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Category: Windows Server

Splitting a big file in multiple small files

Sometimes it can be useful to split a big file in multiple smaller files. There are simple software that allow to do this operation, but if you already installed 7-Zip, the famous files compressor which you can download at https://www.7-zip.org, you don’t need any of them. In fact, 7-Zip doesn’t oblige you to compress the…

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How to install Oracle VirtualBox in a Windows PC

Oracle VirtualBox is a virtualization software, which allows to run on your PC multiple operating systems. You can run VirtualBox on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and Solaris (the “host” operationg system) and it supports a variety of “guest” operating systems like old versions of Windows and Linux. In addition to all this, is open source and…

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Virtualization software

Lock a Bitlocker drive again after unlocking

In my latest post I explained how to encrypt a drive with Bitlocker to avoid unauthorized access to your data. After unlocking a drive, sometimes you may want to lock the drive again. I couldn’t find any option in the user interface to do this (the only way seems to be reboot the PC). Searching in…

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Encrypt a Windows drive with Bitlocker

Today I want to show you how to encrypt a Windows drive. Why should  you encrypt a drive? Basically to prevent your data from being read by unauthorized persons, that may happen for example if your laptop or external USB drive is stolen. So if you want to encrypt your drive, Bitlocker is your friend. But…

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Bitlocker

Error message: User account restriction error

During the creation of a scheduled task using the task scheduler of Windows Server  2008 R2, I got the following error: Error has occurred for task ‘TaskName’. Error message: User account restriction error. The possible reasons are that blank passwords not allowed, or that a policy restriction has been enforced. and I couldn’t save the…

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