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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How to keep user logged-in when disconnecting from RDP session

I connecting remotely using remote desktop to windows 7 client when i disconnect the session it automatically logged-out the user in the remote client. I want to keep the user logged-in on the remote ...
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Windows 7 Profiles and Domains

I have a local user account I've been using, and I recently joined my laptop to my domain and created a user. How can I copy my local user settings over to the domain user without having to manually ...
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Trace bootup time on Windows 7 x64 Enterprise edition

How can I trace the bootup time on Windows 7 64 bit? Or is there another tool? there used to a tool in the past called bootvis.
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Access Denied when installing Server 2003 server on Windows 7

Having an issue connecting to a Server 2003 print server with Windows 7 computers. I get an "Access Denied" error when trying to connect. A Microsoft article shows the exact problem and solution by ...
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How can I stop SMB on Windows 7 null authenticating?

This is a nasty question to be asking but we're really desperate. By which I mean we have about four hours to fix this or dire consequences will follow. We have a PC for card processing in our office ...
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Vista / 7 Base Filtering Engine Prevents All Incoming Connections

After last months batch of Windows updates, no one can RDP into their machines. Doing a bunch of testing turns up that you can't connect to ANY of the ports on the machine. Stopping the 'Base ...
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File sharing for normal users in win7

Using a domain environment UAC is on Is there a way to enable users to create file shares without needing elevated permissions? Thanks!
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How do you make network applications available to all your users under Windows 7?

We have 3000 users and have many programs that run from the network (i.e. no local files, exe runs from mapped drive), under Windows 7 we redirect the start menu to a UNC path containing the short ...
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How to disable Tcp/Ip settings in windows 7 via GPO?

I have enabled following policies, "Prohibit TCP/IP advanced connection" "Prohibit access to properties of components of a LAN connection" "Enable Windows 2000 Network Connections setings for ...
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Unable to set the password in My SQL

I installed wamp in my windows 7 machine. While setting the root password in mysql , I got following error : C:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.1.36\bin>mysql -u root ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for ...
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Windows 7 AIK help

I've just got in a few Windows 7 (64, Windows 7 Professional) machines, and I'm trying to get the AIK 2010 working. I've set up one of the machines, and installed AIK and MDT on it. I've followed ...
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best WDS alternative

I'm looking for some way to capture an image of a PC after I run a sysprep - a lot like WDS but without networking on the PC. So instead of the network part it would be possible to (with an easy ...
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How do I make wallpaper fit both monitors in dual monitor setup?

I am deploying some custom corporate wallpaper as part of a Windows 7 rollout. Some people will be using dual monitors, and the additional monitors may be either 4:3 or widescreen. I want to use the ...
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Weird network/internet problem. Need some input

I'm seeing some weird network problems on one of my machines, and I need some input :) I have a host machine running Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Hyper-V role. I have several guest machines ...
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Does Microsoft have a non-hack method for turning off the 'X' to disconnect terminal RDP?

Hoping this goes here... We have issues when users disconnect from terminal services instead of logging off. Does Microsoft have a non-hack method for disabling the Close caption on the taskbar as ...
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Devices / Drivers not working in Windows 7?

For anyone who is running the Win7 RC, are you running into any unexpected problems with regards to hardware incompatibility? If so, have you been able to work through them in what you would call a ...
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SMTP Server for IIS 7.0 and Windows 7 - the main question is how to configure it?

Firstly I know that there were a lot of similar topics. What is more the most of them are advising to use hMailServer. Ok, ok cool! But the main question is how to configure this or that sh*t to work ...
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Restricting directory access in Windows 7 Pro

I come from the *nix world, so apologies if this is a trivial question. I did my best to find a solution by searching the archives, to no avail. I'm setting up a fileserver for very small office, ...
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Upgrading to SSD: Is it OK to just transfer everything? [closed]

I'm running windows 7 x64, Visual Studio 2010 on a standard HDD. The SSD I bought comes with a transfer kit that makes it easy to just transfer everything over to the new drive? Are there any reasons ...
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How can I enable WPA2 on Windows 7 when sharing an ethernet connection over wireless?

I have shared my ethernet connection over wireless in Windows 7 using the method outlined in the accepted answer here: Windows 7 - wireless connection sharing. My wireless card is a TP-Link TL-WN821N,...
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Localhost not recognized

For some reason my localhost is not recognized. I have this in my hosts file as I've always had: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost I did do a flushdns, not sure if that caused it. ...
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Is Branch Cache worth considering as a replacement for DFS-R

We have a small stub office that currently has a single server 2003 domain controller, and a DFS-R copy of the file store held at our main office. We probably replicate about 100Gb of data, I would ...
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Terminal Server 2003 Gaining Time when Windows 7 Client Connects

A Windows 2003 Terminal Server keeps time perfectly until a Windows 7 Home client connects. Then it gains time at a rate of several seconds per minute. The client connects through a firewall with only ...
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How do I debug Roaming Profile synchronisation (or lack thereof) on Windows 7?

We're running a Server 2008-based domain with Windows 7 clients. Recently a desktop of ours persistently started giving its user a TEMP profile on login. We assumed a broken profile and did what we ...
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How do I run a powershell with a Windows form at logon / startup?

