Since data has become an essential part of our lives, its safety is also a big concern. You may want to protect your data from viruses, crushes, and corruption in many situations. You can ensure the safety of your data by backing up all your data and files, and you can create a backup either manually or automatically on Windows 11. Since we have an article about backing up our files on Windows 11 manually, you can check how to take and restore a full Backup on Windows 11 article. The current article will give you ways to schedule an automatic backup on Windows 11 through the file history and Windows backup and restore.

How to schedule backup on Windows 11 with Windows Backup and Restore

Windows backup and restore is a built-in and traditional tool that lets you schedule an automatic backup on Windows 11. Follow me with the below steps; I will create a full backup of my files on an external USB.

1. Connect your external hard drives such as USB or external hard disk to your computer if you want to take backup on an external hard disk.
2. Open the control panel. Press Windows + R to open the Run; write the control panel and click OK.
3. Click on the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) option under the system and security category.

4. Click on the Set up backup icon.

5. Select the local or external drive that you want to save your backup and click next.

6. A question asks what do you want to backup? If you choose ‘Let windows choose,’ it automatically backs up the entire data in Libraries, desktops, and default Windows folders. However, if you choose Let me choose, you can select libraries, folders, and drives and whether to include the system image or not manually. I go with the second option.

7. Select the check box of the items you want to back up. Additionally, check its box if you’re going to include the system image of drives. Else, uncheck it, and click next.

8. In the Review Your Backup Settings wizard, click on the Change schedule to set the times for your backup.

9. Specify how often to take backup and what day and time, then click Ok.

8. Finally, click on the Save Settings and Run Backup Button to create a backup.

How to create an automatic file backup?

File history is another built-in method to take backup of your files in physical storage. To set up a file history auto-backup, go with the following steps:

1. Open the Control Panel
2. Click on the Save backup copies of your files with the file history option under the System and Security category.

3. You see, the file history is turned off. Turn it on by clicking on the Turn On button.

4. After the file history is turned on, click on Run Now. You see, it says file history is saving copies of your files. It copies files from Libraries, desktops, Contacts, and Favorites.

5.  On the left-hand side, some options are there that let you bring changes into your file history backup configuration.
   1. Select drive: you can change the location and the drive you want to save the backup file.
   2. Exclude Folders: If you don’t want to save copies of specific folders or files, use this option to exclude those items.
   3. Advanced Settings:  Click on the advanced settings to specify how often you want to take a backup of your files and how long you want those files to be saved.

6. After setting the time for backup, click on the Save changes button.

Conclusions

With the above two built-in methods, you can schedule an automatic backup on your Windows 11 and ensure the safety of your data even further. You can share your thoughts and questions in the comment section of this page.

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You set the password on your computer to protect your privacy and ensure the safety of your data. However, it might get redundant to enter the password each time you sign in to your computer. You can find numerous articles written about turning off the lock screen password on your computer on google. I checked them, and some may not work on your computer. In the following article, you will learn easy and tested ways to remove (disable) a login password on Windows 11.

Read about: Reset Windows 11 Password from Command Prompt

Remove the login password from the registry.

Working with the registry is a critical process and requires taking extra caution. You can disable the Microsoft account password or local user password with the registry. To disable the login password from the registry, follow the steps below:

1. Press the Windows + R button to open the run box.

2. Write the Regedit in the Run box and click ok. Allow the user to make changes.
3. Navigate to the following path: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon

4. In the Winlogon folder, find the ‘DefaultUserName’ string. If you did not find it, create a new String by right-clicking on the Winlogon folder, then New>String Value. Rename it with the DefaultUserName and double-click on it to open.

5. In the Edit String window, enter your Microsoft account, User Name, or Other ID that you want to disable their password in the Value data and click ok to save the changes.

6. Find another string with ‘DefualtPassword’ or create a new one and rename that as ‘DefualtPassword.’
7. Double click on the DefualtPassword string and enter the password of the related account in the Value data and click ok.

