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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Smartcard Logon: The domain specified is not available. Please try again later
I'm standing up a test lab.
Using AD CS, I've deployed a smartcard logon cert to an HID Crescendo C1150. When I attempt to log on to a WIN7 workstation with the smartcard, I'm greeted with:
The ...
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How to add a serial port to a Windows 7 guest VM using Xen server 6.5?
We wonder how to add a SERIAL PORT (COM2) into a guest HPVM Windows 7 64 bits in a xen server 6.5 bare metal hypervisor.
We have some clients connecting through RDP v8.1 (from Win7-64 to Win7-64) ...
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How do companies handle the need for different Java requirements on the same user?
In our company, we use GPOs to push software updates such as Java updates. We have about 150 users in different offices located in different countries, all using Windows 7. We have a few office-...
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Disable Removable Storage classes doesn't work via GPO on Windows 7
Could you please help me with very strange situation:
Test environment: DC - Windows Server 2012R2, Workstation - Windows 7 Professional N SP1
Case: disable USB via Group Policy.
Normally, I go to ...
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How to implement a dead man switch in Windows 7?
I am looking for a way to make domain-joined Windows 7 laptops brick themselves after 90 days of no-contact with a domain controller. I do not want the laptop to wipe itself or anything severe like ...
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Putty blank when connected to Cisco Catalyst 3500
I'm using the normal blue RJ45 to DB9 cable plugged into my Cisco Catalyst 3500 series XL switch. That cable is connected to a serial-to-usb adapter that I got from Monoprice, and that is plugged into ...
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UAC never asks for admin password, denies access on admin-related tasks, on client computer. How to fix UAC?
I have a client computer, Windows 7 64 bit, connected to our network. The user who signs on is not an admin (according to our active directory). It's having credential issues which I'm trying to fix ...
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WSUS clients failing to get updates with error 80072EE2
We recently implemented WSUS for our Windows workstations (about 90). Some of the clients seem to have no problem, while others keep returning the error "80072EE2" when attempting to manually check ...
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NTP Server with Authentication on Windows System
Can we configure an NTP Server with authentication on Windows OS, i.e Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard or Windows 7 operating system?
I need to sync time securely for my Cisco switch and a router so ...
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Standard Setting for Audit Policy in Local Group Policy Editor
Please let me know what is the standard Setting for below Security Setting ( Audit Policy ), which are followed in most of the Company.
For Eg:- Should i set ' Success & Failure ' for ' Audit ...
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How to perform remotely a kill-switch on Windows 7?
I need to remotely perform a kill-switch on a Windows 7 Enterprise computer connected to an AD. Specifically, I need to
remotely access the machine without visible user interaction (I have a domain ...
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How to reboot Windows 7 safely in an automated way
I have some Windows 7 PC's mainly doing the SW build
I am rebooting the PC every Sunday automatically (via Scheduler) using the following command
shutdown /r /f
This works mostly but in some case
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Installing printers drivers in Windows 7 clients with Win server 2003 AD
Dears,
I've an issue with installing drivers on windows 7 which keep asking for permission to add the printer driver on other hand i haven't faced this issue with XP clients.
My AD is windows ...
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How to remote onto networked PC using powershell [closed]
Is someone able to explain to me how I am able to connect onto a pc on the same network as my pc using powershell or a powershell script?
for example my local pc is 192.168.1.250 and the remote pc is ...
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Mapping Drives via Group Policy login script (2008 domain with Windows 7 & 8 clients)
I'm having trouble getting drives mapped for my domain. I few months ago we were using Group Policy Preferences to map drives, but for some reason it stopped working - so I created a few login scripts ...
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PNAgent IconCache size increases after every windows logon
Xenapp 6.5 farm with Webinterface 5.4.0 on WinServer2008R2
Citrix Online Plugin 12.3.08
After login to a standard Windows7 machine, Citrix Online Plugin gets automatically started. The Logon process ...
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MAK or KMS for Windows 7 iso download
I have a MAK and a KMS for Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit.
My Windows 7 dvd is malfunctioning and now I want to know if it is possible to download a ISO from Microsoft.
Is the MAK or KMS a valid ...
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Windows 7 - VPN and host name lookup
I have set up a VPN server using a Sinology box for accessing my office network from home.
I can access all the office IPs, but the host name resolution has some problems. DNS queries work : nslookup ...
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Regular backup and archival options for a client device that runs MS SQL Express including restores
In the current environment, a client application has been deployed on a single endpoint device e.g. laptop. The client application records & retrieves information that is needed for regulatory and ...
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Different Bandwith in slow link detection between Computer and User GPO
Given a multiple site Active Directory we occurence problems with slow link detection GPO's. We want to use slow link detection on laptops which connect are via coorperate WAN (MPLS 4-Mbit/s) to main ...
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How to restore local GPO User Logon/Logoff script setting?
I'm deploying several Windows 7 machines, and apply a GPOPack (exported through MSCM's LocalGPO utility) to set the Local GPO (no AD in there).
My issue is that logon & logoff scripts settings ...
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Windows SSL Certificate access issue
There seems to be something going on with my Windows 7 installation's SSL Certificate store, and I'm not quite sure how to resolve it. The full issue is described in the question and replies in this ...
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Running a Batch File from Task Scheduler Without User being logged In
I'm trying to run a batch file on Windows 7 from the Task Scheduler. I can run the batch file fine if I run it from the command prompt.
If I run it from the Task Scheduler to only run when the user ...
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ProcessMonitor boot logging claims disk is full
I'm trying to debug an issue where Windows 7 logoff will hang about once in every 5-10 logoffs forcing a hard reboot. I've installed Process Monitor (v3.2) and am running boot logging to try and find ...
