Windows 11

Microsoft has decided to add a built-in Microsoft Teams Chat client to Windows 11, and its icon is shown in the taskbar by default. If you don’t use Microsoft Teams,…

I have received several emails from readers asking for help in resolving the problem of displaying computers in a network environment on the latest Windows 10 and 11 builds. Indeed, there…

By default, Active Directory users can log on to any domain-joined computer locally with their accounts. This is because all new users created in Active Directory are automatically added to…

Windows has a built-in feature that automatically restarts the operating system in the event of a system failure. This option is enabled by default and allows Windows to automatically restart…

NIC Teaming (or Load Balancing/Failover – LBFO, or NIC bonding) allows joining multiple physical network adapters (NICs) into a single logical network card. In this article, we’ll show how to…

Microsoft released a set of hardware requirements to install Windows 11 on a device. In particular, your computer must have a built-in TPM module (chip), a pretty modern CPU, UEFI…

The open source VLMCSD project on GitHub (https://github.com/Wind4/vlmcsd) allows you to run a Microsoft KMS activation server emulator on platforms other than Windows Server (including Linux, Android, FreeBSD, macOS, and…

Microsoft releases new security updates for its products at least once a month.  In most cases, the Windows Update service does a great job of automatically getting and installing updates…

From time to time, users of the file server may report that the contents of network folders don’t refresh automatically and new files are not immediately visible in the folder…

If the Windows Update service is not working properly, updates are not downloading or installing, restoring its original settings is the easiest and most effective solution. In this article, we’ll…