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Windows 10 Slow NAS access with device PIN

November 10, 2015July 25, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Windows 10 NAS file access is very slow

If you have been finding reading and writing files to and from a NAS from Windows 10 is painfully slow, you could try this tip that fixed the problem on a clients computer recently;

In Windows 10, go to Settings
Select the ACCOUNTS menu item
Select SIGN IN OPTIONS on the left-hand side menu
Select the I FORGOT MY PIN option
Enter your full account password
When you are asked to set a new pin, leave it blank
This will disable the PIN login option in Windows

Windows 10 Library Folders

November 10, 2015July 25, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Windows Library Folders

Despite being much less prominent in Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, the Windows Library files, first introduced in Windows 7, can actually be quite a useful way of collecting together various folders under a common heading. What has been missing all along in Libraries is the ability to add a non-indexed network share. Read more

Everyone in the UK should have access to fast broadband internet by 2020

November 7, 2015July 26, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Broadband for all

David Cameron has pledged that all UK homes and businesses will have access to fast broadband by 2020 backed by a Universal Service Obligation, giving the public the right to request an affordable, fast connection, making internet access a guaranteed service like water and electricity. Read more

Talk Talk Cyber Attack

October 23, 2015July 26, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Talk Talk Attack : Personal Data Stolen

The telephone provider Talk Talk has become the victim of a criminal cyber-attack. Read more

Scam emails from @gateway.gov.uk

September 10, 2015July 26, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Scam Emails Are Not From The Government

Scam emails pretending to be from the Government Gateway are being set out again.

Some scam emails are still offering larger bodily parts or performance enhancing substances but they are easy to spot by both humans and computers. So the scammers have taken things up a notch in the past year or so, creating plausible and relevant scam emails that could catch the unwary.

One such email currently being distributed is pretending to be from the Government Gateway, part of the UK’s e-Government service for various business and tax electronic form submissions. Read more

Samsung SNS (Social Network Service)

September 8, 2015July 26, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Problems with the Samsung SNS service or Single Sign On

The SNS (Social Network Service) on Samsung devices is used to bring you updates from various social platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, typically via the notifications or integrated into the contacts or calendar apps. Read more

Why is this taking so long?

August 24, 2015July 26, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Is your internet feeling a bit on the slow side?

There are many reasons why your internet may not be trundling along as fast as you are expecting, from poor broadband supply to malware and viruses. Read more

Get Windows 10

June 4, 2015July 27, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

(How To) Get Windows 10

Users of Microsoft Windows 7 & 8 will start to notice a new icon in their system tray with the slanted Windows logo informing them of the opportunity to upgrade to Windows 10. No, it’s not a virus or malware, it’s a genuine offer from Microsoft.

Anyone currently using a genuine Windows 7 (with SP1) or 8.1 PC or on Windows Phone 8.1 will have the opportunity to upgrade, for free, to Windows 10 when it is released in July this year. Read more

Solid State Drives – Not suitable for long term storage

May 26, 2015August 1, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

SSD v HDD – Which is best?

SSD’s are slowly but surely replacing their mechanical counterparts, the HDD, in modern computers, they offer more storage per square-inch and can read/write data to and from memory significantly faster than the spindle and articulator arm of a standard HDD, and of course, they are not prone to shock and data head crashes.

So all good? well, yes… but….

Could your WiFi router be hosting a backdoor allowing hackers to access your network?

April 7, 2015August 3, 2017 tinsleyNET Admin

Wifi Routers could be compromised

Several new exploits have been identified recently that are designed to attach your home or business router from inside, and install code to allow hackers to open a backdoor to your network and your data.

The exploits are designed to get into a network either by infecting devices that go outside of your firewall, such as mobiles, tablets and laptops, or by tricking the user into downloading a malicious file. Once inside the network, the malware gets to work on your firewall, attempting to inject code into the firewall that will allow external code to be added to innocent web pages. So you might be viewing the BBC site for example, and the code adds advertising and other unwanted scripts to the page as it passes through your firewall, meaning the page you see if very different from the one served up by the BBC servers. Read more