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How to Detect Which User Installed or Removed a Program on Windows using Event Viewer and PowerShell
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📚 How to Fix a Temporary User Profile in Windows (Including RDS)
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📹 (Video): Repair Windows with DISM and SFC: The Correct Order Explained
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🔐 Windows OpenSSH: SSH key-based authentication
⚠️ The authorized_keys path depends on user privileges:
👤 Regular (non-admin) users: C:\Users\%username%\.ssh\authorized_keys
🛡️ Local admins: C:\ProgramData\ssh\administrators_authorized_keys
📖 woshub.com/using-ssh-key-bas…
🛠️ Deploy Office LTSC 2024 with ODT
Install Office silently using a custom Office Deployment Tool XML config and CMD.
📺 youtu.be/1EaLVyP-rtI
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✅ Rclone on Windows: Sync and Backup Files to Google Drive and Other Clouds
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⚠️ UAC prompt with missing “Yes” button
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This behavior means there are no enabled local administrator accounts left on the computer that can approve the elevation request
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Windows Keyboard Filter can block shortcuts like Alt+Tab, Alt+F4, Ctrl+C/V, and even individual keys.
🛠️ Useful for kiosk and restricted workstations.
How to Block Specific Keyboard Shortcuts in Windows with Keyboard Filter
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🔐 Extracting saved Windows Credential Manager passwords with PowerShell
This video covers:
🔹 Finding stored credentials
🔹 Retrieving saved passwords
🔹 How Windows DPAPI protects them
🔹 Why extraction requires the original user context
🎥 youtu.be/eBbUa6_aLjI
🕐 🛠️ Configure the PDC to use a reliable external NTP server instead of the hardware/hypervisor clock.
In an AD domain:
🔹 Root PDC Emulator is the authoritative time source
🔹 Other DCs sync their time from the PDC
🔹 Clients sync from DCs
👉 woshub.com/configure-ntp-tim…
💡 Tip: If a scheduled task is noticeably slower than the same command run interactively, check its Task Scheduler priority before looking for more complicated causes.
📖 How to Set Task Priority in Windows Task Scheduler
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⚠️ September 2026 Excel updates can break copy/paste, drag-and-drop, fill, and worksheet copying.
Affected: Excel 2016 MSI and C2R.
🛠️ MSI: uninstall KB5002914
wusa /uninstall /kb:5002914 /quiet /norestart
C2R: roll back to a previous Office build.
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🛠️ Run a specific program when logging in to RDS
Starting with Windows Server 2016, RDS ignores the user account’s “Start the following program” setting by default.
To restore the legacy behavior, set the registry option fQueryUserConfigFromDC=1 woshub.com/autostart-program…
🛠️Windows repair: order matters!
Run DISM first, then SFC:
DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
SFC /ScanNow
DISM repairs the component store that SFC uses as its repair source.
⚠️ Don't reboot or run restart-requiring tasks between them.
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⚙️ Migrating Windows to Proxmox?
This PowerShell script preloads the VirtIO SCSI driver before P2V/V2V migration, helping prevent INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE BSODs when switching to a native VirtIO SCSI storage controller
🔗 github.com/croit/load-virtio…
✅Guide: woshub.com/migrate-windows-m…
📹 (Video): How to Publish EXE Installers via Group Policy Using ZAP Packages (No MSI Required)
Learn how to use ZAP (Zero Administration Package) files to deploy EXE-based apps via GPO in Active Directory environment
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Deploy EXE Apps with Group Policy Using ZAP Files (No MSI Required)
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📹 (Video): How to Recreate EFI System Partition in Windows After Accidental Deletion
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👥 Windows Fast User Switching
Multiple users can stay logged in, leaving disconnected sessions consuming system resources.
🛠️ Hide switch options from the user GUI via GPO "Hide entry points for Fast User Switching" or registry "HideFastUserSwitching"
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⏳ Moving large files over unstable networks?
Windows BITS can transfer VM disks in the background, use bandwidth efficiently, and resume after interruptions.
Start-BitsTransfer -Source srv1.vhdx -Destination \\SRV\J -Asynchronous -Priority Low
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