For some strange reason the regular full keyboard layout for a touchscreen is disabled in Windows 8 by default. It can be enabled by going into: PC Settings General Set “Make the standard keyboard layout available” to ON. http://pritishwrites.blogspot.ca/2012/08/windows-8-full-keyboard-layout.html
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Increase the SSL Key size for IIS 6
Instructions on how to increase the key size for an SSL certificate in IIS 6 http://www.geocerts.com/support/iis_upgrade_key_size
Server 2012 enable multiple RDP login connections
For some reason the place to enable multiple remote desktop connections in server 2012 has been made more difficult to find: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverTS/thread/87bc6d8c-9b0f-4be2-a669-8a6e6847e505/
Windows 8 Error: The IO operation at logical block address for Disk was retried
I started getting a huge amount of errors in the event log (around 2 per second) of The IO operation at logical block address <####> for Disk <#> was retried I have 2 SSD drives running in a mirror for my system partition, which were the disks generating the error. I was eventually able to eliminate […]
Brother MFC-9840CDW Scanning not working after Windows 8.1 upgrade
When I recently upgraded to Windows 8.1 from Windows 8 (which broke far more drivers than I had expected) the scanning and other control Center 3 functions on my Brother MFC-9840CDW stopped working. The driver below resolved the problem: http://welcome.solutions.brother.com/bsc/public/us/us/en/dlf/download_index.html?reg=us&c=us&lang=en&prod=mfc9840cdw_all&dlid=&flang=English&os=120&type2=-1 I did find it odd that my earlier driver was working perfectly with Windows 8, […]