Questions tagged [windows-8.1]
Windows 8.1 is an updated version of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system. Windows 8.1 went RTM on August 27, 2013 and reached End Of Life on January 10, 2023. There are 4 versions of Windows 8.1, matching those that were available in Windows 8. They are: Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8.1 Enterprise and Windows 8.1 RT.
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What features of Windows 8/8.1 Pro will not work without a Microsoft Account?
With respect to domain-joined Windows 8/8.1 Pro machines, what features of Windows will not work unless a Microsoft Account is used?
Also, aside from "feature loss," are their any gotchas of not ...
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How to disable Fast Startup using a Group Policy?
Windows 8 / 8.1 / 10 has this feature called "Fast Startup" (or "fast boot", "hybrid statup", "hybrid shutdown", and so on...) which doesn't actually shut down the computer when you tell it to do so, ...
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How can I make Microsoft Management Console high-DPI aware in Windows 8.1?
Since Windows 8.1 doesn't allow system-wide "Windows XP style" high DPI support, how can I make the Microsoft Management Console apps (mmc.exe) high-DPI aware? There is no "Troubleshoot compatibility" ...
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MSTSC: Black Areas on Remote Desktop
I'm connecting from Windows Server 2012 R2 to Hyper-V virtual machine running Windows 8.1 via RDP (mstsc.exe). The VM is hosted on the same machine from which I'm connecting.
Everything was fine until ...
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Is it possible to enable MSMQ from PowerShell on Windows 8?
Is it possible to enable MSMQ from PowerShell on Windows 8(.1)? If so, how does one do this?
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Why does ssh-host-config create two users in Cygwin on Windows 8.1?
In trying to resolve some issues with using Cygwin + SSH on Windows 8.1, I'd like to know why the ssh-host-config script creates two new accounts configuring OpenSSH from scratch? (Is this necessary?)
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EnableLinkedConnections isn't working on some Windows 10 machines
I have been using the "EnableLinkedConnections" registry setting below for years with no trouble. But lately with Windows 8.1 and Windows 10, sometimes it doesn't work. I need to run some programs ...
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How can I debug PAC (proxy auto config) on Windows 8.1 (IE11 and Modern UI)?
On older systems such as Windows 7 + IE10, calling "alert()" in the PAC file would cause a dialog being shown. However, with Windows 8.1 no dialogs are displayed even if IE11 seems to be making use ...
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Unlink Windows 8 MS Account
I am the IT administrator for a few branch offices, and am seeing more and more of our staff "accidentally" linking their account to a MS account. I did some searching on here and found out how to ...
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Remote Desktop works only with old clients
All of our Windows 8.1 computers suddenly refuse Remote Desktop connections.
The problem is when we connect TO Windows 8.1
We don't have the problem when connecting to other Windows versions.
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Force automatic restart even with users logged in after installation of updates on Windows 8.1 Professional
I want a Windows 8.1 Professional installation which is always running and accessed by users via RDP to install updates automatically and also reboot automatically if the updates require it, but this ...
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Event Log service broken on Windows 8.1 dev machines
On two separate Windows 8.1 installations with Visual Studio 2013 installed, the event log service errors on any attempt to read from/write to it.
When I open Event Viewer I get this message when ...
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WSUS configuration for Windows 8.1 clients
I have set up WSUS 2.0 (on 2008 R2). All client side machines are running Windows 8.1.
At the request of the users, i have been running with the below GP configuration so WSUS is less intrusive, and ...
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How do you force Windows to keep memory dumps?
I'm trying to debug a sporadic problem with some Dell tablets out in the field that crash intermittently. Looking at the Event Viewer logs, it seems that Windows automatically creates a memory dump ...
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Change Microsoft Account to Local Account from Administrator Account
My apologies if this should be posted elsewhere. I've searched around and cannot find an answer, and have found a few places that it seems appropriate to ask, and this is one of them. Let me know if ...
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Keep remote Hyper-v hosts in manager on close
I have a windows 8.1 machine that I have installed the Hyper-v role on. We also have a couple of 2012 servers running hyper-v.
I am currently managing them from my PC to make life easier.
When I ...
