network

my home net is a win2008 domain with win7 notebooks. so all the notebooks login to the domain. i'm planning next year to do away with the win domain. 1). what's the safest way to remove my win7 machines from the domain and still be able to use the installed apps as they are on the machines...

Hello new guy, here so recently I ran into a problem. Just recently I notice that none of the in built windows apps is working. This includes things like photos, microsoft store, and even the troubleshooter itself (to be exact, the the prompt that asked me to send feedback when it doesn't find...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 19028 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 19028 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from Link Removed. For...

Ein freundliches Hallo an alle, Win10 spielt plötzlich verrückt! Ich habe einige Tage mit Win XP gearbeitet. Dann habe ich Win10 gestartet und keinen Zugriff mehr auf das Netzwerk. Weder der Sambaserver noch andere Rechner sind im Netzwerk sichtbar. Ping geht aber sowohl auf den Server als...

The Wifi network here consists of a Router and a Repeater for it. Assume I am sitting with my notebook in the about mid between them. How can I find out if the computer is currently connected to Router or to Repeater? ...without physically touching the devices (e.g. disabling the repeater)? Peter

I recently noticed that the firewall I am using on one of my devices does not block or filter UDP ports. It was stated on their website. I like this firewall as it has great features that are more convenient for me. I need to know how important are UDP ports. I am at risk? Is it unsafe? Does...

Help me with a Router Network question....I am confused - For online course Link Removed So I am taking an Intro to Network class thru an online college. I have a course project that I modify each week....its a wiring diagram. As per the course instruction, the diagram looks like this...

So I am enrolled in an Intro to Networks course online, I was hoping someone could assist me with a hang-up I am having....So for class purposes we are just beginning to design a logical network diagram and are at the point of establishing IP addresses. The assignment looks like this...

We have a printer which we connect to over wi-fi on our home network. I tried to install the printer via the Windows 10 Add a Printer or Scanner function. Windows 10 went through what looked like the normal printer installation process, however, Device Manager was showing an error against the...

Over the course of my internship at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), I worked on the safe systems programming languages (SSPL) team to promote safer languages for systems programming where runtime overhead is important, as outlined in this blog. My job was to port a security...

Ok, after 6 months of no internet, we finally got internet at our apt complex. Its not the best, but hey, better than no internet haha. We got CenturyLink Ok, i know port forwarding works because i have a rule setup for tcp on 25565, allowing my friends public ip into my game server. It works...

I have a lenovo AIO 730S-24IKB computer running Windows 10 Pro and my wife has an Acer Aspire A515-52 running Windows 10 Home. Both Windows OS are up to date. Control Panel/System shows that both computers are on the WorkGroup called Workgroup When I click on Network in my Lenovo computer I...

I've been having a problem getting my computers to fully connect to each other on the network. My wife has a HP laptop with WIN 10 Home edition. My machine is a desktop with WIN 7 Pro. The desktop can see the laptop but cannot log on or access the laptop, while the laptop can log onto DT and...

while connecting my pc error occured for this " the connection was lost due to a network error "

I have been using WSE 2016 for a few years now to manage a simple home network of 4 windows 4 PC's with one WSE 2016 server. It worked fine over the past few years. I mainly use it for movie file storage and client backups. Recently some of the overnight backups stopped. No matter what I did the...

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way to restrict access to the users$ (\\domain\users$) folder on a server ? Michael

A power surge knocked out our ASUS router so I replaced it with a LinkSys. It's been working fine, no complaints, except that my Win 10 desktop still displays the network connection (wired) with the ASUS router name. I would like to change it to remind me that it's a new router. Firstly, should...

Assume I am sitting in front of an unknown/new computer which has a Wifi-chip on his motherboard. How can I find out (from within Windows 7; not from manual) from which manufacturer this Wifi chip is (e.g.Intel)? Is there a built-in info or do I need a 3rd party diagnostic tool? Peter

How to set Windows 7 so that my computer becomes invisible to others on the network, but others computer becomes visible to me?

Today I bought a new PC with Windows 10 pre-installed on it. During the first time booting, I noticed that it did not offer to connect to my home network for internet access, only asking me to plug in a LAN cable. I thought it may be just a quirk of the setup, but that is not the case. After...