Ever had a program that keeps asking for administrator rights to run even though you know it doesn’t need them? I hate when developers are too lazy to do things the right way and figure “I’ll just run as the admin and then do what I need to do!” Yeah, great idea, nevermind the giant security issues it poses or the fact that regular users like employees can’t use the program anymore! I could continue, but I’ll say something nasty. Let’s bypass this unnecessary admin request.
Recently, I’ve had my OneDrive seem to uninstall or break itself. That’s annoying. The icon in Explorer reverts to a regular folder and nothing syncs because the client program isn’t running in the background. Fortunately, it’s an easy fix and everything resets itself without a restart. Here’s the quick and dirty way to get it done…
May 17, 2018
Starting with the May cumulative Windows 10/Server 2016 update, you may have run into a CredSSP error when trying to connect via Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to another computer.
Feb 27, 2014
Backing up to one drive is just silly. Everyone knows you have to rotate your backups, so why does Windows Backup make this so difficult? Command-line to the rescue, it’s actually really easy…