This is just simple stuff I use everyday; and some stuff that happens only once, but nice to keep track of, in case.

2016-05-05: (viva Cinco de Mayo!!!)
Our company has recently started to install windows 10 on all new laptops and also upgrades for those who want to move to windows 10. Very few windows 8.x hosts in our office. However, we do use many win8.1 VMs. One of my permanent VMs is 8.1 x64 and I use this for all of my AD/admin tasks.
After I had finished imaging 2 new laptops with our corp win 10 image, I also imagined my business laptop to windows 10; two things I had to figure out right away; the edge browser doesn't work with many of our internal web sites so I needed to install/activate internet explorer 11 on windows 10:
How to locate and open Internet Explorer in Windows 10
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/wiki/insider_internet-insider_ie/how-to-locate-and-open-internet-explorer-in/4b067f8b-a0dc-4fba-9e63-00fb14ea82e8



2013-11-04:
user says IE10 crashes when starting up; discovered "mysearchresults" had hijacked the browser; went into regedit and changed "start page" in key from the mysearchresults to google.com; this allowed IE10 to startup without crashing. Then uninstall from programs and features the "DefaultTab" app; then full virus/malware scan; also malwarebytes full scan to remove the last vestiges of this problem app. Probably installed with some yahoo bar thingee, but not sure.

2013-10-29:
user request to fix problems with vm player and RHEL ver 5.x VM; point user to ISO file, download to laptop, and install new VM from this ISO file;

2013-10-07:
user request to configure linux evolution email client to connect to corporate exchange 2010 server;


2013-10-02: