Windows 10

You can use PowerShell’s features to create ZIP archives and extract them. In PowerShell 5.0 (this PowerShell version is installed by default on Windows 10), a separate module Microsoft.PowerShell.Archive is…

Quite often users and administrators ask if they can upgrade a lower Windows 10 edition (like Home or Pro) to a higher one (for example, Pro or Enterprise respectively). In…

This article will tell you how to backup Window 10 to an external media (USB drive, additional HDD/SSD or shared network folder) using built-in system image backup tools, and how…

Microsoft Security Baseline contains recommended settings Microsoft suggests for Windows workstations and servers to provide secure configuration and protect domain controllers, servers, computers, and users. Microsoft has developed reference Group…

Hi, admin! I’m trying to turn on Windows Defender on Windows 10, but in the “Windows Defender Security Center”, the “Virus & threat protection” component has the message: “Threat service…

In this article we will talk about the WinSxS folder in Windows, the reasons of its constant growth and ways to clean up it. The C:\Windows\WinSxS directory is the repository…

If you are using mapped network drives, you probably noticed that they are not showing in the apps running with administrator privileges (including cmd and PowerShell). The default User Account…

File Explorer always starts in Windows with least privileges. Even if you click on the executable file C:\Windows\explorer.exe and try to start it in the “Run as administrator” mode, the…

If you check what updates are installed on your computer through Windows Update every month, you may have noted the critical update KB890830 (Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool). This update…

One of the servers (running Windows Server 2016) has run out of free disk space on a system drive (C:\). I checked and cleaned all resource-consuming locations (WinSxS, TEMP folders,…