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Windows VM with seamless windows?

I work in business environment with the following setup:Our PCs are added to a work account (and being managed)We are allowed to keep admin access to the machineI have a client with strong security....

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How to reset the state of the system disk from a running Windows?

For test or administration purposes, it can sometimes be required to reset the state of the system disk so that it does not start and the data is not easily accessible anymore, for instance to test...

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Running batch file through a service

I'm trying to schedule a batch file to run through a third party application, however the output file doesn't get created in the directory. If I run the .BAT file from the command line, it works and...

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Why does certain characters draw horribly, horribly wrong in Windows?

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Change back to old Certificate-Viewer in Chrome

How can I change my Google Chrome/Chromium-based web-browsers to open the old certificate viewer, the one built-in to Microsoft Windows instead of the "new" Chromium one?Old (goal) Windows Certificate...

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How to batch crop multiple pictures to a fixed area? Ex. crop a 400x300...

For example, I'd like to crop an area in this yellow rectangle in all pictures of same dimensions (same length and width).One use of this may be to crop a bunch of screenshots taken of a video game or...

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Task Scheduler - scheduled task to run as SYSTEM not fire

Following the answer here:How can I run a scheduled task as SYSTEMI have created task to be run using SYSTEM accountTask to be run on System accountBut it does not start on scheduled time.When I change...

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Why does my remote desktop session introduce custom scaling and blurry text

I have noticed this problem for a few years now. It happens primarily when I use Remote Desktop Connection from Windows 7 on my Macbook Pro connecting to my Windows 10 Desktop but I have also had it...

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Skype audio becomes distorted after other programs make sounds

I have an HP laptop, HP 250 G4. It came with Windows 8.1 and Skype but I've now upgraded it to Windows 10. The version of Skype that came with the laptop was so old that it didn't work at all with some...

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Strange PSEXEC Output

Windows 2016 server from 2012.Sometimes when I run commands on multiple remote computers I'll get a strange output at the end of the command:psexec64.exe \\<computer1>,<computer2>... CMD /c...

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How can I set my preferred game controller through the registry?

Windows allows a "preferred" device to be set as the primary controller. What registry key is responsible for this? I want to change it through a batch script rather than opening this dialog every time...

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Windows XP KB2686509 Update Keep Failing [closed]

I just reinstalled my netbook's Windows because it got infected by virus. The original OS was Windows XP Home Edition SP3 with HP OEM, I reinstalled with a normal Windows XP Home Edition SP3 CD. After...

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Moving Multiple Specific Files Up One Directory [closed]

I have a folder structure that's like this:Parent Folder-Folder1--Sub1---files-Folder2--Sub2---files-Folder3--Sub3---filesWhat I'm wanting to do is move files with a specific name (let's use...

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Is there any way to create a sequential storage space on Windows?

I want to create a storage space out of VHDX files for purposes I won't get into here, and I need Windows to write files to the VHDX files sequentially. As it stands, Windows spreads the data more or...

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Why is Windows Subsystem for Linux able to run Windows *.exe programs?

I'm using the new WLS2 on Windows 10 Home. I noticed that, when I ran "npm", the "npm" from my Windows program files was executed instead of the Linux version. When I tried to execute cmd.exe or...

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how do I cancel this command?? powercfg -duplicatescheme...

my laptop had poor performance, I was advised to enter this command to make it a little more powerful, but because of it, my laptop became very warm and noisy. Please tell me how I can cancel the...

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WiFi not working after adding a loopback address to WiFi interface in Windows

I think I did something that I was not supposed to do.While trying to learn something, I added a new loopback address to my WiFi interface in Windows without knowing what I'm doing. I typed the...

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New-LocalUser and Add-LocalGroupMember are not recognized as the name of a...

While running the PowerShell script to add an account to local administrators group on remote Windows 2012 computer, I am getting the errorNew-LocalUser and Add-LocalGroupMember are not recognized as...

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How can CMD find a file on a piece of path and run it, given that the file...

I'm writing a script for the game and need through .bat to find and run the game, which may be on different discs for different people.Help

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Screen blank but Services Running

I've got a Windows 11 Pro system running at a remote location that I use with Teamviewer.This recent time, the system was up for 4 days and then all of the sudden I couldn't use Teamviewer with it. The...

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