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  2. Group Policy - Wikipedia

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    Since Windows XP, users can manually initiate a refresh of the group policy by using the gpupdate command from a command prompt. [4] Group Policy Objects are processed in the following order (from top to bottom): [5] Local - Any settings in the computer's local policy. Prior to Windows Vista, there was only one local group policy stored per ...

  3. Comparison of open-source configuration management software

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    To remotely manage systems, it needs the target machines to already run Guix [111] or it can also alternatively deploy configurations inside Digital Ocean Droplet. [112] The machines are configured with Scheme. ISconf Tool to execute commands and replicate files on all nodes. The nodes do not need to be up; the commands will be executed when ...

  4. setuid - Wikipedia

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    The Unix and Linux access rights flags setuid and setgid (short for set user identity and set group identity) [1] allow users to run an executable with the file system permissions of the executable's owner or group respectively and to change behaviour in directories. They are often used to allow users on a computer system to run programs with ...

  5. Shortcut (computing) - Wikipedia

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    On Windows NT-based operating systems and the NTFS file system, the target object's unique identifier is stored in the shortcut file and Windows can use the Distributed Link Tracking service for tracking the targets of shortcuts, so that the shortcut may be silently updated if the target moves to another hard drive. [2]

  6. File locking - Wikipedia

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    Linux also supports mandatory locking through the special -o mand parameter for file system mounting , but this is rarely used. Some Unix-like operating systems prevent attempts to open the executable file of a running program for writing; this is a third form of locking, separate from those provided by fcntl and flock.

  7. Configuration file - Wikipedia

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    This was a plain text file with simple key–value pairs (e.g. DEVICEHIGH=C:\\DOS\\ANSI.SYS) until MS-DOS 6, which introduced an INI-file style format. There was also a standard plain text batch file named AUTOEXEC.BAT that ran a series of commands on boot. Both these files were retained up to Windows 98SE, which still ran on top of MS-DOS.

  8. Run command - Wikipedia

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    Starting with Windows 95, the Run command is accessible through the Start menu and also through the shortcut key ⊞ Win+R.Although the Run command is still present in Windows Vista and later, it no longer appears directly on the Start menu by default, in favor of the new search box and a shortcut to the Run command in the Windows System sub-menu.

  9. File Explorer - Wikipedia

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    After right-clicking on a folder one can open a command-line prompt in that folder. Windows Explorer also contains modifications in the visualization of files on a computer. A new addition to Windows Explorer in Vista and Server 2008 is the details pane, which displays metadata and information relating to the currently selected file or folder.