I'm putting together a powershell (running on Windows 7) which performs some configuration tasks post-image. It uses windows forms to get some user input and then should run various tasks depending ...
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Windows Server 2008 VPN + Team Foundation Server 2010

For starters - I'm not an admin, I'm a programmer, so please give me basics when you feel it's necessary. The background: At uni we decided with some friends and a PhD to write an application to aid ...
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Unexpected Error while deleting file on Windows 7 x64

I get an unexpected error while deleting file on Windows 7 x64: How to fix this?
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How to make sharing possible between two different subnet computers

I have USB drive Internet on my one laptop and I have enable the ICS on that and from LAN of laptop I am asharing Internet with router, which then used by other laptops The static ip of Laptop LAN is ...
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MS SQL service won't start after power outage (3 Updates)

There was a brief power outage a few days ago where i live, and when i rebooted my Windows 7 computer with MS SQL 2008 R2 on it, everything seems to be working fine, except the MS SQL service wont ...
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StrongSwan - Windows 7 0 IPSec IKEv2 connection problems

I am trying to configure a roadwarrior scenario between a linux box with StrongSwan and a Windows Box with Agile VPN. I successfully configured my StrongSwan and my Windows box to connect. The Windows ...
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TFS 2010 server responds to remote connections from iPhone but not Windows clients

I've set up TFS on my home computer so that I can sync my projects back and forth between home, school and work. I installed it on Windows 7 x64 Ultimate using the advanced configuration so that I ...
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I can't boot Win7 OR Ubuntu after installing Ubuntu 9.10

i made a partition on my new computer because i decided that i wanted to have both Win7 and Ubuntu 9.10. I made a disc image on my usb driver, and restarted my computer as to run Ubuntu without making ...
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How to set up Windows to use a network Desktop directory upon logging into a network

I want to set up a file server for a Windows network so that the each Windows 7 client will automatically set its Desktop, Documents, directories to each user's home directory on the network (much ...
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How will you roll out Windows 7 to your network's PCs when it is released?

Seeing as Vista didn't have a really high uptake rate amongst businesses, are you planning to roll Windows 7 out to your Windows XP network and if so, how do you plan on doing it? This question is ...
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Run as another user, but also as administrator

I am trying to debug a virtual machine (VM) running on a remote computer from my workstation (A). Both VM and A are running Windows 7 Enterprise. Apparently, I need to start the Remote Debugger ...
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Route traffic to/from specific hosts over VPN on Windows 7 client

I have a VPN connection set up on my Windows 7 Pro machine. Currently accessing our SVN repos and bug tracking/etc sites I have to explicitly enable my VPN connection (killing my web connection). I'd ...
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Windows 7: Install Type 1 fonts via command line

So I have a number of Type 1 fonts (.PFM & .PFB files) that I am trying to push out to our client machines. After some web searches, here is what I did. On my machine, I installed all of the ...
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OpenVPN client for Windows 7 64-bit

I've been trying to get the OpenVPN client to install on a Windows 7 laptop, and so far none of the various versions work. Some won't install at all (one version's .exe installer humorously told me ...
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BAT file for silent VPN connect on boot

Just wondering if someone can help me with the following. I want to auto connect to VPN connection on Windows 7 machine when I boot. Seen that RASDIAL.EXE is referenced: RASDIAL: rasdial entryname [...
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How to build a PDC connected to Open DIrectory on OS X 10.6

Since OS X Server has an older version of Samba that cannot be used with Windows 7, I want to setup a newer (3.5.5) Samba server as a PDC. I want to continue to use Open Directory on the 10.6 OS X ...
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Using VMWare Converter to clone a Win7 VM

I have a win7 VM running in VMWare Server that I built from scratch. I wanted to use this VM as a baseline and use Converter to clone it. However while using the Converter tool, it says it can't find ...
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Windows 7 - Home Drive Map Fails

Server 2003 SP2 (not R2) with 2 new Win 7 Pro workstations. Home Drive is set in AD (not GP) to map to \\server\users\username. Home Drive map fails, other network drives map correctly. No error ...
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The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded

I'm getting this error on a users desktop. The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded. Unfortunately the local administrator account is disabled (we are at a ...
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Squid, NTLM, Windows 7 and IE8

I'm running Squid 2.7-stable4, Samba 3 and the Windows 7 RC with IE8. I have NTLM authentication setup on my squid proxy server and it works fine for every combination of browser and Windows (...
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IIS Password Protection for PHP

How do i create a password protection for my whole iis website, which uses php for most of its sites? I put a web.config in the root folder, but that seemed to do nothing. What i want is a way to ...
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how to create a virtual machine in hyper-v server 2008 r2

I've installed server 2008 r2 core and the only installed role is Hyper-V. i want to install a virtual machine like windows xp on server and manage it from windows 7 installed on my laptop. management ...
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Windows 7 can't install anything including windows updates

Installed windows 7, vs2010 and sql 2008 w/ SP1 without a hitch. Went to install live mesh and it complained that another instance of the installation was running (which to my knowledge was not). ...
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Exchange-related tabs in Active Directory with Windows 7 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: ADUC Exchange tabs - Windows 7 & Exchange 2003 Hello, I recently moved to Windows 7 and everything is fine except that I can't get the Microsoft Exchange-realted tabs ...
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Can I change a user role from command-line in Windows?

I want to change a user from normal user to administrator in command-line. Is this possible? What command should I use?
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Sysprep without audit mode?

In preparing a (windows 7) machine for cloning, does one need to run it in audit mode before installing/customising? I have a customised machine I would like to sysprep and clone, without having to re-...

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