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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Replacement for NewSID when working with Windows 7?
Is there a replacement for the old SysInternals NewSID utility that will work for Windows 7?
I found out the hard way that NewSID will totally hose a Windows 7 setup (BSOD on reboot). Apparently the ...
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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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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 ...
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Workstation authentication against wrong AD server in multi-site configuration
Having a problem which I've seen before but haven't yet found a solution to, I've got multiple AD sites in one domain physically separated and logically separated by different subnets and AD sites.
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Deploy a Language pack lp.cab for windows 7 ent with SCCM 2007 sp2
Where and how am I able to add the lp.cab file within SCCM so that I can have the language pack install when Windows 7 and the apps are installed.
I want to add it to my task sequence but where is ...
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ping debian vpn server from windows clients
Scenario:
I have a functioning openVPN connection on my Debian Server (it's a virtual server, so there are some restrictions what I may access/modify) and Windows 7/8 and OS X Lion/Mountain Lion ...
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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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Uninstall unknown software via group policy.
I'm wondering if this is an possible through group policy.
Is possible to define a list of allowed programs and have the rest automatically un-installed when a user logs off/on their computer?
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'Re-link' a Win 7 User folder to an account?
I have a windows 7 SOE for my school which involves two partitions - C: for system (windows) and programs, and D: for Data. The "Users" folder is kept on D:. All users are in Active Directory.
I ...
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Windows Server 2008 R2 SMB share, deleted files and folders lock up
We work in a mixed Mac / PC environment. Desktop operators work on Mac only, whereas our backend services are Windows based. Also some manual operations are done on Windows 7.
We call our problem ...
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GPO or Login script
i am unsure of what i should use. i have a site with about 40 users and 6 different departments which need access to different areas and differnt mapped drives. What is better for me to create a ...
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IIS7 on Windows 7 and DefaultAppPool - file security
What is DefaultAppPool?
In task manager, I can see that w3wp.exe is running as DefaultAppPool. My web site reports that it is executing as DefaultAppPool, but I cannot specify it in file security as ...
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My Mac Pro (tower) running Windows 7 Ultimate says 1.99GB RAM usable? [closed]
I own a Mac Pro (Tower) with 32GB RAM that I bought about four months ago. I installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it says only 1.99GB of RAM out of 32GB's is usable?
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How to view status of software RAID 1 resynching?
I have two 500 GB disks and yesterday I mirrored first drive to the second one using software RAID 1.
PC has now been on for 30 hours. Both disks say "Resynching", but there is no progress indicator. ...
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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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Can I join a Windows 7 PC to a Windows 200 Domain?
I have a very small customer that has a single server running Windows 2000 Server as a DC and DNS. All the PC's are currently running XP but they want to replace one of them with a new Windows 7 PC.
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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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RUNAS Error (Windows 7)
I'm trying the below command
runas /user:\\(domain)\(myusername) C:\Users\user\compress.bat
I then input the password, but I get the following error -
RUNAS ERROR: Unable to acquire user password
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How to fix error - The application was unable to start correctly (0xc0000006)
I'm trying to fix a laptop with Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit, from a friend.
Microsoft Office and Windows Live Messenger are no longer working, whenever any of those programs are launched (excel, ...
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Manage multiple hardware and OS
I'm new at windows management, before I've worked only with Apple Macs.
Now I am at a company that has almost 100 computers with different boards, brands, different hard drives, etc.. in different ...
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Windows Server 2008 redirected folder files disappeared
I had setup a Windows 2008 server to redirect My Documents using Group Policy. A user using Win7 had a couple of documents saved to My Documents and was good for a couple of days. One day I run ...
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XenServer 5.6.0 / XenCenter not allowing SR to Windows 7 share on Domain Controller for ISO's
I'm unable to get an SR made using command prompt or using XenCenter's interface dialogs.
Here is the command I'm issuing:
xe-mount-iso-sr //<mycomputer.domain.controller>/iso_share -o ...
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Accessing localhost on IIS7 from another computer on the network
I recently upgraded computers to Windows 7 Professional and am running IIS7. When I'm on my computer I can easily access localhost through my web browser but when I try from another computer on my ...
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TFS on Windows 7 64bit: reasons for it hanging
Since I installed TFS on Windows 7 64 bit, I can't figure out why it very often hangs, with apparently no reason:
no evident anomaly on task manager or procexp: CPU usage rate low, a lot of free ...
