Windows 10 and 11 ship with a set of pre-installed Microsoft Store applications (also known as UWP/APPX/MSIX apps). These are Calculator, Calendar, Mail, Cortana, Maps, News, OneNote, ZuneMusic, Camera, etc.…
Every experienced Windows administrator has encountered with problems with the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) service and its components. WMI is an important subsystem of Windows, and if it malfunctions, the…
The digital signature of a PowerShell script (*.PS1 file) allows you to verify that a known trusted publisher signs the script and that its code has not been modified. The…
Shadow session mode allows RDS administrators to view and interact with the user’s desktop. Remote Desktop Shadowing mode works on all modern versions of Windows starting from Windows Server 2012…
In this article, we’ll take a look at how to centrally configure proxy settings on Windows 10 computers in a domain using Group Policy. Most popular browsers (such as Microsoft…
To apply new local or domain Group Policy (GPO) settings to a Windows computer, the Group Policy Client (gpsvc) service must read the policy files and apply the setting to…
Windows administrative shared folders are used for remote access and computer management. By default, the following administrative shares are created by Windows:
Let’s consider one more common Windows 10 boot error that occurs due to the damaged or missing winload.efi file. The problem manifests itself in the following: Windows stops booting with…
In this article we’ll show you how to restrict network data transfer rate to/from Windows Server 2016 and Windows 10 using built-in and third-party tools. You may know that Windows…
When icons of different applications and file types are displayed in File Explorer, Windows instead of accessing the original files with icons gets copies of the icon images from special…