Back when HTG was still in its early days we showed you how to check which groups your Linux user belongs to. Years later we needed to do this on a Windows box so we thought we would share it with you.
See Which Group Your Windows User Belongs To
Depending on which security groups your Windows user belongs to, you may or may not have access to specific files and folders on your local system. I am using Windows 8, but this will work on any system as far back as XP, and may even work on earlier versions on Windows although they were before my time.
whoami /groups
My user is just part of the default Window groups for the most part. Unfortunately Windows doesn’t have a built in way for you to see which groups another user is part of unless you are in a domain environment. Did you know about the WhoAmI command, what have you used it for in the past? Let us know in the comments.
After using a Google tablet for so long, I expected my contacts to magically be there when I started using an iPad again — especially after setting up my Gmail account. Sadly that was not the case, and I had to setup my contacts manually. Here’s how I did it.
You configured your headless Raspberry Pi just the way you want it, it’s settled in and running smoothly, but suddenly you want to move it away from its Ethernet tether with a Wi-Fi module. Skip hooking it back up to all the peripherals and quickly add in Wi-Fi support from the command line.
Many people avoid using their camera’s flash because it washes people out, creates harsh shadows, and usually overpowers the background of the photo. Read on as we show you how to avoid common flash problems with a simple flash diffuser.
Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites.
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If you are one of the people who has been looking forward to having a better user name for a Yahoo account, then now is the time to hurry on over to the wish list website and register your preferred selections.
Sure, LastPass has a browser app that you can use, but who wants to do that? The native Safari browser works really well, and all the other apps work with it. So here’s how to use LastPass in Safari on iOS.
Traditionally you set up your PCs proxy settings via Internet Explorer. We find this non-trivial as do most people, however it looks like Microsoft gave us an alternative option in Windows 8.1. Here is how to set it up.
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Parental controls can filter the web, blocking inadvertent access to inappropriate websites. There are a variety of ways to do this, from configuring network-wide parental controls on your router to using the parental controls built into Windows or third-party software.
