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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/06
GWX Control Panel
This is a free tool that can remove and disable the ‘Get Windows 10’ notification area icon on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Recent versions can also disable ‘Upgrade to Windows 10’ behavior in the Windows Update control panel and do much more. See the user guide at the Ultimate Outsider blog. You can still download GWX Control Panel as a standalone executable if you don’t like installers. Please see the “GWX Control Panel Release Notes and Version History” post at the blog for MD5 and SHA-1 checksums of all official releases.
Source: Ultimate Outsider – Software Downloads
Via: Now, that’s going to make them a lot of friends. Good thing I removed the bloody GWX program today from two more PCs. – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/06/03
Windows 7 and up come with a built-in ISO file burner called Disc burner however, some times %windir%\System32\isoburn.exe is not associated with .iso files any more, so you have to re-associate it.
Source: Burn Image context menu item missing in Windows 7 – Super User
Still it doesn’t always recognise burn hardware so I usually revert to installing the latest ImgBurn (given my audio experience with it and that it is a nice tool to create ISO images from and burn them to DVD / CD media; just be sure to uncheck the “optional” software that comes with it).
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/30
use the Windows SORT command. Sort the file and be done with it. It’ll happily sort your 100GB file, and it’s simple to use.
Source: c# – Need a way to sort a 100 GB log file by date – Stack Overflow
It takes a long time, but it gets the job done.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/24
I now officially hate Microsoft download sites.
I’m trying to fix a friends PC where Windows 10 has screwed up (after he installed, it loads, but the screen turns black without a mouse cursor which indicates the video drivers are likely hosed). There is no F8 boot option in Windows 10 any more so I need media.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO redirects to https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 which forces you to download a “Media Creation Tool” that complains I don’t have 8 gigabyte free disk space.
I have. Just not on the C: drive freaking morons!
But https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 won’t let me download the ISOs.
Searching around, it looks like I need Win10_1511_1_English_x64.iso or Win10_1511_1_EnglishInternational_x64.iso
Does anyone know how to get them?
–jeroen
Posted in Power User, Windows 10 | 5 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/17
This post summarises it nicely: [Wayback/Archive.is] Push a solid colored background to a Windows Server 2012 or later | Tidbits of Information from Virot.
I already knew about the one below, but the post above gives a more complete picture with:
- Background color
- Wallpaper
- tells how to set the menu and
These I already knew:
–jeroen
Posted in Agile, Color (software development), Development, Power User, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, 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 »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/16
Sometimes I connecting to various Windows systems over RDP fails. On Windows the mstsc (Remote Desktop Connection) application recognises the server has a certificate, presents you with a login dialog, then just stops without any message.
Connecting from Mac OS X edition of Microsoft Remote Desktop does give you error message “The server denied the logon with reason: 3489661694”.
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Posted in Power User, Remote Desktop Protocol/MSTSC/Terminal Services, Windows, Windows 8.1 | 4 Comments »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/13
RegJump.exe is really cool, and has already there for more than a year (:
This little command-line applet takes a registry path and makes Regedit open to that path. It accepts root keys in standard (e.g. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE) and abbreviated form (e.g. HKLM).
usage: regjump <<path>|-c>
-c Copy path from clipboard.
e.g.: regjump HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows
–jeroen
via: RegJump.
Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, 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 »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/11
Sometimes you want to run a batch file from a Task Scheduler task. For that, the user under which the task runs needs to Logon as a batch job right. If it hasn’t, you get this nice error message:
“This task requires that the user account specified has log on as batch job rights”.
Despite being part of the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools, you can still use ntrights in more modern Windows versions to grant or revoke this right.
As ntrights uses a hard to remember SeBatchLogonRight name for it and I tend to forget the ntrights syntax, I wrote two batch files to grant or revoke the Logon as Batch Job rights for the specified user:
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Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 9, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Vista | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/09
When you roll-out new machines and you get Windows Update 80072EE2 to install updates required by some installations…
If you receive Windows Update error 80072ee2 while checking for updates, the Windows Update servers might be experiencing an unusually high number of requests for updates.
–jeroen
Source: Windows Update error 80072ee2 – Windows Help
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