Windows 7/8 Archives

Enable access to admin shares from non-domain (workgroup) computers

There is a comprehensive article on the Windows OS Hub that discusses administrative shares and how they can be tricky...

Trying to restart (or stop) a service occasionally ends up with it in a state of "Stopping" that never ends until you...

Sticky Notes are handled differently in Windows 10 (to Win7 for example) so you cannot simply copy the file into the...

For certain apps, and firewall exceptions, you may need to change the network type that your server OS thinks you are...

Oct 21, 2016 | Windows 7/8

Recently I've had several instances where a (sometimes relatively new) Windows 7 PC has run out of disk space, and...

Remote desktop connections are not enabled by default in Windows 7 and later, and although I normally enable it when...

If you ever need to make a PC (or server) listen for inbound RDP connections on multiple TCP ports: 1) Run REGEDIT on...

You may note that the WinSxS folder on your Windows Vista/7/Server 2008 system is taking up a large amount of space...