Windows 10

Windows 10 users often complain that on high-resolution (4k HiDPI) monitors text, icons and other elements of legacy applications (that are incompatible with High-DPI screen modes) become too small, blurry…

Faced with such a problem: when I connect any external removable USB HDD or flash drive, Windows doesn’t assign a drive letter to it. When a drive is connected, a…

When you troubleshoot the problems of Windows Update, you often come across different error codes. As a rule, when you see a new error in the windowsupdate.log, setup log or…

Let’s consider one more common Windows 10 / 8.1 booting error that occurred due to the damaged or missing winload.efi file. The problem manifests itself as follows: Windows 10 (Windows…

In this article we’ll show how to manually repair accidentally deleted Windows boot partition on UEFI system. Initially, the article described my experience with restoring the boot EFI partition on…

In all supported Windows versions it is possible to run applications on behalf of another user (Run As) in the current session. This allows you to run a script (.bat,…

The majority of Windows administrators, who are familiar with PKI, know about the MakeCert.exe utility, which allows to create a self-signed certificate. This tool is included in the Microsoft .NET…

The WER (Windows Error Reporting) service is designed to collect the debug information about system and third-party software failures in Windows and report them to Microsoft servers. This information should…

After the installation of latest security updates on Windows 10 / Windows Server 2016, users began to complain about persistent failures of the CDPUserSvc service. In this post we’ll look…

Some users complain that after a installing or updating Windows 10 build screen brightness control is not working on some laptops. When user tries to increase or decrease the brightness…