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Hey guys, I am currently learning PowerShell in a college course. Right now we are learning to use the Help system efficiently. One thing that is bugging me is that running 'Get-Help' is supposed to output help and automatically scroll to the bottom of the displayed help while just running...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are pleased to be releasing Windows Server Insider Preview Build 16278 to Windows Insiders. To obtain the build, registered Insiders may navigate directly to the Link Removed. Matching symbols and the Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) packages are...

Hello Windows Insiders! On June 15th we announced some Link Removed: Windows Server will now have more frequent releases providing customers who are innovating quickly an opportunity to take advantage of new OS capabilities at a faster pace, both in applications – particularly those built on...

Hi, I have a strange issue when I left click on the start menu nothing happens either can I open the action center. I can right click on everything and the search icon works in the taskbar etc. but I can't open start menu or action center. I can't either open the start menu with the keyboard...

The Link Removed has been in public preview since November 2016. This month marked our first release when security update information was published entirely in the new format. Over the last few months, customers and partners have provided a lot of feedback on the direction and implementation of...

Well I'm coming back to Windows despite being a loyal and happy Mac user. My MacBook Pro had some hardware faults and due to the lack of genuine reliable parts on the market to be able to fix this myself I had to part with it and move on. Apple wouldn't let me fix it myself and wanted hundreds...

Hello My Friends! I am Matthew and I am from Poland. I have a very Big Problem with my Asphalt 8: Airborne game on PC with Windows 10. Few days ago I was playing with PowerShell on my Windows 10 on PC - I wanted get a download link of Asphalt 8 XAPP and I installed something - maybe old...

I always have a folder named 'Temp' at my desktop to keep files temporarily, which later I organise and shift at permanent places. Since yesterday, I have noticed that its get deleted(like vanished!) automatically without my knowledge. It once got deleted, and I tried to recover the data through...

Hello Windows Insiders! Today we are excited to be releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14971 for PC to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. What’s new in Build 14971 Read EPUB books in Microsoft Edge: The reading experience will get even better with the Windows 10 Creators Update! In...

I'm sure it's been asked before but I've yet to find an answer to my 2 issues though I suspect i know what happened. 1st: I'm unable to update to the latest version of 1607(patch KB3199209) I get the following error trying to manually update (0x80073712) 2nd: as stated in the title...

mail will not open; windows shop is gone; and powershell gives this messages.. Get-AppxPackage : The database disk image is malformed The database disk image is malformed At line:1 char:8 + & { = (Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore).InstallLocation + '\Ap ... +...

As Windows 10 evolves, we are continuing to build in support for musician-focused technologies. Let’s take a look at MIDI. Windows has had built-in MIDI support going back to the 16-bit days. Since then, most MIDI interfaces have moved to USB and our in-box support has kept pace, with a class...

Bare with me. I'm a college student taking a "Implementing Microsoft-based Network Directory Services" class and I'm needing someone to double check a cmdlet for me. My lab I'm currently working on I'm suppose to uninstall the Print & Document Service, Application Server. Features: Group Policy...

I had a BSOD yesterday , caused by ntfs.sys , the harddrives were checked by HD sentinel and are in excellent condition, I am using windows 10 pro , upgraded from win 8.1 pro on intel i5 3450 based pc . During first reboot, windows performed an auto disk check . When i booted into windows...

So my laptop was recently attacked by malwares. I tried removing them using windows defender and I think they got removed. But afterwards I am suffering from following problems: 1. Windows apps like Groove music, default video player of windows, calculator etc. have all just...

Hi My friend called and his apps and start button don't work. I had him run SFC /scannow and that didn't find anything. The next solution was to reinstall all the apps. He is trying to do this through the command prompt by running. Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage...

Many times people may have both their wireless NIC and wired NIC connected at the same time. This can create a bridge and cause your network performance to degrade. Here is a powershell script that could be setup as a scheduled task to run at start up. What it does it detect if the wired nic...

I have a Dell Inspiron N5050 that has been upgraded to windows 10. I doesnt work properly. (It suffers from the black screen on boot issue where you have to close and open the lid to get the display to show, plus the desktop continuous flicker/refreshing issue, plus the start menu will not show...

Here's a neat script I put together today. If added as a scheduled task it will loop and monitor running processes. The only thing needed is to sign up for an account on virustotal.com to get an API key then replace the F's with your api key Function Get-ProcessReport([string]$FilePath...

Recently I had a bad Windows 10 computer crash. The PC totally locked up, and the only thing I could do was power it down and power it back up. The first thing I noticed was that my entire Windows Live Mail database was gone - not a single message of the thousands that should have been there was...