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Windows: Permit a limited user to run a schedule task defined by an Administrator

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Hi,

This post is developed by the trial and error principle 😉 . Here you can find some background.

On Windows a User with just “normal” user rights cannot see and execute Tasks created from User with Administrator permissions. There are dozed of sites that describes that the permissions of an task can be changed by setting the filesystems rights in C:\Windows\System32\Tasks. But this won’t work since some early Versions of Windows 10 (IMHO 1607).
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Windows, Windows knowhow

Windows: Adobe flash player files have an outdated version

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since Windows 8/Server 2012 Microsoft delivers the Adobe Flash Player with it Operating System.
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Windows knowhow

Windows: Switch back to Restore Point

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Hi,

when you want list all restore points or you to switch back to a system restore point use the Windows System Restore Point GUI.

Start it with

C:> rstrui.exe

It shows you a Window where you can switch back to the latest restore point

or it gets you a list from all available restore points.

Michael

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Windows: Windows Update error STATUS_SXS_TRANSACTION_CLOSURE_INCOMPLETE

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a possible solution of an Windows Update Errors 0x8007371B.
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Powershell, Windows knowhow, Windows Scripts

Powershell: Import a module from a file

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you just want to test a module and don’t want to install or copy it to the Powershell Modules directories? It’s possible 🙂

For example the SpeculationControl module to query the speculation control (Spectre/Meltdown vulnerability) settings of your system.
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