group policy

I've had my HP Laptop for a week. Today I noticed the above message. I consulted Google and apparently it's a common bug, corrected through running "gpedit.msc". But then I got a message that Windows couldn't find "gpedit.msc". I consulted Google again and found out that Global Policy Editor is...

Every time I temporarily install Anydesk, it installs a sshd server. This also creates a new user account. After I un-install Anydesk, my W7 starts requiring me to click on a single User button to finish booting. How do you stop this? I am the only user on my machine. Before installing...

Discusses event ID 5719 or Group Policy event 1129, which are logged if you have a Gigabit network adapter installed on a Windows-based compute. Provides a resolution. Continue reading...

Describes how to use Group Policy to apply WinHTTP proxy settings to Windows clients. Applies to Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 and later versions. Link Removed

Microsoft reports relate to a bogus update from Win Defender stopping some machines from starting when secure boot is turned on:

I have Windows Server 2019 Essential. I knew this OS support 25 users/50 devices CALs. I have enabled Remote Desktop and User and Group Policy for multiple Remote Desktop sessions. There are working with two concurrent Remote desktop sessions (users). But If I try to connect third Remote Desktop...

"Sleep" is completely gone in my shutdown menu, but none of the many "solutions" I've found all over the web actually do anything for me. The main reason none of them work is because every suggestion I've seen naively assume I've disabled it one way or another rather than it being utterly gone...

Hi, I was using File History before the 1809 update and saw it was no longer working. I do not want an image- just file and folder backups. Here are the steps I have done Removed old File History backup and restarted- same issue. Further investigation showed that I was hitting MAX PATH 256...

Hello guys. Recently I've been having issues updating my Windows 10 machine. Last night I successfully updated to version 1809, but this morning when I checked if there were any new updates available I received the following message: I also have this message showing me that my feature...

I am using remote access to Server 2016 on a Virtual Private Server and wish to configure a user account Test to terminate after 1 hour of being disconnected. From the server Admin account I have accessed Computer Management -> Local Users and Groups-> Users -> Test and in the Sessions tab of...

Dear all, I'm configuring my domain controller (Windows Server 2012 R2) to be synchronized with pool.ntp.org but the w32time source still remain Local CMOS Clock. - The PDC is a VM (VMware 6.0) and there is only this DC in the domain. - I tried to use VM client to sync with NTP server and it is...

Our domain is at the Windows Server 2008 R2 Forest level. Our servers are running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise and Windows 2012 R2 Standard Our workstations are running a mix of operating systems including Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows 10. I have created a scheduled task in Group...

Surface Pro-specific glaring issues: - horrible backlight bleed on 99% of devices (as deduced from accounts of users all over the world). Not even gonna elaborate on that, there's a separate 22-pages thread about it on MS forums. - auto-hibernation issue - same. - power drain in sleep...

Hi All - just a quick question. Why does the command gpedit.msc not work for me in Windows 7??

When I inspect my file system some of my "normal" (=non system) folders then I can see owners like "S-1-5-21-15185678....." or "S-1-5-21-107808153 Why do only approx 30% of all folders have "S-1-5-21-151..." as owner and all others "Administrator"? I dislike these "S-1-5-21-......" owners and...

I'm going to save a few $$$ and buy the Windows 10 pro upgrade via the store. Will I get an actual ISO file to create a 10 Pro USB drive? my intention for this is to use the group policy to shut off automatic updates. But has anyone purchased "Windows 10 Pro" through the store? And do they give...

Hello ! I'm Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit user. For long time I'm facing frustration against modifications of default file explorer to show all folders and files as following.: No categories like Music, Video, General .... I want remove all and keep just one category for every kind of file. It can...

Hey there, I'm an IT Technician at a secondary school currently setting up Windows 10 for our students. Currently they're all using 7 and we have a pre-configured image which we roll out to all our computers using pxe, this is set up with many pre-installed programs and settings. We're...

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Hello Forum, I hope someone on here can help. I work in a large secondary school and for sometime now we are having on going issues with our staff having to wait an extremely long time to logon to the school Network. Most often this issue is very intermittent and drags on from computer to...