Back to the future, part 8.1

I’ve spent the last two days setting up my main workstation with Windows 8.1 Pro. I’m on holidays, which shows how much I detested Windows 10. I used it for five months. Some things were an improvement, but even more things were worse. Let me count the ways: The start…

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Office 2016 custom installations

2015 is almost over. I installed Office Professional Plus 2016 for the first time today. And guess what? You can’t choose what to install or where. If you want to leave out Access, Lync or Publisher, you need to make your own deployment using the Office 2016 Deployment Tool. That…

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Windows 10 won’t show Start menu

Microsoft made a bit of noise about the “new and improved” Start menu, which is basically a hybrid of Windows 7 and 8. Well, yesterday my Start menu stopped working. It wouldn’t display by clicking the Start button or by pressing the Win key. It turns out this is quite…

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