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Control Windows Update Interruptions: Active Hours, Pause, and Delivery Optimization Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 10-15 minutes Keeping Windows up to date is important for security and performance — but unexpected restarts or large background downloads can interrupt work or slow a...

Microsoft’s continuous refinement of Windows 11 is poised to take another leap, as the company begins testing a PC-to-PC wireless file transfer feature—a move echoing older, well-remembered tools such as Windows 7’s Easy File Transfer utility. The implementation is being uncovered inside the...

It marks the end of an era in global internet communications: after more than two decades of shaping the way people connect across the world, Microsoft has announced the retirement of Skype, effective from May 2025. The company is steering users towards its more modern collaboration suite...

For over two decades, Skype stood as a trailblazer in the evolution of digital communication, acting as both a symbol of early internet innovation and an enduring pillar of global connectivity. Microsoft’s official announcement that Skype will be retired in May 2025 marks not just the end of an...

So you’ve stumbled upon Microsoft's Delivery Optimization (DO)—perhaps via your Windows Update settings—and now you’re scratching your head because the toggle to turn it off is grayed out or simply unavailable. Why can’t you shut it down? Is Delivery Optimization even necessary? Let’s break it...

I am running a peer to peer win 10 network. I have one of my computers (A) that can access the other (B) through explorer, but when I try to save a new doc or open one through the dialogue box to that computer (B) I cannot find it in my network folder. What am I missing? I can open any file off...

I am running Windows 10 Pro on a Dell XPS 8930 which is part of a peer to peer network with all machines running the same OS and version. Windows is up to date and it is the 2004 version. All machines are logged on using the Microsoft Account. This is the only machine on the network having a...

Readers of this blog interested in Real-Time Communications are probably familiar with Google’s WebRTC project. From the WebRTC site: “WebRTC is a free, open project that provides browsers and mobile applications with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple APIs. The WebRTC...

We’re excited to announce the preview availability of the WebRTC 1.0 API, and support for the H.264/AVC and VP8 video codecs for RTC in Microsoft Edge, enabling plugin-free, interoperable video communications solutions across browsers and platforms. These features are enabled by default in...

Hello! I've found two problems in the Event Viewer on my newly installed Windows 7 Ultimate x64. I had some Peer Networking problems too but I fixed that from a post here on Windows Forums. :) But I don't know how to fix these two problems. First one is a warning (Logname: Application |...

Hello None of the above seemed to fit. I have Windows 10 pro on desktop and laptop. I could not establish home group so I did what I had to do years ago with different pcs, which is to connect the 2 pcs with an Ethernet cable. However, unlike before when home group was established, even after...

In programs like Utorrent or BitToreent they just say connecting to peers and downloads never start. My friend got it to work and said he can't remember what he did. He said he remembered having to "Activate" some things in settings but has no idea what. Anybody can help me with this?!

Here is the situation, I have a peer-to-peer home network working great and I found an two year old desktop that I thought was long gone, evidently wasn't. It wasn't working right two years ago, however now I have learned enough about PC repair that I can fix it. One issue remains, once I fix...

I have a server running Win server 2008. There are 7 workstations running windows 7. The business software I use has its own database server function, I literally have to "turn on" the software's database by clicking an icon in my server's task bar. My network is a DOMAIN, but the software can...

Hello, My machine has been running a bit sluggish recently. After running various clean up tools this does not seem to change the performance on boot up and i still get a few errors that come up sometimes. I have been searching the internet and found this site answered a couple of the issues i...

im trying to setup a homegroup with my windows 7 pc and my wifes windows 8 pc. it wont let me view or re-set the password and it wont let me leave the group. now ive found hundreds of threads on this problem but none of them seem to answer the very simple problem of actually what to do to try to...

Hi, I've just tried to replace an XP Pro computer used as a P2P server for a 10 workstation network with a Win7 64bit computer. XP's connection device limit is 10 and in Win7 EULA it states 20 devices. But that doesn't seem to be true !! I have one program on each workstations which accesses 3...

Original release date: May 20, 2013 | Last revised: May 21, 2013 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows systems running Adobe Reader, Acrobat, or Oracle Java Overview On May 16, 2013, US-CERT was notified that both Link Removed[.]com and Link Removed[.]com had been compromised to...

How do I configure pctools firewall to allow utorrent connections?