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How to Test Your Internet Speed Using Windows Command Prompt and PowerShell
Many online services allow you to test your Internet connection speed in real-time. If you need to regularly collect Internet connection speed metrics from your provider for monitoring, you can use the popular Speedtest console client from Ookla. Let’s look at how to measure the speed of an Internet connection using the Windows command prompt…
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How to Configure File and Folder Access Auditing on Windows Using Group Policy (GPO)
The file system audit policy in Windows allows to monitor all access events to specific files and folders on a disk. An administrator can enable the audit policy to identify file and folder creation, read, modification, and deletion events on the NTFS file system. File system auditing is most commonly used to control access and…
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How to Install Any OS from an ISO Image over the Network Using iVentoy
Ventoy is a lightweight PXE multiboot server app that stores bootable ISO images of various operating systems (Windows, Linux, VMware, LiveCD based on WinPE or Linux, etc.), allowing computers to boot and install operating systems over a LAN. To run a network boot PXE server, copy the ISO files with the operating system distros into…
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Streamline Your Workflow: Adding or Removing Pinned Folders to Quick Access Using PowerShell and GPO
Windows File Explorer has a separate panel that displays a list of favorite folders and locations called Quick Access. Many users and administrators unjustly ignore this handy Windows tool for quickly accessing your favorite folders. This article describes how to use PowerShell and Group Policies to automate the configuration of the Quick Access pane and…
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Step-by-Step Guide to GPU Passthrough in Hyper-V Virtual Machines
The feature RemoteFX vGPU was previously accessible in older Hyper-V versions (starting from Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2) to allocate a host’s discrete GPU to a virtual machine. However, with the release of Windows 10 version 1809 and Windows Server 2019, the support for RemoteFX was discontinued. The upgraded feature, Discrete Device Assignment…
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How to Print from Linux to a Windows Shared Printer: A Comprehensive Guide
This article explains how to connect and print from a Linux computer to a shared printer connected to a Windows host. The first step is to share the printer on a Windows computer to which it is connected. Open the printer properties, go to the Sharing tab, enable the Share this printer option, and specify…
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Step-by-Step Guide to Sharing a USB Scanner Over a Windows Network Using NAPS2
Most small office/home office (SOHO) multifunction printers (MFPs) don’t support network scanning. If you own such a scanner that can’t scan to a shared SMB folder or email, a convenient tool named NAPS2 can help you share any local USB scanner. The tool, NAPS2, stands for Not Another PDF Scanner. It is a prevalent free…
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Mastering Automatic Outlook User Profile Configuration with ZeroConfigExchange
Outlook can auto-create and configure a mail profile for a first-time user with an Exchange/M365 mailbox. Thus, when the ZeroConfigExchange option gets activated, Outlook has the capacity to fetch the primary SMTP address from the Active Directory attribute without the necessity for the user to input the email address. By default, a simple wizard opens…
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Using PowerShell Script to Assess Windows 11 Hardware Compatibility
In this article, we’ll examine how to employ Microsoft’s official HardwareReadiness.ps1 PowerShell script to run a bulk Windows 11 hardware compatibility check on domain computers. This script ascertains that the computer meets the following minimum criteria to run Windows 11: A compatible x64 processor (complete list of supported CPUs) At least 4 GB of RAM…
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Guide to Creating a Multi-OS Bootable USB Flash Drive Using Ventoy
If you desire to generate a multi-boot USB flash drive containing several operating system images, Ventoy stands out as one of the perfect tools available. Ventoy facilitates the creation of a bootable USB drive where you can insert ISO images of the OS distributions that you require. When initiating a boot sequence from this USB…