Questions tagged [windows-7]
Windows 7 is the Microsoft PC operating system released in October 2009, and reached End Of Life on January 14, 2020. 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 major editions for both home and professional use.
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Can't successfully run Sharepoint Foundation 2010 first time configuration
I'm trying to run the non-GUI version of configuration wizard using power shell because I would like to set config and admin database names. GUI wizard doesn't give you all possible options for ...
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How to enable service installation event (event id 4697) in windows 7?
In windows 10, after I use the following command to enable Security System Extension:
auditpol /set /subcategory:"Security System Extension" /success:enable /failure:disable
Whenever a new ...
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Is it possible to store a credential for Windows Authentication to an Analysis Services server?
SQL Server Analysis Services uses Windows authentication for server connections. Typically, you assign your domain account to a role (or the server administrator list), and then connect to the server ...
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Win7-10, can you mount an NTFS hard drive and ignore permissions like Win XP?
I have several hard drives that I need to grab data from. All are formatted NTFS, a couple have Win 10 installed, a few have Win7 installed. Under Windows 2000 and XP, I could simply attach the drive ...
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What does tracert make NETBIOS work on Win7?
This is really strange - I have a workaround for this (read on), but I'd love to know why it works.
I had a VPN setup working fine with a WinServer2003 server and a Vista client.
Then I setup a new ...
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certutil -ping fails with 30 seconds timeout - what to do?
The certificate store on my Win7 box is constantly hanging. Observe:
C:\>1.cmd
C:\>certutil -? | findstr /i ping
-ping -- Ping Active Directory Certificate Services Request interface
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Exception Enumerating SQL Server Instances with SMO WMI ManagedComputer
I'm trying to use the SMO WMI API/objects in PowerShell 2.0 on Windows 7 with SQL Server 2008 R2 installed to get a list of SQL Server instances on the local computer using the Managed Comuter object. ...
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Outlook 2010 "Cannot open this item" on Windows 7 64-bit
I have to admit this has stumped me...
User's Workstation
Outlook 2010 (32-bit) w/ Cached Exchange Mode enabled
Windows 7 Pro (64-bit)
Email account is on Exchange 2003
Problem
The user is unable ...
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Remotely install Windows Updates with PsExec
Problem I am working on : I am now in charge of all the Windows machines of a company. All workstations are running Windows 7, I do not have a domain and there is no Windows Server running on the ...
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Remotely initiate windows updates
I have a network with countless workstations on it and the windows updates are done through WSUS in push cycles to allow us to use a generic image and configuration and avoid network congestion.
I ...
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Cannot provide permission to IIS_IUSRS on C:/Windows/Temp
I have an ASP.NET Web Forms Application which has some reports created using SAP Crystal Reports Runtime for .NET Framework 4. The C:\Windows\Temp folder contains my Report files of the application. ...
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Any benefit or detriment from removing a pagefile on an 8 GB RAM machine?
I'm running Windows 7 on a dual core, x64 AMD with 8 GB RAM.
Do I even need a page file?
Will removing it help or hurt performance?
Would it make a difference if this is a server or a desktop?
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Is there a GPO to allow standard users to access Resource Monitor
I need to allow standard domain users to be able to access the Resource Monitor on Windows 7 without adding them into the administrators group on any local machines. Is there a domain GPO setting to ...
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Send Ctrl-Alt-Del to nested RDP session
Is there a way to send the Ctrl-Alt-Del command to an RDP session (Windows Server 2008 R2) inside another RDP session (also Windows Server 2008 R2) without the first session catching it?
Ctrl+Alt+End ...
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Slow ISCSI performance on Windows 10
So i have this diskless / pxe booting environment with 28 clients using a program called ccboot. Client is using kabini based board A68n-5200
Essentially it's 28 clients communicating using ISCSI ...
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How to delete cached temporarily credentials for a network share on a Windows machine without rebooting or logging off [duplicate]
This is more of a curiosity then a real problem, I am just to lazy to reboot or log off my laptop.
