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Unable to connect make remote desktop connection [closed]
Here's the setup:
My home machine, running Windows 7
First remote machine, also running Windows 7
Second remote machine, running Windows Server 2012 R2
Both remotes are in local network (and in the ...
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Moved to another computer, lost certificates
I recently bought a new computer which is running Windows 10 Pro. In preparation to the move, I copied all the files from the old one which was running Windows 7 Pro to a backup drive.
After a while, ...
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Can't enable IIS on windows features - An error has occurred. Not all of the features were successfully changed
I'm having a problem while trying to install "Internet Information Services", I first installed IIS express, then I went to windows features, and tried to enable that so it will install it.
The issue ...
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I want to connect two network to the Internet at the same time but use second one
Ioperate a small LAN Gaming Center and I connected the computers in a Server/Client mode using ethernet with a switch.
Im accessing the internet through a modem connected to a server (logically). ...
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Unattended upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 with Autounattend.xml not working
What I'm trying to achive:
I want to be able to just start the setup for Windows 10 on an PC with Windows 7 installed so that after that initial interaction everything automatically works and ...
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How does one grant an application exclusive access to the Windows registry?
My company uses a line-of-business application with a peculiar requirement. This software's purpose is to manage data collected by a personnel electrostatic discharge test machine (i.e., poll the ...
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Windows accepts a route to a subset of the LAN. Normal?
My laptop's Ethernet NIC has this IP address : 10.0.100.42/16
I noticed that I can add a route to 10.0.115.1/24 (a subset of the laptop subnet) to an external subnet:
route add 10.0.115.1 mask 255....
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MDT Captured Win7 Image Crashes on Boot once Deployed
I am trying to get MDT set up for Windows 7 machines so that my life can be less hellish until we finish getting these machines out the door.
MDT Server:
Windows 2008 R2
MDT 6.3.8450.1000
WDS 6.1....
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Determine which Windows Update KB package a specific OS file belongs to?
I have a Windows 7 machine that has the file ucrtbase.dll of Universal C Runtime installed in the version 10.0.10586.1412.
However, the latest official MS Update I can find patching this file for ...
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How to stop Windows from auto locking the screen?
I have a laptop, running Windows 7, which stays at home all the time. It's connected to a company. Lately, it started to auto lock after 10 minutes of inactivity. I figured it's a group policy that ...
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Windows 7 and two BIND9 nameservers
The setup:
Two BIND9 nameservers (running on Debian 9.6)
Windows 7 workstations as DHCP clients, the two nameservers acquired via DHCPD (option domain-name-servers 10.0.0.1, 10.0.0.2;)
Now, at least ...
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Evaluating DISA-STIG for Windows 7 returns only "notchecked"
I've downloaded the DISA_STIG for Windows 7 from https://www.stigviewer.com/stig/windows_7/ (XML version) and tried to evaluate my desktop with OSCAP 1.3.0 for windows, with the command:
oscap xccdf ...
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Error when Moving File on Networked Drive
On one computer (windows 7) we get the following error when trying to move a file into a child folder which is contained on a network drive. We have tried Admin of Domain, Making the user admin, ...
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Installing app through GPO
I will need your help... The last day i set up an app to be installed using GPO under computer configuration.
The most of our computers are using WIFI to log in to our domain. Some of them, they ...
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how to make Windows 7 have website access through VPN connection
I am still struggle with my Windows 7 VPN client’s internet access. My OpenVPN client-server works great for my Windows 10 laptop and my Android phones. But my Windows 7 laptop cannot gain internet ...
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OpenVPN client timeout when browsing https sites on Windows 7
Client config
client
dev tun
proto tcp
remote -.-.-.- 443
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
remote-cert-tls server
cipher AES-128-CBC
auth SHA256
key-direction 1
comp-lzo
verb 3
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Cannot connect to server using DNS Name
So yesterday one of our main servers decided to break and stop working.
We reverted to a backup and had some network issues that turned out to be because the ethernet connections had changed to eth2 ...
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Windows 10 on Special Devices
We are preparing for next year when Windows 7 goes EOL and obviously we're looking at Windows 10. My group supports systems that are connected to instrumentation to conduct research. These systems ...
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Access a domain controller without a DNS server
I have a Windows 7 workstation that is joined to an Active Directory domain controlled by a Windows 2012 R2 server. The workstation was set up locally and joined to the domain locally.
I moved the ...
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How to add a new pc to a domain with name of old pc
Some Background...
A local small non-profit has recently lost their network guy (died unexpectedly) and I've been asked to help then install windows on some new pc's and set up wifi and printers ...
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Where can I find login/password information for connecting to local openSSH server started in Windows 7? [closed]
I opened passwd file in etc directory but didn't find something useful. While installing openSSH I set password but for all usernames I input this pass I got "access denied". As SSH client I'm using ...
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Configuring Win10 updates to run at a specific time
I'm currently in the process of migrating some of our systems from Win7 to Win10. One of the requirements of this migration is that any systems running Win10 will need to conform to a specific update ...
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MSI installer finishes succesfully but no files are copied to the installation path
We have a MSI installer that we cannot install in one Windows 7. The whole process finishes OK but when you go to program installation path there is nothing in there. It didn't even creates the main ...
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WMI Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Memory class doesn't exist
The Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfOS_Memory WMI class (and many others) don't seem to exist.
From a scripting perspective I asked this question when I couldn't get ...
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Is it possible to detect the Windows Update status via registry, to see if the system is "fully updated"?
I would like to be able to check the computer's update status by querying the registry. I specifically would like some to check if the computer's update status is "fully updated".
I have looked ...
