Working on a client machine recently – the user reported an issue with the Brother scanner software that they had been using for some time. The error occurred during scanning and was “Scanning failed” with a status of CC4-205-00000013. After checking the version of ControlCenter 4 and noting it hadn’t been updated in in quite […]
TPOT – is a self proclaimed All In One Multi Honeypot Platform. A client recently required an installation of TPOT and during that process I came across two gotchas that prevented the successful completion. The first was an error when attempting to start TPOT for the first time – the second was a constant restarting […]
While preparing an new client laptop I came across the situation where exporting the favourites from Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10 failed. Given I’d done this many times – the surprise was when “Some settings were not exported successfully” was displayed. In addition the file that I had specified wasn’t empty as I might […]
This is a short one but hopefully if you come across this – its a headscratcher! The PC in question had updated just under a month ago without issue and when its was noticed that there were some updates available – the result of applying them was the error code 80243004. Stopping the windows update […]
The first thing that strikes me about the new release is the additional of a tool that helps figure out why a windows 10 update fails. Having spent too much time working out the vagaries of why a particular model of PC or even a particular PC fails to update when other “identical” models don’t […]
Given the “imminent” demise of Windows 7 – this was an interesting one which may well be Windows 7 specific. A client had been accessing a desktop PC via RDP across a VPN when they reported a error. The dialogue read “Your computer could not connect to another console session because you already have a […]
Recently after a reboot of my workstation I got a orange/brown box with the message that there was an update being applied to my Office 2019 installation when attempting to start Outlook. Outlook didn’t in fact start – instead giving an error after a few seconds of the update message being displayed. The message was […]
For a recent project I needed to provide access to a vmware virtual machine image and the tool of choice was VMWare workstation pro. If you haven’t used it – the product enables you to develop, test, demonstrate, and deploy software by running multiple x86-based Windows, Linux, and other operating systems simultaneously on the same […]
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