Windows XP, 7, 8 Tips
To get the list of all features(feature names are in the second column, Windows PowerShell cmdlets are not case-sensitive): get-WindowsFeature To uninstall completely a feature: Uninstall-WindowsFeature featurename -remove If -remove is not used the feature…
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…
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…
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”…
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…
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”…
Windows 8/8.1 let’s you delete all accounts including the administrator one, leaving you only with guest account to log in. Please, don’t do it, however, if you already did there is a easy fix using…
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…
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…
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…