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Windows Server Update Services - the office nerds were bitching about it, and how the maintenance kept failing. Wondering what they were talking about, I looked it up.  Turns out, there's a pretty comprehensive article about how to do maintenance on it, ... that the office nerds had never seen before. So, I figured it might be worth raising the bandwidth a little ;-) The complete guide to Microsoft WSUS and Configuration Manager SUP maintenance

If  you waste a lot of time at a computer, then you know how much screen capture utilities totally rock. One of my favorites is Greenshot , as it makes "capture the region I specify" as easy as pressing the Print Screen button. However, this is such an awesome function, that other apps like DropBox and OneDrive will also do this, and that means they overwrite the Greenshot settings in the Registry (or something), thus wiping out Greenshot's ability to respond to these hotkey combinations (like Print Screen). No problem, right?  Yeah, whatever. So, I learned that OneDrive had usurped the hotkeys when Greenshot said "The hotkeys got usurped, I can't help you anymore."  Sure enough, when you look at the Greenshot preferences, the hotkey combos are GONE. So, there's a "reset defaults" button, right?  You'd think.  Whatever. Make OneDrive stop owning the Print Screen hotkey. Make DropBox stop owning the Print Screen hotkey. ...

If you're like me, you have really mixed feelings on Windows 8.1 (we'll ignore Windows 8.0 like we ignore Vista). When it works, it works great. When is sucks, it sucks hard. Here is a great page for how to get the piece of junk to boot into Safe Mode. http://www.7tutorials.com/5-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-8-windows-81