Symantec AntiVirus Asks For Password During Uninstall
Nov17

Symantec AntiVirus Asks For Password During Uninstall

KB ID 0000894  Problem I was finishing off a domain migration this week and was changing the clients over to McAfee. On one machine I found it had Symantec AntiVirus. When I tried to remove it, it asked for a password. One of the other machines had Symantec Endpoint Protection installed and this did the same. As expected, no one knew what this password was, and the default password ‘symantec’ didn’t work. Solution...

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Windows – Changing the Unlock Code and Activating
Nov17

Windows – Changing the Unlock Code and Activating

KB ID 0000667  Problem Some versions of Windows 8 (Windows 8 Pro for example) ask for the unlock code as soon as you install them, I installed Windows 8 Enterprise on my PC at home today, and I couldn’t even change my user photo, because Windows hadn’t activated. When I tried, this is what happened. Solution As I had not yet installed a Windows unlock code, it’s safe to assume it had it’s in built KMS code, so...

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Windows 8 – ‘Network Connectivity Assistant service is stopped or not responding’
Nov17

Windows 8 – ‘Network Connectivity Assistant service is stopped or not responding’

KB ID 0000841 Problem When attempting to check Direct Access connection status on a Windows 8 client machine with a Get-DaConnectionStatus command you see the following error; Get-DaConnectionStatus : Network Connectivity Assistant service is stopped or not responding. OK, so lets go and check the status of that service, if it starts great, but mine did not as you can see. And it logged an Event ID 7024 The Network Connectivity...

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