Questions and Answers

There are several ways to find out how long Windows has been running (uptime) since the last boot.

Microsoft has disabled the automatic system registry backup task starting with Windows 10 1803. In previous Windows versions, the Automatic Maintenance job ran a scheduler task that copied all the…

Some users may experience poor performance in Microsoft Office apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) on computers with integrated or old graphic cards. For example, when scrolling through a document, the…

Windows Update Tab is Missing from Settings -> Update & Security On one of the user’s computers, I encountered a situation where the Windows Update section disappeared from the Settings…

In PowerShell scripts that prompt for a username and password, you sometimes have to validate the entered user credentials before performing any actions. If the user has entered an incorrect…

Windows 10 and 11 have a pre-installed virtual printer called Microsoft Print to PDF. A document or web page sent to this printer will be converted to a PDF file.…

An administrator can prevent users from changing their account password on Windows. It is possible to either hide the password change dialogue box or completely disable the ability to manually…

When connecting shared network folders via net use or the File Explorer GUI on Windows, there is sometimes some rather strange behavior. For example, you may receive the error:

By default, Windows requires all device drivers to be digitally signed. If a driver is not digitally signed or the signing certificate has been revoked, Windows will refuse to install…

On one of the computers, the Virus & Threat Protection tab disappeared from the Windows Defender settings. And when I tried to open the Windows Security app settings, I got…