Marcus Hall - software:microsoft:windows

activedirectory

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-02T22:28:19+00:00

Active Directory ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Configure Microsoft Entra hybrid join Bringing your devices to Microsoft Entra ID maximizes user productivity through single sign-on (SSO) across your cloud and on-premises resources. You can secure access to your resources with Conditional Access at the same time.

appdatalocalvirtualstore

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-06-05T17:29:08+00:00

c:\Users\username\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\applicationName\ From: location outlook pst program files redirection virtual For security, Vista forbids programs from writing to a variety of "sensitive" areas, among them the Windows folder and the Program Files folder. That includes all subfolders of Program Files, so this ban would be a hardship on older programs that store INI files or data files along with the prog…

automation

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2020-03-08T21:31:59+00:00

autohotkey From: Used to automate windows clicks for data entry has a window information tool that reveals all data for programming the click. AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free, open-source macro-creation and automation software for Windows that allows users to automate repetitive tasks. It is driven by a scripting language that was initially aimed at providing keyboard shortcuts, otherwise known as hotkeys, that over time evolved into a full-fledged scripting language…

boot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-04-28T03:40:41+00:00

Boot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Macrium Reflect Repair Boot Problem In fact, that bootable Rescue Media also includes a “Fix Windows Boot Problems” option that I have used many times to repair boot issues. It’s adept at fixing boot errors that may pop up when editing or altering boot menus or boot configuration data. Access to this facility is depicted in the following screen…

bootableusb

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-05-16T22:43:35+00:00

bootoptions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-06-08T23:59:56+00:00

Difference between Safe and Deep Sleep? From: Retired Engineer Jun 4, 2011 4:25 AM in response to julyjade24 Deep Sleep is the equivalent of Windows hibernation. The state of the machine is written to the hard disk and the power is turned off.

bsod

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-03-08T21:09:07+00:00

Blue Screen View From: BlueScreenView scans all your minidump files created during 'blue screen of death' crashes, and displays the information about all crashes in one table. For each crash, BlueScreenView displays the minidump filename, the date/time of the crash, the basic crash information displayed in the blue screen (Bug Check Code and 4 parameters), and the details of the driver or module that possibly caused the crash (filename,…

cash

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-03-16T17:06:45+00:00

Cash Shell In A Nutshell From: npm install cash -g Although it’s only early days, it already contains a number of core Linux utilities, including cat, clear, echo, export, false, grep, less, mkdir, and more. Although it’s nowhere near comprehensive, it has enough to allow you to be productive.

cbs_logs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-06-22T19:25:17+00:00

Windows 7 log file compression bug can fill up your hard drive From: This is a known problem with Windows 7, 8, and 2008 R2 (and possibly other versions) where accumulated log files grow to an enormous size -- 237GB according to one report. If you delete the files, Windows kicks in every 20 minutes or so and starts generating 100MB files, continuously, until you …

commands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-11-07T22:36:28+00:00

Windows Commands ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Windows 10 folder with a name that has a trailing space 2024-11-05 Here you go: rd /s /q "\\?\D:\Woodlawn Data\Folder 9 "

debugging

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-01-31T08:38:31+00:00

Windows 7 log file compression bug can fill up your hard drive From: Also: The basic idea is that once the Trusted Installer CBS log in C:\Windows\Logs\CBS grows to more than 2GB, the CAB compression util…

dfs

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-09-10T02:36:02+00:00

What is DFS (Distributed File System) From: What is DFS you ask today. DFS stands for Distributed File System and is a technology in the Microsoft shop related to sharing files across networks, specifically across wide area networks. What is DFS root and how to create one

dns

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-08-26T01:37:37+00:00

DNS and Active Directory best practices from: 1. DNS is pointing to itself in TCP/IP property. 2. You have configured Forwarders tab in DNS Server property to access Internet. 3. You have checked the box “Register this connection in DNS” in TCP/IP property. 4. SOA RR entry is pointing to the same DNS Server address. Expand Forward Lookup Zone > domain_name.com and then in Right Pane find the SOA and NS …

ethernet_teaming

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-07-17T21:15:07+00:00

Intel Advanced Networking Services With Ethernet Teaming Teaming Server 2003 From: Re: Network Teaming for Windows 2003 Server i found it already. Just go to the support page and download the updated intel pro set driver. It…

grouppolicy

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-03-07T04:28:34+00:00

Windows Group Policy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Four Ways to Search for Group Policy Settings 2021-03-06 Michael Pietroforte Mon, Jul 21 2014 group policy 4 I know of four ways to search for Group Policy settings: Group Policy Settings Reference, Group Policy Search website, Group Policy Editor filter, and NIT-GPOSearch.

