How to prevent Windows 10 from starting previous programs after system failure?  My problem: In company, I have Visual studio project with TFS, but via VPN. With my job, I need to turn it on always to remote control when needed.  Sometimes when our building manager guys turn off the light (don't as me about our company policy), my computer lost power, agrr. The next day I come, turn on computer and it auto start Visual studio without connecting to VPN, so my TFS got offline.   After that I must do many steps to make TFS online again (connect TFS again, change value in regedit....  )  So, how to start windows 10 without auto run previous programs (visual studio) after system failure?
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Occasionally, a forced restart is happening on my Windows 10 computer. When the OS is restarted every program that I've had prior to the restart is reopened at startup. The programs are reopened like I would just double-click them.  I usually hold 5-6 windows of Visual Studio and few more programs all together. When the above happens, I have to wait several minutes until I can start working, as everything takes ages to load.  Is there a setting to disable these programs from automatically opening at startup?
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I have some programs running on start-up like . UAC prompts every time the Windows starts. How can I set a program to make sure that no intervening prompt would appear during start-up?
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I need to start a program (virtual machine) in the background with a start command on Windows' 7 command line. Normally you would do this like that:  start /b cmd yourprogram   But I need to pass some arguments and when I so it like this (without /b flag to see the debug information):   start C:\Users\USER&gt;start "c:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxHeadless.exe" -startvm "debian604 64"   I get this error message:     Windows cannot find '-startvm'. Make sure you typed the name   correctly, and then try again.   On the other hand when I do it in the current command line window without the start in the beginning the virtual machine runs normally - but in the foreground.   Any solutions?
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I have a problem, i have a Windows 8 realease Preview. I have UAC turned off always, but for test i switched UAC on (slider up) and restarted my pc, then, i turned it off (slider down) and restarted my pc. And now have a problem, all .exe files starts without admin privileges (my pc user is administrator). How can i fix that?  Thanks!
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I have a PC that should always be on. I recently upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7. In Windows 7 I changed the default action of the power button in the start menu to log off from my machine so that I could not accidentally shut it off. However in Windows 10 the start menu changed and this doesn't appear to be possible anymore?   I wonder how the shutdown option can be removed from the start menu. I cannot find any information about it but I expect this to be possible.
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I recently setup a new computer for my parents with windows 10 home. I made two local accounts for them - no microsoft accounts. I also would like to keep them without a password. Problem is now that windows automatically signs in with the last used account. No lock/login screen.  I tried a number of answers from similar questions here but none worked. Since it's a home version there are no group policies and the method using task scheduler does not work because accounts with no password are not allowed to create such tasks.  Are there other options to force windows to show a user list on startup without setting passwords for the accounts?
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I need to reinstall Win 10 (after virus). After reading online, it looks like I would be able to do it easily since my system is activated with digital license.   However, I have a question. I have at least 3 PCs in my house with the same Microsoft account on them. Presumably, all of them have digital license linked to this same Microsoft account. I wonder if there is a centralized place to check all my digital licensed connected to my Microsoft account?
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I know that under Windows there are multiple ways to get an app to autostart but I can never remember what all of those ways are.  Is there a single unified way to bring up a list of all programs which are set to run themselves at startup and let me disable those I don't want?  I'd prefer something built into Windows. I have Windows 7 Starter. But a free / open source / shareware tool would also be acceptable.    (This time the software I want to prevent from autostarting is: MSN Messenger, Y! Messenger, and Vodaphone Mobile Broadband, which starts whether the dongle is inserted or not. None of these three are in Windows's "Startup" folder.)
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I am running a critical research program on a Windows 7 PC that needs to run uninterrupted for several months. I have had to re-initialize the entire experiment several time due to unexpected restart. Windows Update is disabled, and I have removed automatic updating from all background programs that have an option for it, but I am still getting restarts at random intervals that completely destroy my experiment.   Is there some way to prevent any and all restart requests?
