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I had a n issue with a PC not seeing mapped drives within an old program on windows 10. Their software support had no answers so found the below fix, 1. Open regedit 2. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> Microsoft -> Windows -> CurrentVersion -> Policies -> System 3. On the right, you will see ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin,... etc. 4. click on empty space, ADD DWORD(32bit), then name it "EnableLinkedConnections". Double click it and set the data to 1. 5. Reboot and you will see the mapped drives showing This gave me my mapped drives back within the software!

So the most annoying thing about windows 10 if you use lots of VPN's is the fact its now 4 steps to get connected, very annoying. If you want to fix this then please do the below. Open regedit (WIN+R and type regedit.exe) Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Settings\Network Take ownership of the “Network” key/folder (right click, Permissions) Select “Advanced” in the Permissions window In the Advanced window, select “Change” where the owner field is (at the top of the window) Type in your username and save your changes. Close the advanced window Now select “Administrators” in the security tab Make sure “Full control” is selected, then apply changes Now that’s done, double click “ReplaceVan” Change it’s value to 2 Enjoy connecting and disconnecting from your VPNs in one place! After doing the above you get the same interface for VPN's as you did in windows 8 ie bottom right hand corner near the clock, and they a...

So I had a HP Probook 450 G1 which was losing network connection quite often, like every 10 mins after searching around I found that it was infact a BIOS problem. HP advise to upgrade the BIOS to 1.20 from the base 1.05 link here http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5405166&swItemId=ob_136070_1&swEnvOid=4059 Also upgrade the driver version for the wireless card from the 2013 version to the 2015 version http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?sp4ts.oid=5405166&swItemId=ob_148570_1&swEnvOid=4059 have not had a disconnection since.

in an elevated command prompt run the following command "vssadmin list writers" The Vss writers will be displayed, if any are showing a failed state check the list below and restart the correct service via services.msc ASR Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy BITS Writer BITS Background Intelligent Transfer Service COM+ REGDB Writer VSS Volume Shadow Copy DFS Replication service writer DFSR DFS Replication DHCP Jet Writer DHCPServer DHCP Server FRS Writer NtFrs File Replication FSRM writer srmsvc File Server Resource Manager IIS Config Writer AppHostSvc Application Host Helper Service IIS Metabase Writer IISADMIN IIS Admin Service Microsoft Exchange Writer MSExchangeIS Microsoft Exchange Information Store Microsoft Hyper-V VSS Writer vmms Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management NTDS NTDS Active Directory Domain Services OSearch VSS Writer OSearch Office SharePoint Server Search OSearch14 VSS Writer OSearch14 SharePoint Server Search 14 Registry Writer VSS Volume Sh...

So I turned my laptop on today and noticed a windows icon lurking in the taskbar, which is new! On clicking on the icon the below window pops up. This is not spyware or malware this is a legit bit of software from Microsoft. There is a button at the bottom left to press to register for your free version of windows 10, just click it and it will go away. Scrolling through the windows shows a bit of info, but if I am honest there is nothing to see in there. Release date for windows 10 is July 29th, not long to go!

Had this problem today. When you try and do a backup to a USB drive it comes up with an error because it has been unplugged and not safely ejected. To fix this problem attach the hard drive to a pc and it will come up with a warning saying it needs to be scanned, do this! Once it has finished attach it back on the nas and the drive will be available again to use, if you are using the backup feature on the readynas please select eject after backup this will give the drive a safe unplug.

I have created a batch file that will scan your local network to determine which machine is your local browser master. All you have to do is copy and paste the below into a batch file and then run it on any pc on the network. Script details TITLE Browse Master Finder Color 18 cls @ECHO OFF ECHO This script is property of Mike. This script is to discover Browse Master. ECHO. ECHO.  for /f "delims=\= " %%C in ('net view ^| find " \\"' ) do @echo -Checking %%C && @nbtstat -a %%C | find "MSBROWSE" pause If I helped buy me a beer :)