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Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 21296 (RS_PRERELEASE) to Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel. This build is being offered to ALL Insiders in the Dev Channel. All Insiders in the Dev Channel will now receive the same build going forward. Changes and...

On My "This PC" page, I show 4 extra nonexistent USB drives. Little doubt they showed up when I used some thumb drives. In my PCs POST setup there are shown 4 extra drives, "General MassStorage Drive Class 2952", numbers 00 thru 03. I believe these point towards the same nonexistent drives...

Hi Everyone. My computer was running fine yesterday and this morning when I booted it up, I got the dreaded message "No Operating System Found Disconnect your hard drives." I shut down and the same thing happened again, three times in total. The really weird thing was the "Disconnect the hard...

Find out what steps you can take if an incompatible driver in preventing you from turning on the Memory integrity setting in Windows Security. Continue reading...

Hello Windows Insiders, today we’re releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 19541 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. Don’t forget to read our last blog post to understand how the Fast ring will work going forward. If you want a complete look at what build is in which Insider ring, head...

Hello I am shailendra vyas, trying to hide task manager from windows 10 home, but not getting success. First thing, gpedit.msc not working in Windows 10 home, so I have downloaded Group policy editor from web. after installing it, gpedit.msc is opened and I have disable task manager. but still...

Hello! I have tuned Windows 10.1909 x64 Pro with many extensions. I found problem with using cut, copy and paste by shortcuts Ctrl+X/C/V. Still is possible to cut, copy and paste only by context menu. But - not in whole OS - mainly in Explorer and file dialogs and some applications. Really I'm...

Occasionally it happens that most of my SysTray icons disappear resp. are hidden. See attached snapshot Whats wrong? How can I let them re-appear (beside re-boot my 64bit Win7) system? Peter

Vulnerability is detected on "Kerberos Information Disclosure" . According to vulnerability scanning tool below vulnerability is detected on windows 2012 R2. We have to fix it. Explanation of Issue: The remote Kerberos service discloses an accurate timestamp as well as the name of its...

Last year I obtained a free Windows 8 laptop from my neighbor (can't complain about that!). It has worked very well for me until recent months. For whatever reason, the file explorer will randomly stop showing all folders in the side bar and (often) the main window. All I can see is little...

I copied a folder tree from another computer in LAN onto my local computer. After some work I want to delete this folder tree on my local computer. When I right-click in File Explorer on the top node and select "delete" then a popup tells me: "You need to provide administrator permissions"...

As far as I can see MS OneDrive is (oftentimes) pre-installed on Win10 systems. Can I uninstall this "Feature"/Program without affecting Win10? When I setup my Win10 computer I did NOT specify a MS account. I use just local accounts. Peter

today windows 10 update 1903 was installed with a vocalized Cortana which I will never use and do not want. I uninstalled it easily in previous 1809 but find only very complicated methods to do so in 1903. How can I uninstall, delete, or otherwise close Cortana

I bought a used computer that was completely emptied of the operating system. On another computer (with Win 10 Home) I created a Windows installation media on a USB flash drive. With this USB stick I installed Windows on my computer. During or after the installation, no activation code was...

Two W10 computers, both fully updated. Both pc are about one year old, both running 22" monitors. Current browser on both is latest Chrome. Both were running Comodo for firewall and av. Starting a few months ago one of the pcs started having trouble mostly on fb. At first the lower portion of...

Hello! This is gonna be an odd post in this section, considering that my problems are unrelated to server usage altogether, but maybe someone can help me out here. I got a copy of Windows Server 2008 R2 from the Dreamspark program years ago by attending college. I decided I wanted to use this...

Assume I setup a task in Task Scheduler. It appears in Task Scheduler as active task with the status "Ready". Now I want to edit this task e.g. the name of the task. How can I achive this? If I mark e.g. the task in task list or double click on it then I still can not edit the entry...

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...

I was really excited by the prospect of the clipboard manager when I read about it, but it is not working on my machine (Dell XPS13). Pressing windows +v does nothing. I have looked in system, but there is no clipboard option. Windows Home version 1803, OS build 17134.376 Windows reports...

When I open the security menu I am unable to activate the firewall. McAfee has a firewall as well - I try to turn that one on and it won't turn on either. Brand new win 10 as of today. Finding it difficult to get either of these very needed elements to work. Help!