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I'm looking for Windows 7 software that will allow me to quickly create a "checkpoint", do whatever I might need to do to my computer - install programs/drivers/updates, create/delete personal files, reboot the system multiple times, open questionable attachments - and then revert the entire system back to when the checkpoint was created.  Essentially I want Windows Restore Points that save my personal files and partitions, too.  It sounds like disk imaging might be the ticket, but creating them is much too slow and the restore process too involved... I'm hoping to sacrifice full disaster recovery for speed. Creating a checkpoint should be as close to one-click as possible, and rolling back should be a matter of selecting a restore point and rebooting. Ding!  I'm familiar with Sandboxie, True Image Home "Try and Decide", Returnil, and a number of other "virtual system" apps that actively "catch" changes and allow you to commit or reject them. I'm not interested in these for a number of reasons - I prefer the "cut and dry" restore point approach.  Finally, I'll note that I've just recently become aware of . It sounds absolutely perfect, however, a quick skim through the user forums show more than a few horror stories of corrupted, unbootable systems. Any positive personal experience with the software to suppress my superstitions, or suggestions for more established alternatives would be greatly appreciated - Comodo Time Machine seems relatively new. I'm willing to purchase unbloated, quality software.  Thanks for your help!
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I asked this same question on my original account that I no longer have access to. Yesterday when I turned on my computer a tab opened that is just a blue screen called      C\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe    I got an answer saying to disable it from startup which did not work. I got a comment that said I probably installed something that wants to run a script at startup but it is unknown is it is malicious or not due to lack of information. I got another comment saying to run a program to tell me the process and copy and paste it so here is that:      "C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"    I need to know if I should be worried about this happening every time I start my computer or if I will be fine and a solution to get rid of it would be very helpful.
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I already have a window open with the web site I'm debugging. I don't need VS to launch another one for me every time I need to debug.  Is there a way to stop this behavior?
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We've upgraded some machines to Windows 10 and realized there were some updates which updated as required. However, I realized there was no option available to stop the download similar to that on Windows 7 and 8.1. The only way I could stop the download was to stop the Windows Update service.  My question is does anyone know of a way to stop auto updates or is stopping the service is the only solution?
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It would seem that there should be web resources to quickly find an answer to this question but I couldn't find any, so I'm trying my luck here.   I used the Win10 Media Creation Tool to download Win10 Pro ISO's and set up VM's I use for testing before deploying to bare metal. Once I deploy, I do so with a digital license or product key but it obviously doesn't make any sense activating while in the (temporary) VM.   Now I noticed that my VM still works, and it's been many weeks since I first used it. It's not activated, of course, but I can still log in and install software and so on.   Up until now, I always created a new VM installation from scratch when I needed to do testing. It would naturally save me some time if I could just install it once and then clone when I need a new environment (that will eventually be licensed). I thought that's not possible due to some time restraints so I didn't even try it.   Hence my questions:    Is there an official "evaluation period" for Windows 10, and how long is it?  How long can one use (from a technical perspective only) a not activated copy of Windows 10?  Which limitations are there for a not activated copy and when do they step into effect? I was, for example, not able to confirm that personalization is not possible as seems to have been the case with a not-activated Windows 8.  (See comment on answer below.)
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I recently upgraded Windows 7 to Windows 10. The biggest issue I have now is that the Windows Search service no longer works, making the Start menu mostly unusable.  If I go to Indexing Options in the control panel I see that Indexing is not running and the list of paths to index is empty.  Going to advanced options, the current index path is empty, and the new path is empty too. This is true even if I try to use the "New Index" button.  Using the troubleshooter won't help since the service doesn't start. If I try to manually start the "Windows Search" service, I get the error  "Error 3: Unable to find specified path" (this is the rough translation, the original message is in my language).  What can I do to find out which path/file is missing ? I tried to check with Process Monitor, but the only file (beside system libraries) the SearchIndexer.exe try to access seem to be c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Application (everytime the service is started the whole folder c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search is deleted and recreated) and C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile (which exists).  Edit: all available updates are installed, and issuing      SFC /scannow   Doesn't reveal any issue
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The Start Menu in Windows 10 is not working anymore.  I click, and simply nothing happens.  I could use Cortana, build 9926, but when I click on the Cortana search bar, nothing happens again.  Do you know a trick to restore the menu?  Is it something to uninstall or to install to have again the menu working?  It's not fun to navigate into Explorer every time I need to launch software!
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How to stop Skype from starting automatically when booting Windows 10?  I can't find such an option, either in the Skype app settings or in the Task Manager > Startup tab.