Windows 10

You can manage Windows services not only from the services.msc snap-in or sc.exe command line tool, but also using PowerShell. In this article we’ll consider different scenarios of managing Windows…

In this article we‘ll show you how to create a software mirror (RAID1) from two GPT disks with Windows Server 2016/Windows 10 installed for UEFI. We’ll consider a full-featured BCD…

A user reported a missing Mail app icon in the Control Panel on a computer running Windows 10 1903. Office 365 is installed on the computer, and Outlook is used…

In one of the previous articles we showed how to use the Set-ADComputer cmdlet in a GPO logon script to save  the current logged in user info to the properties…

The Disk Cleanup tool allows the administrator to quickly clean up the Windows Server system drive by deleting unnecessary and temporary files, including cleaning the WinSxS directory from files of…

Let’s consider some ways to block access to the specific websites, domain names, URLs or IP addresses in Windows without using third-party tools. In our case, we will try to…

The monitoring system on one of my servers running Windows Server 2016 started sending multiple messages of the Volume Shadow Copy Service error with the Event ID 8193 and VSS…

The DNS servers and suffixes configured for VPN connections are used in Windows 10 to resolve names using DNS in the Force Tunneling mode (“Use default gateway on remote network”…

In order to manage access to files or folders in Windows, a special ACL (Access Control List) is assigned to an NTFS file system object (a file or a folder).…

I faced an error code 0x80073712 when trying to install security updates on Windows Server 2016. As I found later, this error was related to the damaged Windows component store.…