8. Now find the ‘AutoAdminLogon’ string in the Winlogon folder or create a new one and name it AutoAdminLogon.
9. Double click on the ‘AutoAdminLogon’ string, set its value data to 1, and click Ok.

Finally, after the restart, you will automatically log in (Without a password) to your computer.

How to remove the login password with Command Prompt?

If you are signing into your computer with a local account, removing the password is more effortless. One easy way to remove the local account password is through the CMD.

1. Open the command prompt as administrator.
2. Write the net user and enter; see the list of all user accounts on your computer.
3. Now write net user username * and enter. (instead of the username, write the name of the user you want to disable its password)
4. Instead of writing the password for the selected user, enter without writing anything. (they should be blank)
5. Do not write anything in the confirmation password, and press enter.

6. You will see a message saying, ‘The command was completed successfully.

You just turned off the lock screen password on Windows 11. Restart your computer, and you will log in without a password.

Disable the login password on Windows 11 from the User Account Panel.

Another way to disable the user account password on Windows 11 is through the User Account Panel.

1. Write the Netplwiz in the Run box and click ok. (Or write the Netplwiz in the search box and open it)
2. Select the intended account from the user account panel, uncheck the box, and click ok. ( If you cannot select the intended account at first, check the above box once, then choose the desired account, and then uncheck the box )

3. Enter the account’s password and confirm the password, then click ok.

Finally, restart your computer; you will log in without a password.

Conclusions

If you get tired of entering the password with each login, you can follow the above methods to remove the login password on Windows 11. I hope the article can help solve your problems.

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When you create a file server, the File Server Resource Manager (FSRM) is a must-have tool. You can use the FSRM to set limits for storage, classify files and folders, and control the types of file(s) you want to store on the file server. Moreover, the FSRM feature is not installed by default on Windows Server 2022 and the previous versions. You can install this feature manually using PowerShell or Server Manager. You will learn how to install the FSRM on Windows Server 2022. Additionally, you will learn how to restrict a folder by storage size and data type.

Install File Server Resource Manager on Windows Server 2022

There are two ways to install this feature on Windows Server 2022:

1. Install Using PowerShell

An easy and quick way to install the FSRM on Windows Server 2022 is using PowerShell.

1. Search the PowerShell in the Search box or open it from the Start Menu on Windows Server.
2. In the PowerShell window, write: Install-WindowsFeature FS-Resource-Manager and enter.

It may take a few seconds to install. After the FSRM is installed, you can write the: Get-WindowsFeature |More to check whether it is installed successfully or not. If the installation was completed, you see the X sign in front of its name.

2. Install the FSRM through Server Manager

Another way to install the File Server Resource Manager on Windows Server is via the Server Manager.

1. Open the Server Manager in your Windows Server. Click on Manage and Add Roles and Features on the top right-hand side.
2. Click on Next in Add Roles and Features Wizard.
3. Select the installation type: Role-based or Feature-based installation, and click Next.

4. Choose the destination server and click next.

5. Find the File and Storage Services feature in the Select Server Roles window and expand it. Under the File and Storage Services, there are two more options. You expand the File and ISCSI Services.

6. Find the File Server Resource Manager feature and select (Check) it, and a new window pop up; click on Add Features, and click next.

7. In the Select Feature window, click Next, and in the Confirm the Installation Selections window, click on the Install button.

After the installation, open the Server Manager. Click on the Tools menu, and see the File Server Resource Manager added there.

Configure File Server Resource Manager

When you open the File Server Resource Manager feature, there are five sub-features under it. You can use those sub-features according to the requirement. In this article, we discuss the most important of them: Quota Management and File Screening Management.

Quota Management

People use Quota Management to limit the space allowed for the volumes or folders and notify the admin or the user via email or other notifications. When you open the Quota Management, there are two other sub-container:

1. Quota: This container contains all the existing and upcoming quotas with details.
2. Quota template: it carries all the existing and ready templates.

How do create quotas?

1. Right-click on the Quota container and click on Create Quota.
2. In the Create Quota window, specify the folder path that you want to restrict. You can do it by browsing or writing the path of that folder.

