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Feb 18, 2014 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

Microsoft Surface hard reset

Microsoft Surface hard reset

How to Factory Reset Microsoft Surface RT.
To reset your Surface without logging in, please try the following:

  1. 1. Attach your Touch Cover / Type Cover.
  2. 2. Power on your Surface.
  3. 3. Press and hold the Left Shift key at the Login screen.
  4. 4. Press the Power icon.
  5. 5. Press Restart

Your surface should boot to a light blue screen with some options on it.

  1. 1. Click on Troubleshoot.
  2. 2. Click on Reset your PC.
  3. 3. Follow the prompts.

How to reset surface?

1. Factory Reset.

  • Go to tap Applications list > Settings > about > reset your tablet.

Windows RT
Press Windows key and Power buttons together, same as Alt+Ctrl + Del on previous Windows OS.

You can use Backup and Restore Center to restore backups.

As last resort you can restore the factory image from the recovery partition. The recovery partition on a Microsoft Surface unit is a hidden partition on the drive. You should not delete this partition to free disk space, because the partition contains a copy of the factory image.

To restore the factory image

  • Turn on your device and press the BACKSPACE key.
  • Press F8 key.
  • Select Repair your computer and hit ENTER
  • After the recovery wizard (keyb. layout, user, pass etc.)
  • Select cmd Command prompt, and then open the D:\recovery directory.

Enter recovery.cmd and then hit the ENTER key. Wait until it finishes.
After restarting the device you need to go through the setup

I hope this helps

Filed Under: Windows 8

Nov 22, 2013 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

How to change the default image of a Pictures Folder

The screenshots from this are from a computer running Windows 8.1 Some versions of Windows might or might not allow you to actually pick out the picture.

Here’s a screenshot of my Pictures folder:

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You will notice I have already changed LifeFrame to a picture that I have specified. There are actually 3 pictures inside of that folder. Because I have selected a picture to be the default picture it will only show one.

Look at the folder called “Northern Lights at Matlock”. It currently is showing 2 pictures from that folder that the Windows operating system has automatically selected.

We are going to make that folder change it’s icon so it only shows the picture we want it to show. To do that we will change some settings.

Right click the folder and select properties. We will see something like this open:

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We will need to click on the “Customize” tab.

Once there, you will need to check a few items. Make sure the folder is optimized for “Pictures”. Then you need to hit the “Choose File…” button to select the picture that you want as the default picture on the folder.

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An “open file” dialog box will open and you should select a file that is INSIDE that same folder that you right clicked. Select the image you want and hit “open”.

It will look like nothing has happened. Hit “APPLY” and then hit “OK”. Voila the folder will now look different.

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If you have these options but it doesn’t work you might have been fiddling around with folders. I tend to see people have changed the “Default Folder Type” a folder that is higher up the food change and changed it to “Documents” or something similar. The “Default Folder Type” is the section that reads “Optimize this folder for:”. If you accidently selected “Also apply this template to all subfolder” a little bit higher up the food chain I have seen some funny results if you try and change a folder back later.

If that doesn’t work you might also want restore the folder default by hitting “Restore Default”.

Filed Under: Windows 8

Nov 6, 2013 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

How to fix Windows 8 Internet Explorer open then closes

Are you trying to open Windows 8 Internet Explorer and it opens and then closes right away? Do you have network and email access but Internet Explorer won’t open correctly? I went through many sites and no one had an answer that solved the issue.

Thankfully I found out a way how to solve the problem of internet explorer won’t stay open. To fix it you will need to do a couple of things:

At the Start Screen just start typing “Internet Options”. A window will open up. Go to Advanced and click on “Restore advanced Settings” and “Reset…” button in that order. Make sure to ensure EVERYTHING gets reset.

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Once you have cleaned things up you will need to go back to the start screen. Type “Programs and Features”. It may be under “Settings” filter in Windows 8. On the Left hand side there is a link that has a shiel labeled “Turn Windows Features on or off”. Click it and another window will open. You will now remove the check box besides Internet Explorer. It will say IE10 for Win8 and IE11 for Win8.1.

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This will prompt you to restart the computer. Do so. It will make changes to the OS to remove Internet Explorer. Please wait and don’t turn off the machine. When the machine reboots go back to the same window that you removed Internet Explorer from and put a check box back in. Once done hit “OK” and you will need to restart your machine once more. When you boot up the machine test Internet Explorer. It should now open properly!

Hopefully this will help you solve your “Internet Explorer Opening and then Closing right away” error!

Filed Under: Windows 8

Oct 22, 2013 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

Windows IPv6 EUI-64 Fix

Windows by default comes up with a randomly picked IPv6 Link Local address instead of using the EUI-64 version. In a home network it doesn’t make sense to apply this fix. This is done just for lab or business setup where you need a static address for authentication.

So, here’s how to make Windows behave as per every other OS…

1. Open up a Command Prompt in Administrator mode (right-click, run as administrator)

2. Run the following commands.  Each one should respond “Ok”.  If you didn’t do step 1 correctly, it will say the command required elevation.

netsh interface ipv6 set privacy state=disabled store=active
netsh interface ipv6 set privacy state=disabled store=persistent
netsh interface ipv6 set global randomizeidentifiers=disabled store=active
netsh interface ipv6 set global randomizeidentifiers=disabled store=persistent

3. Exit the command prompt, and reboot.

Hope this helps you fix IPv6 EUI-64 in Windows.

Filed Under: Windows 2008, Windows 2008 R2, Windows 7, Windows 8

Oct 21, 2013 By Jared Heinrichs Leave a Comment

How to see the Solicited Nodes Multicast Group in Windows

I actually had a hard time tracking down how to show  the Solicited Nodes Multicast Group in Windows. I have to thank Vladimir Kuchar on the Cisco forums for letting me in on the command.

I really think Microsoft should include this as part of an IPCONFIG command.

Anyways… the command to check the Solicited Nodes Multicast Group in windows goes like this:

Open a Command Prompt

Type: netsh interface ipv6 show joins

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All the addresses that start with ff02:: are Solicited Nodes Multicast Groups.

Hope this helps!

Filed Under: Windows 8, Windows Command Line

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