imagedownload

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-05-13T19:15:48+00:00

Microsoft Windows and Office ISO Download Tool From: windows download operating systems This tool allows an easy and comfortable way to download genuine Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 disk images (ISO) directly from Microsoft's servers, as well as Office 2010, Office 2013, Office 2016, and Office for Mac.

info

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-22T05:27:17+00:00

Lost Product key PID from hard drive From: The easiest way to get access to your product key is with a third-party utility, and there’s nobody better at those than NirSoft. Their utilities are always crapware-free, and are always really useful. The only issue with this particular utility is that some antivirus will detect it as a false positive, because some malware might try to steal your product key.…

installproblem

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-06-25T02:34:00+00:00

cleaning up the installer there is an installation in progress Try cleaning up the installer. Click start/run, type services.msc and click “ok”. Scroll down to “Windows Installer” and double click it. Stop the service if it is running, set the startup type line to disabled. Click apply/ok and reboot.

keyboardshortcuts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-09-15T19:02:07+00:00

Narrator keyboard commands and touch gestures From: Windows logo key + Ctrl + Enter Start or exit Narrator Caps lock + M Start reading

memorymap

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-01-14T07:37:42+00:00

RamMap Russ From: Priority Summary: prioritized standby list sizes

multiseat

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-04-20T17:50:29+00:00

MultiPoint Services From: MultiPoint Services role in Windows Server 2016 allows multiple users, each with their own independent and familiar Windows experience, to simultaneously share one computer.There are several ways users can access their sessions. One way is by remoting into the server using the remote desktop apps with any device. Another way…

networkcommands

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-10T20:32:25+00:00

Windows Command From: Command line reference: Database and Operating Systems Remote Connections C:\Users\Administrator>net use New connections will not be remembered. Status Local Remote Network ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OK \\SERVER1\Maintenance Microsoft Windows Network OK \\macserver1\administrat…

networks

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-07-14T20:07:56+00:00

Command line program to test DHCP service From: assuming you have installed nmap (sudo apt install nmap): sudo nmap --script broadcast-dhcp-discover Windows nmap -sU -p 67 --script dhcp-discover 10.230.0.2/32 Get-DhcpServerInDC From <> nmap -oA c:\temp\nmap-broadcast-dhcp-discover-2020-07-21 --…

ntfspermissions

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-08-21T01:52:33+00:00

NTFS Permissions From: Permissions are cumulative NTFS file permissions take priority over NTFS folder permissions. Deny overrides all By default, permissions that you assign to the parent folder are inherited by and propagated to the subfolders and files contained in the parent folder.

os

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-10T20:33:22+00:00

Turn on Remote Desktop remotely From: Step 3: Change a registry setting to enable Remote Desktop It’s time to make use of the Remote Registry and actually enable RDP. Load up regedit and go to File > Connect Network Registry. Enter the name of your remote computer and connect to it. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > System > CurrentControlSet > Control > Terminal Server. Change the value of “fDenyTSConn…

powershell

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-30T16:32:15+00:00

PowerShell Commands Change Network Location to Public or Private with PowerShell 2023-09-30 On Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2022/2019/2016, you can manage network connection locations from PowerShell. Open the elevated PowerShell console. List Windows network interfaces and the network profiles applied to them:

repairboot

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2019-10-22T08:02:40+00:00

Automatic Repair From: Windows 10 Automatic Repair Couldn’t Repair Your PC From: Choose Troubleshoot > Advanced Options. Select Command Prompt from list of options. When Command Prompt appears, enter the following lines and press Enter after each line in order to run it: bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd bootrec.exe /fixmbr bootrec.exe /fixboot Some users are also suggesting that you need to run additional chkdsk commands as w…

resetpassword

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2025-06-24T16:11:11+00:00

Bypass Windows Logons with the Utilman.exe Trick From: First of all, we will need a way to access the file system to swap out Utilman.exe with something else like cmd.exe. There are a few ways to achieve this: Remove the operating system hard drive from the target system and slave it into another system with a working operating system. From there you can swap out the files on the slave drive Use a Boot CD like UBCD4Win and use th…

screencapture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-11T02:48:36+00:00

Snipping tool vs GreenShot From: You’ll occasionally need to be able to draw text on the image, highlight parts of the image, draw arrows to point out certain features, and obfuscate (blur) any sensitive text PicPick From: Take screenshots of an entire screen, an active window, the scrolling windows and any specific region of your desktop, etc. Annotate and highlight your images: text, arrows, shapes a…

server2003

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-19T03:22:32+00:00

Powershell for Windows Server 2003 From: How to extend the windows 2003 C drive From: AOMEI Partition Assistant Lite Edition - Free Server Partition Manager Software Resize and move partitions to maximize utilization of server storages for peak performance. Extend NTFS system partition without rebooting to minimize server downtime.