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Is it possible to host a RADIUS server on Windows 7 [closed]
Is it possible to host a RADIUS server on Windows 7.
I am trying to use this as an authenticating server for my Routers. A third-party application is fine, however maybe if its possible it can use ...
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How does LocalSystem determine computer name for network credential?
I'm using the LocalSystem account to try to connect to a network share.
It should be using COMPUTERNAME$ as the network credential.
According to the remote logs, it is actually trying to use ...
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WSUS Error 8000FFFF
Two issues with our WSUS
Some of our Servers (2008r2/2012r2) and Win 7 got error 8000FFFF when installing security updates from WSUS. For most of servers and desktops are just working fine.
From ...
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Windows 7 services not recognizing environment variable changes
I have 200+ Windows 7 machines that are part of a render farm. They're all running a service that is responsible for running render farm commands on the machine.
Currently, several environment ...
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Do I need to reset sensible inbound ftp rules for windows firewall (win7)
I have filezilla already installed on my machine. I have no recollection of what permissions / triggers of windows firewall it needed back when I installed it.
Today, I wanted to learn how to create ...
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Windows 7 - How to find out what is blocking access to files
There is a custom script that errors out when running is getting access denied. I looked at Process Mon from sysinternals but I don't see where it shows what is blocking access to a file/folder. I ...
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Maximum number of virtual CPU for Windows 7/10 virtual machine
For a virtual machine running Windows 7/10, is there a maximum number of virtual CPU a hypervisor can assign to it?
As hypervisor, consider VMware ESXi 5.5 or 6.0.
Andrea
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Executing image file on a shared folder fails but opening from explorer works [duplicate]
On a computer with Windows 7 (virtualized PC on a server) I have a shared folder
\\czek000lbsv015\CHO\
Security is set to
Authenticated Users can Read and execute, View folder content, Read.
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SMBv2 and Windows 7
After disabling SMBv1 through some Firewalls within my network, I'm encountering a problem between a nas and the windows 7 workstations.
C:\Users\Username>net use * \\NAS.FQDN\SHARENAME
System ...
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Windows 7 - remove user's profile after logout
is it possible to force Windows 7 to remove user's profile after logout?
Computer is being used by many students in library. It won't be in domain.
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Is there a way to create a Windows perfmon data collector based on process name?
Always Log CPU Usage for an Application "Name"
During some phase of testing, I'd like to always monitor the CPU usage of my application. The application has a fixed name.
I don't see a way in the ...
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GPO - Schedule Backup from users Desktop
Im Using Robocopy to copy files from my users Desktop to their Personally folder on the Server..
im using robocopy C:\Users\%username%\Desktop W:\skrivebord /xo /fft /E
which works perfectly, when ...
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Windows 7 cannot connect to smtp... but some do
I have a weird problem. Since two days I cannot send emails using outlook.
I even cannot establish a smtp connection using telnet on 25 or 587.
So it seems Windows is blocking outgoing connections.
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Will updating to newest Windows 10 ADMX files cause problems?
I am currently looking for best practices when it comes to managing group policy in a mixed OS environment. We currently have Windows 7, 8.1, 10 pre and post anniversary OS versions (1511, 1603, and ...
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Disabling AMT via cmd (Windows 7)
I am an IT technician at a university. We are trying to disable Intel AMT on all of our computers due to a security vulnerability.
I tried to follow the steps in this Mitigation Guide but ran into ...
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Group Policy registry and administrative templates not applying 100% of the time
Default Domain Policy is configured to allow System Restore. Registry settings in the policy are also set to update computer registry hex value for restore to 00000000. This applies about 50% of the ...
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Checking open rdp ports from script
I need to find out what server ports are listening on port 3389. I have to check 2500 servers, some in different vlans, to make sure remote desktop is enabled.
Can netstat be used to check this and ...
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cannot start microsoft outlook 2016. cannot open the outlook window. the set of folders
I have this one client machine on Windows 7 with a full reinstall of Office, Windows Updates, and scanned/clear.
The moment I add more then one email account to Outlook, close Outlook and bring it ...
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Why only one PC is not updating the GPO?
Recently I migrated my print server from 2008 R2 to 2012 R2. I deployed the printers through, printer(right click) -> Deploy with GP -> Default Domain Policy(per machine). All the PCs in the domain ...
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Cannot shutdown/reboot windows 7 when session is locked
I'm running a Windows 7 in a KVM virtual machine on my laptop.
When there is no user logged in or if I'm logged in but the session is not locked, I can ask Windows to shutdown or reboot directly from ...
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System hang and increased startup time due to svchost.exe
I have a domain network, most of the windows 7 systems are taking too much time to startup and settle up. High disk activity and increased memory usage are noticed. I have a locally hosted WSUS server ...
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authentication failed for child domain shared files vpn
Having a weird issue. I have a remote user that is using a non-domain computer. He has an domain user account at na.contoso.com. When he connects to the vpn and tries to authenticate to gain access to ...
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Conflicting file usage information - drives filling up
Something odd is going on with my VHDXs. The OSs on two of them (Win7 | Win10) are reporting conflicting information regarding disk space usage, with the Win10 file system showing as wildly off (by > ...
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User can't access network drive from non-domain PC [closed]
An employee that is using his own computer that is not joined to AD needs to access two domain shares, H: and U:.
All the permissions for both the folder on the server and the share itself are ...
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Windows\Temp large amounts of cab_XXXX files -- Can't delete
In regards to this:
Windows\Temp large amounts of cab_XXXX files
I can't delete the files. I'm trying to do a shift delete but there are files randomly scattered in there that are locked out by ...
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