Ivan's Corner

Category: Windows

  • Log Off User remotely – cmd

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    If you ever wondered how to log off user remotely (or locally) via command line try this. As usual membership of the local admins group is needed. Start cmd with elevated privileges. check logged user and their session number with qwinsta: QWINSTA /server:computername Memorize the session ID and use the logoff command: LOGOFF sessionID /server:computername.    

  • Change The Subject and Forward an Email – Outlook

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    This simple script could be used with Outlook rules to change the subject of an email and forward it – Alt+F11 to open the editor, modify the script with your email address and your own subject, save it and then create a rule –> on the second step of the rules wizard (What do you want…

  • Windows 8/8.1 Moving Icons

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    Lately I was really annoyed from my moving icons – after every login all of my icons were moving left – it turns out that the solution is easy – untick “Align Icons To Grid” and “Auto Arange Icons” (right click o nthe desktop –>View), that’s it, done 🙂

  • Windows 10 Technical Preview

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    Installation finished – it was pretty fast, less than 10 minutes on top of my home Hyper-v to the desktop, let’s check the user experience. VM Specs are pretty standard – in the wizard I selected Generation 2 machine, gave it 2gb of RAM and 60 gb of HDD. To be honest I was impressed…

  • Check program/app ports

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    To check which ports are used by an app/program go to Task Manager, find the needed one and note its PID. Then Open a command prompt and type: netstat -ano | findstr xxxx (where “xxxx” is PID number)

  • External HDD Access Denied Windows 8.1

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    When pissed off by my own external hdd asking for administrator approval every time when I move fielks around i did this: takeown /F “Complete path of the file location”: icacls “Complete path of the file location”: /grant “ComputerName”\”UserName”:F It helped. Somehow 🙂

  • Set Ip Server 2012 PowerShell

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    To set a static IP address In Windows PowerShell, run Get-NetIPInterface. Make a note of the number shown in the IfIndex column of the output for your IP interface or the InterfaceDescription string. If your computer has more than one network adapter, make a note of the number or string corresponding to the interface for…

  • Dumpchk

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    I was digging a blue screen minidump today and received weird “symbols not correct!” error. c:\program files\debugging tools for windows> dumpchk -y srv*c:\websymbols*http://msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols c:\windows\minidump\mmddyy-nn.dmp The command above is downloading correct symbols directly from Microsoft and downloads them in c:\websymbols more on this tomorrow…

  • Skype advertisments

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    If you like me are annoyed from the Skype advertisements during calls just add the following line in your hosts file 127.0.0.1 rad.msn.com