In addition to the two methods mentioned at Two Quick Methods for Finding Shared Folders in Windows (use net share or compmgmt.msc) I like this one:
It directly gets you to the “Shared Folders” inside compmgmt.msc
–jeroen
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Two Quick Methods for Finding Shared Folders in Windows
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/05/01
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista, Windows XP | Leave a Comment »
Windows update errors you get when you have a bad network connection: 80244019 and
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/14
A while ago I had some intermittent network issues resulting in these Windows Update error numbers:
- 80244019 (some traffic made it through)
- 80072EE2 (no traffic made it through)
- 8??????? (DNS traffic didn’t make it through)
–jeroen
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Ext2 File System Driver for Windows download | SourceForge.net
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/04/10
If I ever need it: Ext2 File System Driver for Windows download | SourceForge.net
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Battery history on Windows 10 via powercfg batteryreport
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/27
Nice html report of your battery state in Windows 8 and 10 where 14 is the number of days:
powercfg /batteryreport /output "%temp%\battery_report.html" /Duration 14
start "View Report" "%temp%\battery_report.html"
Source: Battery history on Windows 10 (and maybe older versions?) I was wondering if I…
–jeroen
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Ctrl-T — www.voidtools.com • View topic – Everything window is ‘Always On Top’
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/17
If you use everything search from VoidTools, then don’t be surprised that pressing Ctrl-T makes it “Always On Top”:
Ctrl-T sets “Always On Top”
Of course this is not defined in “Tools” -> “Options”.
I forgot in which version this was introduced, as in the past I never stumbled over it on keyboards that have Ctrl and Alt reversed.
–jeroen
via: www.voidtools.com • View topic – Everything window is ‘Always On Top’
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Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 on OS X stores RDP configuration in com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist and passwords in keychain
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/15
One day I write some scripts based on:
- /usr/bin/plutil
- /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy
Some starting materials are at:
- How To: Create a Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 Connection | macmule
- com.microsoft.rdc.mac.plist needs to be binary for RDP to work and XML to edit it manually (use plutil to do the conversion)
- macmule/Create-a-Microsoft-Remote-Desktop-8-Connection
- Microsoft Remote Desktop version 8 – JAMF Nation
- remote desktop – Where does Microsoft RDP 8 for Mac store it’s configuration – Ask Different
- .rdp files are now using the XML plist format: Microsoft releases Remote Desktop 8.0 for Android, iOS and Mac | OfficeforMacHelp.com
- CoRD .rdp files seem to share the same XML plist format: Transfer CoRD bookmarks to Microsoft Remote Desktop | OfficeforMacHelp.com
A thing I learned is that the Microsoft Remote Desktop 8 is basically a rebranded iTap RDP (it looks like Microsoft bought iTap RDP for Mac, as iTap RDP for Mac is now discontinued)
–jeroen
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Powershell Get-AppxPackage > List.txt … Get-AppxPackage Advertising | Remov…
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/13
[WayBack] Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage – Slashdot… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ has steps to find and remove the packages you do not want to:
Powershell
Get-AppxPackage > List.txt
...
Get-AppxPackage Advertising | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingfinance | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingnews | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingsports | Remove-AppxPackage
Get-AppxPackage bingweather | Remove-AppxPackage
Background info at [WayBack] Microsoft Is Spamming Windows 10 File Explorer With Ads For OneDrive Storage – Slashdot
–jeroen
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PowerShell: when Format-Table -AutoSize displays only 10 columns and uses the width of the console when redirecting to file
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/03/09
Lets start with the second problem: There are various ways to redirect PowerShell output to a file.
- Shell redirect with a greater than sign (
>) to create/overwrite output or two greater than signs (>>) to append output. - Use Out-File [WayBack] with a filename and either
-FilePath(default, similar to>) or-Append(similar>>).
I write “similar” as they are not fully equivalent. That’s where Format-Table [WayBack] with the -AutoSize parameter comes in (with or without a -Wrap parameter).
Apart from Format-Table displaying only 10 columns by default (see below), the -AutoSize will change columns presentation depending not just on the -Wrap parameter but also to the total width it thinks it has available.
Useful Format-Table parameters
First the representation:
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Windows 10 – language neutral batch file to start Windows Update
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/22
A while ago, I bitched that Microsoft moved away the Windows Update out of the Control panel into a language depended place (in Windows 10 1511 update broke the Hyper-V networking – Fix network connection issues).
Since then I had to maintain too many locales running Windows 10. So here is the batch file:
for /f "delims=" %%A in ('PowerShell -Command "(Get-Culture).Name"') do explorer "%LocalAppData%\Packages\windows.immersivecontrolpanel_cw5n1h2txyewy\LocalState\Indexed\Settings\%%A\AAA_SystemSettings_MusUpdate_UpdateActionButton.settingcontent-ms"
It uses these tricks:
- Set output of a command as a variable (in this case a for loop variable)
- Execute PowerShell script in a .bat file
- PowerShell Get-Culture (which gets a .NET CultureInfo instance)
- CultureInfo.Name property (which has the nl-NL, en-US, etc codes in it)
It replaced this simple batch-file which has worked for like 10 years:
%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler wuapp.exe
–jeroen
via: Windows Update Shortcut – Create in Windows 10 – Windows 10 Forums
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Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
Posted by jpluimers on 2017/02/21
… there’s no need to use WaitForMultipleObjects in Step 2. It’s fairly easy to keep a counter of active threads in the pool (interlocked-incremented when a thread starts, interlocked-decremented when a thread is finished). When the counter reaches zero (no more active threads), signal an event. With only one event to wait for, you can use WaitForSingleObject…
So no more 64-thread (MAXIMUM_WAIT_OBJECTS) limits for pools…
Source: Delphi and stuff: The strange limitation of 64 threads
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 