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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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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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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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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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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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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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iPerf for Windows?
Im looking to measure bandwidth and transfer speed between Windows clients and servers (XP, Windows-7 and Windows Server 2008 R2).
iPerf is a great tool but cannot find a Windows executable I'd ...
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How Do I Move Program Files From One Drive To Another [closed]
I'm having a lot of applications already installed on my windows xp machie, but now am facing lack of free space in my C:\ drive.
Is there any way to move the files in Program Files to another drive ...
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Listing ODBC Connections on Remote Machine
I'd like to connect to a Windows (XP & 7) machine remotely (command line or Powershell) & list the ODBC's installed on that machine, ideally I'd be able to list the server name/database setup ...
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In Windows 7, why can't I use perfmon against a remote server?
I am on Windows 7 and trying to run perfmon against Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 servers. I am running into the same issue with all remote machines.
When creating a data collector set, I specify a ...
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Which files/folders are in my Windows 7 profile? [closed]
My computer (Windows 7 workstation connected to Windows 2003 servers) shows a size of around 600 MB for my 'local' type profile.
My AppData\Roaming folder has a size of 300 MB.
Where (in which local ...
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Roaming profiles with a Windows 2008 DC and a Linux File Server?
We have a Windows 2008 Server for our DC, Linux file server, and Windows 7 on our workstations.
What are any concerns with switching to roaming profiles with a linux file server?
Is this a simple ...
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Can I make Windows 7 process the IPsec INITIAL-CONTACT message?
Windows 7 seems to ignore the IPsec INITIAL-CONTACT notification described in RFC 2407. Is there a setting to make it process the message? When Windows receives the notification, it should delete its ...
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Suspicious Logins in Event Viewer on Windows 7
The other day I was sitting on my Windows 7 workstation and suddenly got kicked out to the switch user screen, showing my main and only account as being logged in. This is typical if I remote desktop ...
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IPSec port blocking rule doesn't block packets? (Windows 7)
I'm trying to set up an IPSec rule in Windows 7 to block UDP traffic on a specific port (31069 in this example) on a particular network interface. (The plan is to allow it on a secondary NIC, but for ...
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Windows 7 File Associations .mov [closed]
I created a new windows 7 SP1 base image.
Everything is all fine and dandy with that.
So i am now installing standard applications
The only problem is WMP (Windows Media Player) won't give up the ...
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How do I transfer a Windows XP/Vista/7 partition into Xen?
Good morning Server Fault,
I have several hard disks with installations of Windows XP, Vista, and 7. I do not want to (or rather can no longer) reinstall these Windows installations so I want to ...
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Windows 7 installation error on Dell inspiron n4050 [closed]
I need to re-install my windows 7 on Dell Inspiron n4050 laptop.this.
When ever I try to install Windows 7 from DVD or from USB Ii received two blue screens.
I have tried already"
Updated the ...
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How to stop background session of Windows Performance Recorder?
Windows Performance Recorder runs in the background and I want to stop it, but I can't.
If the system has been restarted and I fire up the app and try to start a new recording session, I get ...
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Issue with accessing local server with IP address
Folks, I am stuck with a weird problem here. I am running a Websphere server locally on my Win 7 machine. Http port is 9081. When I am trying to access my application using localhost it works fine, as ...
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Inject events in the event viewer in an old date [closed]
I need to inject some event in my event viewer in an old date, how event viewer data are stored, and can I change it?
** EDIT **
I need it to know that if any one, In any way can fool me and do ...
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Windows 7- mass file update
I have to get an updated config file to several users across some distance, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a good automated way to do this, rather than sending them the file and talk them ...
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How to “dummy-down” a client computer? [closed]
I would like to create multiple small computers with Windows 7 Pro, and would like to know how I can turn this client into a "dummy" computer. In other words, I'd like to disable anything in Windows ...
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VMware Workstation Guest won't reply to external pings [closed]
I have a Windows 7 x64 machine running VMware Workstation along with a Windows XP x86 guest.
The Windows XP machine can ping every machine on my network, as expected, but none of them are able to ...
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WDS Unattended File (Language and WDS Authentication)
I want to be able to automate the initial language selection and WDS auth credentials. I am guessing I can't set that in an answer file to be provided by WDS? How can I achieve this?
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svn checkout repo with files containing ? in their filenames on windows
I recently joined a team that uses svn, and most of the team members use ubuntu.
I also use ubuntu 50:50 with windows, but some team members strictly want to use windows.
They keep getting error ...
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Can Ping to System 2 From System 1 - Not From System 2 To System 1? [closed]
I'm having trouble making my machines communicate, they are both configured properly; but I'm getting odd results from my ping tests.
