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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...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25145 to the Dev Channel. TL;DR This build includes a few new features rolling out including an update for Narrator Braille driver support, OneDrive storage alert and subscription management in Settings, and Local...

This method works on Windows 11,10, 8.1 & 7 as well. All programs for this guide are free. Download links PsTools PsTools - Windows Sysinternals FePsTools Front-end for PsTools | DaviTools Nircmd (At the bottom of the page. Not the 64 bit one.) NirCmd - Windows command line tool Winrar...

Hello Experts, Looking for some guidance on how to make a user or service account a member of local administrator, DCOM, and Performance Monitoring group. Thanks!

The "Local Administrator Password Solution" (LAPS) provides management of local account passwords of domain joined computers. Passwords are stored in Active Directory (AD) and protected by ACL, so only eligible users can read it or request its reset. Link Removed

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 1, 2015): V1.0 (May 1, 2015): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is offering the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) that provides a solution to the issue of using a common local account with an identical password on every computer in a domain. LAPS resolves...

Revision Note: V1.0 (May 1, 2015): V1.0 (May 1, 2015): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is offering the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) that provides a solution to the issue of using a common local account with an identical password on every computer in a domain. LAPS resolves...

Hey everyone, I recently got an HP laptop from mom's work with Windows 7 Pro. She is a teacher and her school was giving away old laptop's to make way for the new ones. Thankfully, she was able to snag one for me, since my old HP died. The problem that I am coming up against is that I am...

Running win7 64 bit We have a Domain GP one restriction is the Windows installer is disabled so withthat said.... on my laptop I am disconnected from the coporate LAN...and I want to install my new VPN client so I can connect when at home via my in homw wireless netowrk ...and I...

Hello, I have added a domain user to the Windows 7 administrators group. when logged in as this user he sees nothing when opening the control panel and other groups once again this user is a local administrator

Hello, I'm having an issue with an user on my network. Any time he accesses control panel, tries to access the system time, or add a printer, it is giving him an access denied error. I've used gpupdate to update the group policy (which is fine because none of our other users are having the...

hi, i am running windows 7 enterprise and running into an issue with the DNS admin snap in. i cannot use it to connect to DNS servers we have in other domains. when i try, it says access denied. this is after i have gone into the credential vault and added the server and credentials i am trying...

Prior to the Windows updates of 12/15/09 I was local administrator, now I am a standard user with my previous profile wiped out. And my Shutdown and Restart items are greyed out. Any ideas out there?

hi, I am testing w7 pro in a AD domain managed by w2003 servers, I found W7 local administrator is disabled by default and since my users need to install software regularly, I activated local admin account to let them use it in UAC. I read some articles explaining WS7 local admin are now...

Is this a bug that I’m experiencing now with W7 RC? Okay here’s how it goes: I installed W7 RC at home, then later I joined it at our domain at work. Everything is fine and dandy. I didn’t experience any problem whatsoever there. But when I returned home, I tried to use...

I am trying to run a program but i am being told that i do not have the permissions to run it. Does anyone know how i can log-on with the built in Local administrator account.:confused: