The issue of managing built-in accounts on the domain computers is one of the most important security aspects requiring attention of a system administrator. Indeed, you shouldn’t allow using the same local administrator passwords on all computers. There are a lot of approaches to the management of local administrator accounts.. read more
Knowledge base for system administrators
User Profile Disks in Windows Server 2012 R2 RDS
User Profile Disks (UPD) is a new feature of Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. User Profile Disks is an alternative to roaming profiles and folder redirection in RDS scenarios. The point of UPD is that user data and apps (i. e., a user profile) are stored as a.. read more
How to hide Installed Programs from Programs and Features
In this article we’ll show how to hide any program from the list of installed programs in the Control Panel. These instructions are applicable to all Windows versions, from Windows XP to Windows 10.
Backup/Import Local Group Policy Settings
Group policies are a powerful and at the same time flexible tool to configure Windows settings and are indispensable means of bringing computers to a single configuration in Active Directory domain. If there is no domain, single computer settings can be configured using a local group policy. A significant drawback.. read more
Error 0x0000007e “Windows cannot connect to the printer”
There is a print server on a 32-bit Windows version (Windows Server 2003) with several shared HP printers. When trying to connect to a printer on this server from a 64-bit client (Windows 7), the client downloads the necessary printer driver from this print server, but fails to install it.. read more
Show Drive Letters First in Windows Explorer
By default, in Windows Explorer a drive letter is displayed after its name. In the folder settings there is an option to completely hide the drive letters, but no option to display a drive letter before its name. Let’s consider how to do it with a little registry tweak.
Windows Event Triggers
In Windows Server 2008 (Vista) a new feature appeared that allowed to attach a Windows Scheduler task for any event in system logs. Using this feature, an administrator can assign a specific script or sending e-mail alerts to any Windows event. Let’s consider this feature in detail.
How to Download APPX Installation File for any Windows Store App
Modern Windows 8 apps (APPX Metro apps) are mostly designed to be installed online from Windows Store. Despite Windows allows to install Metro apps from APPX files offline, you can’t download a Metro app distribution from Windows Store. In this article, we’ll show how to download an APPX file of.. read more
How Windows Determines That the File Has Been Downloaded from the Internet
In one of the previous articles, we mentioned that when trying to open an executable file downloaded from the Internet Windows shows a security warning of running a potentially dangerous content (For details, see How to Disable Security Warnings in Windows). How does the system determines that the file has.. read more
How to Access Mapped Network Drives from the Elevated Apps
One of the significant improvements of Windows OSs (since Vista) is User Account Control (UAC) feature. User Account Control prompts the user for approval each time when the app tries to make any changes to the system settings. One of the side effects of UAC is the inability to access.. read more
