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Windows 10 install and first run

imageAfter backing up my laptop, I decided to try out Windows 10.  The installation was a little dark at times, nothing being displayed on screen. After successfully completing that I come away with a much better feeling than I did when I tried Windows 8. 

The installation seemed to go well, the first login resulted in a black screen with a mouse cursor.  After trying a few things I found, a hard reset brought up a working system.  The VPN might be a little broken.  When copying the Select Client over the VPN,  the transfer rates dropped to zero. To fix it, pausing the copy in Windows 10 and resetting the VPN and resuming the copy got it going. That I found a bit weird, but I liked the pause and resume on a copy.

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Trippy little registry solution

I ran across this today and wanted to be sure to save it.  I’m not sure where I’ll use it yet, it needs further investigation.

One of the interesting road blocks that Microsoft built into Windows Operating systems starting with Vista, so 7, 2008 etc. are included, is when a command window or other program is run as administrator, they don’t receive the user’s mapped drives, or other shared network connections.

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Automated SoftPro SQL Database Backup

Backing up the SoftPro SQL database, isn”t that done automatically was the question of the week.  Well yes and no is the answer, if you have a SQL database many times it is not included in your backup.  Especially if you”ve switched to a Cloud based backup.

 

In my humble opinion The entire SoftPro Database should be backed up in this fashion on a regular basis even if your main backup catches it.  There is too much valuable data in these files not to be specially protected.

 

So what do we do?

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