Windows has always allowed to you to customize different alert sounds from the Control Panel, but it remove your ability to customize a few of them in Windows 8—particularly the sounds for logon, ...

Q. You recently advised a reader to use the command “control userwords2” in order to find a menu that will allow a user to stop a Windows XP computer from ...

Maybe I'm just being a "tad slow" today but I've only just realised with my new theme on Windows 7 also has new sounds too. After some digging and searching, I found a whole bunch of new logon and ...

If you want to run Windows PowerShell scripts first at user logon, logoff, startup, and shutdown, follow these steps. Using the Local Group Policy Editor and Registry Editor, you can prioritize ...

I've got some win2000 boxes that are going to be used by random students. For ease of use, I use an auto logon user account. Using local group policy I've removed the ability to logoff and lock the ...

The next time you start Windows XP Mode, you will be back at the base setup with all of the changes you have made discarded. I suggest that everyone turn this option on as it only increases the safety ...

Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to address a known issue affecting local audit logon policies in Active Directory Group Policy. As the company explained, these local policy ...