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In a timely move to enhance cybersecurity for enterprises, Microsoft has recently released a free security advice book accompanying the newest edition of Windows Server 2025. Following the product's general availability earlier this month, this book aims to enlighten system administrators on the...

Attention all Windows enthusiasts! A recent Microsoft advisory, KB5037754, has highlighted critical changes to the Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) Validation protocol related to security vulnerabilities CVE-2024-26248 and CVE-2024-29056 that all Windows users and system administrators...

Dear people of the Windows forum. I came in here to learn how to use my Windows system. I switched to windows from Linux because I, due to being an avid gamer, want to eliminate all compatibility issues and decided to try to embrace the MS Windows system. One condition for me is that I can...

Hi. Received refurbished Lenovo . Shipped with 'Administrator' account; product refurbished so appear to have setup somewha aligned to previous user (seems corporate/work) environment. Attempted to adjust some accounts and am unle to removed Adminisrator Group from the S'out of the box'...

Hello to anyone reading this. Thanks for your interest. I'm trying to help the aunt of a friend of mine. She doesn't remember her account password (I know) and would like to get back into her account. There's a lot of back story to this that I won't bore you with. The computer is a desktop Asus...

All right, folks, so here's the scoop. I set up a Windows domain at my home both for fun and for experience because I am a Systems and Network Administrator by trade which makes admitting that I am having this problem that much more embarrassing. But, in any event, everything worked fine when I...

Good afternoon I recently had to have Windows 10 reinstalled on my Acer laptop which fixed all my problems. The engineer replaced the HD and it the old HD which still contains all of my files is now acting as an external drive. I can open individual files via the relevant apps but I cannot...

Good morning all. I am desperately seeking help with this annoying problem. My Windows 10 Acer V5 laptop has until last week booted into my account without requesting a password or pin - great. But a few days ago I was prompted to download and install Windows Upates and this is when everyting...

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"

I cannot turn on firmware protection in windows 11 pro. I have a brand new surface laptop 5 windows 11 pro so it meets all reqs. The firmware protection does not even show at first. I am able to make it appear by going into group policy and turning on, enabling, Virtualization based security...

On Windows 10 Pro Version 22H2 OS Build 19045.3086 I have three PC's all on the same wireless network. All set to Private networks. All running 19045. All in workgroup WORKGROUP. None have passwords, all are Administrator accounts.There are no credentials. In Sharing settings, all PC's are set...

Hi, I need to change the system time using a Qt application. I have a specific function in Qt Creator that handles this task. However, changing the time requires administrative privileges for the application. The issue is that this application is running on a Single Board Computer (SBC) and...

I'm trying to use Nearby Sharing for the first time with my Android phone. Although I'm signed into my Windows account as an administrator, the Nearby Sharing page demands that I sign into an old work account that I've not had access to in years. How do I change that to be my Windows account?

So my E drive had a lot of important things and all of a sudden it was deleted, it contained my account inside so I am now stuck in my Admin account. Is there any way to help me get my drive back? It is a hard drive. Please help me

Hello, I´ve been struggling with this for months. We use WinServer19, NIC1 is incoming network (NIC1 is shared to NIC2), NIC2 is outgoing network where we use static address/settings for organization. Our problem is, when the server restarts or update+restarts, the NIC2 settings will be restored...

I have a Win 10 computer that I recently setup for use by my son-in-law and my grandson. The one for my son-in-law is the main user, and one for grandson set up afterwards, both are set as Administrators. Everything is fine on the main users screen, but if I sign in as my grandson then there are...

hello I want to have three accounts on my Windows / PC 1-secondary 2-primary 3-Administrator No authority on the first and second accounts, only users according to my own preferences The third account must be an admin and have full authority Thank you for your help to explain or have a video

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...

Tech Support Guy System Info Utility version 1.0.0.4 OS Version: Microsoft Windows 10 Home, 64 bit Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6500U CPU @ 2.50GHz, Intel64 Family 6 Model 78 Stepping 3 Processor Count: 4 RAM: 8101 Mb Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics 520, 1024 Mb Hard Drives: C: 465 GB...

I have a new HP laptop that came with Windows 11 installed. I installed Mozilla Thunderbird. Everything seems to work correctly. BUT, I get a One Drive Sync error that shows up as a red dot on the Cloud icon in the row of icons on the lower bar. The error message says "Ensure that you have the...