Windows 7 is the Microsoft PC operating system released in October 2009. It is the successor to Windows Vista and has been succeeded by Windows 8. It shared the same UI style as Windows Vista, but was based on an incrementally newer version of the NT kernel (6.1, from 6.0) and was released in 6 ...
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suddenly WDS started Ignoring PE unattend file
i everyone,
I have been using WDS and the same PE unattend file for ages and suddenly it just stopped working.
We always use the same file for all workstations so it is identified in the CLIENT tab of ...
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Server 2012 Running an Application on a Standard User account with Admin rights
Server 2012 with 25 users.
All Clients are Windows 7
I'm having this issue with this program Ringcentral Softphone, its an application for eFaxing, every time the program is launched it prompts UAC ...
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Windows Event Viewer is slow on newer versions of Windows
The modern Event Viewer application that you get on all versions of Windows since Vista is so much slower the previous version that was on Server 2003 and XP. I know there is much more functionality ...
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can reach localhost:9000 but not 192.168.30.92:9000
My sonar (windows) server is running at static ip 192.168.30.92:9000 but cannot be reached on that server using that IP.
However, I can reach localhost:9000
What am I missing?
This was tested on a ...
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Set SSTP VPN connection's “Register this connection's addresses in DNS” setting
I have followed the instructions found here to setup a SSTP VPN connection using powershell. I would like for the RAS connection to have the connection created with the "Register this connection's ...
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What constitutes a large WMI repository and what can cause it to grow?
Our organization is experiencing lengthy startup times after improper shutdowns that seem to be tied to the size of the WMI repository. For example, a repository folder size of 50 megs might result ...
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VM 9.0 workstation stop responding when restarting it
I have the following:-
Windows 7 professional x64 host machine with 32 GB RAM & 8 processes
VM workstation 9.0
Windows server 2008 r2 inside the VM.
But each time I restart the VM it will ...
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Running Network-Reliant Processes on Startup
I'm in charge of deploying and modifying a bit of in-house software that is meant to run on end-user workstations, which run either Windows 7 or XP SP3. The goal is to maximize the amount of time the ...
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How can I solve this error getting the message “TTL expired in transit” when trying to ping to a server in a different network? [duplicate]
Like this:
Reply from 10.0.0.7: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 10.0.0.7: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 10.0.0.7: TTL expired in transit.
Reply from 10.0.0.7: TTL expired in transit.
Reply ...
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Bacula director daemon unable to authenticate windows 7 client
My director daemon in being hosted on an ubuntu machine and the client is a windows 7 machine. Both machines are on the same subnet. I'm having trouble authenticating between the server and the ...
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MDT: oob drivers not being injected
I'm trying to use MDT and WDS to image a machine.
I've got the image of the reference cpu via a vmware machine.
I tried running LiteTouch via PXE on the target machine. It gives me an error:
A ...
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Does Windows Server Domain have any feature that will wipe out a client computer?
A Windows 7 Professional laptop is joined into a Windows Domain during setup and installation in the office network in country X, but it is being used in another country for a long period of time ...
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Age of hard drive via software tool on Windows 7
I an running Intel Raid 5 on Windows 7, and one of my hard drives is reporting an error. This is the second time I've had a hard drive error, and last time I replaced the problem drive.
Now I've had ...
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Disable Physical Address Extension in Windows 7 64 bits with 8 GB RAM [closed]
Everything I need to know about it is in subject. I'm tweaking my Windows 7 Pro 64bits because I feel my Core i5 3.7 Ghz computer is not much more fast than my old Athlon 64.
And I saw in Windows ...
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How to export Parallels Win 7 VM into AWS EC2?
Is there any elegant way to transfer a complete Win 7 server installation from a Parallels Desktop (Mac) VM into an AWS EC2 instance?
