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Hello everyone, I was wondering if someone can help, we currently have a mix of Windows 7 computers and some new Surface 3s running Windows 10. For the last few years we have used mandatory profiles on windows 7 which has worked well. However with the new Surfaces running Windows 10 I have created a new .v5 profile which works however the default apps such camera don't seem to work. Has anyone got them working or knows of a way to get them working. Let me know if you need anymore information? Kind Regards

Hi, Does anyone know where I might get hold of a Windows Movie Maker MSI installer for Windows 7? If not, what are the best practices for deploying it? Thanks in advance! Andy

I am running Windows 7 Workstations and Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Domain Controller. I am using group policy to manage printers on my workstations. When I push out these policies it will apply to most of the PCs in a classroom but not all. I have had this issue with multiple group policies in the past and can never workout why they aren't applying. As far as I can see there is no pattern, it is never the same PCs that policies dont apply. Does anyone know any reasons why policies wouldn't apply. James Taylor ICT Technician

Hi, I am using MDT 2012 on a 2008R2 Server. Have been trying to build a laptop via a Task Sequence that I havent tweaked in any way since I created it a long time ago and it is still building a week later (admittedly I am only at the school half a day per week). It was takings its time installing Windows Updates so I have removed the two steps from the Task Sequence. Are there any other steps that get added in as standard that I can remove to speed up the deployment process?

We are trying to set the proxy in IE 11 on Windows 7 and having problems with every method we've tried. Group policy preferences doesn't work, the registry method doesn't work when a user logs on but if gpupdate is run the settings are applied, we tried putting the regkeys into a logon script but they don't always apply either. We have tried different types of accounts (roaming and mandatory) and still have problems. We've even created an OU with no other GPO's in other than the proxy registry policy and added an one account and one PC but it still doesn't apply. Adding a fake regkey in the same policy works, is there anything else that we've not looked at.

When using my laptop on domain, everything is tickety-boo. Go home and log in and no desktop background, no shortcuts working on taskbar or on Start Menu. And MS Outlook will not open. Any ideas on what I have wrong with roaming profiles? All laptops are the same so it is not a CSC issue (I think). Windows XP has none of these issues. Only my W7 machines. As I am entirely phasing out XP, I need a solution. Any ideas? Anyone? Did not set up this domain environment but, Folder redirection and roaming profiles look in place. Thanks in advance.

Link: Download Group Policy Settings Reference for Windows and Windows Server from Official Microsoft Download Center http://i.snag.gy/vKuEn.jpg

Hi, I just got a new ASUS Laptop that's running Windows 7 64 Bit Home Premium. I installed steam with no issues, but whenever i try to login Steam stops responding. At first it would not go past the login screen, but after switching to Windows Vista Compatibility mode, it now goes to the "connecting to account: accountname" screen and then stops responding. It now goes this far no matter what mode it is in. I downloaded the latest video card drivers and 1 set of windows updates and am waiting on a second set (only a 128kbps connection avaliable here). I also tried re-installing steam. Any ideas on what i should do? Laptop Specs: Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.53GHz System Memory (RAM): 6GB Type of Memory (RAM): DDR2 Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M Video Memory: 1GB GDDR3 VRAM Operating System Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit

WARNING Microsoft's new OS could kill you. We've all known upgrading OS had it's pitfalls, but seriously this could make a widow out of your partner! The attached arrived in my inbox recently.

As title, we're experimenting with the Windows Live version of Movie Maker because Microsoft saw fit to remove it from Windows 7 and we have a number of lesson plans that incorporate it. Although Movie Maker itself seems to work fine, it stubbornly refuses to add content from a network location. That's going to be a big problem for us, and many other schools I suspect - we don't just give students or staff access to the local disk or a writable desktop folder to dump stuff into - can anyone else confirm this failure to add from a network location is indeed normal behaviour for the new version of Movie Maker and not just me having a moment? Ta!

