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By default, Windows Telemetry is sent to Azure cloud. How can we send it to On-Premise SQL Server database ? The point is that due to regulatory restrictions, sending such data to public cloud is prohibited. Yet, we want to develop our on-premise operational analytics dashboard. More...

Just reimaged to Windows 8.1 the other day and now I can't see any of my mapped network drives when I go to File/Open from some programs. When I go to Open I only see my local drives but no network drives. This is not happening in all programs but is happening in some. Most recently I'm trying to use the Windows 7 USB creation tool thing and can only see my local drive but it's happened in a few other programs as well. Anyone know what might cause this? I can browse to the drives just fine and some programs can list them normally. Very strange. More...

Can anyone tell me how to set an image (.gif) transparent background in Windows 8 Paint (ver. 6.2)? Been scratching head for a couple of hours now but can't for the life of me see how to set a transparent colour. I'm sure that the XP version of pint allowed this. Thanks, More...

To activate God Mode in Windows 8, follow the steps below: 1. Go to the Desktop 2. Right-click and select New Folder. 3. Right-click on the New Folder and select Rename. 4. Change the name of the folder [just copy & paste the following string]: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} 5. Open the folder and you will find every utility Windows 8 has under the sun. Note: With God Mode, you can easily access all the Administrative options and make any desired adjustments. Enjoy! Carey Frisch More...

Is it possible to download ssmypics.scr for my Windows 7 computer? I don't have the XP computer any more and want to show file names in photo screensaver More...

microsoft solitaire onwin 10 wont open More...

i want to know about my window 8 key which is inbuilt in bios More...

I am using GP user preferences to create shortcuts on my users' desktops. On all my Vista/Win7 machines they are fine and the icons are what I set them to be. on all my Win8 machines the icon is just a blank white square. If I right-click and view the icon, the correct image appears. But when the user is looking at the desktop the image is blank. I have upgraded a couple machines, scratch built one, and purchased an OEM version on a new laptop. All are the same: blank shortcut icons. Surely I'm not the only person testing Win8 in a domain environment, right? More...

I use below to set logoff time to 10: net accounts /forcelogoff:10 C:\>net accounts Force user logoff how long after time expires?: 10 Minimum password age (days): 1 Maximum password age (days): 45 Minimum password length: 8 Length of password history maintained: 4 Lockout threshold: 6 Lockout duration (minutes): 30 Lockout observation window (minutes): 30 Computer role: PRIMARY The command completed successfully. But it returns to never after a while: C:\>net accounts Force user logoff how long after time expires?: Never Minimum password age (days): 1 Maximum password age (days): 45 Minimum password length: 8 Length of password history maintained: 4 Lockout threshold: 6 Lockout duration (minutes): 30 Lockout observation window (minutes): 30 Computer role: PRIMARY The command completed successfully. Please assist.... More...

I bought my laptop with windows 7. then I bought windows 8 pro : order number WDO2226150 THEN I WAS OFFERED WINDOWS 10 FOR FREE AND I INSTALLED WINDOWS 10 !! 3 days ago I tried to update and the microsoft asked me to do some things which by mistake I ignored ,and suddenly my computer was in recovery mode!! After I tried some solutions nothing happened and I was forced to do a reset of my computer , which brought me back to windows 7 !!! Is it possible to go back to windows 10 ? I even cannot download many things not even photos from a usb thanks More...

I want to force enable all sensors on every domain computers in the domain, there is only a group policy to force disable the sensors not enable them, so how do you do that ? I wrote a small piece of software that will send us the location of every devices every 30 secs so we can see in realtime every device on a maps. More...

hello sir, I have window 8.1.. oprating system and my Environmenal User Variable path was deleted by mistake ... send me dafault path of user Variable.. help please..... Fast More...

Hi there, Storage pool with two storage spaces created using Windows 8 Release Preview and then ported into Windows 8 RTM. I'm now trying to delete one of the storages spaces and getting this access is denied error message. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. More...

I want to remove Onedrive off my pc because it has made me have to start most of my games right from the start and I hate having to have to sign in everywere i go please help. Randy More...

I'm trying to install .NET framework 3.5 on Windows 8, and I'm getting the error: "The system cannot move the file to a different disk drive." and "Error code: 0x80070011" First off, here's my setup: I have a 64GB SSD hosting my OS. I have C:\Windows\WinSxS, C:\Users, C:\Program Files, and C:\Program Files (x86) all symlinked to a mechanical storage drive - This is to save space on my SSD, and still gain the benefits of boot times as well as some performance increase. I realize this is not a recommended setup - however, this is how I have it set up, and this is how I want to keep it set up. I feel that at this point, I should be able to install any software as I like, wherever I like. I shouldn't be forced to install things in one specific spot, taking up extra space on my very small hard disk. How can I override this error, or force the framework to install to another location? Thanks for your help! More...

this file is missing in my pc and when i paste it in the game directory i find a message that that's a bad image file and its not supports the os and archive is corrupted please help me when i launch any game it come in this way!! More...

when i go to my file explorer in Windows 8.1 all of a sudden a new drive is listed called ESP (F:). It didn't show this before today. My laptop is about a year old and now this is showing up. When I click on it i get an error as shown in the image. What is this drive, why does it show up when it didn't before and why can't i access it? The only thing that happened in the last 24 hours was an automatic update by windows. But I don't know what that update was. https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/getfile/910846 Keith Aul More...

