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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Set MAK and activate Office 2010 when deploying a syspreped image
I am deploying Windows 7 using Windows Deployment Services (WDS) on Server 2008 R2. On the image I have Office 2010 already installed. I don't use Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) but Windows ...
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How to prevent non-power-users with admin rights from accidentally installing adware on community pc [closed]
I am going to describe my problem and solution to prevent non-power-users installing unwanted software along with other software (adware installed through pre-set checkboxes in a "desired software ...
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Why is stopping chkdsk bad?
So I hear pretty regularly that stopping a chkdsk in progress is bad and can possibly destroy data on your hard drive. I can't seem to find any information as to why this is bad though.
What can ...
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UAC fix using ACT works in ACT using test but not thereafter [closed]
I'm using Microsoft's application compatibility toolkit in order to bypass UAC and allow non privileged users to access the program.
I'm familiar with ACT and have used it in the past to do the same ...
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Reset windows 7 local admin password on encrypted drive [closed]
I have lost administrator password on a windows 7 laptop running bitlocker.
I know bitlocker recovery password for this PC and can access BIOS setup.
I need to reset administrator password without ...
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Expired Certificates and Active Directory Authentication [closed]
Around the end of February, the password was about to expire on my Active Directory account.
So, I changed the password.
Since then, I can get locked out 3 to 10 times a day without me doing much of ...
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Workgroup printing
I'm trying to setup workgroup printing for HP Thinclients running Win7 embedded (32b). I've setup/configured the print server service and now I'm trying to get the thin clients to connect. I keep ...
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Cannot Connect To Home Directory From Windows Via Samba
I changed the password of linux user "user123" on my Suse box and noticed that the previously working Samba login that I used to access its home directory from Windows did not change along with it. ...
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Mapped drive in Windows 7 becomes inaccessible
I have a Windows 7 64 bit machine that has several drive mappings. After a while intermittently two of the four the mapped drives become inaccessible and the user gets an error that reads "This file ...
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Windows Advanced Firewall - adding Authorized Computers breaks rule
How can adding a 'only allow connections to these computers' setting in an an otherwise working IPSec rule break connectivity?
Background:
I'm setting up a basic set of client rules that restrict ...
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Windows 7 keeps changing wireless adapter DNS to 192.168.100.10 [closed]
Windows 7 keeps changing my wireless adapter DNS to 192.168.100.10. This usually happens when I log on to different wifi connection. Sometimes it's a coffee shop, work or home. Anyone have an idea how ...
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ICMP ping one way only?
I have 2 W7 hosts (may be others, I haven't checked yet) that are on the network, and can ping the domain controller. They can also ping each other. Yet when I'm on the server, the ping request ...
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Point'n'Print setup in Windows 7 x64 on Samba server
I've done a Point'n'Click setup on Samba/CUPS for Windows 7 Clients.
The following things are done:
CUPS
Activated Raw printing support by dpkg-reconfigure cups
SAMBA
Added to the smb.conf the ...
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Internet Explorer faulting application when printing
PROBLEM
Single user cannot print from Internet Explorer 9, application crashes and the following event log is posted to the application log:
WORKAROUND
Using another browser, such as ...
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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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Active Directory computer account password not in sync
I have a computer on a remote location which has not not been connected to the network for a while. During an recent installation, a procedure went wrong and its password was changed on AD side. I ...
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Shared folder are inaccessible from system account
I have problem with different behavior of network machines. Little log:
C:\Windows\system32>whoami
nt authority\system
C:\Windows\system32>net view
Server Name Remark
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Screensaver at power on
We have a Windows 7 machine (but in the near future we may use a Windows Server one) which we use for showing a screensaver on a big display. The host is in the company domain, we log to the machine ...
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MDT Locking Domain Administrator Account
I have rolled out MDT for imaging at my workplace. As part of the deployment process I have the customsettings.ini file set to join our Domain. The technician is prompted to enter their administrative ...
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MySQL error no. 1045 [duplicate]
I am working on a college project, I installed MySQL Server 5.4.
When I create a new connection, it gives a error,
MySQL error number 1045
Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost'(using password: ...
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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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what are the disadvantages of installing windows multipoint server to a virtual machine [closed]
i would like to install a VMware Workstaion on my windows 7, then run a WMS 2012 inside it, after that create a hyper-v + remote-FX then create a win 7 VM after that create a RDP session to the win ...
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MDT-Imaged systems default to 1280x1024 when monitor not connected
I have setup an MDT Deployment Share at work that we use to image our Windows 7 workstations. We are using HP Compaq Elite ultra-slim desktops (primarily the 8000, 8200 & 8300 models).
...
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Windows 7 kiosk mode configuration
We have a touchscreen kiosk with Windows 7 x64 running a single fullscreen AIR application.
Kiosk has no mouse/keyboard. Normally user has read-only access and will have no ability to close app and ...
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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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LightHTTPD - Software caused connection abort
I have a local LightTPD server running on my windows 7 computer.
