Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from January, 2015

Enabling the Windows 10 Calendar

Are you running the Windows 10 Technical Preview yet? If so, here’s a little refresh for the new calendar. The problem is, you might need to hack your registry to get it to show up. Does your calendar look like this?   Try the registry hack to get it to look like this:   Here’s the hack: Open the Registry Editor (regedit). Head to this path: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ImmersiveShell Create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value entry. Name it UseWin32TrayClockExperience .   That’s it! Try click on the clock on your taskbar. You should now see the refreshed calendar. :)

Jump to Conclusions About Leap Seconds

What a better way to start off the new year than to write about the leap second. According to Wikipedia, the leap second system, designed to adjust for “irregularities in the Earth’s rate of rotation”, was introduced in 1972. Since that point, 25 leap seconds have been inserted to adjust the atomic time. Most recently, it occurred on June 30, 2012 at 23:59:60 UTC . That’s right. A leap second is displayed as :60. Since time is the topic today, I was reading a blog post on this event as it pertains to Windows this morning and thought I’d share a few interesting points and observations: In KB 909614 How the Windows Time service treats a leap second , the article seems to indicate that the Windows Time service does not do anything with the leap indicator. During this point, the NTP client will be a second faster than the atomic time which is resolved at the next time sync. The wording is a little confusing to decipher in my opinion. Most applications cannot handle leap seconds since

Top 20 of 2014

Hello everyone. These are the 20 most frequented views on my blog last year. I’m really surprised how many old posts continue to get visited. I guess some things in technology change slower than others. I’m guilty of running some pretty old platforms (by today’s standards.) New year resolution? Understanding the “AD Op Master is inconsistent” Alert How to Retrieve Your IP Address with PowerShell SCCM: Content Hash Fails to Match How to Use Dropbox to Synchronize Windows 7 Sticky Notes SCCM: Client Stuck Downloading Package with BIT*.TMP Files in Cache Directory Search Programs and Files No Longer Works in Windows 7 (Only Shows Headers) Using PowerShell to List Active Directory Trusts “Get Computer/IP Status” Activity Throws Raw Socket Error SCCM: Custom Data Discovery Records (DDRs) Using PowerShell SCCM: Integrating Dell Warranty Data Into ConfigMgr SCCM Clients Fail to Apply Policy SCCM: The Required Permissions for Creating Collections SCCM: Computers with Names Greate