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Windows 7 mapped drive - red X (one user out of 4)
This is for a client of mine. Small Windows 2008 domain. Four workstations, all Windows 7 Pro, all the same service pack and windows updates. Same AV software, no GPOs, all computers are pretty ...
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the trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed windows 7
First of all, I know how to solve this problem.
but I really wonder why this issue has came out ???
I saw just one post that the reason for this error may be the system time difference on both ...
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Win7 apache2.4.9 phpmyadmin4.5.0.2 - an not connect for LAN [closed]
Everything is working fine - hosting a couple of my own sites, but would like to be able to maintain them from other PC's on the LAN.
Works fine, except for phpmyadmin.
Everything is set up to be ...
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KMS Host has more than the minimum count, but client machines are still not activating
So pretty as the question states, here is some more info:
What I have done:
1) I have setup 36 machines (I have more, but just done one lab for now) to point to the KMS Host
2) I have rearmed the ...
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Remove McAfee branding from Windows login
McAfee Enterprise plasters its brand over everything on the PC. Everything.
The latest is that since installing disk encryption, the McAfee logo is placed over the user account picture on the ...
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How do I grant users permission to create hard links (using GPO or registry entries)?
I'm working in an AD domain with one DC running Windows Server 2012 R2, and clients running mostly Windows 7 Professional.
I need to be able to grant certain user groups the permission to create hard ...
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How is Windows Server optimized differently than Windows desktop? [closed]
All the answers I see mostly just say "server is optimized to be a server and desktop is optimized to be a desktop" with no technical details explaining how and where these optimizations are applied.
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SvcHost CPU usage jumps from service to service in netsvcs group
Hopefully this is a variation on the previous svchost.exe troubleshooting questions.
We initially got reports of slow performance on a number of Windows 7
PCs. Resource Monitor showed that the IP ...
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“WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied” when running a python script
I'm getting a "WindowsError: [Error 5] Access is denied" message when running a python script which attempts to make an https connection. The following error message is produced by python:
Traceback ...
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Permission to enable\disable devices in device manager without admin rights?
Short question: Can you use group policy to allow users to disable\enable devices without giving them full administrative rights to a machine?
More detailed: We have machines that crash on logoff\...
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Group Policy: Screen Saver Timeout is not being honoured by some client machines
I am having a hard time trying to solve this issue. Recently I created a GPO on a Win2k8 R2 domain controller to set the screen to lock after 30 minutes.
The settings are then applied to a security ...
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Robocopy: How to copy assets from multiple locations to a single location and maintain a log
I have multiple folders containing assets (each folder has subfolders containing these assets .mp3, .txt, .png, etc). I want to copy all this assets along with the subfolder to a single location/...
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The Diagnostic Service Host failed to start due to the following error
I am receiving the following error in my System event log:
Service Control Manager, Event ID 7000
The Diagnostic Service Host failed to start due to the following error:
A privilege that the ...
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How can I wait to the close of the uninstall panel in windows 7 from batch file?
I have simple batch file :
@echo off
call "c:\windows\system32\appwiz.cpl"
echo "Done"
On Windows XP, this batch launche the uninstall panel of windows, and block the execution until the use close ...
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Allow log on locally custom message
I recently moved into a new position and we have a few computer labs that are currently restricting access by running a script on logon that checks the user's group membership and if not in the ...
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What blocks incoming connection on Windows 7
I have reduced setup to just 2 computers connected via switch with fixed IP addresses.
PC-A is able to connect to or ping PC-B
PC-B is not able to connect to or ping PC-A
Windows firewall is ...
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Windows 7 Uninstalling Software Fails on Several Computers Consistently
I have several computers that seem to have trouble uninstalling software consistently. They are Windows 7 machines in an Active Directory domain. Basically I have been trying to push software ...
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Win7, add route with netsh without mentioning interface
I want to make a script for my team to add routes, but as each computer has its own set of interfaces so I can't know interface name/ID in advance.
Is it possible to do with netsh(I know how to do it ...
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Using GPP to set local admins
Using Server 2012 r2 in domain environment, I'm trying to add specific groups of users to the Administrators(local)group to computers organized in OUs using GPP and item-level targeting.
While the ...
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PC on Domain-"you have been logged on with a default profile "
When a ANY user logs into this one computer that is on our domain, they get the "you have been logged on with a default profile " message.
The error occurs no matter what user with what privileges ...
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Does "Folder Redirection" and "Drive-Mapping" CSE really require "Always wait for the network..." to be enabled?
I understand that both "Folder Redirection" and "Drive-Mapping"-CSE require synchronous GPO processing. However both CSE's are working here without having to force the GP-Client to work synchronously ...
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Windows 7 : Application cannot write to shared folder - Access denied
I'm having permission issues with an in-house application. This applications has an area where you drag and drop files. When you drag and drop the files, it normally saves the file to a shared folder.
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Need to run a custom command during Windows 7 Setup between Phase 3 and 5
How can I run a cmd script during windows setup somewhere between the beginning of phase 3 and the beginning of phase 5? I need to copy hardware dependent files from the USB drive to the C: drive ...
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Why would I have a 4624 (logon) and 4634 (logoff) event at the exact same second?
I'm investigating who was using one of our company computer's a certain time. While I was looking through the 4624 / 4634 events in the event log, I found that several times throughout the day there ...
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How does SCCM 2012 capture an image?
I have set up a task sequence in SCCM to capture an image from an existing machine. The task sequence works fine, but there are a few things I don't understand. When it captures the image, there are ...
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Remote Silent install of Office 2013 returning 1603 error
Currently trying to install Office 2013 over Office 2010 on Windows 7 VMs across the network the batch file is the prescribed batch file given by Microsoft that uses OCT and using the latest download ...