Skip/hide Windows update on Windows 10

by | Jun 30, 2020 | Desktop, Tech, Windows

Since Windows 10 has been released there’s no easy way to skip/hide updates you don’t want installed. In Windows 7 it was super easy. I finaly found a way to skip/hide them. You have to download a troubleshooter from Microsoft. HERE is the link. HERE is a...

Printers not working after KB4557957 update

by | Jun 30, 2020 | Desktop, Software, Tech, Windows

I noticed an issue where after updating Windows 10 2004 with KB4557957 some printers were no longer working. BetaNews did a good writeup HERE about the issue. Microsoft released a couple off-schedule patches to fix it. HERE is the BetaNews article about it. In short...

SuperMicro ipmitool shared/dedicated NIC change

by | Jun 25, 2020 | IPMI, Servers, Tech

Here is how to change the NIC for IPMI to be shared or dedicated. I know this works on SuperMicro I’m not sure about other vendors Make sure you have IPMI tool installed and you’re able to connect via ipmitool To Get Lan Mode ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x0C...

Expand PV to expanded disk

by | Jun 24, 2020 | Tech

This will work if you made the PV your whole disk. If you want to do so with partition follow the link HERE. I use XCP-NG and when adding additional space to an existing disk I scan for the extra space using the command below and the extra space doesn’t appear....