Jun 24, 2015
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A trick for finding the correct internal mailing list
Looking for common threads.
Showing tag results for Tips/Support
Jun 10, 2015
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Taking ownership of a file doesn’t give you access, yet
One more step.
Jun 3, 2015
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Adding a little marker to your comments in Microsoft Word
The TAB key.
Jun 2, 2015
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Why do events logged by the ReportEvent function show up in the wrong order in the Event Viewer?
Bad sorting.
May 12, 2015
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How does Task Manager compute Up Time, and why doesn't it agree with GetTickCount?
Task Manager shows a piece of information called "Up time". How is this value calculated, and why doesn't it agree with the value reported by /? Task Manager calculates "up time" by subtracting the system boot time from the current time. In other words, it is misnamed; it really should be called time since system was started. It doesn't subtract ...
May 11, 2015
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Can I run a service executable from a network location?
You can, but you shouldn't.
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...