Hi all I'm gonna to scream in a minute but i cant quite fathom whats occurin' with this one. Difficult to explain this one without giving some insight as to what we have setup so here we go: With our computer replacement scheme, and some long hours by me, we've got a Windows 7 deployment system setup, along with a DFS Storage Share where the win7 roaming profiles and redirected folders point to (which as far as i can see / tested / used, is working a treat). However, user naturally have to use shared documents on older storage systems - think the big old EMC Celera's type NAS systems - as this is a gradual process at the moment. We've discovered, quite annoyingly, that users are getting a very strange issue when they access files on shared documents of these other storage systems that arent the roaming profile store. For example, Word 2010 seems to create a .tmp file when the user uses a document from this shared area (permissions shouldnt be a problem as on this particular folder on this share, as 'Everyone' is set with Full Control), he's able to edit the document as normal, but when he saves it, it doesnt save it in the UNC path, although transparent to the user, it has, but it seems to have only saved it in the user's cache on his machine, and this .tmp file gets left in the UNC location. Seemingly, this is Windows automatically caching files that the user uses on the network, however, I dont recall asking windows to do this, so is this "by design" and is there a way to turn it off so that only the roaming profile / redirected folders does it, and not every file on a share that the user connects with? To note, I did try using the GPO setting "Prohibit 'Make Availabe Offline' for these files and folders" and removing the CSC etc etc, which after sorting out the users' profile, didnt seem to have the files re-cache, and I was hoping that this would help prevent it from happening but no dice unfortunately As the description of that GP setting shows, it seems very much a GUI / prevent users from manually choosing to do it etc. Cant seem to find any [obvious] setting to prevent windows from doing this.... just wondered if anyone has any ideas on this as this obviously is pretty rubbish and delaying me from finalising our new deployment of win7 etc, along with the few users that are piloting it at the moment. Many thanks for anyone that can help with this one or has ideas on it Nath.

I've been trying out windows 7. Having problems with the recycle bin. Previously in XP the recycle bin followed the redirected my documents folder. In windows 7 (documents redirected to user area) if I delete something the recycle bin icon shows that their is something in but when I open the recycle bin it is empty. When I delete the item from my documents it says it is moving it to the recycle bin. any ideas? thanks.

Hi, I have windows 7 setup to use mandatory profiles for students which run off a network share. It works OK but isn't as easy to manage as xp was e.g. I have installed Photoshop elements and premiere elements and want the acceptance agreement that shows each time a user uses it to go away. In xp I would set the load the program and setup the desktop as wanted then copy the profile to the share and make it mandatory. I can't do this in 7 because the copy button is now disabled. I tried making a profile using sysprep but ended up breaking a machine trying. I fixed a similar problem with office using a showoptin key. Does anyone know the regkey for pse and pre that stop the acceptance agreement? Or is there a better way to achieve what I'm after? Thanks

I use the evil technology that is offline files on staff laptops. One of my users did some work offline over the summer and these files just flat out refuse to synchronise. Another user suffered a similar problem on Windows XP and I simply used CSCCMD 1.1 to extract the un-synchronised files and copied them. I'm guessing a similar fix woould work here but the CSCCMD tool doesn't work on Windows 7 (or Vista for that matter) so I'm a bit stuck. How do I extract these files from the offline files cache???

Hello all, I have a strange strange problem that I can't find a solution to on the internet. We have just setup a new 2008 domain, all member servers are 2k8. All client machines are win7. However, all clients are registering a forward lookup, but nothing for the reverse. DHCP is set to Dynamically update DNS A and PTR records and to discard when lease is deleted. As a test, I have set group policy to tell the clients to manually register their PTR in computer configuration > Administrative templates > Network > DNS Client > Register PTR Record but this hasn't worked either. In the (A) record, Update associated pointer is ticked. There is also nothing in the DNS event logs, so I am at a loss as to what could be causing this issue. Has anyone had experience of this issue?

I'm in the process of locking down Windows 7 for our students and have hit a snag... I'm trying to allow them to search from the start menu but it doesn't find anything because we have hidden and disabled access to the c: drive via gpo. If i remove the "Prevent access to drives from My Computer" setting then they can search but it is then possible for them to browse the c: drive when opening/saving a file. It's still hidden in My Computer because of the "Hide these specified drives in My Computer" setting. Is there any way i can allow them to search (just needs the start menu folder(s)) but not leave it open so that they can see the drive through other ways? Thanks in advance

I do like a number of the improvements and fixes that have been included into the RC but have to say that the speed has definitely gone down hill from the beta. The test box that I have running it is slower running the W7 RC than it is with Vista. It may just be specific to the system and to do with drivers or something but it is not encouraging. I even get mouse stalls where the mouse stops moving for short periods of time when the system is doing something challanging - like changing to a resize cursor at the edge of a window . I had none of these issues with the original beta so I hope that this kind of nonscence is ironed out before release or at least only affects a very few machines. The system if kind of old but should cope, its lowst rateing is a 3 so I kind of expect more from it. I do like the maths entry program though, that looks very useful for entering formulas and the like.