Windows 11

During a clean installation of Windows 11 on a computer with an NVMe drive in an M.2 SSD slot, the OS installer may fail to detect the connected drive. As…

The following graphical MMC snap-ins are typically used to manage certificates in Windows: certlm.msc (Local Machine certificates), certmgr.msc (User Certificates), and the certutil command-line utility. All these tools interact with…

Some native print drivers, especially those for legacy printer models, can often be challenging to find and download from the Internet. Many vendors often remove support pages with driver download…

When a user launches the built-in Microsoft Edge browser under a new user profile, the First Run Experience is automatically invoked. This initial setup wizard presents several configuration screens and…

When performing a clean Windows installation from an image on a computer or VM, you may encounter an error when attempting to select an edition: Windows could not display the…

In Windows, the list of shared network folders (and shared printers), along with their settings and share permissions, is stored under the HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanServer\Shares registry key. When the LanManServer service starts up,…

This post covers clean installing Windows 11 on a computer or laptop without using a bootable USB flash drive, DVD, or other external bootable media.

The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) proxy service acts as a secure bridge, which allows remote clients to use Kerberos authentication when they can’t directly reach Active Directory domain controllers.…

Although security best practices strongly discourage passwordless user accounts, they may be necessary in certain operational scenarios. In this article, we’ll look at how to create a new user with…

In Windows, services are used to run app binaries in the background, typically without requiring user interaction. Services can automatically start during Windows boot and run continuously in the background…