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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L2TP/IPSec from Windows 7 to ASA 5520
I am trying to setup L2TP/IPSec on our ASA5520 to support a fringe case for one of our developers. The Windows VPN subsystem apparently stores the kerberos or NTLM cookie for the login when you use ...
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Outlook 2010 “Cannot open this item” on Windows 7 64-bit
I have to admit this has stumped me...
User's Workstation
Outlook 2010 (32-bit) w/ Cached Exchange Mode enabled
Windows 7 Pro (64-bit)
Email account is on Exchange 2003
Problem
The user is ...
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How to set TCP buffer sizes in Windows 7
I have a Windows 7 64-bit machine with two separate applications running on the same machine. One application writes data via 4 TCP connections (same IP, different ports). The other application reads ...
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Does Windows Server Domain have any feature that will wipe out a client computer?
A Windows 7 Professional laptop is joined into a Windows Domain during setup and installation in the office network in country X, but it is being used in another country for a long period of time ...
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Run BGInfo At Startup For All Users
I have a Windows 7 image which I intend to deploy across a business. For simplicity I intend to install BGInfo on each machine and have it update each time a user logs in. From what I can see, when ...
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What does tracert make NETBIOS work on Win7?
This is really strange - I have a workaround for this (read on), but I'd love to know why it works.
I had a VPN setup working fine with a WinServer2003 server and a Vista client.
Then I setup a new ...
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Windows 7 Samba issue
We have a strange samba issue affecting only one user. Our samba setup is as follow :
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.4 (Tikanga) - Samba Server
Samba version 3.0.33-3.14.el5 ...
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Is there some way to ask Windows Server 2008 R2 to trim the Working Set of its processes less aggressively?
We have a server with 16GB of RAM. The memory manager is very aggressive in trimming back the Working Set for a particular process, which is resulting in a lot of soft page faults which is slowing the ...
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Group policy issues
We are having an issue on one of our clients relatively new sbs installs.
The domain consists of a single SBS 2011 server with 4 Windows 7 clients and 3 XP clients. Most of the time everything is ...
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Windows XP not mapping drives after logging into a windows 7 PC
Bit of background. We map out network drives via GPO. This works fine for both XP and windows 7 clients. The GPO’s are served by a Win2008R2 DC.
I have a user that has to works in 2 departments. The ...
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Enabling SSL for Remote Desktop
Ok so I'm trying to remove a number of my systems from our Nessus scan from having this medium vulnerability.
http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=single&id=18405
I set the following GPO ...
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How to install a program remotely using Zentyal server and Windows7 clients
I'm using Zentyal in order to use it as Domain Controller.
All the clients are Windows7.
I, as domain admin, need to install, in several computers, one application that requires admin privileges.
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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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Windows 7 / Windows Vista won't connect to 802.1x RADIUS Server
I've deployed Radius and have no problems connecting with TTLS, PEAP, or MD5 using linux, mac, and windows xp. For Windows 7 and Vista, I'm never prompted with the dialog box to enter username & ...
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PKI user certificate credential roaming works on Windows 7, but not on XP SP3
We have implemented credential roaming for user certificates on our domain. Everything is set up per Technet in Certification Authority and Group Policy. User certificates are roaming correctly, but ...
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SSH on Windows 7/Cygwin periodically fails to resolve hostname
Whenever I run ssh inside of cygwin on Windows 7 I get the error:
ssh: Could not resolve hostname ... Non-recoverable failure in name resolution
lost connection
If I try the same command ...
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Exchange 2007/Outlook 2010 Clients not auto-updating inbox
Recently uesrs have been complaining that they are not getting new emails. Upon investigation i realized that the last updated time on the inbox was from a while ago and users now have to manually ...
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'The rpc server is unavailable' or 'access is denied' error when using Remote desktop Services Manager on Windows 7 (but mstsc.exe works!)
I am trying to connect to a Windows XP workstation from a Windows 7 Ultimate workstation using Remote Desktop Services Manager.
I am able to do a Remote Desktop (mstsc.exe) session from the Win7 ...
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Windows 7 VPN fails due to Protocol-Reject for 8021 (IP Control Protocol)
Server is Windows 7 Ultimate, client is Windows 7 Professional.
Server setup: (from Network Connections screen)
> File -> New
> incoming connection Who may connect?
> Added a user How ...
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What constitutes a large WMI repository and what can cause it to grow?
Our organization is experiencing lengthy startup times after improper shutdowns that seem to be tied to the size of the WMI repository. For example, a repository folder size of 50 megs might result ...
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Windows Advanced Firewall - adding Authorized Computers breaks rule
How can adding a 'only allow connections to these computers' setting in an an otherwise working IPSec rule break connectivity?
Background:
I'm setting up a basic set of client rules that restrict ...
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Point'n'Print setup in Windows 7 x64 on Samba server
I've done a Point'n'Click setup on Samba/CUPS for Windows 7 Clients.
The following things are done:
CUPS
Activated Raw printing support by dpkg-reconfigure cups
SAMBA
Added to the smb.conf the ...
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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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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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openvpn connects but does not work until server pings client
I'm trying to configure a connection using openvpn from a windows 7 client machine to a linux host. I'm using openvpn in the traditional routed mode using tap devices, and the configuration I'm using ...
