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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Reconnect to server using offline files
Some users are seeing grey boxes on folder icons. This indicates that they are viewing the offline folders.
How do I determine...
Did it go offline due to a slow link?
Is it trying to reconnect ...
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SVN Checkout error on large repositories
I wonder if anyone can help me. We have recently migrated our Subversion repository from a VisualSVN Server on Windows to a subversion server on CentOS.
The migration was succesfull however we are ...
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Windows 7 “Home Group” on a work PC with only one NIC
I am a Domain Admin and am trying to support BYOD with computers that will also be domain connected. The problem is that once I domain join a PC, the "zone" changes to "domain", while Homegroups ...
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Is there an Office 2010 registry key to turn on spellcheck by default?
I'm trying to figure out how to turn on spell check for all users automatically.
I'm hoping for a registry edit as I'm going to be making a win7x64 image with office 2010 pre installed and I don't ...
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knife on Windows inconsistently reads ~\.ssh\knife.rb on Management Workstation
I am implementing a new instance of (Open-source v10.12) Chef in an existing environment. Currently the environment is mostly Windows, but more Linux is being introduced. I have used Chef in a ...
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GPO to Disable Screensaver only when connected via RDP
Is there a GPO option to disable the idle-time screensaver for RDP connections, but keep the idle-time screensaver options for interactive logins?
Edit:
All users are TS users as well a local so they ...
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Building uEFI bootable ISO and USB for Windows 7 deployment
I have been trying to build up a window's 7 and 2k8 EFI deployment ISO or USB.
But struggling to to even get an ISO to boot from even VMware Workstation EFI implementation. The problem is there is no ...
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Recommended Tool/Script to test Remote Desktop Performance?
Can anyone recommend a tool to test Remote Desktop performance in Windows? Windows 7-based, both client and "server". We are making changes to network, client and server and would like to assess the ...
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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 ...
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How to connect to Fritz Box/AVM VPN with Windows 7?
How to establish a connection with Fritz Box VPN from Windows 7 without any special client tools?
Some people means that Fritz Box uses IPSec with ESP mode...
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Windows 7 Professional Cannot Connect to Share - Wrong password
I know that this question has actually been asked a few times before, but every solution I found didn't yield any results on my end, I can't get my head around it:
When I am trying to connect to a ...
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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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W7 routing - traffic not going to default gateway
I have a really strange Windows 7 IPv4 routing issue that I can't get to the bottom of.
The summary of the issue is that the default gateway is set to 192.168.254.253, but that it is actually using a ...
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Searching Netapp Network Share in Windows 7
Windows 7 famously does not do what its predecessor, Windows XP, did very well, index and search network drives! Sometimes, the logic of MS isd absolutely baffling.
That siad, I am trying to find ...
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VPN to a customer's site locking out my local AD account
We have an account lockout policy on our domain which was put in place purely to stop brute force attacks. It locks out an account for 10 minutes after 50 bad logon attempts within a 10 minute period.
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Windows 7 Sysprep Default User
I seem to be having a problem with implementing my sysprep.
I have been playing with Windows 7, WAIK, Server 2008 R2 and various other things. I managed to create a WIM with everything I need ...
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Active Directory Federation Service and windows 7
I'm trying to create a development environment for a .NET web site but I'm stucked at one point. The authentication for the web site is goind to be through ADFS and the develop machines we have are ...
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SQL Server Bulk Insert Issue on Windows7
I’ve got an application that uses SQL Server Express 2005 SP3. This application is distributed to several hundred users, each of whom is running XP. However, our company will be moving to Windows7 ...
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Windows 7 - store network password
Windows 7 keeps asking for a password every time I mount a webdav.
I don't want to store a password in a .bat file because it's so insecure.
Is there any way to force system store it? Manually ...
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MDT2010 setup for controlling multiple languages on OS and software
I'm setting up an MDT 2010 server with LTI for deployment of Vista and later on Windows 7 where I'm supposed to control atleast 8 different languages of OS and software. I'm also building a ...
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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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Generalize an image without using Sysprep?
Without using sysprep, is there another way to generalize an image for use with Clonezilla?
I created a sysprep image and forgot to add a few things. So when I tried to redo it, I get the failed to ...
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Windows System Image Manager - Extended Attributes Error
I'm trying to create a basic answer file for an image I'm working on to get the computer to automatically join the domain upon reimage. I've got the Win7 Pro 64 bit install.wim file extracted from the ...
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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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Cloudify: bootstrap-localcloud: operation failed in windows 7?
I am new to the cloudify, and I get a problem on the cloudify installation, which is shown below
STARTING CLOUDIFY MANAGEMENT
Operation failed. org.cloudifysource.shell.commands.CLIException: Error ...
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SSRS reports print button missing in IE 8
Seems like this is broken again (http://serverfault.com/questions/177268/ssrs-report-unable-to-load-client-print-control and SQL 2008 SP2 RsClientPrint ActiveX - "Unable to load client print ...
