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    How to Create a Windows 11 Desktop Shortcut to Shut Down Quickly and Safely

    Creating a shortcut to shut down your Windows 11 computer may seem like a minor tweak, but for power users, accessibility advocates, and anyone seeking streamlined workflows, a dedicated shut down shortcut can be surprisingly useful. In some situations—such as software glitches that freeze the...
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    Critical Windows Server 2025 Domain Controller Restart Issue and Fixes

    The article on BleepingComputer reports a critical issue affecting Windows Server 2025 domain controllers (DCs): After a restart, some DCs may become inaccessible, causing apps and services reliant on them to fail or go offline. Key Points: Root Cause: After rebooting, the server is loading the...
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    Understanding Windows Security Updates That Install Without Restart

    The article link you provided (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/understanding-security-updates-that-get-installed-without-a-restart-b122787e-9a54-48c3-8a7a-6e3b23ee05d6/) currently returns a "Sorry, page not found" error on Microsoft's site. The content is not available for viewing or...
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    Windows RDP Freeze Bug Fix: How KB5055523 Restores Remote Desktop Stability in 2024

    It started innocently enough—as the best IT horror stories always do—with a routine Windows update. But instead of a smoother, more productive digital ecosystem, server admins and IT professionals everywhere found themselves locked in a sudden and icy grip: Remote Desktop sessions on Windows 11...
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    How to Enable Microsoft Store on Windows 11 LTSC: Practical Guide for IT Pros

    You know you’re an IT professional when “stability” brings a tear to your eye—and if you’ve ever had to wrangle with Windows 11 LTSC, you might be weeping tears of both joy and frustration. Because, for all its cool, calm, and unchanging demeanor, Windows 11 LTSC hasn’t just slammed the door on...
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    user profile load black screen

    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...
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    "The media is write protected."

    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...
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    Domain admin account lockouts from domain pcs

    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...
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    Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19043.844 (21H1)

    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”...
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    Windows 7 Use Your USB Stick As a Key to Boot Your Windows PC

    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...
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    Windows 10 Cannot see external drive in explorer

    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...
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    Windows Vista Get Windows Server 2008 updates on Vista?

    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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    How to disable 8.3 file name creation on NTFS partitions

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    MS16-148 - Critical: Security Update for Microsoft Office (3204068) - Version: 1.0

    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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    How to move the client-side caching (CSC) folder to a new location in Windows

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  16. How To Safely Share my Computers?

    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...
  17. MS15-096 - Important: Vulnerability in Active Directory Service Could Allow Denial of...

    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...
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    Windows 7 My hard drive is full but Windows wanted to install updates. Help?

    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...
  19. 7 Ways Your Server is Lying To You | Data Exposed

    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...
  20. "Specified account does not exist" error message when domain users try to change their...

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