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tightvnc, belkin router, port 4900 open, still cant connect [closed]
My computer on a private LAN, which connects to a router, which is connected to the internet.
Their computer is behind a belkin wireless router. I have turned the firewall and AV off for the computer ...
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Weird bug when copying from sql server management studio to excel in windows 7
I run a query in SQL management studio (results to grid), then select all results and copy with headers. Then I paste into Excel.
The result: two specific records are put together on one row in ...
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Why the OS increase (+1) the processes session ID in OS Win7 [closed]
I have Win 7, every time the user log-off and log-on, for all processes on that physical server the Session ID is increasing +1, so after 10 log-on/off the processes which I'm using will saw - session ...
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LocalSystem account not recongizing FQDN as intranet, causing open file security warning when deploying from SCCM 2007
I have spent the last two days reading and trying every solution online, but I cannot figure out the best way to approach this.
We use SCCM to deploy packages and it uses the localsystem account to ...
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Failed to open a session for the virtual machine Win7 Ultimate 32 [closed]
I am using Windows 7 Ultimate OS in VirtualBox. Whenever I start Windows 7 Ultimate os, I get the following error.
No error info.
Result Code: E_FAIL (0x80004005)
Component: ProgressProxy
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Restoring my Backup [closed]
Is it possible to copy all the data in the C drive of a machine to the C drive of another machine (which has totally different hardware) and then boot the new machine with it?
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Any reason not to skiprearm when deploying Win7?
If you always intend to deploy within your organization, and license windows with KMS, is there ever a reason not to include skiprearm=1 in your various unattend files?
Seems to let me get more use ...
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How to run a restricted set of programs with Administrator privileges without giving up Admin acces (Win7 Pro)
I have a shared system, running Windows7 X64, restricted to a 'standard user' with no password.
Not everyone who has access to the system has the administrator password.
This works rather well, ...
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How quickly should data/files be visible on a network share that goes through a VPN tunnel?
I'm looking for information on how information is shared/passed across a network between a Windows 7 client OS and a Windows Server 2008 server?
Little history of our setup (I apologize as for Im not ...
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GPP and Windows7 Registry VirtualStore
I have an XP application that has a number of keys set via GPP, otherwise it prompts the user to manually enter this information. This is written to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\AppX
When on an ...
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How can you import a root certificate to a machine level store in Windows 7
I have a service (Running as local system) that uses an SSL connection. Currently this connection fails because the remote host used a private CA to sign it's certificate. For previous operating ...
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How do I import certificate (.CER) in IIS
I have created certificates based on this tutorial:
http://ondrej.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/iis-7-and-client-certificates/
Then I have imported "MyPersonalCA.cer" on IIS host server based on this ...
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Win 7 Explorer backup and long paths
I use Explorer to do backups because Win 7's backup program asks me to take backups previously done and to put them back in the drive. I am opposed to that idea since I believe backups should remain ...
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Vagrantfile location path - where is it defined and how to change it? (Windows) [closed]
I have a Windows machine that I am using to host Virtual Box VMs used with Vagrant.
I'd like to keep Vagrant setup files including Vagrant all under a separate folder so that it is easy to know where ...
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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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What type of permissions do you need to assign to a AD user to be local administrator on Windows 7
What type of permissions and/or roles do you need to assign to a Active Directory (Windows Server 2008 R2) user to be local administrator on Windows 7?
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L2TP/IPSec Conectivity Problems
We ar traying to establish a VPN to our office.
We sucesful configured a debian server using openswan and lx2tpd.
We test the conection on the local network, and established a VPN conection with the ...
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Robocopy won't copy from root folder
I'm having trouble with robocopy. It won't copy from "X:\files\". It just kills the batch file without writing anything to log, but it WILL copy from "X:\files\other files". Where "other files" is ...
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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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WebDAV and Windows 7 client
I've enabled apache dav module on my site and configured digest authentication for it.
Now i'm trying to connect windows drive to it. Command follows:
net use z: http://dav.mysite.com/Files ...
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Samba and Windows 7 HomeGroup [closed]
I read about HomeGroup for Win 7 in this article.
And I'm wondering is it possible to join Samba server 3.x to Win7/HomeGroup?
As I understand rightly, the smb protocol was not changed 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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Is it possible to preload a user profile from a domain on a workstation that will be disconnected from the DC?
I have a few laptops here that need to have some users profiles preloaded onto them before sending them out in the field so that they can log into them without needing to be connected to the domain ...
