Windows 11

Hi, admin! I’m trying to turn on Windows Defender on Windows 10, but in the “Windows Defender Security Center”, the “Virus & threat protection” component has the message: “Threat service…

File Explorer process always runs with minimal (non-elevated) privileges in Windows. Even if you click the C:\Windows\explorer.exe executable file and try to start it in the ‘Run as administrator’ mode,…

Windows automatically creates a hidden System Volume Information directory in the root of each connected NTFS drive (whether a local HDD/SSD drive or a removable USB drive). The size of…

Information security best practices require the computer screen to be locked when the user is inactive (idle) for some time. A Windows user can lock the computer screen themselves (using…

Shared network folders from file servers can be made available to domain users as network drives using Group Policy. GPO allows configuring flexible rules to automatically map network drives based…

A user must enter a password for a local or Microsoft (online) account each time they log on to Windows. This allows you to restrict access to your computer. In…

If a trust relationship between a Windows workstation and an Active Directory domain is broken, the computer won’t be able to establish a secure channel with the domain controller, and…

The latest versions of Windows support the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol, which allows domain name resolution (DNS queries) to be performed over an encrypted HTTPS connection. In this article,…

Windows 10 and 11 ships with a set of pre-installed Microsoft Store applications (UWP/APPX apps). These are Calculator, Calendar, Mail, Cortana, Maps, News, OneNote, Groove Music, Camera, etc. These apps…

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…