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As Windows users, we often find ourselves in a complex digital landscape filled with potential threats. With history showing a heightened vulnerability for Windows operating systems, particularly given their extensive user base, the importance of maintaining robust security settings cannot be...

Image Credit: Digital Trends --- In an era where cybersecurity threats are rampant, ensuring the security of your Windows PC is not just an option, but a necessity. The article "Don’t use your Windows PC without using these security settings" published on Head Topics emphasizes the...

The 9 Essential Windows Security Settings to Enhance Your Protection Windows operating systems have long struggled with security. Their widespread usage has made them prime targets for cybercriminals, who develop various malware strains specifically aimed at exploiting vulnerabilities in...

Microsoft Update Catalog is a valuable resource for Windows users seeking to obtain essential updates for their operating systems. To access these updates, enabling scripting within the website is crucial. It is necessary to adjust security settings to allow ActiveX controls and active scripting...

My Windows 7 backup has been failing consistently for some time. The most relevant event log entry seems to be the following: The event ID is 8194 ----------------- Volume Shadow Copy Service error: Unexpected error querying for the IVssWriterCallback interface. hr = 0x80070005, Access is...

Out of the blue, when I use some apps, Windows is asking me to sign in with my USB Security key. But I never set up a USB Security Key, and it will not let me sign in any other way. In Security -> Ways to sign In, I see several sign-in options there and most of them have a "remove this way of...

My computer has multiple files that are remains of COMODO firewall(the free version), when I try to delete them it says I require permission from administrators, even though this is my computer, I am the only user of this computer, and I am an administrator on it. I am using windows a 11 but I...

Hi We have a 2016 Server acting as ADC and hosting a number of applications for our domain. It has bee rock solid for several years. The server is instaled as a virtual machine on a HyperV 2016 server. We wanted to make some changes to who is allowed to use remote desktop and established a...

I am really stumped on this one. I have a Windows 10 PC with 3 user accounts all of which are admins. One of the admin accounts is the user 500 the one windows makes during install. Everywhere in the operating system command prompt, settings, Computer Management, netplwiz and so forth the user...

Help! I was logged in to my computer and inadvertently hit a key or keys (unknown) and the login screen came up (again). I tried to log back in and it refuses to accept letters it will accept numbers though. It is not a keyboard problem as other users can login using letters and numbers. I...

Hi, Can I use the windows 10 firewall to firewall specific programs so they cannot get internet access? Thanks in advance.

Hello Everyone I am running Windows 10 pro, I am trying to load a training program which is .exe but my anti virus wont allow it. I has goine into setting and disabled defender but I still cant load this program. My training compant said its an AV issue but I cant fix it can anyone please...

Assume I extract a *.zip file. One of the files inside contain suspicious code. At least Windows Defender tells me that a Threat has been found AND Defender AUOTMATICALLY deletes this file. Thank you for the information about the (possible) threat. But I don't want a deletion! How can I tell...

I have a admin user account which can access all computers on the local n/w. I created another user account (Standard), but it cannot access other computers on the n/w. Why so? How can we solve the prob? I get a message - Log on failure: the user has not been granted logon type at this computer.

My son and I share a PC. Everything I have read said to install this app, run this thing, gpedit, etc blah blah blah. Did Windows 10 REMOVE the most BASIC of basic user settings?!Link Removed ovo.fyi/temp-mail ovo.fyi/10-minute-mail I JUST want to stop my son from installing $h%! onto my PC...

Up until a couple weeks ago we've been able to network the computers in our house just fine. Lately I can get into his files but he can't get into mine. It always gives the " You don't have permission to access\\said computer" message. It seems like this all started when I had to reinstall...

I run three computers on my home network. All three updated on April 30 to the latest Windows version. One computer, the slowest and cheapest, is working great, but there are problems on the other two that I'm hoping someone can provide me some guidance on. The Lenovo is working perfectly...

Revision Note: V1.0 (December 12, 2017): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information regarding security settings for the AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) account used by Azure AD Connect for directory synchronization. This advisory...

Revision Note: V1.0 (November 8, 2017): Advisory published. Summary: Microsoft is releasing this security advisory to provide information regarding security settings for Microsoft Office applications. This advisory provides guidance on what users can do to ensure that these applications are...