You’re browsing the “Windows” parent category, which lists articles on every Windows Operating System.
We’ve seen how to use the Registry Editor (regedit.exe) to change ownership of a registry key and subkeys. This article tells you how to change registry key ownership and grant permissions using the command-line.
Windows has the takeown.exe and icacls.exe console utilities to change file/folder ownership and permissions, but there are no such built-in tools for changing the registry key ownership using command-line. You’ll need a third-party tool named SetACL for the task.
The Services console (services.msc) in Windows lets you configure the startup type of Windows Services. As you know, you can choose one of the options from the dropdown: Automatic (Delayed Start), Automatic, Manual, or Disabled.
But, do you know what’s the difference between Automatic and Automatic (Delayed Start).Read more
The built-in reg.exe console tool lets you add, delete, export or save (as hive) registry keys and values. When adding registry values using the reg.exe tool, you may be wondering how to pass data with double-quotes or environment variables and add it to the registry literally.
This article tells you how to create registry values passing double-quotes and environment variables (without expanding or resolving the folder path) using the reg.exe console tool.Read more
After installing a Windows 10 feature update, you may be unable to download apps or update existing apps in the Microsoft Store. Downloading apps or updating them results in the error 0x80D02017 with the description saying “Unknown”.
Running the Store apps troubleshooter, reinstalling Microsoft Store or resetting the Store using wsreset.exe may not fix the problem.
The following errors may also be seen in the Windows Event Viewer.
Source: C:\BA\18\s\src\App\DependencyResolver\MvrDependencyResolver.cs (53)" Information Windows-ApplicationModel-Store-SDK 4 StorefrontClient "ErrorDialogViewModel. Context: WU, Code: 0x80D02017, Title(ShortDescription): Something unexpected happened ButtonLabel: Close, Link: feedback-hub:?tabid=2&categoryid=20&searchString=Code: 0x80D02017 Function: Initialize Source: C:\BA\18\s\src\App\ViewModels\Dialogs\ErrorDialogViewModel.cs (132)" Information Windows-ApplicationModel-Store-SDK 4 StorefrontClient "ErrorDialogViewModel. ButtonOneLabel: Report this problem ButtonTwoLabel: Close, Link: feedback-hub:?tabid=2&categoryid=20&searchString=Code: 0x80D02017 Function: SetAction
This problem can be fixed by turning off IPv6 in some systems.Read more
When you open the Services MMC (services.msc) and double-click Windows Update service properties, the Start and Stop buttons are grayed out. Also, you may be unable to change the service Startup type.
As a workaround, you can change the service startup and other settings using the registry or run the SC.exe command-line tool under the SYSTEM account and modify the service settings.
This article tells you how to make the Windows Update service configurable (by administrators) using the Services MMC.Read more
Many Windows system files, registry keys, and services are owned by the SYSTEM (a.k.a LocalSystem) account, which has a high privilege level. If you need to modify a registry key owned by the SYSTEM account, there are at least two options.
The first option that comes to your mind is to take ownership of the corresponding registry key, assign yourself Full Control permissions. Once the registry key or the values are updated, revert the permissions and ownership to SYSTEM.
There is, however, an easier option. You can run the program — e.g., the Command Prompt or the Registry Editor under the SYSTEM account directly and update the registry values.
This article lists 7 different methods using which you can run programs under the SYSTEM or LocalSystem account in any version of Windows, including Windows 10. You can also add a Run as SYSTEM right-click menu option for .exe files.
Microsoft Word is a top-notch word processor using which you can save documents in .doc, .docx, and different other formats. When you need to send a document to someone who doesn’t have Office Word installed, you usually convert the document to PDF and send it.
As you may have known, Microsoft Word lets you convert or save a document (.doc or .docx file) as a PDF file using the Save As dialog.
Open the document, and launch the Save as dialog. Select PDF (*.pdf) from the list and save the file.
Another option would be to use the Microsoft Print to PDF driver in Windows 10 to output the .doc or .docx file to a .pdf document. For this, you’d use the Print option (instead of Save as) to print the document to PDF.
Pre-Windows 10 systems don’t have the Microsoft Print to PDF driver. In those systems. you can use the free CutePDF Writer or Foxit PDF Printer (part of Foxit PDF Reader software.)
But, if you have tens or hundreds of Word documents that you want to convert to PDF, using the GUI option would be a time-consuming and tiring task.
This article tells you how to batch convert multiple .doc or .docx files to PDF files using Windows Script and other methods.
Read more
When you open Settings and check for updates on your Windows 10 or 11 computer, the error 0x80070422 appears. Here is the entire error message:
There were some problems installing updates, but we'll try again later. If you keep seeing this and want to search the web or contact support for information, this may help: (0x80070422)
After upgrading to Windows 10, you may see one of the following errors when logging in to your user account:
There was a problem starting C:\Windows\System32\LogiLDA.dll The specified module could not be found
