the latest version of .NET Framework to be installed.  This is one of those chicken/egg problems as eventually the update process will install the proper version, but typically, the update process slows down or even errors out before this can get installed. Now the other issue, is that you will need Windows 7 SP1 installed before you can install the updated .NET Framework.  You can use the following link to get SP1 (as well as any troubleshooting you may need in order to get this...

Good way to Free up Storage Space

There are many reasons why you may be running out of storage space, especially on your boot or Drive C: hard drive.  Here is a good way of cleaning things up. In Windows 10, click the Windows start button and type in 'cleanup' to automatically search your system.  At the top, the 'Disk Cleanup' app should appear. Click on this to start the process.  You should be asked to select which drive if you have more than one drive in your system: Select the appropriate drive which should be (C:) and then click the OK button to start the scan.               Once the scan completes, you should be presented with the Disk Cleanup...