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How to install Admin tools on Windows 7 and Windows XP workstations via powershell?
we have around 250 workstation(mix of windows 7 and XP SP3) ; we are delegating those users some admin tasks via task pads and they need admin tool pack(containing AD tools such as dsa.msc etc) for ...
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Transparent Proxy For Individual Web Apps?
At work, I perform automated testing of our front-end web apps that use Active Directory for authentication. One tool (Sahi) uses a local proxy to go between the web app and the user's browser, to ...
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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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Win7 Home with W003-Server for dummies
I would like to connect my Win7-laptop to W2003-Server which is used as fileserver and appserver (IIS+MS SQL). Now, I'm a sw-developer, not an admin, so please be patient ;)
Basically I am doing:
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Any way from a command line to change the DNS suffix of a Win7 PC?
I need to change the DNS suffix on Win7 PC's. Netsh does lots,
but I can't find this in there. Any way to change it in a batch file (such
as a logon script)?
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Localhost stop resolving/serving local site after a few clicks IIS 7.5
previously I have searched tried to find the answer from a previous question, however Im not sure it was resolved. I could comment on the question to find more, so decided to post a new question. ...
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Custom incremental update in Windows
Our client has 100+ computer in the network and they are switching to Windows 7 next month.
Our software is based on SQL 2008 and .NET 1.1 binaries. They requirement is to create an incremental ...
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Configuring Corporate Windows Error Reporting On Windows 7
Is there any good documentation out there explaining how to setup Corporate Error Reporting (CER) on Windows 7? I found some information in Advanced Windows Debugging but the book targets Windows XP ...
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Profiles and using the local profile for a domain user
I’m having some trouble with profiles and would like to reach out for some help. I’ve tried to do some research to help myself along, but I’m not making much progress on my own. I’ve pretty much taken ...
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Unable to log into samba server
I am unable to log into a samba server (running on fedora core 6) as it prompts for a username and password when I try to connect to the mapped drives from my windows 7 machine.
I decided to reset ...
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VPN worked with Vista client, but breaks with Win7 client
I have a VPN with WinServer2003 on the host side and Vista (x64) as the client.
The Vista client (192.168.0.nnn) connects daily to the VPN to backup all the machines on the host side (10.1.nnn.nnn). ...
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Generating client certificates for IIS webapp
I am trying to figure out how to set up my web application so that only clients (external) with issued certificates could access it. (on Windows7)
I have followd this tutorial where i got a .CER and ...
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Permissions within Windows symlink to a Samba share
I have a Samba shared folder on an Ubuntu box which I can access from my Windows 7 PC and within which, as a non-administrator Windows user, can create and update files and folders.
However, when I ...
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Grizzly server - works with IP, but not with domain name
I'm hosting a grizzly web service on a Windows 7 Pro machine (embedded in a regular Java process), and it is binding to http://my-domain-name.
When trying to hit the service from another machine, ...
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Connecting to a Cisco ASA 5510 with Win 7 VPN client
Is it possible to configure a Cisco ASA 5510 to accept a connection from Windows 7 with the built in VPN client software in Win7 ?
I know this question has sorta-been asked before on SF but I'm ...
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Windows 7 Remote Desktop stops with copy paste action after copy and paste on local machine
I'm working on a local PC with Windows 7 64-bit and I have a remote desktop connection to a PC with the same config.
When I paste a large file from my remote desktop PC to my local PC it works... ...
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Windows 7 Screen Saver timeout problems using GPO
In our Windows 2003 domain, we are enforcing screensavers with timeouts through GPO. The settings currently in effect are.
Screen Saver = Enabled
Screen Saver executable name =Enabled and ...
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Server 2008 r2 NO DOMAIN workstation plain vanilla simple network SHARES fail to clients under odd circumstances
Basically I have the SAME problem as another user. I read his attempts to get a reply that made sense.
But he seemed to get everything but what he asked for. I hope I have better luck.
SETUP> 1: ...
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Are memory and thread managers on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Home/Prof/Ultimate same?
I was asking one question on DBA site, and I got a reply, that implies, that Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 Home/Prof/Ultimate have different memory and thread managers. Is this correct?
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Adding SSD boot disk to machine running RAID 10
I have a server (dev rig) that runs Windows 2008 R2 and boots from a RAID 10 setup.
Now I want to add an SSD disk that will contain Windows 7 (could be dual boot, but dont plan on salvaging the ...
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How to install wampserver 2.2d?
OK so i freshly installed wampserver 2.2d, and my wamp managers menu looks like this
(only about, refresh, help and exit)
I am using windows 7 x64
I suppose it should looks something different ...
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Terminal Server Print Spooler Event Errors
We are running Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 with Terminal Services. We get the following error:
Error 4/11/2012 3:35:30 PM PrintService 808 Initializing
Log Name: ...
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“Error 53” with local LAN machines after VPN session on server
I have a Windows 2000 server with a Windows 7 client that occasionally gets "error 53" when accessing the server by name (net view \\server). It still works by IP address (net view \\192.168.0.1).
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Cloud Storage/Remote Storage - Windows 7 Embedded
Currently I am running "Windows 7 Embedded" on a few Thin Clients (HP T5570E). I would like to store all user files running on the clients on a remote server (Not local). I have attempted using ...
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IIS 7.5 Static File Request to localhost occasionally taking 4 minutes
We are hosting a web application on a series of Windows 7 machines (accessed via localhost), which has IIS 7.5, and some users are sporadically getting stuck in the middle of a request. After ...