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In Windows, when does a shutdown protect the data? [migrated]
I have a Windows 7 computer and I am doing some tests: instead of shutting down it properly through the menu shutdown command I switch off the power supply. At the next boot Windows shows the message:
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Windows 7 resolve localhost name with ipv6 instead of ipv4 [duplicate]
When I ping localhost I can see that localhost name is resolved as :::1 instead of 127.0.0.1. Do you know how to solve this? I need a ipv4 resolution of localhost for Tomcat server.
I could quickly ...
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Centos Web server can not connect to my computer's ip on port 9001
When i use;
nc -v 151.XXX.240.227 9001
on my Centos server, i get
nc: connect to 151.XXX.240.227 port 9001 (tcp) failed: Connection timed out
In my Windows 7 computer, Tcpview shows that port ...
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Dell Perc 4/DC controller - managing it from Windows 7 on a not dell workstation? [closed]
I've installed a Perc 4DC on a non dell workstation with windows 7. I have
no issues with the drivers (used the 2003 ones), but I'm not sure what kind
of disk management tool I could and should ...
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1answer
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How to add local group to “Remote Desktop Users” group in Windows 7 pro
I created a local group (say ToolUsers). I want to add this group to "Remote Desktop Users" so that these user can login remotely via MSTSC.
When I try to add, this local group is not visible & ...
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Need Help locking down many networked public computers
Does anybody know any type of system lockdown/parental control software that will work for networked machines, with users that may or may have not already setup an account on the local machine?
I'm ...
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4answers
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In a Win7 computer that belongs to a domain, how do I append DNS search list entries?
My desktop is part of the company domain and receives its IP address and DNS search list via DHCP. That's fine, of course. Is there a way that I can append additional entries to the end of the DNS ...
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Implications of changing offline files settings on a network share
I have a windows network share that is currently set to allow windows clients to specify what is available offline. We want to change the option to all no files/programs to be available offline. ...
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3answers
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Remotely administer hundreds of computers
I work for a company that has roughly 500 (expanding to over 1000 this year) computers out in the field. These computers are spread all through America, with 2 of them in Canada (noone bothers with ...
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Guest file sharing not working in win7 [closed]
I am trying to make a few folders accessible with no password from any device in the local network.
I enabled the guest account
I shared the folders and gave full permissions to everyone
I have ...
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Is there a windows 7 utility that can verify that an ssl certificate matches a key file?
The title says it all. When I google for this, it mentions openssl, but I think that must be a unix utility because I can't find it on windows 7.
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How to setup FreeSSHd with Jenkins?
I have Jenkins on CentOS and want to run commands remotely on Windows 7. I managed to set it up for transferring files but when executing commands I always get:
SSH: EXEC: STDOUT/STDERR from command ...
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size of the disk is more than the size of the files on the disk [migrated]
I am using windows 7. my c: drive capacity is 75 gb. where the Os is located. The size of the files on the disk is only 50 gb including hidden files. But used space of c drive shows 60Gb. Where the ...
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Windows: disable remote access of local drive, even by domain admin
We have a network of Windows 7 PCs that are managed as part of a domain. What we want is for the domain admin to be unable to view the PC's local drive (C:) unless he is physically at the PC. In ...
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Why is my loopbacked GPO reporting as disabled
Let me start by saying that my experience with GPO is limited to tentatively poking at settings until they fall into place by trial and error. It is entirely possible this will be a very obvious ...
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what's the difference between a Volume and a Partition in Windows 7 diskpart
I was trying to follow the Intel guide for setting up iRST (Intel Rapid Start Technology) on my new laptop. The Intel manual says you need to create a *Volume that is as big or bigger than your ...
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Use default gateway on Remote Computer gets unchecked by GPO
A little GPO issue here, someone was playing around in the GPO's and now we have an issue that we can't figure out. We have Win7 images that use PPTP connections to connect to our backend. When the ...
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Windows 7 clients perform chdsk on every boot
since last microsoft patch tuesday 70% of windows 7 client in my network (active directory domain) ask to perform a checkdisk on every boot.