3. In the same window, a question asking how do you want to configure quota properties? Beneath that question, there are two options.

1.  If you check the “Drives properties from this quota template”, then open the drop-down menu. And select the limited space amount from the existing templates, and click Create.
2. Alternatively, if you check the second answer (Define custom quota properties), click on the Custom Properties button. The Custom Properties button lets you specify the quota properties yourself.

4. If you want a custom quota, specify the space limit and types of quotas in the custom properties windows. There are two types of Quotas:

1. Hard quota specifies not to exceed the defined amount.
2. Soft quota is just for monitoring.

5. Now click on Add button for the notification thresholds.

6. In the threshold window, specify when and how notification should notify the admin or user. And what type of notifications (Email, Event log, Command, or Report) should notify the admin or the user.

7. After defining the type of notification, click Ok to close the threshold windows. Then click again Ok to close the quota properties window. Finally, click on Create button in the Create Quota, and a new window asks you to save the newly created template. If you want to save the template, give it a name and click on Ok. Else, check the Save custom quota without saving the template and click the Ok.

File Screening Management

You can use file screening management to control the types of files users can store in the folder or volumes. If you expand the file screening management, you will see three options:

1. File Screen: you can see and create new file screens.
2. File Screen templates: it keeps many pre-made templates that you can use.
3. The third option is file Group: it consists of files in one group.

How to Create New File Screen

1. Right-click on File Screen and click on Create File Screen.
2. Specify the path of the folder or volumes you want to implement the restriction.

3. Question asking how do you want to configure file screen properties? If you check the Drive properties from this file screen template, open the drop-down menu beneath that and select the type of file you want to ban. Click create. You are done!

4. On the other hand, if you create a custom file screen, check the Define custom file screen properties. And click on the Custom Properties button.

5. In file screen custom properties, define the type of file screens you want. There are two types of file screens:

1. Active screening: this type does not allow users to save unauthorized files.
2. Passive screening: allow users to save files (It is for monitoring)

6. Additionally, in the File Screen Custom properties window, click on the Create button if you want to create a new file screen. Or, select one option from the file groups column and click on the Edit button to bring changes to the existing file groups.

7. Define the type of notification (Email message, event, comment, or report) from the top menu and click Ok to close the window.

8. After you customize and select the file screen, click on the Create button. A new window shows up asking do you want to save the newly created template. If yes, give the name and click Ok. Else, check the Save custom file screening without saving the template and click Ok.

The Conclusion

To conclude, File Server Resource Manager is a feature in Windows Server that enables users to have extra monitoring of their files. In the article, you learned how to install the FSRM feature in Windows Server 2022 and limit folder size, and prevent unauthorized files. Write down your questions in the comment section.

You may find the below article useful!

Windows Server 2022 Backup Installation and Configuration

How to Create and Configure Storage Pool on Windows Server 2022

How to Configure NTFS Permissions on Windows Server 2022

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Due to the security issue, you may set a complex password on your system for the safety of your data. If you forget or lose passwords on Windows 11 or other previous versions, you can safely reset the password before logging into the system. Moreover, there are various ways (Third-party tools and built-in tools) to reset the password without losing the data. This article covers how to reset local user account passwords on Windows 11, through answering the security questions, password reset disk files, and resetting the password using CMD.

You can read this article if you are using windows 10: How to Reset Lost Windows 10 Password Correctly?

1: Reset Windows 11 password with security questions

If you added security questions while creating your local account for Windows 11, you can answer those questions again and sign in successfully. After entering the wrong password, you will see the “the password is incorrect. Try Again” notification. Then click ok, and go with the following steps:

• Under the password box, you see the “Reset Password” link on the sign-in screen; click on that.

• Three questions with their answer boxes appear. Write the exact answers you gave when setting the account then press enter.
• Provide a new password and confirm the new password, and press enter.

Login with the new password without losing a single piece of data.

