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    Solved How can I send sleep/restart commands remotely?

    Hi guys, I have a small Home network setup and I want a simple way of sending a command from my pc upstairs to a media pc downstairs which can shutdown/sleep/restart it remotely. FYI, both pc's have windows 8 pro 64bit and the media pc is is mostly in sleep-mode. Can you recommend any app or...
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    Solved Win 8 - Disable Shutdown & Restart for ALL users & LOCALPC

    Hi everyone, I have Windows 8 Pro (64-bit). It's currently setup to run as a media server for my home, but I'm getting really annoyed as I keep accidently shutting it down or restarting. The only thing I want it to be able to do is to goto sleep. I don't want to disable buttons just for...
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    Windows 8 won't go into sleep mode

    hi guys, my pc used to be fine before and could go into sleep mode (s1-s3) without any issues. Recently though I've noticed that it stays awake in Windows 8. Don't get me wrong, even now, sometimes it works fine, but on other occasions nothing happens. I've tried a lot of stuff:- registry...
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    How do i permanently disable safe mode?

    hi guys, I have protected my pc at work and locked it down so that no employee can access windows 8. Only problem is that yesterday I accidently pressed reset button midway whilst windows was loading and it brought up the safe mode screen. Since I have a full backup image of my drive, I can...
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    Some security questions

    hi everyone, I'm trying to lockdown windows 8 as much as possible for one user. I just want to know the following:- 1. How can I restrict access to multiple files? for example I want to stop them from running many .chm files, so I don't want to select one file at a time...I want to be able to...
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    New Group Policy updating problems

    hi guys, I have windows 8. I've created 2 group policy files - respectively called locked.msc and the other called unlocked.msc. As you can imagine, the unlocked.msc had default settings and the locked.msc restricted a lot of settings for the user. The problem is that I needed to install...
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    Need help with locking down Windows 8 Metro UI

    Hi guys, I have got a pc that my whole family use and I've just completed a fresh Windows 8 Pro installation. I have created 2 accounts:- Admin Kids I know that Metro UI cannot be disabled and I don't mind keeping it, but surely if I want to be able to lock the kids account, so that they...
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