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I have been working as a delivery manager for a large company specialising in complex integration problems.<\/p>\n

Essentially, up to now my role has been working out how we can make best use of our toolset.<\/p>\n

That is coming to an end, so I am now looking at the technical aspects of my role.<\/p>\n

Which brings up to mind a conversation I had with Heinz Wolff<\/a> back in 2009: “security is more than keeping people out.\u00a0 It’s about ensuring safe and consistent delivery of service.”<\/p>\n

What’s this got to do with Windows?<\/h2>\n

My Windows 10 machine has developed an interesting glitch – every so often the UI would freeze.\u00a0 The mouse moved, but the keyboard and mouse buttons would do nothing.<\/p>\n

I initially thought, make a backup and check for viruses.<\/p>\n

The virus check raised no concerns so I waited to see what would happen.<\/p>\n

The problem became more persitent.\u00a0 That led me to the manufacturers web site who suggested a system reset \ud83d\ude2e<\/p>\n

Ouch.\u00a0 Given that advice I went through the install log and worked backwards.\u00a0 I don’t know precisely which piece of software was causing the issue, but I have cleared out a whole load of old stuff and it seems to have had the desired effect.<\/p>\n

Not only should that improve my normal work performance but also some of the fun pieces I am looking at like Kali Linux…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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