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Find expiration date of a certificate file which I do not have installed
I'm looking for a way to find the expiration of a certificate file (either .pfx or .cer) without installing it.
I have access to read the file but can not install it.
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Windows 8.1 clients showing printer offline after reconnecting to the network
We have recently rolled out 100 laptops running Windows 8.1, some of our users are having a problem with printers being offline.
It appears to happen when they take the laptop home to no WiFi and then ...
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Windows 8.1 Hyper-V network adapter is set to public and won't save as private
I have a collection of Windows 8.1 machines that run Hyper-V for unit testing. We often use PowerShell to script changes to these systems to ease our administration. However, we've been having trouble ...
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Chrome desktop and android refuses to accept trusted self-signed cert
I created a self-signed certificate using the following command using OpenSSL 1.1.1b (26 Feb 2019):
openssl req -nodes -new --days 900 -subj /CN=192.168.0.104:8080 -x509 -keyout server.key -out ...
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How can I fix Samba 3.6.25 "the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed" error?
Today I updated our Ubuntu server which is also the primary (and only) domain controller to the latest Samba packages which fixed a few security vulnerabilities. The following packages were updated:
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Hyper-V Virtual Ethernet Adapter not working probperly - Code 31 on Host
I have a Windows 8.1 machine with Hyper-V installed. From a "clean" Hyper-V configuration I open Virtual Switch Manager, create an External switch with "Allow management operating system to share this ...
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CPU parking, windows 2012r2, with no hyper threading
I have server based on Intel R1304WT2GS with two e5-2660v3, windows 2012r2. I've installed last drivers from intel site. For business purposes i need to disable hyper threading, and use windows 8.1 / ...
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NFS mount on Windows 8 non-enterprise
I've read the answers to a similar question, but I'd like to ask it here with a very narrow scope. Assuming Windows 8, not enterprise (which means no services for unix applications providing native ...
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Windows 8.1 Pro migrating "Microsoft live" account to domain account
For a variety of reasons a significant number of our Windows PCs are not joined to our Windows 2012 R2 Active Directory domain. We are in the process of rectifying this, and are joining PCs on a per-...
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Windows 8.1 / 10 GPO mapped drives won't connect
UPDATE: not solved...
The issue persists, I also tried the hardened UNC paths approach, still no luck. I'll keep updating this thread if I encounter something new.
UPDATE and solved (hopefully)
Seems ...
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How do I get SonicWALL Global VPN to work with Windows 8.1?
I have been running SonicWALL Global VPN v4.7.3.0403 on Windows 8 without trouble for more than a year. Today I upgraded to Windows 8.1 RTM and noticed that it disabled my Global VPN connection. I ...
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Moving from on-premise to O365
I am investigating what is required for a move for a client away from Windows SBS2008 to Office 365. The server has functions like Active Directory and Exchange 2007. There can be no hybrid solutions (...
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Export Firewall Rules using PowerShell that include Program Path
I'm looking for a way to export existing Windows Firewall rules using PowerShell that includes the path of the Program being referenced (for those rules which reference a program path instead of a ...
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Moving \inetpub\ for IIS 8.5
There are many sources that say that the %SERVERROOT%/inetpub/ must never ever be deleted or moved. And yes, I can agree with this, as updates to IIS update that directory blindly -- they don’t ...
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Windows 8.1 Update/Server 2012 R2 Workplace Join requires Microsoft Account?
If we look at the client side of Workplace Join process it says that we should log on with Microsoft account, but I've never seen it mentioned that Microsoft account is a requirement for Workplace ...
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Rename VPN Connections via Powershell
I'm trying to batch rename vpn connections on my Windows 8.1 machine. I have no trouble modifying the server address with Set-VpnConnection, but I can't find a way to rename a vpn connection:
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Windows 8.1 a ".\" in remote desktop gives current computer not remote computer
We had some issues with our domain recently where we got the "trust relationship has failed" message on a server.
Now normally I could just login with the local admin to fix this, however I had ...
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Long restart time of Windows due to iSCSI Connection
On Windows 10 machine, right after iSCSI Initiator is setup to connect to drive rebooting of Windows takes ages. What usually was taking 5 seconds, it's now taking a minute. It doesn't matter if drive ...
