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  2. User profiles in Microsoft Windows - Wikipedia

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    The user-profiling scheme in force today owes its origins to Windows NT, which stored its profiles within the system folder itself, typically under C:\WINNT\Profiles\. Windows 2000 saw the change to a separate "Documents and Settings" folder for profiles, and in this respect is virtually identical to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003.

  3. Steam (service) - Wikipedia

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    Steam is a digital distribution service and storefront developed by Valve.It was launched as a software client in September 2003 to provide game updates automatically for Valve's games and expanded to distributing third-party titles in late 2005.

  4. Credential Guard - Wikipedia

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    After compromising a system, attackers often attempt to extract any stored credentials for further lateral movement through the network. A prime target is the LSASS process, which stores NTLM and Kerberos credentials.

  5. Security Identifier - Wikipedia

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    Security Identifier (SID) is a unique, immutable identifier of a user account, user group, or other security principal in the Windows NT family of operating systems. A security principal has a single SID for life (in a given Windows domain), and all properties of the principal, including its name, are associated with the SID.

  6. Universally unique identifier - Wikipedia

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    Then 6 or 7 bits are replaced by fixed values, the 4-bit version (e.g. 0011 2 for version 3), and the 2- or 3-bit UUID "variant" (e.g. 10 2 indicating a RFC 9562 UUIDs, or 110 2 indicating a legacy Microsoft GUID). Since 6 or 7 bits are thus predetermined, only 121 or 122 bits contribute to the uniqueness of the UUID.

  7. Blue screen of death - Wikipedia

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    As mentioned earlier, the insider builds of Windows 10 and later, as well as Windows Server 2016 and later, display a green screen. [26] [27] [24] Windows 10 and later (and Windows Server 2016 and later) also display an orange screen in an extremely rare case where a hardware issue with the GPU or a graphics driver problem is encountered. [47]

  8. Windows Master Control Panel shortcut - Wikipedia

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    The Windows Master Control Panel shortcut, labeled All Tasks in the Windows Registry and by at least one Microsoft developer, [1] and also often informally called Windows God Mode by bloggers, is a shortcut to access various control settings in Windows Vista and later operating systems, including Windows 10 and Windows 11. By creating a folder ...

  9. Games for Windows – Live - Wikipedia

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    Games for Windows – Live has since been practically replaced with the Microsoft Store for Windows 10 & 11 (and supported now-discontinued Windows Phone). [ citation needed ] In 2020, Microsoft removed the Games for Windows – Live download page and the Windows Live Sign-in Assistant was removed from their servers, and therefore the online ...