System 2 Information:
root@DevLamp:/var/www# ifconfig
eth0 ...
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Windows environment license discovery
Is there some tool from Microsoft or from somebody else that can scan the network and discover the licenses keys from windows machines (Windows 7, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2003, Office, SQL ...
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Centralized change of resolution in Windows
How can I change the screen resolution of several Windows 7 machines from a central point, i.e., a server running Active Directory?
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Windows 7 Starter - Automatic logon - revert back to manual logon after hard power failu
We are using Windows 7 starter machines for Media Advertising. We use netplwiz to enable automatic logon to windows, so if a reboot has to occur, the OS boots in, logs on, and starts the media.
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How Can I enable rdp access to a laptop after it connects to VPN? [closed]
I connect to work's VPN on my laptop. I added a route but the moment my laptop is connected to work's VPN, I can no longer access it from my desktop. Here's the route I added:
route -p add ...
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KMS Activation count w7 ent
On my KMS host (Windows Server 2008 R2), when i do a slmgr.vbs /dli, I dont see any Current Count fied, i only see this:
Name: Windows Server(R), Server Standard edition
Description: Windows ...
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How can I query or view the usage and ownerships of physical memory?
On Windows 7 and Windows 2008 SP2, how can I view who or what is using up my memory? In the task manager I can see the memory usage of user processes of me and other users, but there's always a gap ...
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How can I hide ms-dos window when running a .bat file?
I am running a .bat file for my script (Scheduled Tak (CronJob)) per minute. When it run, seems ms-dos window short period of time. My batch code like this;
@ECHO OFF
C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.4.3\php.exe ...
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Win7 scheduled task minute settings?
I must process a bat file for every minute but win7 scheduled task not allow per minute. Lowest 5 minutes. Can I set scheduled task win7 for per minute?
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Windows 7: Is it possible to start a pinned item from a program as an administrator? [closed]
I have Visual Studio 2012 and I pinned some projects. I want to start a pinned project as an administrator.
Is this possible?
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Windows 7 DHCP Default Gateway not Overridden by manual Default Gateway
We have recently installed Windows 7 for student computers. All student computers must be routed through our content filter which is located at 192.168.0.63. This was done in WinXP by adding a Default ...
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Installing Windows 7 over PXE, preferably with domain autojoin
At an educational non-profit, I've inherited a previously set-up Windows domain that, after the first reinstall of the machines, we ended up not using by simply not joining machines back into the ...
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Windows RDP. Two computers. Ssl [closed]
I want to do following:
Two computers with windows 7.
One connects to another via RDP and access is verified and connection is protected by some kind of certificate.
As far as I understood to use SSL ...
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how to start proxyfier 3.15 in windows 7? [closed]
I have installed Proxyfier 3.15 using proxy sites.
I have changed IP and give the port as 3128 but its not running actually.
Is there any another port to be started proxyfier or any suggestion?
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Windows 7 accounts on a 2008r2 DC keep getting locked out randomly
As the title states, this happens randomly to Windows 7 accounts on our Windows 2008R2 domain controller.
We just had this start happening after changing from 123together hosted exchange to Rackspace ...
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Error when adding to the domain : the specified server cannot perform the requested operation
When we add computers to the domain in Windows 7, we get the error:
Changing the Primary Domain DNS name of this computer to "" failed.
The name will remain "domain.com".
The error was:
...
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My powershell script wont save a file when run using Task Scheduler, do I need to specify a specific argument?
I have a script that downloads a temporary Excel file, copies parts of it to a new file, and saves it to a specific location on the network. The problem I'm having is that the new file is never ...
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VPN worked with Vista client, but breaks with Win7 client
I have a VPN with WinServer2003 on the host side and Vista (x64) as the client.
The Vista client (192.168.0.nnn) connects daily to the VPN to backup all the machines on the host side (10.1.nnn.nnn). ...
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IIS 7 desktop icon cannot be renamed to “IIS Manager”
If I take the IIS manager shortcut on my desktop, which is named "Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager" by default, and rename it to "IIS Manager", it sets the name right back. However, if I ...
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Deploying Windows 7 with MDT over a WiFi connection?
I've been using MDT for a while to deploy my Win7 desktops, mostly using WDS and boot-from-LAN.
The problem I have now is that the company recently took it upon itself to purchase laptops without ...
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How to run a command as administrator on Windows7 from a command line?
I need to run tscon.exe 0 /dest:console remotely = not manually on Windows7 as an administrator. More info here How to use tscon on Windows7?
I did my research and
OPTION 1 - runas
for user ...
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Windows Update w/machines not on network
We have a scenario where we have 60 computers that need to be loaded with Windows7 at our company as well as have all windows updates installed. Our company has an internet especially for visitors ...
