Questions tagged [windows]
For questions not specific to a single version of Microsoft Windows. Otherwise, use a more specific tag such as [windows-7], [windows-10] or [windows-11].
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Make Windows Detect a Hard Drive in a Similar Way as Linux Does
This is probably a long shot, but is there anyway to make Windows detect a hard drive in the same or similar fashion as Linux does? Windows can take forever to recognize a failing drive, and thus put ...
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Open a new NeoVim window using Windows terminal
I am currently using NeoVim by running it from the Windows terminal (Windows 10), using the nvim command. For the moment, if I type Neovim in the Windows search bar and open the app, it opens in the ...
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How to raise win machine with UI on remote?
I don't have experience related to the raise machines on remote servers, however, I would appriciate any suggestion for this. I need to install the .exe file on the remote machine with UI. I tried to ...
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WSL 2 NAT issue preventing reverse shell on TryHackMe
I installed Ubuntu in WSL 2 on Windows 11. However, my WSL 2 instance is behind NAT, which is causing some problems. For example, I am unable to get a reverse shell on TryHackMe because my WSL 2 ...
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Securing Windows Authentication on IIS
I have an internal system that verifies users automatically using their Windows credentials and then using LDAP to verify against the Active Directory
In IIS, I allowed "Windows Authentication&...
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I have damaged my boot drive and lost my system & recovery partitions. And yet, I can still boot
Tonight I made an effort to make my C drive dynamic, which - in hindsight - was ill-advised. I then used EaseUs to move my dynamic drive back into basic. It restarted my PC and performed its boot, and ...
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Copying data locally in Windows: rsync seems like a better solution, but how to run it?
I find myself needing to copy lots of data in Windows from an external hard drive to my local drive, but after instructing the File Explorer to do it via DragNDrop, it seems it's going to take a ...
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ssh-keygen keys not usable with PuTTY
On a Windows 10 system, I have a keypair that I have generated by running ssh-keygen (from a native-Windows install of OpenSSH_for_Windows_8.1p1, LibreSSL 3.0.2) and interactively filling in the ...
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Why does regedit.exe have HKCU permission for importing but reg.exe does not?
I have a .reg file with current user values. If I use reg.exe in a bat file to import it says:
ERROR: Error accessing the registry.
If I use regedit.exe there are no issues. For regedit.exe I use:
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How to record Cold boot with windows performance recorder?
I'm facing an issue with windows 11 starting twice. First the manufacturer logo appears and then it goes back starts again but this time successfully boots in to windows after the logo. This only ...
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How do I kill a critical process in Windows without it BSODing or just restarting [closed]
So, for fun i just decided to kill some process like lsass.exe without it just restarting the system in one minute. But, when I do so, it will just restart the system. Or, even better, I want to ...
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Security implications of a network location vs a network drive
I generally distrust my Windows (Win10) system a little bit less. But I would still like to have convenient access to my NAS network shares.
Solely from a security standpoint, what are the security ...
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Internally mark VHD file as read only so that it will never be mounted with write permissions
I am distributing some VHD files that I would like the receiver to be able to mount and view the contents of, however I would like the checksum of the VHD file to remain the same after the receiver ...
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router software for vpn in windows [closed]
My company has a very stubborn IT department. They don't want to make any changes to an old vpn we have and they ONLY support windows. I've tried a lot but apparently the protocols used are deprecated ...
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Wireguard tunnel doesn't connect to the internet
I have dual booted my HP OMEN laptop using 2 separate M.2 SSDs, I was on windows and using Wireguard (Tunnel ABC) and left it running and went off to sleep then it shutdown by itself due to low ...
