It is designed for medium to large enterprises and includes Device Guard to lock down devices, secure intranet connectivity, and domain-based credential protection, amongst other distinct features. That said, the Enterprise edition is free to use for 90 days (evaluation period), after which you will need to provide an activation key that needs to be purchased. If not, after the evaluation period, the background will go dark and you will receive continuously (annoying) prompts telling you that your version of Windows is not licensed....

Normally the enterprise version is for IT Pros and enterprise-level customers who require all the features of Windows 10 Enterprise. The evaluation version of Windows 10 Enterprise version 2004 can be downloaded by anyone with a Microsoft ID. The evaluation copy can run for 90 days and the evaluation period can be extended up to 180 days. After the expiration period is over, the Desktop background will turn black, a notification will appear that this installation of Windows is not genuine and the system will restart every hour....

Like an IP address guides traffic between different devices over the internet, a port defines which application or service the data is intended for, once it reaches (or leaves) a device. There can be occasions when a network admin or even a simple user would need to know which port or ports are being used by a specific application or vice versa. As a gamer, there are instances when you must use port forwarding on your router to reduce latency between the game and its servers....

In this article, we will explain how to re-enable the disabled or grayed out Outlook advanced search functionality using Windows Registry. The steps are simple and will enable your search options immediately. Enabling Advanced search in Microsoft Outlook Advanced search gets disabled automatically if you have disabled indexing in Windows. We can safely enable indexing to enable Outlook advanced search. Hopefully, Outlook advanced search will be available now. You can do the advanced search again within your inbox about any email, any subject, any sender, or any receiver....

In an interesting development Avast has released Avast for Business Free Antivirus which also works on Server Operating Systems including Windows Server 2012. Currently there is rarely any free antivirus product for Windows Server OS. Avast for Business Free Antivirus 2015 comes with a cloud management console to manage devices across your organization using a simple web console. Features Some of the features of Avast for Business Free Antivirus 2015 are as follows:...

You may have noticed a three-letter code appearing at the end of any file name stored on your computer system. For instance, if you open up a photo on your computer, you will see either .jpg or .png at the end of the file name or any other similar filename extension that is normally used by your computer’s operating system to categorize the file type. Similarly, you will see ....

The best way to confirm this is to run a memory diagnostic test. The Windows Memory Diagnostic tool is a built-in utility that performs stress-tests on your memory hardware and presents its findings. Let us see how this tool can be used to our advantage. Why use the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool The memory modules on your computer directly affect the overall system performance. Its speed and efficiency are determined by many factors, including the RAM....

The Blue Screen of Death (BSoD) is pushed off as the computer shuts down abruptly. This is because your operating system no longer knows how to handle the process causing the error and shuts down the computer in order to prevent it from damaging anything. The Asynchronous Procedure Call (APC) is a function that is explicitly designed to run outside the main function. The APC Index Mismatch indicates an inconsistency between the number of processes entering an area of operation and the number of processes leaving it....

This is because Chrome is perhaps a stable and secure web browser out of the many options, and it receives security and feature updates much quicker than the others. That said, some users have reported receiving an error stating the following when trying to access specific websites using Chrome: According to the users who encountered this issue, they claim that only they are experiencing the problem while others around them can access the same website/webpage....

Modern games today have embedded software that protects the copyrights of digital media. This software is known as Digital Rights Management (DRM). Some games that have DRM software are incompatible with Alder Lake processors. According to Intel, some third-party DRM software is recognizing the E-cores as a separate system, rendering the game incapable of running at all. If you have experienced any games that are unable to run on your computer, this might be the reason....

There is a workaround for this! You can now install all essential and required applications using a single command through the built-in Command Line Interface (CLI) in Windows 10. This approach will save you a lot of navigation as well as time. Continue through the article to learn how you can install every basic application quickly. Install Windows Package Manager: Winget In May 2020, Microsoft released a package manager by the name “Winget....

Windows 11 Build 22567 and higher will now require users to connect their computers to the internet at the time of setting up the computer for initial use on the Out Of Box Experience (OOBE) screens. If you are not connected to the internet, you will see the screen as in the image below with the following error, and will have no option but to connect the computer to the internet to finish the installation by default....

Oracle releases patch updates for all its products every three months. The patches for this quarter are available as per schedule. These updates are called “Critical Patch Updates” or CPU. Why is updating to Java 8 Update 231 important for me? Oracle has released fixes for 20 exploits and vulnerabilities in Update 231. Almost all the vulnerabilities can be exploited over the network without a user login. So it’s important for users to update to the latest version of Java....

Microsoft has published the updates for two separate groups; where one group will receive the update 22622.290 while the other will receive the update 22621.290. Update 22622 will have new features introduced to the Beta channel, whereas update 22621 will have the new features disabled by default. Moreover, some fixes apply to both these updates, whilst some only apply to build 22622. The 2-update approach has been adopted by Microsoft for this flight as a means to test their enablement packages for Windows 11, as they do with Windows 10 already....

Like Skype, Microsoft Teams also automatically starts up when you turn on your computer or sign into Windows 10. This feature is the default regardless of whether you want to use‌ ‌it‌ ‌or‌ ‌not. You may need to use Teams from time to time and uninstalling it may not be an option, but you can stop it from starting automatically so that it is only called upon when needed (manually started)....

One of the personalization options is changing of the Desktop wallpaper. You can’t change the Desktop wallpaper until you activate Windows with a valid product key. If you are part of a Windows domain, your system administrator may disable changing the wallpaper. In this article, we will show you how to change Windows 10 wallpaper without using the settings app. Set desktop background wallpaper using the Group Policy Editor As we have repeatedly mentioned, the importance of the Group Policy Editor through most of our publications can also be used to perform the simplest of tasks, such as assigning a picture as your desktop background....

In this article, we discuss various ways through which you can prevent experiencing the same Blue Screen of Death error again on the hardware that you are currently using. What is Dxgmms2.sys Dxgmms2.sys is a critical file in Windows that is responsible for the graphics rendering capabilities of your computer. If it cannot handle the rendering process it will throw exception which results in a blue screen of death. Therefore the entire computer will need to be restarted to repair the problem....

Although you can check for drivers via Windows Update or install them manually, we can also use third-party tools to update our drivers from time to time. There are many free driver updating tools which provide great facilities with their crowdy features. This article lists down the best free tools that could be used to update your system’s drivers, and intimate you when a new one is available. Iobit Driver Booster Download Iobit Driver Booster Iobit Driver Booster is a simple and practical tool....

This can even occur if you have already tried entering the password you know is correct multiple times and some of the other devices are already connected, but yours cant. Then why does it show “Can’t connect to this network?” Even if you are using the correct password, there could be a number of reasons why your device won’t connect to the wi-fi. Apart from a minor error, such as the router being powered off, there can be some technical errors as well, preventing you from connecting to the internet....

Windows Servers are used for enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications. Using this group of operating systems, administrators can apply and implement policies while enhancing their network’s security infrastructure. In this post, we will discuss the different Windows Server versions, what unique feature(s) they brought, and in what order they were released. A common misunderstanding some people have is between the Server versions and their editions. The version of the server is either denoted by integers (this naming convention is no longer used) or suffixed with its corresponding year....