Windows 10

The standard setup.exe installer in the Windows distro can be used to interactively install the operating system or update the OS version (install the feature update) on the computer. In…

Any Windows host directly connected to the Internet with an open RDP port is periodically logged for remote brute-force password attempts. To effectively protect the default Remote Desktop protocol port…

Tools for creating software RAID arrays from multiple physical disks are built into Windows. First, let’s look at a simple configuration where you need to create a mirror of two…

The Disk Cleanup tool allows the administrator to quickly clean up the Windows Server system drive by deleting unnecessary and temporary files, including cleaning the WinSxS directory from files of…

Let’s consider some ways to block access to the specific websites, domain names, URLs or IP addresses in Windows without using third-party tools. In our case, we will try to…

The monitoring system on one of my servers running Windows Server 2016 started sending multiple messages of the Volume Shadow Copy Service error with the Event ID 8193 and VSS…

Force Tunnel mode is enabled by default for all VPN connections in Windows (the ‘Use default gateway on remote network‘ option enabled in the VPN settings). In this mode, name…

Windows has many tools for diagnosing problems in TCP/IP networks (ping, telnet, pathping, etc.). But not all of them allow you to conveniently check the status or scan opened network…

Users often complain that Outlook doesn’t display (download) attached or linked images in the email body. Instead of images/photos, red X crosses are shown in the email. In this article,…

Many users note that when viewing any image in the new built-in Photos app in Windows 10, it takes a long time to open. The delay when starting Photos UWP…