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MacOS .ds_store
Mac

How to Disable Creation of MacOS .DS_Store Files on Network and Removable Media Locations

If you’re a Mac user, or manage file shares where Macs are present, you’ve probably seen the .DS_Store file in your file share folders or removable media. The .DS_Store (Desktop

June 14, 2025
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Contacts Missing or Not Syncing Mac
Mac

Fix iCloud Contacts Missing or Not Syncing to Mac

There are times when your Contacts app on your Mac might get out of sync with iCloud. In my case, the Contacts app kept showing contacts and data from over

July 5, 2024
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Windows 11 Parallels
Windows

How to Create a Windows 11 Virtual Machine in Parallels

Windows 11 has more security requirements than previous versions of Windows. The main requirements are the use of a TPM 2.0 chip (TPM 2.0 can be enabled in your BIOS

September 22, 2021October 7, 2021
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Mac Time Machine
Mac

Speed Up Time Machine Backups

As a Mac user, using Time Machine to create backups of your Mac is usually a good idea. You can either attach a large enough USB drive to use as

February 27, 2019
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mac stuck at apple logo startup
Mac

How To Fix A Mac Stuck On Apple Logo At Startup

If you’ve found this article, it is probably because your Mac won’t boot up and is stuck at the Apple Logo screen with the loading/progress bar and never goes any

November 1, 2018
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How To Use PC Keyboard Shortcuts in macOS 1
Mac

How To Use PC Keyboard Shortcuts in macOS

As a user of both a PC and a Mac, there are times when I dock my Mac that is connected to a Windows PC keyboard. As you know, in

April 26, 2018
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How To Restore Mac from a Mac Server File Server Time Machine Backup 3
Mac

How To Restore Mac from a Mac Server File Server Time Machine Backup

If you have a netboot setup, then the backup share should automatically appear when you’re in the recovery tools. If you’re trying to restore from a regular file share, then

February 8, 2018February 8, 2018
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How To Fix Outlook for Mac Search Returns No Results 5
Mac

How To Fix Outlook for Mac Search Returns No Results

There are a few reasons you could receive a “No Results” message when performing a search in Outlook for Mac. It could be due to Spotlight Search indexing is incomplete,

September 25, 2017
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How To Disable NetBIOS on MacOS OS X 7
Mac Security System Administration

How To Disable NetBIOS on MacOS OS X

Even though my network has NetBIOS disabled in my Windows environment, including on the Windows DHCP server, the Mac OS X computers on the network still want to send NetBIOS

February 16, 2017
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How To Change Your DNS On Windows, Mac, or Linux 9
Technology Linux Mac Windows

How To Change Your DNS On Windows, Mac, or Linux

A DNS server resolves website URLs into their IP addresses, which is how the internet functions. Without DNS, we would be typing in IP addresses into our browsers instead of

October 21, 2016April 6, 2017
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