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Local Group to have access to restricted tools
In Windows 7, I am trying to give a Local Group containing a list of specified users permission to access functionality that is normally restricted to Local Admins, such as install/uninstall ...
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Running perfmon continuously with periodic reports
I have a question very similar to this one, but I want to continuously run perfmon, during reboots and throughout the day. Further, I'd like to generate a perfmon report every 10 mins or so. The ...
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Possible to disable smart card PIN change in Windows 7?
I'm looking for a way to disable the smart card PIN change ability provided with Windows 7's native minidriver. It doesn't allow us to enforce any PIN complexity requirements such that users could ...
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Recover original file names from Volume Shadow Copy?
In the Volume Shadow Copy folders there are some cryptically names files like:
\System Volume Information\{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752}
Is there any way to decipher what the file name was ...
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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 ...
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Network Logon Issues with Group Policy and Network
I am gravely in need of your help and assistance.
We have a problem with our logon and startup to our Windows 7 Enterprise system. We have more than 3000 Windows Desktops situated in roughly 20+ ...
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Mounting a Windows share as a folder with data persistance in Win7/XP
I was wondering if anyone had figured out a good way of mounting a network share (\\server\dir1\dir2) to a folder (say C:\folder1\folder2) in such a way that when the share is disconnected the data ...
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Internet Explorer not working after establishing a SSTP VPN connection
I have a problem which is constantly appearing on each Windows 7 computer I'm using, whenever I establish a SSTP VPN connection to a ForeFront TMG 2010 firewall; it only happens with SSTP connections, ...
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Win 7 slow Log off on Domain
Our Windows 7 computers/laptops are very slow at logoff, around 7 minutes (no problem at log on). We don't have this issue on XP clients. Problem occurs after adding the Win7 clients on domain.
I ...
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An Active Directory Domain Controller for This Domain Could Not be Contacted with windows 7 laptop
I have server running Zentyal. And I have a problem with joining my domain. The problem exists with only my laptop. I've tried some other PC's and they successfully join the domain.
All the machines ...
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Can you add a application to the tools list on windows 7/Vista bootloader
I have been researching a way to add the new Microsoft offline security scanner to the bootloader on windows 7. Allow security scanner to be used when a machine is possibly infected. Visual BCD may do ...
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How to avoid IE8 trying to create a WebDAV connection for office documents in subversion?
We have currently a weird problem when navigating a subversion repository on Windows 7 with Internet Explorer 8. It works like that:
A user opens the internet explorer 8 and enters a Subversion URL ...
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“Path Not Found” when attempting to write to a sub folder within a mapped drive
We have an interesting issue with one of our server shares, or possibly, our Win 7 desktops.
When our users try to save files in a sub folder, either via copy/paste or through an application, to a ...
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Send message to another Computer through Network via CmdLine
I would like to send from a server ( Windows 2008 R2) a pop up message to another Computer in the Network (Windows 7). I already enable AllowRemoteRPC in the registry of my Windows 7 system.
This cmd ...
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windows 7: Name resolution not working as expected when connected via VPN
I have a local machine on my home network called "sheeva" (it's a sheevaplug linux server running subversion).
I can connect to it fine using it's local IP address of 192.168.1.108, and when I'm not ...
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Meetings Disappearing from Outlook 2010 Public Calendar
We are experiencing a frustrating issue with our Public Calendars in Outlook 2010. Meetings that have been scheduled months in advance are missing, but will then reappear.
If user A logs in @ 9:30 ...
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Multiple Homed Windows 2008 Server / Windows 7 Client
I have a small Windows 2008 network, with some Windows 7 clients. The clients are both laptops with docking stations and I would like them to communicate with the Windows 2008 server (for filesharing) ...
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Domain Admin on Win 7 64-bit can not install programs
The application is a .net application and need admin privilege to install.
- If you log in as a local admin, the installation can be done.
- If you log in as a domain admin, running the package by ...
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Windows 7 domain join fails
Here is the scenario:
I have several(17) Windows 7 machines joined to a Samba domain. We have a situation where the Win 7 machines need to be renamed.
To accomplish this this is the procedure I ...
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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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samba share on windows 7 won't give me access to /var but gives me access to everyother directory
i have samba share set up to give me access to my linux box from my windows 7 machine, everything is fine, except i can't access the /var director for some reason through windows. however, i can ...
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Auto driver installation on Windows 7
Is there any way to completely automate driver installation in Windows 7?
I need to:
1. Completely uninstall previous driver including its software
2. Restart computer
3. Install new drivers from ...
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Ubuntu - Cannot write to samba share
I am having trouble writing to my samba share. Attached is my smb.conf, the share I'm trying to access is [www], /var/www is CHMOD 0777. Thanks!~!
#
# Sample configuration file for the Samba suite ...
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Windows 7 x64 not returning search results from Outlook 2010 x86
We're working on upgrading our office PCs to Windows 7 and Office 2010. At this time, I'm planning on deploying 64-bit Windows where possible to take advantage of the 4GB of RAM several PCs have. ...
