Starting a month ago, I occasionally get the following pop-up in Edge:
Download Microsoft Edge mobile app
Take your AI-powered copilot for the web on the go!
This is not a pop-up coming from a web site, but a built-in pop up from the browser itself.
So how can this and similar pop-ups from Microsoft be permanently disabled in Edge? Here you go:
In the browser bar, type edge://flags. This will present a list with browser experimental options.
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When you try to issue a new certificate on a Windows client, this might not work and you get the following error:
The certificate has invalid policy. 0x800b0113 (CERT_E_INVALID_POLICY)
The root cause of this is that the issuing CA has restricted the issuance policies you can use. If you have created a certificate template that uses a policy that is not allowed, you will get that error message.
There is a quick and dirty method to get rid of this error (but it also makes your CA a bit more Read more [...]
I had recently created a bootable USB disk for a Linux distro. After I did not use that anymore, I wanted to format it in my Windows 10 machine. But it was not recognized anymore. No drive letter, not visible in File Explorer.
In "Disk Management" it was visible, but I could not format it there either.
Using command line tool "Diskpart" did not help either as the "clean" command ended with an "Access Denied" error.
In the end, the folloing sequence of commands helped me in "Diskpart":
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When a client or a server that is joined to a Windows Domain loses the trust relationship to its object in Active Directory, you normally get this error message, when you try to login:
The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed
What you then normally do is to un-join the computer from the domain and join it again.
The problem with with a Windows CA (Certificate Authority) Server is that you cannot un-join it from the domain. So that would mean you have to Read more [...]
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.
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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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