2: Reset forgotten password using password reset disk

Another way to reset the forgotten password on Windows 11 is through the password reset disk (It is a file you create on a USB flash drive and lets you safely reset the password later). This method is possible if you have already created a password reset disk on a USB flash drive. Since creating a password reset disk on Windows 11 and Windows 10 is the same, you can check this article Reset Windows 10 password with password reset USB for creating a password reset disk. After plugging in the USB flash drive or SD card that contains the password reset disk file, go ahead with the following steps to reset the local user account’s password.

• After entering the wrong password, click on the Reset Password link in the sign-in window.
• Scroll down to the end of the questions and their boxes, then click on the Use a password reset disk instead link.

• Click next in the Password Reset Wizard. And the system automatically detects the USB Drive if you have inserted the USB already. After selecting the password reset disk from the top-down menu, click next.

• New Window asks you to enter the new password, confirm it, type the new password hint, and click next.
• Finish the password resetting, return to the sign-in window, and log in with the new password.

You are done with resetting the password using the password reset disk.

3: Reset password without using USB, or other software

The third way to reset the password on Windows 11 before login into the computer is through a command prompt. This method does not need you to create a password reset disk, or must-have answered the security questions. Before starting to reset the password, you need to do the following process to get access to the CMD window in the sign-in window:

• In your sign-in window, press Shift-Key and restart your computer. This takes you to the Windows Recovery window. In the windows recovery, select Troubleshoot option.

• Click Advanced Options > See more recovery options > System Image Recovery.
• Now click on the Select a system image and click next.

• In another window that asks you to select the backup location for the computer, you want to restore. Click on the Advanced button at the bottom of the page.

• A tiny window pops up; click on the Install a driver. Ask you to insert the installation media, and click OK.

• You are in your system. Select the disk where you stored the windows operating system (mostly C drive)
• When you are in the C drive (Or the drive you installed the operating system), click on the Windows folder. Then click on the System32 folder.

• Find a file with the name of Utilman, first copy the name and then rename the file (the new name can be anything).

• After you renamed the Utilman, now find another file with the name of CMD and paste the Utilman to rename this one.

• Finally, return to the sign-in window without any other changes.

Use CMD to reset Windows 11 password and create a new password

In the sign-in window, click on the Accessibility option at the right-bottom corner to open the command prompt window. Now write the net user in the command prompt and enter to see all the local accounts, and then select the one you want to reset their password.

After selecting the local user, write the net user name_of_the_account new_password and enter.

If the operation was successful, you would see the completion message in the second line. Return back to the sign-in option and enter the new password. You are done!

To wrap up, you learned three simple ways to recover the lost or forgotten password on Windows 11. Write your questions in the comment sections. Thank you.

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A virus protection software always protects your system from infected by viruses, malware, and any malicious software. This article focus on how to remove malware from Windows 10 protect any other operating systems with malware protection tools, such as Anti-malware, anti-ransomware, anti-exploit, and malicious website.

Malware, short for malicious software, is an umbrella term used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile or intrusive software, including computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other malicious programs. It can take the form of executable code, scripts, active content, and other software. Malware is defined by its malicious intent, acting against the requirements of the computer user – and so does not include software that causes unintentional harm due to some deficiency.

Remove Malware from Windows 10

Protect and remove malware from Window 10 is easy by applying these simple steps. All Windows operating system infrastructures are the same. So you can apply this guide on all Windows not only Windows 10. It’s not too hard such as an advanced persistent threat. The (APT) is a network attack in which an unauthorized person gains access to a network and stays there undetected for a long period of time. The intention of an APT attack is to steal data rather than to cause damage to the network or organization. In such a case a network security specialist needs to solve the advanced persistent threat issue.

1. Check System Viruses Manually

The manual virus crawling and checking will get you expert in Windows operating system. The difference between scanning system with Antivirus software and checking manually is learning about Windows system monitoring tools inside Windows. The Windows performance monitoring tools are best Windows built-in tools that most Windows users are not aware of them.

