Let’s face it: working on the administrative side of IT can involve a lot of tedious, repetitive tasks. Manually configuring user accounts, troubleshooting the same issues over and over, generating ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

As the person in charge of a server or database, there are certain maintenance tasks that you need to complete on a frequent basis. You know — purging files, creating reports, that kind of thing. If ...

Here's how to use PowerShell to manage Hyper-V virtual machines without having to jump through the usual hoops. Microsoft has long given administrators the ability to use PowerShell to manage remote ...

Windows users are all too familiar with the frustration. You're deep at work when Microsoft's notorious update notifications start popping up, demanding an immediate restart. Or worse, you're stuck ...

We can change the account type of a user account in five easy ways. We’ll explore the following methods in this section: Change a user account type between Standard and Admin from User Accounts.

If you are using Windows 11 and want to open Windows Terminal as administrator, here is how you can do that. Here are four different methods to run or open Windows Terminal as an administrator in ...

Microsoft’s Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) enables local admin passwords to be set, reset and validated periodically. Here is how to make the best use of LAPS. Passwords have always been ...

If you're getting error messages while trying to manage a remote Hyper-V host from a Windows 10 desktop, here's one possible reason -- and a solution. I recently ...

Windows 10 has a vulnerability, and it can give Admin Privileges to anyone by using a plug-in Razer computer mouse as an entry point, and a Powershell execution. The vulnerability has been exposed by ...