May 11, 2015
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Can I run a service executable from a network location?
You can, but you shouldn't.
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May 6, 2015
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Why is there an invisible U+202A at the start of my file name?
The desperation Left-to-right marker.
May 5, 2015
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What does it mean when the Advanced Security Settings dialog says that an ACE was inherited from "Parent Object" without naming the specific parent?
The Advanced Security Settings dialog shows the ACEs in an object's ACL, and one of the pieces of information is a column labeled Inherited from which identifies whether the ACE was inherited, and if so, from where. A customer observed that when they opened the Advanced Security Settings dialog, one of their objects had an ACE that showed Parent Ob...
Apr 28, 2015
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Access to a file's attributes is controlled by two things
We saw some time ago that permission to delete a file is granted either File attributes behave in an analogous way. Permission to read a file's attributes is granted either If you want the file's attributes, you could always get it by reading the directory, because one of the pieces of information you get from is the file attributes. There...
Apr 15, 2015
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When I set the "force X off" policy to Disabled, why doesn't it force X on?
A customer was using one of the many "force X off" policies, but instead of using it to force X off, they were trying to use it to force X on by setting the policy to Disabled. For example, there is a "Hide and disable all items on the desktop". The customer was setting this policy to Disabled, expecting it to force all icons visible on the desktop...
Jan 20, 2015
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Why does the copy dialog give me the incorrect total size of the files being copied?
It's all a misunderstanding.
Jan 19, 2015
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Why does Outlook use a semicolon to separate multiple recipients by default?
In triplicate, please.
Dec 30, 2014
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How did that program manage to pin itself to my taskbar when I installed it?
Occasionally, somebody will notice that upon installing a program, it managed to pin itself to the taskbar. But just like there is no function, there is also no function, and for the same reason: Because applications would abuse it and auto-pin themselves because they are so awesome, and so that the developer could get a nice bonus. In spite o...
Dec 24, 2014
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How can I let my child use an app that I bought from the Windows Store?
If you buy an app from the Windows Store, you can make it available to other users on the same Windows PC. This is useful if you, say, buy an app for your child to use. Here's how you do it. (This is all explained on the Windows Store blog, but I've converted it into a step-by-step and updated it for Windows 8.1.) First, sign on as yourself and i...
Dec 16, 2014
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If you set up roaming profiles, you are expected to set up each machine identically, for the most part
A customer discovered the following behavior when they set up roaming user profiles on their domain. Consider two machines, 1 and 2. An application A is installed on machine 1, but not machine 2. A user with a roaming profile logs onto machine 1 and pins application A to the taskbar. That user then logs off of mac...