Category: Windows

Run the Local Group Policy Editor (Start > type gpedit.msc) Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System Select Logon Double-click Show first sign-in animation In the Show first sign-in animation window, select Disabled and click OK Close the Local Group Policy Editor...

I was plagued with an annoying problem in Chrome 58, beta and Canary for the past month or two. Actually, it dates back to when I was in the Windows Insider Preview for Windows 10 and had already been testing the...

Input line: Thu 2017-03-30 00:00:07: user@domain.com (John Doe) checked mail from 127.0.0.1 using IMAP, 0 msgs collected, 21 remaining Powershell script: $rxp = "([a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?)|(d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3}.d{1,3})|(POP|IMAP)|(^[A-Z][a-z]+sd{4}-d{2}-d{2}sd{2}:d{2}:d{2})" gc ".*.log" | select-string -pattern $rxp -allmatches | foreach { if ($_.Matches.count -ne 4) { return }...

Big Fat Warning:  Don’t do this. How to disable password expiration Load Local Group Policy Editor (Start –> Type gpedit.msc –> Enter) Expand sections: Local Computer Policy –> Computer Configuration –> Windows Settings –> Security Settings –> Account Policies –> Password...

The following feature list is applicable to Exchange Server 2016 Hosted Exchange SALs. Plus SALs include the use of Microsoft Office Outlook desktop application. The Exchange Server 2016 Hosted Exchange Basic, Exchange Server 2016 Hosted Exchange Standard, Exchange Server 2016 Hosted...

When browsing my Downloads folder, or any folder in general, on Windows 10 I have experienced the Working on it… message and it takes a few seconds to load.  This doesn’t matter if I have a lot of files/folders or just...

A brutally basic ping sweep from Windows command to look for hosts on a subnet. for /L %x in (1,1,254) do @ping -n 1 -w 25 192.168.0.%x | find bytes= This will return hosts that respond to ping on your LAN,...

Get username from SID: wmic useraccount where sid='S-1-5-21-1207125215-1711319079-1335354557-1316' get name Get SID from username: wmic useraccount where name='username' get sid...

Sorry, Cortana — not everyone likes you. =) Launch the group policy editor by pressing Windows + R, typing gpedit.msc into the box, and pressing Enter. Navigate to Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Search Locate the Allow...

This is caused by Windows Search / Indexing that times out waiting for old or stale network resources.  To resolve this you can delete the cache files: %AppData%MicrosoftWindowsRecentAutomaticDestinations Delete all *.automaticDestinations-ms in that folder and the issue should be resolved....