What Is the Registry Editor? The Registry Editor is an advanced tool for viewing and modifying settings in the registry. This information contains information about how your computer runs etc. See the video below also for more information. Windows stores its configuration information in a database called the registry and this is organized in a tree…
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In this article, I will show you how to disable Lock Screen on Windows 10 via Group Policy and Windows registry. A lock screen is an interface used by various operating systems to grant immediate access to a device by requiring the user to perform a certain action in order to receive access. Such as…
In this article, you will learn how to check if Windows Updates were installed via the Registry Editor. Microsoft Windows Update is a Microsoft service for the Windows families of the operating system, which automates downloading and installing Microsoft Windows software updates over the Internet. Here are some interesting articles: How to install Windows Server…
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Whenever you are faced with doubts about determining which updates you have installed on your device. Or which updates are problematic and you need to uninstall them. Whether you’re working on a workstation you’ve never supported before or trying to determine how vulnerable your workstations are to security attacks. It’s important to know which updates…
In this article, we shall discuss how to use the utility “Whoami” in windows. Please see “OpenShift common Commands“, how to perform Pleasant User Group Permission and User Access, and how o Backup existing and new BitLocker Recovery Keys to Active Directory. The “Whoami’ command is a built-in console of Windows command and it displays…
In this article, we shall discuss the steps to Determine the last boot time of a Windows Server. This can be achieved by viewing the Kernel Boot information via the Windows event log. Kindly refer to these related guides: How to enable virtualization (VT-X) in VMWare workstation, how to install virtual machine Guest Addition, Linux…
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Autologon enables you to easily configure Windows’ built-in autologon mechanism. This prevents the user from waiting to enter their name and password. In this article, we shall discuss how to fix “Auto Logon Error “The username and password specified is not valid”. Kindly refer to these interesting guides: How to download and use Windows SysInternals tools…
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Windows Admin Center is a locally deployed, browser-based app for managing Windows servers, clusters, hyper-converged infrastructure. It is a free product and is ready to use in production. When prompted with an error when trying to access WAC from other browsers saying the site is not secure. In this guide, I will show you how to schedule and…
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A Group Policy Object (GPO) is a virtual collection of policy settings. They have unique names such as a GUID. Group Policy settings are contained in a GPO. In this article, you shall learn why GPO is not the best solution for managing Windows updates. Please see how to Turn off Automatic Updates in Windows via Windows Registry and Group…
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Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) previously known as Software Update Services (SUS) is a computer program and network service developed by Microsoft Corporation that enables administrators to manage the distribution of updates and hotfixes released for Microsoft products to computers in a corporate environment. For more articles I have written, see the following links: Configuring…
System Insights is a new feature available in the Windows Server 2019 and it brings local predictive analytics capabilities natively to Windows Server. These predictive capabilities are leveraged by the machine-learning model which locally analyses Windows Server system data, such as performance counters and events, providing high-accuracy predictions. Please see How to use Windows 11…
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In this article, we shall discuss ‘Fix for a boot image was not found for HyperV Virtual Machine”. If the issue persists after checking these factors discussed. Try booting another VM to see if it’s an isolated case or a broader PXE setup issue. This can help determine whether the problem lies with the VM…
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In this article, we shall discuss how to fix unable to create a new VM on HyperV. Hyper-V is a virtualization platform from Microsoft that enables you to create and manage virtual machines (VMs) on a physical server. It is widely used in enterprise environments for consolidating workloads, testing, and running multiple operating systems on…
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