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Windows 10 will stop receiving free security fixes on October 14, 2025 — and if your PC can’t take the free Windows 11 upgrade, you have five realistic paths forward: enroll in Extended Security Updates (ESU), buy or rent a new Windows 11 PC (including cloud PCs), perform an unsupported upgrade...

Set Up Storage Spaces Mirror in Windows 10/11 for Local Redundancy Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 30-45 minutes Introduction Storage Spaces is a built-in Windows feature that lets you group two or more physical drives into a single virtual pool and create resilient storage volumes...

Automate Disk Cleanup with Storage Sense and Task Scheduler in Windows 10/11 Difficulty: Intermediate | Time Required: 20 minutes Introduction Keeping temporary files, old update files, and clutter out of your drives improves performance and frees space without manual intervention. Windows 10...

A stubborn “Failed to Update the System Registry” error has become an unexpected hurdle for many Windows 10 and Windows 11 users, especially when attempting to launch older software or specialized applications. This error, often accompanied by a prompt suggesting the use of REGEDIT, signals...

Forgetting your Wi-Fi passwords is a universal issue in our digital lives, whether you're helping a family member connect to the network, setting up a new device, or troubleshooting network problems on Windows 11. Fortunately, Microsoft provides several built-in methods to recover saved Wi-Fi...

Changing the administrator account in Windows 11 might sound like rocket science, but in reality it’s as simple as a few clicks—or a short command line entry. Whether you’re passing your computer on to a family member, reassigning control, or just tidying up account permissions, Windows 11 gives...

Hello All, I'm running our DC on Server 2019 Std. We have a plugin from Barracuda that was deployed with our GP flawlessly. Barracuda since has upgraded their plugin and requested that we remove the old one. Easy enough....wrong. I still have the install package and the policies built out. I...

I have the very old Lotus SmartSuite installed on Windows 11 and the functions I need work fine in Windows XP compatibility. What doesn't work is starting SmartCenter at startup. It worked on Windows 10, but doesn't start on Windows 11 when in the Startup programs. I added the SmartCenter...

Hopefully someone can help or confirm that a reinstall is the only solution In addition to my user accounts, I created a specialist admin account with elevated rights I don't know how I did it but I accidentally removed the elevated rights from my administrative account so now it is a user...

Winver=22H2. Just a couple of weeks ago I KNOW I had FULL ADMIN rights to copy any file/photo off of my desktop. Now, I can't send anything from my desktop, and I desperately need to send scrnshots to support groups but I can't cuz some MSoft gremlin changed it on the fly. :mad::mad::mad: It's...

Hi, I'm trying to install a driver "RASFWP.EXE" with administrative privileges (rick click - run as administrator". I'm an administrator of the PC. But I get continuously a cmd pop with the messages "requesting administrative privileges". the pop-up stays opened for around one second, is...

Every time I try to copy "You'll need to provide administrator permission to copy this file " I am trying to copy large .TIB files image files from my C: drive to an external drive connected directly to the PC. I AM admin on this computer but am not using the Administrator account. The actual...

Hi, I am new to Windows Server OS, but not to Windows. I have a program that I need to change the DPI settings on. I know on Windows 10, I would do the following; Right click on icon > Properties > Compatibility > Change high DPI settings > Override high DPI scaling behavious > Tick the box >...

I installed something from the internet which messed up my windows security settings. Now whenever I access it it asks me to redirect myself to Microsoft store because my PC cannot open the defenders link. I tried installing the thing via powershell but did not work. It is a personal laptop so I...

Hi , I have created a scheduled task using an account with admin privilege in 2019 server and task is running fine. But just noticed that other non -admin domain users are not able to see the task in task library. I have tried below options , but no luck . Please let me know if anyone have a...

Dear all, I am looking to clone programs etc from Windows "regular user account" to "administrator account". Basically i want to log with administrator account and have everything exactly the way i have with the user account i use now. The reason for moving to administrator account is because...

Hi all, When I was made redundant from my previous company they let me keep my laptop but did not remove the company admin rights before I left. I have spoken to them and they said they cannot help and I will need to sort this out myself. Does anyone know how to remove admin rights for free...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10, version 21H1 Build 19043.1263 (KB5005611) to the Release Preview Channel for those Insiders who are on Windows 10, version 21H1. This update includes the following improvements: We fixed an issue that changes the device’s current UI...

my phone and surface connect to the extended wifi network just fine, but my work laptop cannot...i tried to connect then the password field briefly appears then it suddenly says "cannot connect to network"....tried rebooting to no avail note that this is a work PC and therefore my admin rights...

I have a couple of batch files that i run when i play a specific game. I used to be able to double click them to execute some commands. Now i am forced to right click and run as admin. The error I get when i double click is "Windows cannot find "path of bat". Make sure you typed the name...