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 Control (UAC) settings don’t allow to access mapped network drives (via net use) from applications running in elevated mode (Run as administrator). This means that when you run the command prompt or a file manager (like Total Commander) with elevated privileges, they won’t display the drive letters of the mounted shared folders.
In this article, we will look at how to reduce the size of a virtual machine’s hard disk (VMDK) in VMware ESXi. From the vSphere Client GUI, you cannot reduce…
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How to Run File Explorer Elevated (as Administrator) on Windows
March 7, 2024File Explorer process always runs with minimal (non-elevated) privileges in Windows. Even if you click the C:\Windows\explorer.exe executable file and try to start it in the ‘Run as administrator’ mode,…
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How to Clean Up System Volume Information Folder on Windows
March 17, 2024Windows automatically creates a hidden System Volume Information directory in the root of each connected NTFS drive (whether a local HDD/SSD drive or a removable USB drive). The size of…
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Read and Write Excel (XLSX) Files with PowerShell
March 16, 2024You can access the data in an Excel file directly from within PowerShell. Although PowerShell has built-in cmdlets for importing (Import-CSV) and exporting (Export-CSV) tabular data from/to CSV files, the…
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How to Disable NetBIOS, LLMNR, mDNS Protocols in Windows
March 20, 2025Broadcast protocols NetBIOS over TCP/IP, LLMNR, and mDNS (Multicast DNS) are used to resolve names in Windows networks where there is no (unavailable) DNS server (typically, these are home or…
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Auto Lock Computer Screen After Inactivity with GPO
March 15, 2024Information security best practices require the computer screen to be locked when the user is inactive (idle) for some time. A Windows user can lock the computer screen themselves (using…
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How to Create and Manage Scheduled Tasks with PowerShell
March 17, 2024Most users and administrators use the taskschd.msc graphical interface console to create and manage scheduled tasks on Windows. However, in various scripts and automated flows, it is much more convenient…
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Hosting Multiple Websites in IIS with Same Port and IP Address
January 29, 2024When you install an IIS (Internet Information Services) web server on Windows, an empty “Default Web Site” is created, listening on the default HTTP port 80. In this article, we…
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UAC: This App Has Been Blocked for Your Protection on Windows 10
January 22, 2025Many users have noticed that when running or installing some programs in Windows 10, “This app has been blocked for your protection” error pops up and prevents normal running or…