server2012

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-10T20:23:26+00:00

New Windows Server 2012 Active Directory Forest From: Select the Active Directory Domain Services role if you intend to promote a domain controller. All Active Directory administration features and required services install automatically, even if they are ostensibly part of another role or do not appear selected in the Server Manager interface.

server2016

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2016-10-08T18:41:01+00:00

Requirements From: Processor Processor performance depends not only on the clock frequency of the processor, but also on the number of processor cores and the size of the processor cache. The following are the processor requirements for this product: Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor Compatible with x64 instruction set Supports NX and DEP Supports CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and Prefetc…

services

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-05-27T21:52:46+00:00

Windows 7 Time not correct on Domain From: Hi Steve, Thank you for the post. The time Infrastructure are .Domain clients/server sync time from DC servers .DC servers sync time from PDC server .PDC server sync time from external time source To show the local computer time source, run command "w32tm /query /source". To configure PDC extern…

smallbusinessserver

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2015-08-16T03:50:42+00:00

Internet Access From: From: From: From:

storagespaces

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-08-18T18:43:05+00:00

Storate Spaces ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ adding drives to a storage pool Here are the instructions for adding drives to a storage pool named

taskmanager

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-10T20:27:20+00:00

Windows 7 Default Scheduled Tasks–Complete Overview From: This is based on a domain joined Windows 7 Enterprise x64 SP1 installation. The settings presented here should be default, or close to it. I haven’t consciously changed anything from a default install.

taskscheduler

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-02-12T03:30:51+00:00

Task Scheduler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Shortcut to run Task Scheduler "Task" 2021-05-20 • Close Task Scheduler. Right-click an empty spot on your Desktop and select New > Shortcut. In the Create Shortcut window enter the following text:

updatecatalog

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-05-18T17:53:14+00:00

Windows Update Catalog ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: windows update download and install

utility

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2022-10-08T21:20:08+00:00

Utility ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCN2 Disk Space Scanner 2022-10-08 This tool uses a sunburst chart to display the usage of your hard disk or other media. The chart shows all major files and folders from all directory levels at once.

videoplayer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-06-29T15:08:41+00:00

Players From: list of players matroska compatible Welcome to the Home of Matroska the extensible, open source, open standard Multimedia container. Matroska is usually found as .MKV files (matroska video), .MKA files (matroska audio) and .MKS files (subtitles) and .MK3D files (stereoscopic/3D video). It is also the basis for .webm (WebM) files.

windows7

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-11-24T16:10:05+00:00

Windows 7 TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.1 2021-11-23 Update to enable TLS 1.1 and TLS 1.2 as default secure protocols in WinHTTP in Windows From <> Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2 is now available.

windows8_8-1

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-09-08T05:31:13+00:00

Event Log Error 153 From: A system administrator who encounters event 153 errors should investigate the health of the computer’s disk subsystem. Although an occasional timeout may be part of the normal operation of a system, the frequent need to retry requests indicates a performance issue with the storage that should be corrected.

windows10

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2024-03-22T22:37:55+00:00

Windows 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PsExec: Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer.

windows11

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-01-12T22:57:00+00:00

Windows 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet Connection Sharing 2024-11-09 Want to share wifi connection over ethernet cable

windowsserver2012

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-30T16:42:01+00:00

Windows Server 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ disable Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration From: For 2012: Start by running t…

windowsserver2019

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2023-09-30T16:42:14+00:00

Windows Server 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Change Network Location to Public or Private with PowerShell 2023-09-30 On Windows 10/11 and Windows Server 2022/2019/2016, you can manage network connection locations from PowerShell. Open the elevated PowerShell console. List Windows network interfaces and the network profiles applied to them:

windowsupdate

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2021-02-18T21:48:48+00:00

Windows Update ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Turn Off Windows Updates 2021-02-17 Tried this 2021-02-16 Use: gpedit Thai Pepper joseespitia Jan 22, 2020 at 3:28 PM

wsd

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-02-15T03:45:15+00:00

Scanner and Camera Wizard in Windows From: print but no scan brother (Windows® 7) Click Start and type "scan" in the search field. Then, click View scanners and cameras. From: Search for the keyword WIAACMGR. Disabling Network Discovery/Network Resources

xp

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-01-10T20:30:06+00:00

alternatestreamview AlternateStreamView is a small utility that allows you to scan your NTFS drive, and find all hidden alternate streams stored in the file system. After scanning and finding the alternate streams, you can extract these streams into the specified folder, delete unwanted streams, or save the streams list into text/html/csv/xml file.