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OK, this is one way. I am sure there are several others. Can anyone say convoluted…? (This is mainly intended for use on Remote Desktop Servers.) Create a test user. My user is named Bob in this example. Log on as Bob and pin the shortcuts you want on the Taskbar, and remove the ones …
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The Automatic Updates Client Utility (wuauclt.exe) supports a few command line parameters. Some of them are documented, others not. Here are the ones I have found: Parameter Explanation /detectnow Run a detection cycle /a /resetauthorization Resets the WSUS cookie. (If used together with /detectnow; /resetauthorization must be entered before /detectnow.) /r /ReportNow Sends all queued …
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It has always irritated me that I cannot export data from the disk management snap-in in Windows. Take this example from an Exchange server: It would be very nice to be able to export this data to a CSV to create a quick storage report. Unfortunately you can’t. But with PowerShell you can! This command …
Windows and Microsoft do a great job of providing drivers for hardware devices. A lot of drivers ship in the box with Windows and hundreds of thousands more are available online on the Windows Update site. Still you quite often end up with one or two unknown devices in Device Manager. When Windows Update or …
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A server I was working on refused to let me update it through Windows/Microsoft Update. It would tell me that the computer needed an update before I could update it (!). First it would download some files from the Microsoft Update site, copy them and, finally, try to register them. This last step reached 100 …
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Windows has a special security principal know as SELF (also Principal Self and NT AUTHORITYSELF). Here’s the definition of SELF from KB243330: SID: S-1-5-10 Name: Principal Self Description: A placeholder in an inheritable ACE on an account object or group object in Active Directory. When the ACE is inherited, the system replaces this SID with …
Sometimes the Recycle Bin of a partition/volume can become corrupted. When it does it prevents you from deleting files or takes up space that cannot be reclaimed by emptying the Recycle Bin, or both. To reset the Recycle Bin for a particular volume or partition, start up a command prompt with Administrative privileges and delete …
Make a manual copy of my entire profile. See instructions on how here. Export my favorites, feeds and cookies using IE’s Export function. Export all my certificates. Retrieve my product key if reinstalling the same computer or moving license to another computer. Key finders here. Copy folder that are outside of the profile, e.g.. c:Apps.
The Internal network network in Windows Virtual PC (WVP) has a built in DHCP service that provides the clients connected to it with addresses in the 169.254.0.16 to 169.254.10.254 range. If you need to disable this DHCP service this is how you do it: Shut down or hibernate all your running virtual machines Wait for …
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Introduction The new Task Scheduler 2.0 included in Windows Vista and improved on in Windows 7 has the ability to send an email when a task is triggered. Also new is the ability to attach a task to an event from the Event system. You could for instance create a task that sent you an …