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I am trying to elevate a command given (in this case just another cmd.exe) if the user is not admin. However i get the error: C:\Users\metul_000>runas /user:administrator cmd.exe Enter the password for administrator: Attempting to start cmd.exe as user "WINDOWS8\administrator" ... RUNAS ERROR...

I've done a lot of searching on this issue, found several articles, tried some solutions: Nothing works. The Windows Time service just fails to start at boot. It doesn't produce an error in the event logs; it just fails to start. But I can manually start it from Services. Or I can manually...

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I have an issue, i have just started a Windows 7 Migration Project and i was originally brought in to do GPO, now i have bene asked to do something else and i am a little stuck. Basically we still run Windows XP on most of our machines but will start migrating over to 7 soon. We run a batch...

Original release date: November 13, 2013 | Last revised: November 16, 2013 Systems Affected Windows Operating System and Components Microsoft Office Internet Explorer Overview Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released updates to address...

I have a Windows 8x64, Build 9200 system. There are two users: Administrator (me) and Joe. Joe has a password, and I want to remove his password. I logged on as Admin and can't find the option (Control Panel\Users) to remove another user's password, as I could in Windows 7. Thanks!

Original release date: September 10, 2013 Systems Affected Windows Operating System and Components Microsoft Server Software Microsoft Office Internet Explorer Overview Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released updates to address these...

Original release date: May 14, 2013 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer Microsoft .NET Framework Microsoft Lync Microsoft Office Microsoft Windows Essentials Overview Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released updates...

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Original release date: November 13, 2012 | Last revised: January 24, 2013 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows Microsoft Office Microsoft .NET Framework Internet Explorer Overview Select Microsoft software products contain multiple vulnerabilities. Microsoft has released...

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I am trying to set permissions on a folder to serve as a drop box on a network volume so that I retain full control and the <everyone> group can add files and read the contents, but cannot change anything once uyploaded to the folder. Or, listed a different way: administrator -- full control...

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Apologies if this is elsewhere, but I've been searching Google for the past hour and am continuing to have issues, and can't seem to find the solution that works. I just got two new harddrives for my birthday - one for my desktop, and one for my laptop. The desktop drive is 3 TB, which Windows...

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Hi all, I have a system that has only one option for login: a standard user w/o admin privileges. I'm trying to do a "Windows Easy Transfer" from an XP box. Anyway, in order to do that, I must have admin privileges on the offending W7 box. I have admin privileges for my own account, but I don't...