After more than half a decade of sudden, retina‑searing white popups in an otherwise dark desktop, Windows 11 is finally showing measurable progress toward a coherent system‑wide dark theme — and that progress is arriving in preview builds right now.
Background: why this finally matters
For many...
Microsoft has quietly started theming Windows 11’s long-neglected legacy file-operation dialogs to respect Dark Mode, turning the previously blinding white copy/move/progress and error pop-ups into a darker, less jarring experience for users running the system theme set to Dark.
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If you’ve recently flung open your Outlook app only to be greeted by the baffling error 0x80049dd3 and a hauntingly unhelpful "Access Denied" warning, you’re not alone. Users running Windows 10 and Windows 11 have witnessed their trusted Outlook desktop clients refusing to cooperate, leaving...
In a development that has left many users stranded in the digital wasteland of "Access Denied," Microsoft 365 has officially gone down, with widespread reports of issues plaguing its Outlook and Teams applications. Just moments ago, hundreds of users started flooding social media platforms with...
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In the world of Windows operating systems, users often encounter a myriad of issues, particularly when dealing with file management and system performance optimizations. One particularly frustrating issue is the "Access Denied" message when trying to access the Temp folder in Windows. The Temp...
Good day All
My client's setup:
Got a Windows 11 PC (aka file server) setup with OneDrive Client to sync files to PC's local hard drive.
Those folders are then shared with local file share/drive mapping with everyone in the office having full access. The reason for this is, the client works...
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Running Windows 11 Home Version 23H2 on Dell Inspiron AIO 5490 AIO. BIOS Mode UEFI and up to date.
Total identified windows installations: 0 after using bootrec /rebuildbcd or bootrec /scanos command in Windows Recovery Environment. Ive done everything recommended online to fix the issue...
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I have been struggling with this for some time...
At our company, like I assume at every enterprise, management believe that we (they) have implemented "least privilege principle", i.e. every software and every user has only those rights and privileges that are really needed for the task to be...
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My Windows 7 backup has been failing consistently for some time. The most relevant event log entry seems to be the following:
The event ID is 8194
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Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005, Access is...
I had to downgrade to Win 10. Unexpectedly, there was a massive Windows.Old directory created, and it's proving difficult to delete all of it. Although this is my own home PC and I'm the sole user, when I try to delete certain directories or files, I get Access Denied - you need to provide...
I try to install ROS on Windows using that instruction:
When I had to install Windows Package Manager I get that error:
I also try to run the prompt as admin I get the error "Access denied"
Windows 11: I receive "access denied" by calling "Pin At Start" from the command line, no mather wich language PowerShell or VBscript.
Both are called using administrator rights.
PowerShell
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Error
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PS C:\Users\roberto> .\t.ps1
Pin-App : App(s) not found: C:\Program...
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Hello All,
I have a fairly simple setup. 4 PCs, one acts as a defacto file server, running Win 11. The rest are mixes of Win 10 and 11.
On one machine (call it newpc also running win11) trying to map to a specific drive on the file server, I get the error "you do not have permission to...
Hello there,
I'm asking some help about a problem that we are facing since ages.
The problem :
PC on domain sometimes can't do a gpupdate /force and get the following error in terminal :
Sometimes, its the gpt.ini that cannot be read, sometimes its the \Machine\registry.pol file. Always the...
I had a virtual machine running on a customer's computer, and I needed to reinstall it. I removed the drive from the computer so I could copy a new VHD from my laptop to the drive. IIt kept telling me that the recycle bin on the drive was corrupt and would not let me copy over the VHD unless I...
I did a system restore to another date and my computer now won’t work properly.
It only allows me to limited options like start-up repair which doesn’t work.
I got the blue screen with a qr code which led me here but I didn’t have any luck - Troubleshoot blue screen errors
I also got this...
So basically I accidentally moved my captures folder location (the place where my screenshots go) to my onedrive folder. And when i try to switch it back it states that there is an error and that access is denied and overall wont let me switch the location back. Im stuck ):