“My generic product key is invalid.” It’s one of the common complaints about Windows Activation in every version since XP. Here’s why: Windows Generic Product Keys always expire. Want to know more?
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Hit the ‘show hidden files’ option in Windows Explorer and you are likely to find many instances of thumbs.db and desktop.ini files. What are they and why so many? Windows itself creates these to speed file operations and save settings for the future. Which is fine until things get out of hand. Continue reading
Proactivity Press has launched a new Essential Short Guide to PRINCE2® E-book. Introducing PRojects IN Controlled Environments. The internationally recognised, best-practice project management framework is now in its sixth edition: all 413 pages of it. This short guide, under 30 pages, is ideal for newcomers to project-based working.
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With over 1 billion installations (according to Microsoft), Windows 10 is reckoned to be just under 75 percent of the Windows market (StatCounter). Which means there’s still 250 million or so Windows machines not running Windows 10. So what is the desktop share that isn’t Windows 10? And why? Continue reading
After Windows Update installs a major release, it sometimes helps to clean up Windows using Storage Sense. Or does it…? Stay for the suspenseful conclusion. Continue reading
The first publication of 2021 from Proactivity Press is The Essential Short Guide to Web Content Strategy and Planning. You can find it at Amazon, Kobo and Apple Books as well as the Proactivity Press online shop.
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