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LLDP in Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2
How do i make LLDP in Windows 2012 R2/Windows 8.1 give me some useful info, like, let's say ComputerName.
From my Cisco Catalyst switch, LLDP neighbor is a Windows 8.1 box:
SWITCH# show lldp neigh ...
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Upgrade from "audit mode" (pre-cloning) Windows 8 to Windows 8.1?
I have a Windows 8 in audit mode with a lot of applications installed, custom configurations done, and an answer file prepared, ready to be sysprepped for cloning. How do I upgrade to Windows 8.1, ...
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How to connect clients to INTERNAL WSUS server but download the approved updates from Microsoft?
I have client-side targeting setup to handle some remote workstations on our network. They VPN in from time to time -- so they can hit the internal WSUS server when they are connected.
I essentially ...
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Windows 8: GPO to block shutdown without blocking restart?
Windows has a local security policy for disabling the ability to shut down a computer, but this also blocks the ability to restart the machine.
Is there a way to block only shutdown without blocking ...
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System network buffers leaking/fully used, on Windows x64 with plenty of free RAM. How to diagnose and resolve?
This is related to this question and extends it.
The symptoms are the same - 2012R2 x64 with 64GB RAM (21GB used), ping and nslookup both work fine, but IE won't open web pages, net use X: \\share ...
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Windows 8.1 Dial-up
I have two Win8.1 computers, and I need to reliably connect from one to the other via dial-up because the remote computer can't be accessed any other way.
The client computer can make outgoing calls, ...
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Hyper-V Manager crashes when connceting to remote Hyper-V Server
I am using Windows 8.1 and have Server Manager installed. I've added one of our servers (Server 2012 Standard) to Server Manager, and it connects just fine (Manageability shows "Online" and I can see ...
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WSUS WARNING: CSerializationHelper:: InitSerialize failed : 0x80070002
have recently set up WSUS in a server 2008 R2 / Windows 8.1 environment. WSUS 3.0 SP2, everything appears to be working. GPO is working, client devices are reporting to WSUS server, but for some ...
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Error 0x8007007e When trying to mount WinPE 5 wim in Windows 7 using Powershell
Using ADK for Windows 8.1, and the DISM cmdlets that come with them. I have WMF 4.0 installed. My machine is Windows 7 x64 SP1, and I'm trying to mount the wim using
PS C:\Users\BigHomie> Mount-...
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OpenVPN client doesn't have "use default gateway on remote network" option
I am on Windows 8.1.
Trying to follow the advice from https://superuser.com/questions/178674/setting-vpn-to-go-through-certain-ips-and-not-others/178675#178675
VPN network I have is TAP Adapter OAS ...
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Error "the specified domain either does not exist or could not be contacted" when attempting to join the domain
I have set up a server based on windows server 2008 R2, and has successfully joined 2 clients (one PC and one laptop, both windows 7) to the domain.
Today I was trying to join another laptop to the ...
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Force a specific theme for entire network using GPO
I am attempting to force a specific theme to all machines in my network. I know that the GPO "Load a Specific Theme" in:
User Configuration/Administrative Templates/Control Panel/...
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Can I prepare a domain user account without the user's password
We have a 2012R2 domain and have configured many GPO settings for our users based on the team they are working for. In the near future, we will replace our existing laptops with new ones and move to ...
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PowerShell startup script applied via GPO failing ambiguously
Script:
$folder = "$env:HOMEDRIVE\TestFolder"
New-Item -ItemType directory -Path $folder
note that the same group policy error occurs when $folder is set to "C:\..."
Execution policy is ...
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How can I pin an Internet Explorer URL shortcut or favorite to the Start screen with Group Policy in Windows 8.1?
I created my Start UI like I want and used this PowerShell cmdlet to create the .xml file for a user's default layout:
export-startlayout –path <path><file name>.xml -as xml
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win 8.1 don't send status report to wsus 3 sp2 will all patches
There are a lots of pages in internet which deals about wsus problems with windows 8.1 but mine is not covered.
I have a wsus 3.0 sp2 installed on a 2008 server and it has all the necessary patches ...
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