To find and track a virus in Windows 10, read the article “Removing Virus from Laptop without Antivirus“. In this informative article, we find and track the behaviors of a virus in Windows operating system.

2. Antivirus software and Malware Protection Software

Although, Windows 10 has a built-in system protection software “Windows Defender” but currently it’s not good virus protection software. On our testing lab, Windows defender had been failed to detect most common malicious software and viruses. It even could not detect image.exe folder virus.

So, it’s better to install a well-known antivirus software on your system and keep it updated with the latest version. We recommend you the topic of some best free antivirus software.

3. Windows System Care and PC Optimizer Software

A PC Optimizer is a collection of auto troubleshoot and optimizing tools which help make your PC clean, secure and work faster. It finds and fixes most common Windows errors and problems automatically without user engagement with built-in Windows troubleshooting tools.

The Windows Care Genius is one the PC optimizer tools that we are using on our network computers. To know more about the features and functions read the Windows Care Genius review article. We wrote completely about pros and cons, and 22 features.

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It’s laborious and time-consuming process to find viruses on a computer without antiviruses or system protection software. But here we try to analyze, find and remove virus from Laptop without antivirus software. It shows how a virus tries to spread itself in a system where there is not installed antivirus and system protection software.

I begin from a simple folder “Image.exe” folder inside a pen-drive. When I attempt to open it, nothing happened. Yes, nothing happened, but it spread on your system.

Remove Virus from Laptop without Antivirus

Let’s trace the Image.exe files in a Windows 10 system manually without antivirus.

Note: It’s important to know that Windows defender is not recognized “image.exe” folder as a suspicious software. See the Windows defender result from below screenshot.

So, Windows Defender is a useless Windows system protection software inside your computer.  Any way to see the file extension you must configure your Windows Folder Options.

1. Search “File Explorer Option” in Windows and choose Show hidden files, folders, and drivers then un-check Hide empty drives, Hide extensions for known file types, Hide folder merge conflicts, and Hide protected operating system files (Recommended) from View tab.

Now your system is ready to show all hidden files, folders and extensions of known file types.

2. Open task manager from the Task bar or typing “taskmgr” on Run. Then explore the processes tab of task manager to find the Image.exe running process.

You can find the other specious software as well. Here I just find the image.exe folder virus in my system.

3. Now, right click the image.exe (32 bit) to find the file location. Click the Open file location to see where the main virus file is located in your system?

4. Yes, it shows the exact location of virus files. Now try to delete it the main virus file and follow the steps to clean the system from virus.

5. You can not delete the main image.exe folder while the file is running on your system. Before deleting the file, you must stop or kill its process from Task Manager. To kill the process right click the image.exe (32 bit) and click End task. See the step 3 screenshot.

When you stop the process of virus from your system by killing the process, you must see the Windows Startup section for startup behavior of virus as well. On Task Manager, Startup tab checks what you can find something related to viruses or specious software.

6. The iconrdb.exe file on Startup tab is related to image.exe virus.

7. Here you can find the virus startup file location by right clicking the virus startup file and open file location.

The file is located in the user profile, AppData and Roaming folder. Just delete the virus files and close the Roaming folder. Do not delete the other files or folders.

Note: Some viruses have its own services or combined with some Windows services. You must check the Windows services as well.

Windows Task Manager is a simple and powerful Windows monitoring tools you can directly monitor system performance of your computer.

Remove Virus with Antiviruses Software

Having installed an Antivirus software protects your system from most common viruses, malware, etc. Never use your computer without antivirus, security protection software or internet security software. Especially when you don’t have good knowledge of computer security and internet security, you must be careful.

Even a free Antivirus software can detect most well-known viruses and suspicious software and keep secure your system.

Related: Best Free Antiviruses Software 

The free Avast antivirus detects the suspicious behaviors of image.exe and iconrdb.exe virus.

Finally, protect your system with antivirus software, keep update your computer system and software. Try to get update your information security knowledge as well.

