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Category: Windows 10

January 17, 2021 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations – part #4

It’s part #4 of our ultimate logon times guide….all about Group Policy processing

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November 12, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – disabling the Run command (without killing everything else)

Blocking the Run command with GPOs is often horribly restrictive. Is there a better way to do it?

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November 7, 2020 James Rankin

The ultimate guide to Windows logon time optimizations – part #3

It’s time for part 3 of the logon optimizations series – where we will be looking at “first logon impact”

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July 2, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – adding Windows File Explorer functions to the right-click menu

Do you want to customize your Windows context menus with File Explorer functions? Read on… I had a request recently

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June 3, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – blank icons on Windows 10 desktop when using FSLogix to mask Office

Quick blog today, an oddity you may see using App Masking to hide Microsoft Office. I noticed this problem pop

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May 21, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – mandatory profiles in Windows 10 and Windows Server (the final word!)

Mandatory profiles are becoming much more problematic in Windows 10. Let’s put them to bed once and for all. Introduction

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April 9, 2020 James Rankin

QuickPost – Improve Windows 10 logon times with FastFirstSignIn

There’s a new trick in the quest for Windows 10 logon nirvana – introducing FastFirstSignIn. Specifically this for those of

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October 11, 2019 James Rankin

Customizing the WinX menu, and making it user-specific

So here’s (hopefully!) a full, comprehensive guide to tinkering with the right-click Windows WinX menu. What is the WinX menu?

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October 8, 2019 James Rankin

Dynamic Start Menu on Server 2016/2019 and Windows 10

Let’s sort the Start Menu out…and find a nice, secure, simple way of managing it. The Start Menu in Windows

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July 1, 2019 James Rankin

QuickPost – using FSLogix to create multiple default profiles and Start Tiles layouts

Let’s have a quick look at some cool tricks we can pull off with FSLogix. FSLogix (now owned by Microsoft)

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