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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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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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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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 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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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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Local Disk Drive(c:/ d:/) disappear in my computer
After joining the domain a few windows 7 computers the local disk drives disappear in my computer. Only network drives are shown.
What would be a possible cause for this?
Please note that there ...
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Event id 5723 netlogon when joining a new pc to domain
Is there any reason I would get the event id 5723 when joining a new windows 7 professional notebook to an existing windows server 2003 domain?
The notebook eventually did join successfully but that ...
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Requiring all network traffic go through VPN in Windows 7
I have a VPN service that I can can connect to through Network and Sharing Center manually and this works great, but sometimes I forget to enable it or it goes down and then my traffic is not tunneled ...
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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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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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Cannot Access Network Share Through Windows 7 Service
I have a service in Windows 7 which in part executes a Perl script to copy a file out to a network share. The script runs fine via the command line however when run by the service Perl reports No ...
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roaming profile and offline folder setting on schools laptops and WIFI
I have a Win 2008 R2 server with Win7 SP1 laptops and a WIFI. Teachers in and out therefore often work from home but somehow the offline settings is not right on our system. Could someone guide me ...
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How can I speed up my login on a Windows 7 machine to a Samba domain?
This is a problem related to Windows 7 machines using a Samba 3.5 domain. I have searched feverishly and found many solutions but none have worked.
I recently re-imaged a computer lab I'm in charge ...
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How to route all Internet traffic from Windows 7 client through OpenVPN server
I'm having trouble setting up a private VPN to route all traffic from my clients through my VPS linux box in another country. I'm able to connect successfully and ping the internal IP of the VPN, but ...
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scrapi doesn't see tidy libraries
I have a simple ruby file that scraps a price off of walmart's site. I did a gem install scrapi and a gem install tidy. When I run my code on my windows 7 box I get the following error:
Error
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Windows 7 - Routing packets recieved on PPP (dialup) interface to local ethernet interface
I'm trying to get packets routed over dial-up interface however without any success. I connect to remote device (PPP over modem) and packets are sent to the device and it is reachable. Device has ...
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RF Modem failed to detect in Windows &
I installed a RF modem in Windows XP machine and it works fine. But when I use the same RF modem card in Windows 7 machine, it failed to detect.
I could not see any Resource allocated for the RF ...
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Invalid username or password - Network Share with VPN Mapped Drive
I have an issue connecting to a network share from Windows 7 Professional client to Windows Server 2008 R2.
Here are the particulars of the issue:
When outside of the office, I log in to the ...
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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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Cannot add Windows 7 client to SBS 2008
I have just installed SBS 2008 R2 Standard on VMware Workstation 9 along with Windows 7 Pro N. Both are activated and running fine. I have followed the steps to configure SBS 2008 and am now at the ...
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cygwin sshd times out for remote login
I have configured SSHD using Cygwin on Windows 7. I have checked and double-checked all of the following points:
Port forwarding is correctly configured
Windows Firewall is configured to pass port ...
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How to eliminate the domain suffix off my user profile folder when migrating to a new domain?
We have just upgraded a decade old SBS 2003 server to a brand new SBS 2011 machine. During the process, over 30 other client/server machines on that domain also needed to be dis-joined and re-joined ...
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.net framework 4.0 installation error
I am trying to deploy .NET 4.0. I downloaded an offline version to start with. Installed the exe file everything went OK. Then I copied the .NET install folder to be able to use it and when I start ...
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Windows VPN for remote site connection drawbacks
I'm looking for some thoughts on a particular way of setting up a estate of machines.
We have a requirement to install machines into unmanned, remote locations. These machines will auto login and ...
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WebDav Authentication Issues
I've been trying to set up Webdav for one of our clients using IIS 7 on their 2008 x64 server, I've also been using my desktop as a testbed, running IIS 7.5.
So far I have been able to get windows ...
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IIS Installation failure “An error has occurred”
I'm trying to install IIS 7.5 on my Windows 7 Ultimate x86 pc for recreational development with MCV and Entity Framework.
Problem is that IIS won't install. I select the features I want (generally I ...
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Unable to run Windows 7 application that includes 'update' or 'patch' in its name
Our regression system includes a very basic UnitTest mechanism. A source file with 'main' is linked against the current library and the binary is then run.
We recently moved some building and ...
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locally logged on a domain joined Win 7 = no authentication prompt so no printing
We have problems with Win 7 PC's when the user only log on locally on (a domain joined) PC, but still use the Windows printserver. Installed printers suddently stop working and seem to appear offline. ...
