How to Disable / Enable the Windows Firewall When the Options Are Grayed Out

There are many situations in which a user may need to disable / enable the Windows Firewall application. However, a common problem is the disabling of the ability to turn the firewall off from the graphical application. Users will see that any option available is grayed out, and nothing can be chosen....

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How to reduce the size of CBS.log file

The SFC.exe program writes the details of each verification operation and of each repair operation to the CBS.log file. The CBS.persist.log is generated when the CBS gets to be around 50 meg in size. CBS.log is copied to cbs.persist.log and a new cbs.log file is started. It would be useful only for...

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Prevent Windows From Restarting Your PC After Windows Updates

Using the Group Policy editor: Have you seen that message in Windows 10 that tells you your computer is going to reboot and there is not a thing you can do about it except save your work? Here’s how to make sure that never happens again. This tip works for Windows 8 and 7 as well. Press...

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Office 2010 Activation Failure: Unspecified Error 0x80070190

On a new install, when attempting to activate Microsoft Office 2010 receive error:  "An unspecified error has occurred. Your request cannot be processed at this time. Please try again later. (0x80070190)" To activate Office 2010, please use OSPP.VBS. a. Open an administrative command-prompt b. Run one of the following command-lines based on your Operating System: x86 cscript "C:\Program...

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