group policies

  1. How to Easily Set and Secure Your Browser Home Page in 2025

    Setting your browser’s home page is one of those deceptively simple tasks that can transform your digital experience, saving time and aligning your daily browsing with your preferred workflows. While the process is generally straightforward, each browser—whether it’s Microsoft Edge, Internet...
  2. Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3872: The Future of Windows Testing

    Fresh out of Microsoft's secret digital bakery, Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26120.3872 has been spotted prowling the Beta Channel, much to the delight of fans and daredevil testers everywhere. If you’ve been keeping tabs on Windows 11’s progress—and let’s face it, if you’re reading this...
  3. The Windows 7 Solid Background Boot Bug: Lessons from a Hidden Operating System Flaw

    Windows 7 remains one of Microsoft’s most success-laden releases, a watershed operating system that undid the missteps of its predecessor, Windows Vista, and reset user expectations for what a modern, reliable OS should be. Launched in 2009, Windows 7 delivered a refined interface, improved...
  4. The Quirky Case of Windows 7's Solid Color Desktop Delay

    Booting up a Windows PC is an experience users have come to expect to be quick and seamless—especially in an era where solid-state drives and finely tuned operating systems promise near-instant access to the desktop. Yet, the road to such efficiency has often been littered with missteps and...
  5. Windows 11 Now Lets You Turn Off Profanity Filter for Voice Typing

    Not content with letting you paint your desktop in weird pastel hues or chasing you down with AI-powered widgets, Microsoft is now ready to add a little more, shall we say, color, to your conversations—by letting you toggle off the profanity filter for voice typing in Windows 11. That’s right...
  6. Microsoft Windows 11 Recall: Privacy Concerns, Fixes, and Future Outlook

    For months, Windows 11 Recall has been both the talk of the tech town and the subject of its most nervous side-eye. If ever there was a feature that could unite privacy hawks, enterprise admins, and the average user in a single, horrified gasp, it was Recall’s initial launch pitch: a Copilot+...
  7. 50,000 users in 2019 hangs on boot but works on 2012R2

    I've been using Windows server 2012R2 Standard for almost a decade now. I have apps running on the server which have created about 50,000 local users. These are local users created using WMIC scripts and eq. API's. The purpose is to allow for easy integration with IIS authentication. The app...
  8. Delivering Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime to managed Windows 10 devices

    Microsoft Edge WebView2 is a UI control that allows developers to embed web content into their Win32 C++, .NET, and WinUI applications. It powers many applications today such as Microsoft Office, Microsoft Power BI, and Visual Studio. Earlier this summer, we announced that we were beginning to...
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    Windows 10 Temporary Profiles All the Time

    I have a problem with temporary profiles. Read the first post here: Can't ping DC. That explains this problem as well, in my background information. Basicaly, I fixed the communication with the DC. Then, I enabled users for the computer store to work with. Then I took it to my local computer...
  10. VIDEO Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610

    Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22610 to the Dev and Beta Channels. TL;DR This build introduces some new group policies for IT administrators and an update to the Family Safety Widget. This build also includes another good set of fixes that will...
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    Windows 10 How do I disable my in build keyboard on my laptop

    How do I disable my in build keyboard on my laptop I have tried disabling my keyboard on my Lenovo laptop since it doesnt work properly. I have tried disabling the automatic updates through sysdm.cpl, changing the group policies through gpedit.msc and selecting a wrong driver for my keyboard in...
  12. Sleeping Tabs in Microsoft Edge: Delivering better browser performance

    Note: We’re in the process of deploying this feature starting with today's release of Beta 88, so it might be a little while before you see it in your channel and build. New to sleeping tabs? Read more in our previous blog post. The Microsoft Edge team is on a mission to create a browser that...
  13. Windows 10 Different Shutdown behavior from batch file than using Start>Power options

    This is quite a long read but please bear with me. I used to use a shutdown (.bat) script in win7 to backup my important stuff but couldn't make it work in win10 despite spending hours on the forums. It did work intermittently if I put it in the local logoff folder (group policies). So I wrote...
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    Issue with new DC / DNS server w Group Policies for Drive Mapping

    Hi all, First let me start with what I'm trying to accomplish: - My DC will also be a file server for sharing company documents and individual staff members will have their own personal drives (e.g. L: for Staff Files, M: for Company Files). - Be able to successfully ping DC/File server using...
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    Windows 10 Can't stop Win 10 Upgrading!

    The April 2018 upgrade of Win10 stopped SolidWorks from wotking but fortunately i had cloned the HD and managed to recover SW. I was running Win 10 Home but have just upgraded to Win 10 Pro and stopped the upgrades through Group Policies but without success. I have also tried numerous other...
  16. Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 and Build 18204

    Hello Windows Insiders! Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring and Build 18204 (19H1) to Windows Insiders who have opted in to Skip Ahead. Going forward, RS5 builds will come from the RS5_RELEASE branch. For Insiders who chose...
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    Windows Server 2012 Shared Folder permissions issues !!

    Dear All, We are using Windows Server 2012R2 for sharing folders on the network. Our requirement is : 1. Around 8 Shared folders 2. Depends on folder we need to give Modify permission for small group, Read+Write for another group and R+W permissions including Modify permission on some...
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    Need help with Windows 2003 icacls

    Hello guys, At the moment I am doing a task for school. I need to make a folder that is shared and is only accessible by the specific user and the Administrator. This should in CMD. I already have the following commando' s: net user Test Welkom01 /ADD /DOMAIN net group Directie Test /add mkdir...
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    Windows 7 Whats the "best" default owner for a file/folder?

    I had a look at all my files and folders on my data partition (not win7 system partition!) and found a lot of different file and folder owners e.g. Administrators Peter S-1-5-21-1078081533-1326574676-725345543-1005 .... I am not sure why one *.pdf file has a different owner than its neigbourgh...
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    Windows 7 Add Printer Wizard Not Showing Add network Printer

    I have a client running Windows 7 64-bit Professional workstation. When he attempts to run the add printer wizard, he only receives the option to add a local printer. The second option to add a network printer, bluetooth or wireless printer does not appear. The spooler service is running and...