windows 10

I created a regular user so I am less likely to get viruses

I can enter all folders of other users

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but I dont want to this to be permanent because virus can do everything and enter everywhere
which would make the idea of a non admin user not safe

I received one excel file, which was given to me.  When I click on the file, two files open up
File.xlsx and second file name: file.slsx2    Why is this happening and how do I stop it?

windows 10
office 365

Customer downloaded Citrix Receiver on her Windows 10 laptop but she clicked something on her laptop where it thinks its something other than a program file. Any quick fixes out there?

I'm trying to redirect the "Documents" and the "Favorites" folder of our Windows 10 Creators Update 64 bit to the users home directory on a network share like we did for Windows 7.

Redirecting "Documents" works fine but as soon as I switch on "Favorites" redirection it is causing an extreme slowness during logon, logoff and browsing the redirected folders (takes minutes just to show the only file stored there!).

Even browsing the "Favorites" folder locally on the file server holding the users home share is slow!

This is not a network or server related issue. When I only redirect "Documents" all is just fine and speed is normal.
Anyone seen this behavior?

As a side note:
I've checked permissions on the "Favorites" folder. there are 4 "unknown" SIDs.
(S-1-15-3-4096)
(S-1-15-3-3795941342-518727550-4290142327-3574433603-4273787745-1450327651-649988109)
(S-1-15-3-3469964869-263285312-1618360021-2343290171-1786798556-2722298370-1585569900)
(S-1-15-3-3624051433-2125758914-1423191267-1740899205-1073925389-3782572162-737981194)

Theses SIDs are not set by me or anything I know of. They are even set on the "Favorites" folder of a standalone Windows 10 system thats never been attached to a domain....
Could those unknown SIDs cause the slowness?

My client has a Win 10 machine. When logging into Windows this message appears (see attached). Problem started a day or so ago.

Unable to do anything much further in Windows. If I try the start menu button, it gives a "Critial Error" message. I've done a bit of research and re-started in Safe mode, unable to do much more in Windows (safemode). I tried system restore, but no restore points available.

Any ideas?
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In a windows 10 computer, we can access the device by \\ipaddress\c$ but if we address it by name, that is \\computername\c$, it requests a user/password - which we enter but get 'access denied' and the user/password login windows re-appears.

Note, both computers are Windows 10, same workgroup, no domain, same subnet, etc.

We noticed that even though cannot access the computer by \\computername,  we can ping it with no problem (which means we can see that  computer).

We don't have a problem using  the access vi IP address, but  when the ip changes, th at's when we have  problems.  So we are trying to see whats going on and how  to access the remote computer by \\computer\c$

Please advice.

A past IT person has enabled Windows Power Shell scripts (with .PS1 extensions) to run with full unrestricted access on an organization's Windows 10 computers.

None of these computers are added to a domain.

What is the best method to use to disable these Power Shell scripts so that they will no longer be able to run?

We don't want to take any chances with viruses or malware exploiting this security hole.

We're running a watchguard XTM-515 (running XTM v.11.11.2.B508770), pptp vpn connections going into a windows 2008 AD network.  I've got one user with this problem on a regular basis.  Here's the scenerio.  Let's say we have a user named "Bob Smith."  Bob's domain username is bob_s.  Bob's VPN username is bsmith.  When connecting to the network via vpn (pptp) the connection links up correctly.  However, when trying to access mapped network drives, the computer tries to use the VPN username (domain.com\bsmith) instead of the domain username (domain.com\bob_s), with domain.com added to the front (shouldn't be there.  Isn't part of the vpn login credentials at all).  When authentication fails, Bob has to select "use different credentials" and manually specify "domain.com\bob_s." It doesn't seem to matter whether he checks the box to remember the credentials or not.  This happens both when he connects to the network via the vpn and the first time he logs on after returning to the office and plugging back into the network.  After that, things seem to work okay until Bob takes his laptop out again.  The next time he leaves the office, it happens all over again.  This does not seem to happen to anyone else.  "Bob" isn't a tinkerer, and has nothing installed on his laptop other than the standard applications that all other users have.  Not that it matters, but his laptop is a lenovo T560, running windows 10 pro.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

I had this question after viewing How to fix Outlook attachment blocking?.

Hello,
     I just connected an internal hard drive for backup in a client's computer. It doesn't show up under PC and when I go into computer management - storage it does not show up there either. This is the first one I have installed on a Windows 10 system. I double checked connectors but did not test the drive outside the computer. I am now only able to work remotely on the computer for the time being.

Am I missing anything?
Mags

Dear Team,

I'm attempting to configure my first failover cluster in windows server 2016 for sql purposes across sites (different subnets). When the failover cluster goes through the validation in SITE A (DR-SQL1) the validation fails with the following errors:

 * Node DR-SQL2 is not reachable from node DR-SQL1. It is necessary that each cluster node can
    communicate each other cluster node by a minimum of one network path (though multiple paths
    are recommended to avoid a single point of failure). Please verify that existing networks
    are configured properly or add additional networks.
 * Node DR-SQL1 is not reachable from node DR-SQL2. It is necessary that each cluster node can
    communicate each other cluster node by a minimum of one network path (though multiple paths
    are recommended to avoid a single point of failure). Please verify that existing networks
    are configured properly or add additional networks.

Although when I run the same validation test from SITE B (DR-SQL2), they all pass just fine.

Any ideas where I should start looking, the firewall rules should allow all traffic to pass through between these 2 hosts.

Thank you.

I installed outlook 2003 on new laptop which uses windows 10, I added 3 different email accounts,  when I turn on outlook it goes directly to the default email account, no box appers when I open outlook to be able to choose which account I wish to use

Hi All,

After encrypting some laptops with DiskCryptor, they all seem to go into Automatic Repair for Windows 10. Can i format the machine and start again, or do i have to decrypt these?