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windows server 2003 r2 sp2 I created a domain acocunt called domain\username and added that account to the "log on as batch" and "log on as service" and "backup files and directories" in local security policy. When the job runs the log shows access denied. To clarify I set the job to run with the account I created and with the correct password which I also validated. I notice the job will only run if I add the above account to the adminsitrator group and I do not want to do that. What other priviliges are needed for a scheduled task job to run without adding it to the administrator group? Any help is grealty appreciated thank you.

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This is not necessarily a question but more of a statement. Microsoft, I installed fresh install of Win 10 pro. I ran Edge for a bit and it was pretty fast. I needed to look at video on youtube, oh... I'd say about 3 minutes after I installed windows 10 because that's what we do with freaking browsers!... And guess what I got... "NO SUPPORT FOR VIDEO FORMAT ERROR"... that is stupid Microsoft. I will not trouble shoot it, I will not look on a forum to figure out why it isn't working, I will not spend one ounce of my time trying to fix Edge browser not working with Youtube. I installed Google Chrome and guess what? It works fine. If you want to be accepted by the…

I am unable to send email to groups with the mail and calendar app in Windows 10. My verison is 17.1620.42011.0 Is sending mail to groups supported yet in Mail & Calendar? Thanks, A. More...

Hey there, for some time now I have this weird problem that I sometimes have short freezes. For instance when I type the cursor will just stop and for a second it will buffer my keyboardinput and just releases it when the freeze stops. Same goes when playing, which is even far worse. When I play starcraft 2 a second of freeze is just unacceptable. I have literally no idea whats causing this. I tested my RAM with memtest, removed all harddrives except my M.2, tried with intel integrated graphics, tried different displays with different settings without success. My setup is: asrock z370 extreme4 Intel i7 8700k (not overclocked) G.Skill Ripjaws V DDR4-2300 DIM…

Hello, is it possible to unpin pinned apps from the start menu via Powershell? I am only looking for a Powershell solution (not GPO oder whatever). The Windows version is Windows 10, version 1803. More...

I have encountered a number of directories that now show incorrect “properties” information after the recent Windows 10 upgrade to the 1803 Feature Update. Most directories that I have looked at still show valid information. But in some specific directories the calculated size, number of files, and number of folders is wildly inaccurate. Prior to the 1803 update, the information appeared to be valid for these directories that are now in question. From one of these subdirectories, the “CNT +” subdirectory should include everything below it. By just taking a brief look at the immediate subdirectories it can easily be seen that they describe more utilized space, n…

Folder sizes not reporting correct number of files or total size Win10 Prod build 1803 Hi everyone, Short story: Update 1803 borked my previous hard drive/OS during installation, so I decided to upgrade my boot drive and clean install since there was no recovering my old boot drive OS. I ran a (manual) backup of all of my files from my storage disks (to my external USB drive). Upon comparing folder sizes, I noticed certain folders on my backup drive had a significantly lower number of files and sizes were different. Did a bunch of troubleshooting (including trying a separate external USB drive)...fast forward to me trying the same (secondary) USB drive on my …

Windows 10. Changing Default Browser. I can't change default browser either through Settings applet or Control Panel. Everytime I try to change it from Settings, the window automatically closes. When I reopen the applet, Edge stays as the default Web browser. If I try it from the Control Panel, it takes me to the Settings applet and I get the same results. More...

PIN and Fingerprint Sign-in options unavailable (greyed out) in Windows 10 1803 Enterprise PIN and finger print option greyed out after joining system to domain, i have create necessary GPO to enable Windows hello for Business and PIN, Fingerprint but still cant add or change finger print under settings Account and then sign in option. Below are the GPO enable for WHB:- Policy Setting Comment Configure dynamic lock factors Enabled Signal rules for dynamic lock Policy Setting Comment Use biometrics Enabled Use certificate for on-premises authentication Enabled Use Windows Hello for Business Enabled Windows …

Hope to be fine here with this question. It is about Windows 10 2018 March operating on physical machine. It hosts Oracle Virtualbox Hypervisor with two Debian virtual machines on top of stack. Virtual machines want to get quite periodic updates (patches, fixes, security updates and so on). Quite every day except for weekends there are new updates. Currently they go through V.B. NAT network to Internet to fetch updates. Regarding generated traffic it is of double amount as each of two v.machines fetches same updates for itself separately. So to reduce the load of internet connection the idea is to setup on WSL cache-proxy for Debian package management used on …

Hi, After updating to 1803 I get following error in Device Manager Display adapters: Windows cannot load the device driver for this hardware. The driver may be corrupted or missing. (Code 39) {Bad Image} %hs is either not designed to run on Windows or it contains an error. Try installing the program again using the original installation media or contact your system administrator or the software vendor for support. Error status 0x I uninstalled the driver and rebooted - no success DSA shows: Intel? HD Graphics Adapter Compatibility Intel Corporation Driver Provider Intel Corporation Driver Ver…

Hi I am connected to domain, there is not any domain level group policy set to disable PIN for windows. I have tried enabling few local GP to enable PIN and biomatric but I have no luck to enable fingureprint. Please help !!!!!!!!!! More...