I deleted user profile with files, but: C:\users\username\appdata\roaming\microsoft\windows\Libraries folder is still there. I can't access it, I can't take ownership of it. I can't delete it. How could I delete it. Thanks for help in advance! More...

Hi all, I wanted to set my sound default playback device to laptop's speakers using GPO. Is this possible? We have users had their default playback device to their Dell monitors instead for some reason We want to create a GPO to always set the default playback to the laptop's speakers Thanks More...

my laptop operate on windows 7 home. Is there a way to upgrade to windows 8.1 or windows 10. More...

[PLAIN][boot Manager][sOLVED] Fixing UEFI Boot Issues: Black Screen After BIOS POST. Booting Only Possible From BIOS F12 Boot Menu[/PLAIN] Hello, I am having problems with direct booting into Windows 8 installed into a VHDX file. This is a four-partition UEFI boot on a GPT drive. EFI files are residing on a second partition of disk 0 (the ESP partition) in the EFI folder. The boot virtual disk is residing on the fourth partition of that disk 0. When I turn on the PC, it shows black screen after the BIOS POST screen. No Windows 8 boot menu, no other information is displayed. However, if I press Shift+F12 (or F12) to start Dell BIOS Boot Menu and choose Windows Boot Manager from the UEFI part of the boot menu, Windows 8 starts to boot without difficulties. How do I make Windows to boot automatically without having to select Windows Boot Manager in DELL BIOS boot menu? I believe I messed up with boot sector somehow... What needs to be fixed provided that Windows 8 will boot into VHDX file? Thank you. Well this is the world we live in And these are the hands we're given... More...

When renaming a file, changing the capitalization doesn't do anything e.g. if the file's name is "ABC.txt" and I change to to "abc.txt" it doesn't work, although if I hit F2 again is shows "abc.txt" not "ABC.txt". This is a subtle bug but it's annoying. Any Ideas how to report this bug to microsoft? I'm using Windows 7 Professional More...

After lots of research on the Internet, I couldn’t find a straight-forward method of extracting files from a Windows 7 image backup (this is the full backup, not the file and folder backup). I finally got it working without any additional programs! Here are my instructions. Hopefully they can come in handy for when you don’t have any files in Previous Versions, or you don’t have another backup of the file you lost but you have it in the image backup. This procedure may not work with Vista as Windows 7 supports VHD disk mounting through Diskpart. I don’t think Vista does. You must be logged in as an administrator (such as the first account made on the computer when you installed Windows 7) Go to the Start menu > Computer, and go into the drive where you made the image backup Right-click the WindowsImageBackup folder and go to Properties Go to the Security tab > Advanced > Owner tab > Edit... Select your username, and check Replace owner on subcontainers and objects "OK" everything and close all windows Go back to the drive where you made the image backup, right-click the WindowsImageBackup folder and go to Properties > Security tab > Advanced In the Permissions tab click Change Permissions... Select your username, click Edit... Tick all the Allow boxes then OK Tick both bottom boxes then OK "OK" everything, close all windows UPDATE: And with credit to Proton2's reply below, we need to mount the backup image as a drive. To do this, open the Start? menu, right-click on Computer and select Manage In the left pane, under Storage, select Disk Management Go to the Action menu, then Attach VHD Click Browse..., go into the drive where you made the image backup. Go into to the WindowsImageBackup folder, then the [NAME OF PC] folder, then the Backup [DATE] folder. There should some .VHD files in there. Select the one with the largest file size and click Open, then OK. It will now have mounted in Computer as a hard drive. You can browse through it and retrieve your files! When finished, we need to dismount the VHD drive. Go back into Disk Management as before, find the drive from charts on the bottom pane (such as Disk 3), right click on where it says the disk name (such as Disk 3) and select Detach, then OK. All done. Make a new backup from scratch (delete the old one) if you like since we messed up its permissions. More...

The PC installed the update, went to reboot. Upon reboot, system was stuck on "Please wait". After waiting a significant time, powered the PC on into safe mode. After safe mode booted correctly, restarted normally. PC booted up fine. At the assigned time the system tried to install rollup update KB4457144 and failed with the error code 0x80073701. I have tried other fixes such sfc /scannow and the error keeps occuring. I am at a loss. More...

Here is the dump file: https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=37CCFF968CDD24F5&id=37CCFF968CDD24F5%21105&parId=37CCFF968CDD24F5%21104&o=OneUp Basically my computer has been crashing when i play newer games, i just installed a new gpu and did a clean removal and reinstall of all my drivers. I have some ideas but being able to tell what this file is telling me should get me to a solution. Thanks for the help! More...