This article covers the basics of managing the settings and rules of the built-in Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security from the PowerShell command line. We’ll look at how to…
In some cases, you may receive the error ‘Windows cannot access sharename. The network path was not found. Error code: 0x80070035‘ when you try to open a shared network folder…
Users expect the computer to shut down completely and the monitor to turn off when they click the Shut Down button in the Windows 10/11 Start menu. However, in some…
This article shows how to allow anonymous access to shared network folders and printers on a computer in a workgroup or Active Directory domain. Anonymous access to a remote computer…
This article describes how to uninstall hardware and printer drivers in Windows 10 and 11. Whenever you connect a new device to your computer, Windows tries to automatically find and…
Modern versions of Windows and Windows Server allow you to increase the size of any disk volume (partition) at the expense of unused (unallocated) disk space without shutting down the…
After a clean installation or reinstalling Windows, many unknown devices may appear in Device Manager. This article explains how to identify unknown devices in Windows, find the latest up-to-date drivers,…
After you add a computer or a user account to an Active Directory security group, the new access permissions or the new GPOs are not applied immediately. To update the…
The ‘Operating system not found‘ or ‘Missing operating system‘ message at the computer boot means that there is no operating system bootloader on the current drive/media. As a result, your…
Visual Studio Code is a very feature-rich and versatile text editor that can benefit both developers and system administrators. You can use VS Code to edit your PowerShell scripts, configuration…