Windows 10

Recent builds of Windows 10 have a bug due to which mapped network drives may fail to automatically reconnect at Windows startup. After logging in the user sees a big…

“The RPC server is unavailable” error appears on Windows when a communication error occurs between two computers in a network. Your computer (an RPC client) cannot connect to a remote…

You can use PowerShell’s features to create ZIP archives and extract them. In PowerShell 5.0 (this PowerShell version is installed by default on Windows 10), a separate module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive is…

Quite often users and administrators ask if they can upgrade a lower Windows 10 edition (like Home or Pro) to a higher one (for example, Pro or Enterprise respectively). In…

This article will tell you how to backup Window 10 to an external media (USB drive, additional HDD/SSD or shared network folder) using built-in system image backup tools, and how…

Microsoft Security Baseline contains recommended settings Microsoft suggests for Windows workstations and servers to provide secure configuration and protect domain controllers, servers, computers, and users. Microsoft has developed reference Group…

Hi, admin! I’m trying to turn on Windows Defender on Windows 10, but in the “Windows Defender Security Center”, the “Virus & threat protection” component has the message: “Threat service…

In this article we will talk about the WinSxS folder in Windows, the reasons of its constant growth and ways to clean up it. The C:\Windows\WinSxS directory is the repository…

If you are using mapped network drives, you probably noticed that they are not showing in the apps running with administrator privileges (including cmd and PowerShell). The default User Account…

File Explorer always starts in Windows with least privileges. Even if you click on the executable file C:\Windows\explorer.exe and try to start it in the “Run as administrator” mode, the…