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hello experts, I am facing issue to login on few windows server 2016 boxes as it shows black screen after "preparing windows ". Issue is facing for some random AD users . Few users do not have any issue . From registry , profile list, I can see most of the affected users have temp profile...

Hello, thank you for your help. I have a PC, and a NAS. The NAS has a file, when I try to use that file in a program, it says "The media is write protected." I am an admin Win user, and when right click > properties > security, it says I have write permission. When I copy file from NAS to PC...

Hello, we are facing an issue where the domain admin accounts are becoming locked randomly. We have filtered out the event 4740 in the windows security log and we can see the PCs triggering this lockdown. ------------------------------------- A user account was locked out. Subject: Security ID...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are announcing Windows 10 version 21H1 as the next feature update for Windows 10. As part of today’s announcement, we’re also releasing 21H1 Build 19043.844 (KB4601382) to the Beta Channel. We are releasing this build to the Beta Channel via our “seeker”...

I have been searching for a solution to allow boot up only if a third party hardware is connected. For the new tech people. A similar solution was possible during the days of Windows 95 up to Win Me by using Dos. The idea is to disable all the HDD from booting and enabling USB and once the boot...

I'm a former Systems Admin. so I should be able to figure this out, but nope... so I'm asking: I bought a small, external 2.5 Toshiba HDD to use as additional storage. I put it in a case and plugged it in. No dice, I can't see it in Windows Explorer. I checked Device Manager, and it shows up as...

The security updates for Vista are also for Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008 will continue to get those updates until 2020 (edit: this is incorrect as Neemobeer points out below). You can make a simple registry change in Windows XP so that windows updates thinks it is Windows POS Ready...

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Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file...

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we have about seven computers all running some version of windows from xp to 10. So's I can move files between them at will I habitually share all the drives. And, of course, every time I do I run into Microsoft's warning about sharing root drives. never worried me. but now we have this...

Severity Rating: Important Revision Note: V1.0 (September 8, 2015): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves a vulnerability in Active Directory. The vulnerability could allow denial of service if an authenticated attacker creates multiple machine accounts. To exploit the...

My hard drive got full with just about 400mb of space left. I started the back up process and when the backup was done going onto the external hard drive, windows told me it will be installing updates (I have Windows 7). I postponed the updates and closed my laptop and have not used my laptop...

OK, not quite 7 on today's show, but close enough! On today's episode of Data Exposed, Scott welcomes the always awesome Tom LaRock. Tom is Head Geek (what an awesome title!) at Solarwinds, an infrastructure monitoring and alerting tools company where he focuses on the database aspect of all...

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Hello, I tried all ways but i couldnt create a txt file in C I must must have administrator privileges on my C: drive How can i do that? Cheers

I have a problem with Windows 8. This morning when I went to check my ASUS Zenbook laptop, the PC wouldn't access the network, even tho I could see our home network was working. I did a hard reboot and returned several minutes later to find I had been logged in under a temp password and all the...

i run cmd in Elevated Command Prompt mode. i used commands such as; net user administrator * (but can not change password, the system error 5 has occured) net user administrator /delete (access is denied) net user administrator set /inactive net user administrator /inactive:yes but all these...

I am running Windows 7 SP 1 on an AMD Phenom system. I have problems launching Forticlient, which my company uses to access the VPN. This happened a while ago. The system admin gave me a later version, which worked, but then it developed the same problem. When I click the program, I get the...

Ok, don't know if this has been asked before, but I want to use my work laptop as a PC as well. Here are my two options: Option 1, install Win 7 on "slave" drive, the HP laptop I have for work has two hard drive bays, and dual boot Win 7 Pro and Win 7 Ultimate. Option 2, install Win 7...