What i have already tried:
Let the client do the check ...
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How to rebuild a RAID1 array with Intel Matrix Controller & Corrupt Windows OS?
After setting the Intel Storage Matrix ROM to a Rebuild state after RAID1 failure, how do I rebuild a RAID1 Array when the Windows will not complete a boot in order to access the Intel Matrix Storage ...
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Tcpdump packet-PID correspondence
So I've installed winpcap and use windump:
E:\>windump -i 2 -B 5000 -n -s 0 -l -C 1 -W 10 -e -q -X
windump: listening on \Device\NPF_{9718B3B1-6C96-4431-889B-2B1A37BED06E}
01:25:23.029278 ...
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Windows 7 on Xen Using Alpine Linux
Is it possible to configure Windows 7 as a Xen DomU Guest on Alpine Linux? What are the steps to do this?
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Win7 & 8 bootable VHDs and Windows licensing [duplicate]
Trying to get bootable VHDs working on my Win7 environment is driving me crazy. I have no problem creating the VHDs and installing the .WIM files to the VHD and then using BCDEDIT to set up the ...
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Modifying mandatory profiles in Windows 7
In a Windows AD environment with Windows 7 clients I am looking for ways of providing departmental admins with means to maintain mandatory profiles for their respective users. As settings required ...
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Is there a cmd/certutils to copy a certificate from one store to another?
I would like to know if there is a cmd to copy an existing certificate from one store to another. I am trying to copy a certificate from the Users Intermediate Certification Authorities store ...
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Ways to Prevent Automatic Shutdown by an IT Admin [closed]
My company pushes software updates to my computer about once every two days, and restarts the machine. This usually happens at night, so it is not disruptive, but if I am running long jobs overnight, ...
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Enable users to save settings on Win7 embedded with EWF
Thin client with windows 7 embedded and EWF (Enhanced Write Filter), How to permit certain applications write access so they can write users settings (preserve user settings). Is there a way to achive ...
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Image Issues and Activation
Okay, so I've been working on an image to use with sysprep. We have a downgrade license and all Lenovo computers. Because I've had so many issues with sysprepping OOB computers, I installed win7 pro ...
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Run a script upon closing a folder/window? [closed]
I'm trying to figure out how to:
- run a script(fx. batch) after I close a certain folder/windows in Win7
For instance, I run the following simple script to mount a Truecrypt volume:
truecrypt /v ...
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2answers
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Windows 7 Activation during image deployment
We currently have 40 machines that are being upgraded to Windows 7 Enterprise. One machine will need to have software installed on them, and then imaged and deployed to the other 39 machines. The ...
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2answers
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UltraESB throwing HTTP 503 or UnsupportedClassVersionError exception depeneding upon the JDK version
I am testing UltraESB 1.7.1 and have been following the quickstart guide in order to do this. Part of the quickstart is to send a message through UltraESB via these instructions. I have followed the ...
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Sysprep and unattend.xml: remove local user account on windows 7
We are deploying Windows 7 using WDS. We want to remove the local user account which was created during setup. We don't need this account since the machines join a domain and a domain user account is ...
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How to customize Windows “Performance Monitor”?
I'm wondering if that's possible to set a customized action counter that is not listed as one of the counters? e.g. a batch script that measure a time for running my application, and then notify the ...
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Generalize an image without using Sysprep?
Without using sysprep, is there another way to generalize an image for use with Clonezilla?
I created a sysprep image and forgot to add a few things. So when I tried to redo it, I get the failed to ...
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Can I override “hide and disable all items on the desktop”?
Is it possible to add shortcuts and/or windows components to the desktop if "hide and disable all items on the desktop" is enabled via GPO? For example, if I have a few specific program icons I want ...
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Windows System Image Manager - Extended Attributes Error
I'm trying to create a basic answer file for an image I'm working on to get the computer to automatically join the domain upon reimage. I've got the Win7 Pro 64 bit install.wim file extracted from the ...
