Tag: mike halsey

Nothing is a greater barrier to productivity than a PC that won’t boot, but what do you do? Reimaging the PC gets you caught up in hours of app and Windows updates, and reinstalling Windows makes things even worse. This course will show you how…

Focus on the problems that most commonly plague PC users and fix each one with a step-by-step approach that helps you understand the cause, the solution, and the tools required. Discover the connections between the different hardware and software in your devices, and how their…

The Windows file system is large and complex, featuring not only a huge number of essential files and folders for the Windows OS, your software and hardware, but also several different underlying file systems that manage and maintain file integrity on your disks. In this…

Learn everything you need to know about making Windows 10 easier to use, see, hear, touch, or read, whether you are using it yourself, setting it up for another person, teaching others about ease of use at work or in the home, or working with…

Whether you are new to Windows, or you want to get up to speed with the latest features and changes, this book has everything you need to get started. Author Mike Halsey shows you how to create an environment for school, work, and play that…

This course has now been retired on the Pluralsight website Windows 10 is a hugely powerful and configurable operating system, but its features can sometimes be confusing to set up and configure. If resilience isn’t baked in, the downtime can be annoying and expensive. In…

As companies keep their existing hardware and operating systems for more years than ever before, the need to diagnose and repair problems is becoming ever more important for IT Pros and system administrators. Whatever version of Windows you’re using (including Windows 10) you’ll likely need…

This course has now been retired on the Pluralsight website. IT Systems are hugely complicated, with almost infinite combinations of hardware, software, and peripherals. When you factor in environmental considerations and human error, troubleshooting any problem can be extremely difficult. In this course, you’ll learn…

Whatever version of Windows you’re using–from Windows 7 up to Windows 10–the registry is at the heart of your desktop experience. Software installs and compatibility, hardware operation and more are managed by a complex database of codes and numbers. When something goes wrong it can…

This course has now been retired on the Pluralsight website. PCs are a hugely varied and complicated system of devices, apps, configuration, and security problems that are all massively compounded the moment you let somebody actually use them. In this course, you’ll learn how to…