When looking at PC performance it is important to understand what is running behind the scenes. Autoruns will show what is in the registry, startup items, scheduled tasks, etc. It can be helpful when looking at system delays (the blue spinning wheel showing up next to your cursor every two seconds). Autoruns for Windows – Sysinternals | Microsoft… Read More »
Powershell: #Dell Command Update Repair if(test-path “C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate”){$Path = “C:\Program Files\Dell\CommandUpdate\dcu-cli.exe”} Else{$Path = “C:\Program Files (x86)\Dell\CommandUpdate\dcu-cli.exe”} Start-Process -FilePath $Path -ArgumentList “/applyupdates
Use the User State Migration Tool (USMT) to migrate users on Windows 10.
Adobe Cloud applications will not uninstall without an active adobe cloud account. To circumvent this restriction use the cleaner tool provided by Adobe.
Copy the AutoComplete list The steps to export and import the AutoComplete list are different, depending on the version of Outlook that you are using.
7 Zip will segment files as it creates a compressed file with this command: cd “C:\Program Files\7-Zip” 7z -v500m a c:\backup\Filename C:\FolderToCompress Usage: 7z a -v{Size}[b|k|m|g] [<switches>…] <archive_name> [<file_names>…]
Some users prefer to use the old Windows Photo Viewer. If the PC was upgraded it is still available. For a system that was clean installed use this registry hack. This also addresses the fact that Outlook is missing from the “Share Pictures” feature of the new photos app.
Clonezilla is a free partition and disk imaging/cloning program. It runs from USB and works with basically every OS. It can be used to do a direct clone to a new drive or backup to an image that can be restored to bare metal. Instructions:
Autodesk products, particularly Building Design Systems, can be very complicated installs. Fortunately Autodesk includes an app manager that will allow you to uninstall all or select certain apps to remove. It is found in Start>All Programs>Autodesk>Uninstall Tool
$tempfolders = @(“C:\Windows\Temp\*”, “C:\Windows\Prefetch\*”, “C:\Documents and Settings\*\Local Settings\temp\*”, “C:\Users\*\Appdata\Local\Temp\*”,”C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\WER\ReportArchive\*”); Remove-Item $tempfolders -force -recurse
To recover an Exchange database: 1) Run eseutil /mh E:\Exchange\mailbox.edb If the state is Clean Shutdown skip to step 4 2)Verify Logs are not damaged: eseutil /ml E:\Exchange\Log\E01 (path ends with the first 3 characters of log files to be inspected) 3) Try eseutil /r E00 /a /t /d E:\Exchange\Mailbox.edb /l E:\Exchange\Log For this error: “Operation terminated with… Read More »
Very handy calculator can be found here.
RDCMan makes it really easy to organize your hosts into groups, each group can have its own defaults that are automatically used (unless you choose to manually override), you can connect groups of servers with one click, plus many other nifty features. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21101
Qualys SSL Server Test I tested a site with a DigiCert SHA2 Extended Validation Server CA and only received a “C” rating. See the links below SSL3 notes, RC4 in TLS notes
Notepad++ has a plugin called compare. Note the visual map on the right side. This makes finding small changes in a script much easier. To access it: Install it from Plugins>Plugin Manager
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Fiddler is a free web debugging proxy which logs all HTTP(s) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Use it to debug traffic from virtually any application that supports a proxy like IE, Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera and more. http://www.telerik.com/download/fiddler