To avoid the typical picture on the background of your desktop, use the following procedure to force a solid blue color as background:
Start the Group Policy Editor: gpedit.msc
Go to User Configuration > Administrative Templates > Desktop > Desktop
Open Desktop Wallpaper
Enable it and set the Wallpaper Name to:
C:\Windows\Web\Screen\img105.jpg
Click on OK to save the changes
While you could also just right-click on the desktop and choose Personalize and set a Read more [...]
Sometimes, if you can't use the graphical Event Viewer (e.g. on Windows Server Core), it is handy to list the latest Event Viewer entries via Powershell:
Get-EventLog System -Newest 10 | fl
or
Get-EventLog Application -Newest 10 | fl
This is also much quicker than starting Event Viewer.
After the September 2021 Windows Update, non-administrator users will no longer be able to add remote printers without an elevation of privilege to administrator.
To allow normal users to add remote printers (hosted on a print server), you can now add the following Registry value on the client:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows NT\Printers\PointAndPrint
RestrictDriverInstallationToAdministrators = 0 (DWORD 32)
No restart of the client is needed.
If things still do Read more [...]
When logged in as Administrator in a Windows 10 or 11 machine, when you try to add a shared printer, you get the error:
That didn't work. We can't install this printer right now. Try again later or contact your network administrator for help. Error: #740.
The underlying problem is this: Error 740 means: "The requested operation requires elevation".
This is a problem as you are already logged in as Administrator. So the solution is to start the "Add Printer Wizard" as Administrator. To do this:
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Somethimes, the default maximum message size (including attachments) is not enough (30 MB is the standard). To increase this to 100 MB, do the following:
First check the current maximum size on all relevant Exchange components:
Get-TransportConfig | ft MaxSendSize, MaxReceiveSize
Get-ReceiveConnector | ft Name, MaxmessageSize
Get-SendConnector | ft Name, MaxMessageSize
Get-Mailbox Administrator |ft Name, MaxsendSize, MaxReceiveSize
Then set it to 100 MB for all components:
Set-TransportConfig Read more [...]
I have rarely the issue that all of a sudden, on some programs (for example Edge and Firefox) I can't see the top part of the Window anymore.
Preconditions for this to happen:
Multi screen (does never happen on single screen setups)
Happens only on the primary screen
Only when application is maximised
Only some applications are affected, not all (Microsoft Office apps are never affected): File Explorer, Edge, Firefox, Notepad and many others
What does not help:
Minimizing Read more [...]
Unfortunately, Adobe is pushing hard to their Cloud Suite (Creative Cloud) and has disabled all download links to their CS6 suite. After some searching, I found the following 2 links still working (as of May 2020):
Installer:
http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/legacy/99CABBAC-C975-4A06-8D99-064C6871EE80/STAM/CS6/win32/MasterCollection_CS6_LS4.exe
Installation data:
http://trials.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/legacy/99CABBAC-C975-4A06-8D99-064C6871EE80/STAM/CS6/win32/MasterCollection_CS6_LS4.7z Read more [...]
On an IIS server, with a simple static web page, I constantly got:
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable
I did not get any entry in the IIS logs and when stopping the respective app pool, I got the same message.
There was definitely no port conflict as I checked with TCPView if any other process was using port 80.
After a while I tried to change the binding to port 81. And - bingo - , on port 81, the web site worked.
After digging for a while, I found that port 80 had an "ACL reservation". Read more [...]