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To enable Windows 10 developer mode, you make your Windows system a bit risky. If you are not a developer, so don’t enable Windows 10 developer mode just for testing none trusted outside Windows Store Apps and games.

The Windows 10 developer feature includes on any devices such as Windows 10 desktops, tablets and phones. You can enable a device for development, or just for sideloading.

• Sideloading is installing and then running or testing an app that has not been certified and verified by Windows Store.
• Developer mode let you sideload apps, and also run apps from Visual Studio in debug mode.

Note: If you sideload apps, you should still only install apps from trusted sources. When you install a sideloaded app that has not been certified by the Windows Store, you are agreeing that you have obtained all rights necessary to sideload the app and that you are solely responsible for any harm that results from installing and running the app. For privacy and policy, once see the Windows Store section of this privacy statement.

Enable Windows 10 Developer Mode

1. On your Windows 10 device that you want to enable developer mode, go to Settings. Choose Update & security, then choose For developers.
2. Choose the level of access that you need. For more detailed info about the options, see Which settings should I choose: sideload apps or developer mode?
3. Read the disclaimer for the setting you chose, then click Yes to accept the change.

For your Windows 10 mobile devices, navigate to the same Settings and find the Windows 10 developer mode from Mobile Settings.

The Windows 10 developer mode is mostly usable for Windows developers. But the Sideload apps feature is for installing apps and games without any Microsoft account. Without Sideload apps option, you must login to Microsoft Windows Store in order to install apps.

This option enables you to easily install third party apps in your Windows 10 mobile devices, but it make your device none secure.

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Configure user account control behavior in Windows let you easily protect your system unknown behaviors. It helps prevent potentially harmful programs from making changes to your computer without any warring. If you don’t know about UAC and how it works, read the below short details from Technet.

What is User Account Control?

The User Account Control (UAC) is a security component that enables users to perform common tasks as non-administrators called standard users , and as administrators without having to switch users, log off, or use Run As Administrator. 

User accounts that are members of the local Administrators group run most applications as a standard user. By separating user and administrator functions, UAC helps users move toward using standard user rights by default.When an administrator logs on to a computer that is running Windows 10, the user is assigned two separate access tokens. Access tokens, which contain a user’s group membership and authorization and access control data, are used by the Windows operating system to control what resources and tasks the user can access. Read more about UAC.

Configure User Account Control behavior in Windows 10

Let’s do to configure user account control behavior in your Windows 10 and make sure your system is pretty enough secure.

1. On the Windows search type “UAC” and open the User Account Control. The default setting is on Notify me only when apps try to make changes to my computer. This level is not notify you when you bring any changes to your system. Because all Windows default programs are familiar apps to Windows.

If you need to bring changes to UAC settings, simply bring down or up the options and fix it for your system. Never put the option on Never notify me when system trying to install software and make changes on my system. It’s the worst option for any system. Versus the Never notify me, Always notify me is annoying you when normally work on Windows.

The below lists are the notifications window and icons colors or UAC.

• Blue background with a blue and gold shield icon: It notify when you run a Server administration tools to make any changes.
• Red background with a red shield icon: The app is blocked with Group Policy or is blocked the app publisher. It happens for unknown software publishers.
• Blue background with a blue shield icon: Notify for apps that trusted by local computer and signed by authenticated user.
• Yellow background with a yellow shield icon: Notifies for non-trusted by local computer and unsigned apps.

These settings and configurations are just for a single computer. But how to configure UAC on a large network with more than ten brunches.

Configure User Account Control with Group Policy

On a local computer or Windows server you can configure UAC settings through group policy. On single computer you only apply the settings for your own computer and users, but on Windows server you can apply to all users and computers of the network.

1. Type “gpedit.msc” on Windows run to open group policy editor on Windows 10 or other Windows client. But for Windows server type “gpmc.msc” to open group policy manager console and create a GPO then edit and make changes.

You can simply enable or disable the user account control. If you don’t know the basics of group policy manger or editor, read about group policy management.

Ask us, comment us and let us know your problems about User account control behavior on Windows server and Windows clients.

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