I have connected to a network share on a Windows server with domain credentials from a non-domain ...
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Windows: redirect stdout and stderror to nothing
I have a command I am running produces a ton of output, I want to silence the output without writing to a file. I have used the following to send all output to a file:
command > out.txt 2>&1
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Putty blank when connected to Cisco Catalyst 3500
I'm using the normal blue RJ45 to DB9 cable plugged into my Cisco Catalyst 3500 series XL switch. That cable is connected to a serial-to-usb adapter that I got from Monoprice, and that is plugged into ...
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Can't connect to SQL Server 2005 x64 SP 4 on Windows 7 x64
I have an issue with connecting to SQL Server 2005 x64 SP 4 on Windows 7 x64 with Visual Studio 2008 DataBase edition.
I always receives message about error 26 and named pipes provider. It is ...
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Why on Windows 7 does "wrong password" take a long time to appear?
Why does it take a long time for Windows 7 to show the failed login message when the wrong password is entered when it almost instantaneously lets you login if the password is correct?
Is it only me ...
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Some services refusing to start on Win 7 machine. What could the root cause be?
When I check msconfig, there are no services that are blocked from starting up.
When I look in services.msc, the problem services have a start up type of 'Automatic', but have a blank space where ...
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Apparent DNS failure on domain server running Small Business Server 2011
I am a volunteer who provides IT support to a community radio station. I have only been with the station a short time, so I'm still trying to get my head around the hardware and the systems they are ...
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Add Additonal Clocks via Group Policy
I'm trying to get as much as I can into GPOs so that new machines are as effortless as possible once joining the domain.
One thing I always do on a new machine is add a UTC and US clock.
What's the ...
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OpenVPN - Cannot ping server computer from client
I am trying to get my OpenVPN setup working for our remote office.
I've installed the OpenVPN community to server and client, created the certificates. Port forwarding rules are also in place, and ...
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Remote Desktop - remote computer that was reached is not the one you specified
We just setup some new Windows 2008 R2 servers and we are unable to Remote Desktop into them from our Windows 7 desktops. Remote desktop connects, but after we provide credentials we get:
The ...
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The Job and Monitoring Options of RoboCopy
What does the Job Options of RoboCopy do? And what exactly does the /MON and /MOT switches do? How can I use them? I don't understand them, and can't find any examples on how to use them.
/MON:n ...
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Server 2008/Windows 7/Samba Unspecified error 80004005
I have a Samba share on a LAN with 2008 PDC/DNS. Smb authenticates with AD and I have several Win7 Machines that can connect fine.
I recently added a couple of new computers to the LAN which were ...
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High network utilization - System Process - PID 4
Interesting issue that we observed recently with quite a few variables so I'll attempt to make it as clear as possible. HQ site located in Southern California where main file server is present (Older ...
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Is it possible to change an "Unidentified Network" into a "Home" or "Work" network on Windows 7
I have a problem with Windows 7 RC (7100).
I frequently use a crossover network cable on WinXP with static IP addresses to connect to various industrial devices (e.g. robots, pumps, valves or even ...
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How do I make one service dependent on another in Windows 7?
If I view properties for a service, I can see the "Dependencies" tab, but I can't assign other services to this tab.
I have two services that start on startup, a server and a database. The server ...
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Create a share with System Rescue CD
I'm trying to grab some files off of a computer that no longer boots to OS.
On the SRCD computer:
I put in SRCD, boot, and make sure that I can ping the other computer (say I set the IP to 192.168....
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Almost All Scheduled Tasks Fail: The system cannot find the file specified. (0x80070002)
In Windows 7 x64 I am attempting to create a scheduled task that runs a PowerShell script, but no matter what I try, it fails with the error: "The system cannot find the file specified."
And then I ...
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Connecting 2 VM running Windows 7
I have two VM's on my machine, both Windows 7 Pro. One is a MySQL server and one is running Apache 2.0. Essentially they mimic a split webserver/database setup. On XP this was fairly easy. However ...
