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Update: The Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) removed the ability to disable the lock screen on Windows 10 Pro editions sadly, this tutorial will still work for enterprise versions of Windows 10, however not on Pro editions if you have updated past Windows 10 1511, released in November 2015. The Windows 10 lock screen makes sense on tablet / mobile devices, however on a desktop PC or laptop the lock screen is just an extra click every time you wish to use your device. Thankfully the Windows 10 lock screen can be disabled quite easily. To disable the lock screen on Windows 10 press the start button and search for “edit group policy”, then click on edit group policy to bring up the local group policy editor: Once you have the local group policy editor loaded up navigate down to thew following: Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Control Panel > Personalization, then double click on “Do not display the lock screen” On the left menu select “Enabled” then click ok. Thats it, you no longer have a lock screen on your device. Press the Windows Key + L to lock your device, you will now see you are prompted…

If you want to re install Windows 10 after obtaining the free upgrade you will find that you loose the free copy of the Windows 10 DVD player you were given for upgrading from Windows 8 Professional With Media Center or Windows 7 Home Premium / Ultimate. However fear not, this simple guide will show you how to re-install the Windows 10 DVD player for free! First download the Windows 10 DVD player for your version of Windows 10, either 32bit or 64bit: Download Windows 10 DVD Player 32bit Download Windows 10 DVD Player 64bit The above downloads link directly to the Windows 10 DVD player on Windows Update, so you can be assured the file is safe. One downloaded, use WinRAR to extract the cab file, this can be done by right clicking on either the windows10.0-kb3081704-x64.msi or windows10.0-kb3081704-x86.msi depending on which file you downloaded, then select extract here: Next you want to make two folders in the root of your C:\ drive called temp and temp2. Copy either the windows10.0-kb3081704-x64.msi or windows10.0-kb3081704-x86.msi you extracted in to the temp folder you just created. Now you need to open the Command Prompt, this can be done by searching for “Command Prompt” in the start menu. Once…

The company where I work sells repair parts / home security upgrade related products online. Currently we have three main outlets. The E-Commerce Website Ebay Amazon Over the last couple of years i’ve noticed the mindset of people shopping at each different on-line outlet is very different. The E-Commerce Website – Generally I would class customers on the e-commerce website to be your average on-line shopper, they know how to use a search engine and have usually purchased on-line before. These customers are happy to upgrade from the standard free 2nd class delivery to first class delivery to get the repair part quicker. The Ebay Customer – Ebay customers expect to be treated like royalty and pay as little as possible for the privilege. For the Ebay customer it’s all about price, if another seller is selling the same product as you and is a little as 1p cheaper, you will loose the sale. Reputation, Feedback or even if the customer has purchased from you before will not come in to it. The pure motivation is price. Not only is eBay all about price you are expected to go above and beyond the call of duty and be available 24/7 365. I can sort…

So you have a Jailbroken Apple TV 2 and want install a specific version of XBMC or Kodi, this mini tutorial will show you how to do so. You might be wondering why would you not simply do: apt-get update apt-get remove org.xbmc.kodi-atv2 That would install the latest version of Kodi, which normally wouldn’t be a problem. However development of Kodi for the Apple TV 2 platform has come to an end, so eventually you might no longer be able to do this. Another reason might be you want to boot in to boot Kodi / XBMC directly when the Apple TV is powered on for ease of use by family members, this is not possible with the latest version of Kodi. First ssh in to your Jailbroken Apple TV, the default username is root and the default password is alpine. Now do: apt-get update – This updates the packages available from the repositories, it wont hurt to do this. Remove Previous versions of XBMC / Kodi: Work you way down the list below and copy / paste the commands which are highlighted in bold to remove and clean-up from any previous Xbmc / Kodi installs. rm -f *kodi*.deb – Deletes any…

So you are hosting a Wordpress Blog running on IIS (Internet Information Services) which is behind CloudFlare CDN (Content Distribution Network) and you want to enable CloudFlare’s free Flexible SSL so your Wordpress Blog can be accessed over https. You have tried to set this up, however have ended up with an annoying a redirect loop leaving your Wordpress Blog inaccessible, here is how to fix that redirect loop. CloudFlare Flexible SSL Setup for Wordpress Running On IIS: Log in to CloudFlare and find your domain Click the settings cog next to it and select “Cloudflare Settings” Scroll down to SSL and enable Flexible SSL Next in your Wordpress Admin Panel: Go to Settings Change your blogs URL’s from http:// to https:// You will have now forced Wordpress to use https:// however you will find you now have the infamous redirect loop error. Fix Wordpress / CloudFlare Flexible SSL Redirect Loops: Open your wp-settings.php file and find the line which says require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’) Before this line add the following code: // Force Admin Login To SSL define(‘FORCE_SSL_ADMIN’, true); // CloudFlare SSL Fix if (isset($_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO’]) && $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_PROTO’] == ‘https’) { $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’]=’on’; } else { $_SERVER[‘HTTPS’] = false; } define(‘WP_SITE_URI’, ($_SERVER[“HTTPS”]?”https://”:”http://”).$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”]); define(‘WP_SITEURI’, ($_SERVER[“HTTPS”]?”https://”:”http://”).$_SERVER[“HTTP_HOST”]); define(“WP_CONTENT_URL”, WP_SITE_URI . “/wp-content”); define(“WP_CONTENT_URL”, WP_SITE_URI…