I have SSL set up and it works - but every time I request a document from the SSL part of the server I get the following on the ...
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Lost connection to my laptop in the office from my Home as I used VPN on my laptop [closed]
I am working out of office and my laptop is in the office. We have windows VPN in our office network. I VPNed into our network and accessed my laptop.
We have a client whose VPN password expires every ...
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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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SCCM 2012 - Software Detection Failed - Detection Method File -> .vhd
this question relates to SCCM 2012 and a software package with a detection method of type "File"
Its a strange issue with one of my SCCM packages, the process copies a VHD to the computer and uses ...
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Can Proxy Authentication be bypassed using virtual machines?
My Institute uses Proxy Authentication for monitoring individual browsing activities.
This usually means I need to enter my username and password for using any internet related things.
But recently I ...
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Listing open files for end users and Windows 7 file preview issues
We have a Windows 2008 r2 file server that has a share that the users are mapped to that is full of PDFs. One department (A) has read/write access and most others (B) just have read access. If ...
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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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OpenVPN disables WiFi adapter afer connecting; connects after re-enabling it but no VPN hosts connectivity
I want to connect from my Windows 7 Enterprise PC to OpenVPN server. I have OpenVPN client version 2.1.1 installed.
I have currently two problems:
1) After I start OpenVPN GUI and connect the ...
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Network issues in Windows 7 but not Windows XP when networking over SLIP radio network
We use a legacy wireless modem network in our infrastructure. Client computers have traditionally run Windows XP and connected via serial port to these wireless modems, using the SLIP protocol. We ...
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Dual stack mode; bind to any address other than 0.0.0.0
On a windows 7 machine, I have set IPV6_V6ONLY to 0 in order to allow for dual stack sockets. All the examples of dual stack sockets I have seen on the web bind to the ANY address (0.0.0.0). Binding ...
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LAN bandwidth in Linux is low
everyone, I connect two PCs both with 1000Mbps NIC. One(A) of them runs Fedora 8 while another(B) runs Windows7. I test bandwidth between them with Ixchariot, it shows about 10Mbps. If A and B both ...
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How to configure StrongSwan for Android & Windows (XP/7) clients?
I'm having a lot of trouble trying to configure StrongSwan VPN on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to allow connections from Windows 7, Windows XP Embedded, Windows 7 Embedded, and Android Tablets (Galaxy Tab 2 8.9) ...
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Unable to Create System DSN
Environment:
Windows 7 Professional 64-bit Operating System
Problem:
(ODBC Data Source Administrator)
Opening Administrative Tools -> Data Sources (ODBC) -> Click "System DSN" tab.
Error:
ODBC ...
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Unattended Windows 7 install with non-DHCP DNS Server: Domain join fails, claiming it can't find the domain
I'm trying to build an unattended Windows 7 image script that will do a simple domain join. The catch is that the DHCP-provided DNS server knows absolutely nothing about my domain, so I need to set ...
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Test machine (Win7 laptop) redirect server UNC paths back to same test machine
I have a Windows7 laptop for developing at home.
The live application makes calls to the SQL Database ("CANCENTRESRV") which I have been succesful in redirecting back to the my laptop using HOSTS ...
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Problems using GPO from Windows Server 2000 to Windows 7
So I'm using Windows Server 2000 (I know that's old and not effective but we are not in charge of the AD so no choice), and we don't have the access to GPO about users, only computers. That's why we ...
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Avahi persistance across direct connects / disconnects
I have a unique implementation of Avahi. My company makes a device that ships with a motherboard with dual on-board nics. One of those nics will be plugged into a customer network with either a ...
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Problems connecting to zentyal 3 Samba PDC from windows 7 / windows xp
I'm new to zentyal, and I wanted to test it. I have an existing network, with a cisco router, no firewall, DHCP on.
I've setup up the zentyal 3 server with default settings, made some users etc.
I get ...
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Access point RADIUS config using wrong user
I've configured a RADIUS server in IAS for my wireless access point. My client can't connect to it because it's not using the right user name for authentication, it's using my email address. Our ...
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Windows 7 deployments via WDS result in oversized hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys files. How do I stop that?
The longer version: I have a stock Windows 7 image sitting in VMware Workstation that I use to create new VMs, to save time. I just snapshot and clone the stock image, and voila! a new Windows 7 VM. ...
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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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How to Make Windows 2012 Share Display in Windows 7 Network [closed]
I'm setting up a Windows 2012 Essentials machine to be a local file server. I've got the shares setup and I can access the shares from my OSX computer. My Win7 machine can only acces it by typing ...
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How to automatically log in into 2 accounts on Windows 7 on startup
I have a task scheduler job that fires Selenium unit testing server and runs some tests. It takes some resources because it opens a lots of websites. Moreover the Selenium with Firefox Driver has a ...
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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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how to create a samba share to the /home directory
So i'm a developer, not a dev ops person so i'm out of my element. Thanks in advance for your patience.
I'm running windows 7 and set up a vmware player to run an ubuntu 12 virtual machine. I've ...