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Set MTU of interface via powershell
I'm trying to set the MTU for a physical interface programmatically on Windows 7:
PS> (Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration | Where { $_.Description -match '^Red Hat.*#2' })
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Moss 2007 on windows 7 installation compatibility
I have the machine with installed the Windows 7 Enterprise N edition. I have installed the sql server 2008 also there . so can i install MOSS 2007 on such connfiguration? if not what should i do. i ...
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Overcoming maximum file path length restrictions in Windows
One of our customers habitually use very long path names (several nested folders, with long names) and we routinely encounter "user education issues" in order to shorten the path to less than 260 ...
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cannot start microsoft outlook 2016. cannot open the outlook window. the set of folders
I have this one client machine on Windows 7 with a full reinstall of Office, Windows Updates, and scanned/clear.
The moment I add more then one email account to Outlook, close Outlook and bring it ...
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How can I automatically boot into the Advanced Boot menu in Windows 7
Rather than playing the F8 game on startup, is there a way (command line etc.) of configuring windows so that shutting down Window and rebooting will always come up with the advanced boot menu or ...
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Uninstall Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 (with uninstall password) using PowerShell?
We just acquired 400 or so computers during a buyout and they have this installed.
So I tried pushing out
(Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_Product -Filter "Name='Symantec Endpoint Protection'" -...
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Windows Server 2012 MSMQ - Some Clients don't connect
We have some strange things happening with a new installation of MSMQ on a Windows Server 2012 R2 Cluster:
the clients reach the server without problems
the server tries to send a message to the ...
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Configure windows firewall for pinging and RDP
2 Windows 7 desktop A and B at home network.
A's firewall on, A ping B = OK, B ping A = Request timed out.
A's firewall off,A ping B = OK, B ping A=OK.
What I need to configure for A's firewall.I ...
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ErrorCode<ERRPS013>:SubStatus<ES0001>:Operation was aborted because user selected not to enable Cache with secondaries
I get this error when running Start/Stop/Restart-CacheCluster commands in Caching Administration Windows PowerShell console:
ErrorCode:SubStatus:Operation was aborted because
user selected not to ...
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Windows Shared User Accounts with smart cards
I'm looking for a way to use smart cards to lock and unlock windows workstations used by shared user accounts.
1) We want to lock/unlock the shared user account with each user's personal staff card.
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Disable "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security" for all profiles(Domain,Public,Standard) in local GP using script help! Windows 7 Clients
We need Windows7 with windows firewall to be turned off , so the GOLD image has windows firewall turned off for all profiles(Domain,Public,Standard) and Windows Service disabled
No the same GOLD ...
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IIS 7.5 (Windows 7) - HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized
I'm trying to test my ASP.Net website on localhost and I'm getting this error:
HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized
You do not have permission to view this directory or page because of
the access control ...
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Mount a remote Linux hard drive as another Windows 7 partition during boot?
I would like to mount a hard drive on a remote computer (running on CentOS 6) as a Windows drive so that I can install programs to that drive. The primary hard drive for my Windows machine (which is ...
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net use fails with system error 67 with FQDN
I search for help with a confusing error with Windows 7 mounting a
network fileshare.
The problem is that on machine A a mount with the FQDN fails (net use
system error 67) while the same command ...
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Windows Installer GPO - "Prohibit user installs" value is missing on Windows 7
The old Windows XP GPO template had three options for "Windows Installer\Prohibit user installs":
Allow user installs
Hide user installs
Prohibit user installs
The new Windows 7 template has only ...
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Run BGInfo At Startup For All Users
I have a Windows 7 image which I intend to deploy across a business. For simplicity I intend to install BGInfo on each machine and have it update each time a user logs in. From what I can see, when ...
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Office 365 Outlook clients intermittently losing connection
I'm the one-man IT department for a small business. We use Office 365 Exchange with client machines all running Windows 7 Pro, and either Outlook 2013 or 2016 on each machine. Occasionally, (ranging ...