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…
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- Group PoliciesWindows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2022
How to Disable/Remove Thumbs.db File on Network Folders in Windows
December 17, 2024Thumbs.db (thumbnail cache) is a hidden system file that is automatically created by the Windows File Explorer in folders containing image and video files when the thumbnail preview mode is…
- Hyper-VVirtualizationWindows 10Windows Server 2016
USB Device Passthrough (Redirect) to Hyper-V Virtual Machine
March 15, 2024One of the significant disadvantages of Hyper-V over other hypervisors (for example, VMWare ESXi or Proxmox) is the lack of a feature of redirecting USB devices from the host to…
When users connect to a corporate VPN server (AlwaysOnVPN, Windows Server RRAS, or OpenVPN server) from a home network, they may report that Internet access is unavailable while the VPN…
- Windows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Enable and Configure User Disk Quotas in Windows?
January 19, 2021Disk quotas allow Windows administrators to control and limit the amount of disk space that users use on the file systems of servers and workstations. Windows Server supports two types…
- Hyper-VPowerShellWindows 10Windows Server 2016
How to Extend or Shrink Virtual Hard Disks on Hyper-V?
January 19, 2022Dynamic resizing of virtual machine hard disks is available starting with Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. Online VHDX Resize feature allows you to increase or shrink the size of…
UWF (Unified Write Filter) is a special file system write filter in Windows 10 that allows you to protect Windows system and user files on the local drive from any…
- PowerShellWindows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2022
How to Run CMD/Program as SYSTEM (LocalSystem) in Windows
August 27, 2025Sometimes, local administrator permissions may not be sufficient to manage certain system files, registry keys, processes, and services in Windows. In such cases, an administrator can take ownership of files/other…
- Group PoliciesWindows 10Windows 11Windows Server 2022
How to Disable or Change User Account Control (UAC) Settings in Windows
February 14, 2025User Account Control (UAC) is a default Windows security feature designed to prevent unwanted changes to the operating system. When a program tries to perform an action that requires administrator…
- Active DirectoryGroup PoliciesWindows 10Windows Server 2016
Windows: Block Remote Network Access for Local User Accounts
February 27, 2023Using local accounts (including the local administrator) to access another computer over network in Active Directory environments is not recommended on a number of reasons. The same local administrator username…