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Windows is the brand name for a series of operating systems from Microsoft. Current versions are Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, and Windows Server 2022. Instead of tagging a post "Windows", try to use a tag for a specific version.

Introduction

Windows is a family of operating systems developed by Microsoft. Originally a graphical add-on for Microsoft DOS, Windows is currently the market leader for operating systems on the desktop.

Today there are several branches of Windows:

  • Windows for desktops, notebooks, and tablets
  • Windows Server, for servers
  • Windows IoT, for embedded devices such as point of sale, kiosks, and signage

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If your question is version-specific, consider using a version-specific tag.

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Can I "register" python scripts to execute on Windows?

I have Python 2.5 installed on Windows XP and a collection of scripts available in a certain directory. According to this article by Amanda Birmingham I can setup up a path for the Python executable and the one for where the scripts live. Which…
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Enable a program in Windows to run multiple times?

I've got this legacy software that only allows you to run one copy at a time, it detects that you have another session opened and it won't allow you to open a second instance. The problem is this is a cpu intensive program and it only use a single…
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Two trusted domains with same username in both - can we merge?

We have 2 domains (A,B) in our environment. Whenever someone joins the company, his account will be created in domain A. If someone has to work in a particular department, an account will be created for him in domain B. Both accounts have same…
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Why would a program require a server operating system versus a workstation operating system?

A vendor is stating that their software requires Windows Server 2003/2008 versus Windows 7 Professional because it doesn't perform well on a non-server OS. The specific reasoning was that the number of network connections is limited on Windows 7…
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On Windows machines, what is the typical toolchain for remote maintenance?

I need to deploy PHP and Python code and the appropriate environment (web server, db server) to remote Windows systems, and I don't know what toolchain would be the equivalent to ssh, scp, bash and the like. So, basically, what I need to be able to…
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Penetration Testing - Trust and Hiring

When you hire someone/business to come in how can you be sure they won't have a rogue employee who will backdoor your systems? Is there a way you can trust anyone? How do big corporations do it? Seems with so many possible openings that the chance…
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Invoke Remote Desktop Connection from Hyperlink

Is there a way to create a hyperlink that will invoke a Remote Desktop connection to a Windows Machine?
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Do Windows virtual machines suffer from entropy shortage too?

Recently we ran into a problem where one of our Linux-based virtual machines was really slow due to a chronic shortage of "entropy". I'm wondering if Windows virtual machines would suffer from the same problem. (A Google search gave me no relevant…
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Backup with Mercurial and Robocopy?

The Problem We would like to backup our critical files from several network shares to a removable hard drive. We want to automate the backup so we don't have to remember to run it. It needs to finish overnight. Furthermore, we want to be able to…
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Group policy issues

We are having an issue on one of our clients relatively new sbs installs. The domain consists of a single SBS 2011 server with 4 Windows 7 clients and 3 XP clients. Most of the time everything is fine, however roughly every 3 days, Windows 7…
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Enabling system wide TCP keepalives on a Windows system

Can I change/add the KeepAliveTime and related registry variables to make a Windows machine send TCP keepalive packets on an idle connection? I want to know if anyone has successfully got this working. Specifically, when the application idling on…
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How to completely disable apache access log?

I'm running WAMP server on Windows Server 2003, Apache 2.2, and I would like to completely disable writing into the access log. It would be neat if I could do the following, but I'm on Windows: CustomLog "|/dev/null" common All I get in the error…
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Can Windows log CryptoAPI CRL timouts?

I suspect that the process of building the CRL cache may cause latency in some applications. We have several .NET applications that occasionally "act slow" with no CPU or disk access. I suspect that they are hung up on authentication when trying to…
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Sending DHCP specific vendor options to a Windows server

My goal is send some information (url and a one-time token) to a windows machine. It's working fine for GNU/Linux servers because I get the information from /var/lib/dhcp/dhcp.lease or similar. This is my setup: dhcp server (GNU/Linux server): host…
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Tools that Check what is slowing down PC and the boot up speed

My Windows XP is getting a bit slow in terms of bootup speed nowadays. Also, when I first click on My Computer item, it takes a while to get it out. I am thus thinking about the tricks to speed up the booting. A quick google search can turn up a…
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