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Archive for the ‘Windows 10’ Category

Thread by @0gtweet on Thread Reader App – retrieve your BitLocker password, store the password in your password manager and make a backup of it!

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/13

Image[Wayback/Archive] Thread by @0gtweet on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

A very friendly reminder, especially for non-corporate PCs protected with BitLocker: if you are not sure if you have your Recovery Password handy, you can display it any moment with “manage-bde -protectors -get c:”
Store the password in your password manager and make its backup!

Note: manage-bde.exe -protectors -get c: needs admin rights!

--jeroen

Posted in Microsoft Surface on Windows 7, Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022 | Leave a Comment »

On Windows, `arp -d` sometimes fails but `netsh` comes to the rescue

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/08

(All below statements were run elevated as Administrator)

I had arp -d fail with any parameter combination on one of my systems always throwing the error The ARP entry deletion failed: The parameter is incorrect..

Luckily I found out that this did clear the ARP cache correctly:

netsh interface ip delete arpcache

I found that via [Wayback/Archive] “The ARP entry deletion failed: The parameter is incorrect.” – Recherche Google:

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Posted in Batch-Files, Development, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Deploy .NET Framework 3.5 by using Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) instead of Chocolatey and some notes on PowerShell colours

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/07

Since every now and then, like testing software developed with older tools, you need to run older software.

This always works: [Wayback /Archive] Deploy .NET Framework 3.5 by using Deployment Image Servicing and Management (DISM) | Microsoft Learn

DISM /Online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:NetFx3 /All

Use /All to enable all parent features of the specified feature.

(The /All is needed because software requiring .NET Framework 3.5 also require the parent features).

Notes:

  • Tested on Windows 10 and Windows 11 in 2022.
  • It can take a really long time (more than just a few minutes!) even on fast connections.
  • Installing through Chocolatey with `choco install dotnet3.5 fails on Windows 11 (have not tried on Windows 10) with the classical red on black PowerShell default error theme*:

    ERROR: The term 'wmic' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.
    The install of DotNet3.5 was NOT successful.
    Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\DotNet3.5\Tools\ChocolateyInstall.ps1'.

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Posted in .NET, .NET 3.0, .NET 3.5, C#, Chocolatey, Development, Power User, PowerShell, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11 | Leave a Comment »

AOMEI: Download Free Windows Backup Software

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/30

Need to try this later: [WayBack] Download Free Windows Backup Software

Free download AOMEI backup software to back up system, restore disk for disaster recovery, clone disk partition in Windows PC and laptop easily and quickly.

Download link at time of writing was [WayBack] AOMEIBackupperStd.exe.

Via: [WayBack] Free Disk Imaging Software; 10 Tools You Can Image Your Hard Drive For Free | Proven Data

–jeroen

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Save the Environment (Variable)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/05

For my link archive as this is environment variable override trick to override DLL loading is not just limited to executables shipping with Windows, but also with other products (likely: virus scanners that run privileged); another alternative is running a local process serving the WebDAV protocol.

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Posted in Development, Power User, Security, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Development | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/04

For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] How to check if your device meets Windows 11 system requirements after changing device hardware

Press Windows logo key + or select Search, type pc health check, and select PC Health Check from the list of results.

The trick os to install and run the above tool:

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How can I enable the Windows Task Scheduler History recording? (via Stack Overflow)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/18

For my link archive, as apparently the history recording for the Windows (not just server) Task Scheduler is disabled [Wayback How can I enable the Windows Server Task Scheduler History recording? – Stack Overflow

  1. Open an elevated Task Scheduler (ie. right-click on the Task Scheduler icon and choose Run as administrator)
  2. In the Actions pane (right pane, not the actions tab), click Enable All Tasks History
That’s it. Not sure why this isn’t on by default, but it isn’t.

At the time of writing, I did not have energy to figure out which steps on the console to take to enable this history.

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Posted in Power User, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 | Leave a Comment »

Need to check out the Windows AutoLogonSID registry value and other autologon security features in Windows

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/16

On my list of things to look at via [Wayback/Archive] “AutoLogonSID” – Google Search:

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Posted in Conference Topics, Conferences, Development, Event, Power User, Security, Software Development, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Development | Leave a Comment »

Windows 10/11: how to check if Hibernation is enabled or disabled

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/14

A long time ago I wrote about How To Fix Missing Hibernation Option On Windows 10.

Back then I needed to enable it (using powercfg.exe /hibernate on or disable using powercfg.exe /hibernate off), but I forgot about how to query this setting.

[Wayback/Archive] windows check if hibernation is enabled – Google Search gives me a result which is somewhat workable, but hopefully some day I find a better solution than in [Wayback/Archive] How to see from commandline (!!!) if hibernation is on or off? – Windows 10 Forums:

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video memory required for 1920×1080 – Google Search

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/10/11

The amount of memory is indeed not that big as I found out via [Wayback/Archive video memory required for 1920×1080 – Google Search at [Wayback/Archive] memory – How do I calculate video RAM requirements? – Super User:

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