Hello, My laptop is Lenovo Ideapad 110S-11IBR (4GB RAM ,eMMc 32GB Hard drive,Windows 10), Yesterday, I let the system go to "sleep mode" before I sleep, When I wake up and restart my laptop, I was shocked... beacuse the hard drive just have 3GB space . I never saw update.esd (3GB) before it found in my laptop (by "Treesize" software ) This file is under by hidden system folder "OSRSS", it is hidden and can't be delete even I click "Show hidden files" in the folder options. How can I do to delete this files and get my hard drive space back? Thank you~ More...

Just a repeat of the above... can anyone help, please? More...

Hi, I use RDP for the most of my daily work to connect to four other PCs. My local PC is used for mail and RDP, that's it. I'm using Windows 10 version 10.0.17134.228 I can use RDP fine for maybe a few hours and then the local taskbar will plant itself over the RDP sessions, making it SO hard to use the RDP sessions that it becomes unusable. I've tried all the methods that other people have recommended, restarting explorer.exe etc. and making sure that the local machine has no notifications and NOTHING works. When we use RDP, surely we don't CARE what the local machine is up to, it's just a means to use other machines without interruption? Is there SERIOUSLY…

comprehensive list of UI and functional differences between Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro Hi, Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of UI and functional differences between Windows 7 Pro and Windows 10 Pro? We want to upgrade a bunch of computers to Windows 10 but perhaps provide a cheat sheet to users so that some functions are different or new options they need to be aware of or UI elements are different. I think this would lessen the support calls after the upgrade. Thanks, More...

Hi, I get the error 0x80070057 when I try to install Windows 10 on a M.2 PCIe SSD 1tb (Lite-On CX2-GB1024-Q11 NVMe) I tried with diskpart, cleaning the disk, the disk is working in other PCs, I checked with "CHKDSK". I'm really stuck on this. CPU: Intel 7700k RAM 16GB 1x HD 1t 1x HD 3tb 1x Liteon Envidia Gtx 1050 More...

Hi! So, I just got a new notebook with Windows 10. I'm coming from Windows 7. In previous system, W7 as mentioned, I had 309.000+ files indexed for a windows.edb size of 1,4 GB. I transferred nearly everything on the new machine and let the indexer run. The first time it indexed 280.000+ files for a stunning 60 GB (sixty gigabytes) of windows.edb. Decided to delete and rebuild, I deleted as many mails and files (a backup was already in place) as possible before re-indexing again. The second time it indexed 155.000+ files for a windows.edb size of 15 GB+. So I deleted more files and emails, in the meantime the Search Indexer decided to de…

Hello Forum, I recently purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad YOGA X1 3rd Gen. As far as hardware, she's fully loaded with the highest specs possible. Running Windows 10 Pro. Right off the bat it had a bunch of issues. I did a bunch of updates, most of them went away. I had to do some "regedit" for 1 problem where the keyboard would beep a bunch if I typed too quickly and it would set off hotkeys. Currently only 2 problems remain and if I can be rid of them I can be rid of my buyers remorse. Problem 1: File explorer opens on its own. Random. Multiple times. Can be hours between occurrences or minutes. Sometimes it will even go an entire session of work without doing it. …

Log Name: Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity/Operational Source: Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity Date: 23-08-2018 AM 10:50:08 Event ID: 3002 Task Category: (1) Level: Error Keywords: User: LOCAL SERVICE Computer: rupam-PC Description: Code Integrity is unable to verify the image integrity of the file \Device\HarddiskVolume2\Windows\System32\MBWrp32.dll because the set of per-page image hashes could not be found on the system. Event Xml: 3002 0 2 1 102 0x8000000000000000 1944 Microsoft-Windows-CodeIntegrity/Op…

Hi, I want to have the image pop up on my screen when I press the caps lock. I hear the sound but no image. An image that lets you know Caps Lock is on. Lenovo T470 Laptop Windows 10 Education 1709 Thank you, Mark More...

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