The Windows Security Log event ID 4797 with a description of "An attempt was made to query the existence of a blank password for an account." and Target Account Name WDAGUtilityAccount is related to Windows Defender Application Guard. It was found during digging through event logs because of separate issue. … [Read more...]
OneDrive comes built-in on Windows 10, and even if you uninstall it via PowerShell's Remove-AppxPackage, the GUI or a program like Windows XApp Remover it will remain in the left pane in File Explorer Quick Access. While Windows 10 doesn't include an option to remove the OneDrive shortcut, we'll show you how to remove OneDrive from Quick Access by jumping into the Registry and removing the shortcut manually. In this Windows 10 guide, we'll walk you through the steps to tweak the Registry to remove the OneDrive entry in the left pane of File Explorer, but without ditching the service completely in case you need to manage or upload files to the cloud. OneDrive (previously SkyDrive, Windows Live SkyDrive, and Windows Live Folders) is a file-hosting service operated by Microsoft as part … [Read more...]
What are Symbolic Links? Windows 10, 8, 7, and Vista all support symbolic links, also known as symlinks, that point to a file or folder on your system. Symbolic links are basically advanced shortcuts. Create a symbolic link to an individual file or folder, and that link will appear to be the same as the file or folder to Windows—even though it’s just a link pointing at the file or folder. For example, let’s say you have a program that needs its files at C:\Program. You’d really like to store this directory at D:\Stuff, but the program requires that its files be at C:\Program. You could move the original directory from C:\Program to D:\Stuff, and then create a symbolic link at C:\Program pointing to D:\Stuff. When you relaunch the program, it will try to access its directory at … [Read more...]
Why the Performance Monitor? When it comes to the subject of disk performance in Windows, the majority of questions can be quickly answered by Performance Monitor alone. Performance Monitor is very low overhead, does a great job with averages and can also capture and store data over long periods of time. It is an excellent choice to record a performance baseline and to troubleshoot. For short in this text, we are going to call the Windows Performance Monitor by its nickname: Perfmon. The nickname comes from its executable file located at %systemroot%system32Perfmon.exe. There are some things Perfmon will not be able to tell us. For advanced analysis, Windows provides us with xPerf, enabling state of the art performance data capture through Event Tracing for Windows (ETW). There is an … [Read more...]
You can install packages using dpkg on Debian based systems such as Ubuntu. Dpkg is quite a useful command line tool. In addition to installing packages, dpkg also helps to remove packages and know the status of packages. While checking the status of packages using dpkg, you may come across the state rc. What does rc mean? rc corresponds to: r: the package was marked for removal c: the configuration files are currently present in the system Click here for a full list … [Read more...]
