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Disable Users to Install Software

One of our readers wanted to know the steps to prevent the users to install any software. If you also need to know the same then below are the Group Policy setting that are required to achieve the same thing.
To do this you don’t need any tool or any software as it can be done [...]

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Disable Restart Computer Message after Windows Update

It is very irritating when after the download of Windows Update; the system periodically pops a dialog box asking to restart the system.
Though Windows Update is a useful thing to do and Automatic Updates provide more stability to the system but wouldn’t it be great if we have a choice to install the update when [...]

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Steps to Restore Missing Run Command from Windows

The problem of missing Run command was faced by one of our readers and if similar is the problem with you then below are the steps to solve this problem.
Solution 1:
•    You need to open gpedit.msc but since Run is missing then you can open it from the Administrative tools inside the control panel.
•    Go [...]

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Solve Hide Inactive Icons Does Not Work/Greyed Out

There has been a problem reported by one of our readers that the “Hide Inactive Icons” option which comes in the Taskbar and Start Menu properties has been greyed out while the taskbar is showing all the icons and are not getting hidden.
This is what you can do to solve the problem
1.    Download the registry [...]

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Steps to Fix Access Denied to gpedit.msc Problem

My PC was working all fine until I figured out that Group Policy gpedit.msc was not opening on my system. I wanted to open the Group Policy editor for some work and I was shocked to find that not only the gpedit.msc, even the other commands with msc extensions, were not working like services.msc, devmgmt.msc, [...]

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7 Features that you didn’t know about Windows XP –Part 2

We are back with some features of Windows XP that are least known to us. This is second part of the topic “7 Features that you didn’t know about Windows XP –Part 1”. Here are the other 7 features:
1.    Windows already has IP version 6 support which is the next generation IP and even the [...]

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