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User Account being locked out every day
User is on Windows 7
PDC, DC2 = Windows 2008 R2
RSA = Windows 2003 R2
We have a user who's account keeps getting locked out everyday.
I have enabled the Netlogon logging on the PDC and the other ...
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Best way to backup Apache server vhosts and MySQL DBs
I want to keep a backup of my apache servers vhosts and MySQL databases without having to go into mysqladmin and do it manually and ftp downloading the domain which is what I do now. Is there some ...
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Trouble with Network Printer on Windows 7
I have a couple of WiFi printers. Almost all of the computers that need to connect can, however, I am having trouble with a Windows 7 machine. Whenever I try to connect it brings up a screen that ...
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Configuring DB2 ODBC driver on Windows
I'm trying to configure a DB2 DSN on a Windows 7 machine, to a remote DB2 server. I've installed the driver, per the instructions here. That appeared to work fine; I've already cataloged the node and ...
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Is it possible to remap recent-file-items (MRU) and Outlook/Exchange 2010 signatures to network?
I'm in the middle of upgrading XP PCs to Windows 7 (reimaging actually since there is no direct upgrade path) and am wondering if there's a way to automate save/remap the Office MRU list (found in the ...
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VPN over mobile hotspot connection limited access
Verizon service
Sonicwall VPN / VPN client (basic/standard settings)
Windows 7 64 bit
I can connect, but then I can't get access to shared resources or actually USE anything that connecting to the ...
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Can't save credentials in Remote Desktop connection file
I have a saved .RDP file for a connection to another computer, if I check the box to "Remember my credentials" the connection attempt is immediately rejected and the authentication box pops back up ...
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Adding network credentials required by outlook, using cmdkey
We are currently trying to implement an unattended install for Office 2010 (win7). The install works fine, however some network credentials need to be added so that outlook can access the local ...
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Windows login fail & SBS 2011 Standard ClientAgent
I have an end user with a weird Windows 7 issue. While entering in their password to login to their domain user account, Windows refreshes itself back to the "select user" screen where he can click on ...
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IIS 7.5 Keeps Uninstalling Itself on Restart
I have Windows 7 Ultimate and IIS keeps basically uninstalling itself every time I restart. I don't understand at all what the cause is. I have to go to the Control Panel -> Programs and Features ...
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Roaming profiles fail to sync over WAN
We use roaming profiles for certain users. In the LAN environment it seems to work fine. When the profiles are instead placed on a fileserver on the WAN we've had many issues. The fileserver is ...
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Persistent mount from Windows to OS X Server for deployment of website
I have a Windows 7 Testing/Staging server that is used to preview .NET websites.
I have have a gitolite server running on OS X Lion Server.
Each of these two machines works brilliantly, on it's own.
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Put unused disk space of desktops to good use in LAN
We have ~ 10 desktop PCs on our company LAN, all with Windows 7 (but a mix of 32bit and 64bit editions). Every single one of those desktops has between 50GB and 400GB of totally wasted disk space: ...
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SecureW2 - Single Sign-On to RDS
We have several clients with securew2 already installed. How can I pass the wireless authentication information (userid and password) to an rds. The goal is to eliminate the need to sign-on twice.
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Large OSX 10.6 to Windows 7 smb transfers fail?
I'm connecting to a windows 7 box from a OSX 10.6 box via smb:
smb://ftp1
Connection works fine, I can transfer individual files one at a time, but as soon as I try and move an entier folder I get ...
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IPMIView under Windows 7 on a limited user account?
I have a need to use IPMIview to manage some servers from a workstation that I do not have Admin access to. According to the sysadmin running my local machine, IPMIView demands full admin access to ...
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Worker processes not starting in IIS 7.5. What should I check?
I have a Windows 7 machine (Windows version 6.1.7601 SP1 Build 7601) with IIS installed. At some point the installation appears to have become 'corrupted' in some way, as any requests are now met with ...
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Multiple copies of the same printer on Windows 7 from PrintUIEntry
I currently have a number of bat files which work perfectly fine on Windows XP which install the same printer multiple times with a number of finisher options set - e.g. after running the bat file ...
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Windows 7 Adobe Reader SSL Certificate
I have a Adobe Form made with Adobe Designer that connect to a https server.
It works fine with Adobe Reader 9 and Windows XP but if i tried with Windows 7 it throws th following error: "Reader ...
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Erratic localhost behaviour with Windows 7 and Firefox 13.0
I have MAMP running on my Windows 7 PC with PHP 5.4 support and it continually either times out, or redirects my browser to www.localhost.com when I try to access my htdocs. I've tried nearly ...
