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Your Windows firewall may not work as it should under Windows 10/8/7. You may have been infected by malware and it has changed the firewall settings – or you may have tried to configure the firewall settings manually, but you have done some damage somewhere. In any case, you can always restore or reset the Windows firewall settings to the default settings .

In this post, we will see how to reset Windows firewall settings to the default Windows 10/8/7 settings.

A firewall is software or hardware that scans information from the Internet or a network and blocks or lets it pass through your computer, depending on your firewall settings. It can prevent hackers or malware from accessing your computer via a network or the Internet. A firewall can also prevent your computer from sending malware to other computers. read more

You can have different types of user profiles in a single Windows operating system installation because multiple profiles are possible. In Windows 8, you can have mandatory, voluntary, temporary or system user profiles that are collectively called Special Profiles. If you are logged in with a temporary profile, you are only logged in with a special profile. It should be mentioned here that local user accounts are not contained in special profiles.

Special profiles in Windows 8

Windows 8 is the operating system that introduced the applications into the Windows operating system. These applications require deployment operations and are available in standard packages. Deployment means adding, saving, deploying, updating or removing an application from the system. Let’s get back to the subject. We have found that if you are connected to a specific profile, you may not be able to find the modern applications on the system. In addition, you cannot perform deployment operations if you are in the same profile. read more

Data Execution Prevention, abbreviated DEP, is a security feature that helps you protect your system from viruses and other security threats by monitoring your programs to ensure that they use your computer’s memory safely. Users do not need to worry about enabling this feature because it already runs in the background and runs in the background to protect binaries or Windows system programs that want it. One more time. If you want to be sure that the application works/verifies whether Data Execution Prevention or DEP is enabled or not in your Windows 10/8/7 PC, here is the trick. read more

Windows 8.1 introduced a new feature called Quiet Hours, which is also included in Windows 10. This feature allows users to delete notifications during this period. The idea behind introducing this feature is that there may be times when you don’t want to be bothered or interrupted by notifications.

Quiet hours on Windows

When you set quiet time on your Windows device, you can’t receive notifications of applications or calendar events, messages and email notifications and even take calls via Skype when the device is idle. In such situations, you will not hear any noise and the screen will not turn on due to a notification. read more

You may have found NFO and DIZ files and wondered what they are for? Normally, NFO files are linked to the Microsoft Info Viewer. If you have downloaded artwork or ASCII software from Warez sites, you almost always get these files.

.nfo files and ten

In fact, these files are only text files with a different extension and generally ASCII art.

The .nfo file is essentially an 80 character wide text file. It contains all information about the application or game, including engraving or installation instructions and a serial number if necessary. You can simply open it in a notepad. read more

How many times have you tried to cancel a print job, but if you right-click the print job to end the blocked print job, it doesn’t matter? Besides, you can’t print anything. In short, your print queue is blocked – you can neither print anything nor cancel pending print jobs.

If you are experiencing this problem on your Windows 10/8/7 system and you want to cancel the print job but you cannot, you have these options. read more

The Windows shortcut list is long! It never seems to stop. Every time you feel that you know all the Windows shortcuts, someone else comes to prove that the term is wrong. Here is another tip to help you quickly resize the Explorer icons or change the display type in a folder. This is a mouse/keyboard combination to change the size of icons on the desktop or to change the type of display in the Explorer window.

Change the display type

In Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7 or Windows Vista Explorer, you can change the display type between List, Content, Details, Tiles, etc. using the Views button on the toolbar and resize the icons from small to extra large by clicking on the specified options. read more

As its name suggests, the Remote Desktop function of Windows helps us to access another computer from our computer. This function plays an important role in solving problems on our system if a support representative wants to remotely access and repair our computer. Today, using this feature, I noticed that I was able to connect to other computers by myself, but then the Remote Desktop connection was automatically disconnected. So I tried connecting to another computer and found the same result.

First, I made sure that the Windows firewall was disabled to ensure that the firewall is not the culprit. It didn’t help. I read somewhere that WiFi printers could also cause the problem when using the Remote Desktop function, so I also disconnected them, but that didn’t solve the problem either. I bypassed the following solution and it worked: read more

For security reasons, if you want to hide, show, add or delete DEFAULT Control Panel applets specified or existing in Windows 10/8/7, or if you want to add your own applets to the Control Panel, proceed as follows.

Delete or hide applets from the control panel

Type gpedit.msc in the Windows Start menu search bar, press Enter to open Group Policy Editor > User Configuration. Expanding Administrative Templates > Click Control Panel > View only selected applets in Control Panel > Properties.

A dialog box opens. Click Activate. The show button comes to life. read more

We all know that a few weeks ago Microsoft released the Windows 8.1 update to end users. But users are faced with different types of errors when updating their system, so far we have seen the solution for 0×80240031 errors, solution for errors when installing Windows 8.1 to USB from the installation. Today, in this article, we discuss the solution to another bug we just discovered.

Windows 8.1 could not be installed. Please try again. Error code: 0x80070714

As you can see in the error screenshot above, there is no support for the solution to fix this. Finally, I bypassed this thread and found their answers as one of the solutions. According to the people discussing this bug here, they found that the problem is somehow the result of a contradiction of the SQL services running on the system. If you are also faced with this problem, it is worth correcting the error. Here’s how: read more