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Using the Computer Management Console for security

There are lots of ways you can use the Computer Management Console to protect your PC. For instance, you can use the Event Viewer to view security audits, which can inform you of failed logon attempts, password lockouts, and other security issues. You can view system failures such as failed printing requests, failed connection requests, and similar errors and warnings. Paying close attention to these events can help you uncover security threats like logon attempts that happen when you are not on the PC.
The Users folder (in the computer Management …

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No items in Device Manager

Very often registry permissions in Windows get messed up.  Almost all of the time this makes different programs not to work at all. I will cover the situation when there are no items shown in the Device Manager e.g. Device Manager is empty.  If you try to restart the computer, run spyware scan and  even rescan the devices directly from device manager no items will be shown in the device manager. After some testing I’ve found that this is registry permissions related issue. You must use the Registry Editor in …