Navigating the landscape of user management in Windows 11 is a task that quickly reveals its importance, whether you're configuring your home PC for multiple family members, preparing an office machine for a new colleague, or troubleshooting a system issue that requires elevated privileges...
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A recently disclosed vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-49679, has been found in the Windows Shell component of Microsoft Windows. This flaw arises from a numeric truncation error, which can be exploited by an authorized attacker to elevate their privileges on the affected system...
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The Windows Input Method Editor (IME) is a crucial component in the Windows operating system, enabling users to input complex characters and symbols, particularly for languages such as Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. However, vulnerabilities within the IME have been identified over the years...
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Microsoft is set to introduce a pivotal security enhancement to Windows 11 with the rollout of the Administrator Protection feature. This initiative aims to fortify systems against breaches stemming from stolen credentials by redefining how administrative privileges are managed.
Understanding...
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Microsoft has announced a crucial advancement in systems security for Windows 11, introducing the "Administrator Protection" feature that promises to tighten defenses against unauthorized system changes and token-theft attacks. With this announcement, Microsoft has doubled down on implementing a...
In a world where cyber threats lurk around every digital corner, Microsoft's latest announcements concerning Windows 11's security enhancements are not just timely—they're crucial. Following the notable CrowdStrike incident, the tech giant has rolled out significant security updates, marking...
AD :Backup operators privileges added to user are getting reflected or applied.
The user is added to Backup operators Privilege member group the privileges are not being reflected in CLI .
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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...
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This week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Ron Matchoro, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the SQL Server team. Today, Ron introduces us to a new feature just released to Azure SQL Database called Dynamic Data Masking. Dynamic Data Masking is policy-based security feature that...
I just installed a licensed version of Windows 8 Pro and started playing with it. I understand there is a free upgrade to Window 8.1. On the URL Link Removed Microsoft says under the topic "I have Windows 8 Pro. Can I get Windows 8.1?":
"Yes, but if you use Windows 8 Pro or Enterprise at work...
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Every time after a major automatic update through Windows Updater, after rebooting, the computer starts the same process as the last steps when you install a fresh version of Windows 8, that is, you see the multicolor screens one after the other with the message that it's...
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...
In earlier versions of Windows we were advised not to login as admin for everyday computing but to login as an ordinary user instead for security reasons. Now I have Windows 8.1 and discovered that I am always "admin" and that in order to create a regular user account it's different. I would...
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I need to create a script that deny's all privilages to a folder for all users. the program runs from a hidden directory under individual user accounts is the tricky thing. example User A: did not install the program and cannot see that the program is installed. User B: installed the program and...
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I have registered to another Windows forum a week or so ago. That forum is so lack of new questions that I seldom visit it.
Today I decided to see what was cooking there.
I came upon a thread which I wanted to reply. It was about running out of disk space in Windows8.
I wanted to tell the OP...
Severity Rating: Critical
Revision Note: V1.0 (September 10, 2013): Bulletin published.
Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Windows. The vulnerability could allow remote code execution if a user opens a file that contains a specially crafted OLE...
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Original release date: February 01, 2013 | Last revised: February 06, 2013
Systems Affected
Any system using Oracle Java including
JDK and JRE 7 Update 11 and earlier
JDK and JRE 6 Update 38 and earlier
JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 38 and earlier
SDK and JRE 1.4.2_40 and earlier
JavaFX...
I recently installed Windows 7. During installation, there will automatically be a user with administrative privileges. After completing, i created another "Standard User" as I wanted to limit other users for accessing all things. Then i opened the Built in Administrator account (net user...
I've been attempting to diagnose and fix an occasional blue screen crash that I get. I've downloaded windows debugger, but I can't open the mindump files because it says I don't have administrator privileges. I'm the administrator on this computer (It's my personal laptop). Any ideas?
I'm...