Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/20
- go to control panel | display
- change the screen resolution. the artifact will go away
- click on cancel when windows asks you if you want to keep the new resolution.
this works on laptops too.
[WayBack] User mahesh – Super User answering [WayBack] How to clear screen artifacts without rebooting Windows (multiple versions) – Super User
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/05/14
The trick is to use the choice command; see [WayBack] if statement – How to ask for batch file user input with a timeout – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/03/22
Just out of curiosity, I wanted to try run a CHKDSK at boot time of a non-system disk.
The trick appears to be to ensure something locks the drive. An easy way to do that is have a command prompt open inside a directory on that drive.
The below example show just that: a regular command prompt locking the E: drive and an administrative command prompt scheduling the check at boot time:
Regular command prompt:
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.15063] (c) 2017 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\jeroenp>e: E:\>cd $RECYCLE.BIN E:\$RECYCLE.BIN>
Administrative command prompt:
C:\WINDOWS\system32>chkdsk /R /F E: The type of the file system is NTFS. Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Chkdsk may run if this volume is dismounted first. ALL OPENED HANDLES TO THIS VOLUME WOULD THEN BE INVALID. Would you like to force a dismount on this volume? (Y/N) n Chkdsk cannot run because the volume is in use by another process. Would you like to schedule this volume to be checked the next time the system restarts? (Y/N) y This volume will be checked the next time the system restarts. C:\WINDOWS\system32>
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/01/09
In my search for starting the Windows Credential Manager from the console, I found [WayBack] Credential Manager Shortcut – Create – Windows 7 Help Forums explaining:
%windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{1206F5F1-0569-412C-8FEC-3204630DFB70}
This reminded me of From batch file or shortcut: start Windows Update (via: Windows 7 Help Forums) and batch-file trick: Starting Windows Explorer and selecting a file (“explorer” commandline parameters “/n” “/e” “/select” “/root” “/start” site:microsoft.com).
The odd thing is that some of the GUID shortcuts works fine using the shell::: syntax, but fail with the /e:: syntax, for instance Windows Update until Windows 8.1:
%windir%\explorer.exe shell:::{36eef7db-88ad-4e81-ad49-0e313f0c35f8}
%windir%\explorer.exe /e,::{36eef7db-88ad-4e81-ad49-0e313f0c35f8}
One day I’ll create a table of permutations for various Windows versions and execute options.
For now these links need to suffice:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/12/28
A while ago one of our machines threw an error 8E5E03FB while installing SP1 (KB976932) on Window 7 Home Premium.
This is what I used to recover from that (note that failed alone means it failed with the previous error code):
Performed 
chkdsk %SystemDrive% /F, rebooted, waited for any issues to get fixed (none were)sfc /scannow%SystemRoot%\Logs\CBS\CBS.log and found this entry:
CBS Failed call to CryptCATAdminAddCatalog. [HRESULT = 0x8e5e03fb - JET_errPageNotInitialized
0x80070057.0x80070490.Code B7. This was in the CBS.Log: Store corruption detected in function CCSDirectTransaaction::ShouldKeepAliveFromInstallmap on resource amd64_avast.vc140.crt_fcc99ee6193ebbca_14.0.24210.0_none_56aba0211ca246c2.0x80070490. This was in the CBS.Log: Failed to resolve package 'Package_2_for_KB2507938~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.4' [HRESULT = 0x80070490 - ERROR_NOT_FOUND].SFC /SCANNOW
SFCFix'Package_2_for_KB2507938~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.4': dism /online /remove-package /packagename:Package_2_for_KB2507938~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.40x80070490 entry is still Failed to resolve package 'Package_2_for_KB2507938~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64~~6.1.1.4' [HRESULT = 0x80070490 - ERROR_NOT_FOUND]wusa /uninstall /KB:2507938 -> failed indicating De update KB2507938 is niet op deze computer geïnstalleerd. (“The update KB2507938 is not installed on this computer.”)De update geldt niet voor uw computer. (“The update is not applicable to your computer”)SFC /SCANNOWSFCFixFRST64KB2507938%SystemRoot%\Logs\CBS:
%SystemRoot%\Logs\SFCFix:%SystemRoot%\Logs\FRST64:
So I asked this question: [WayBack] [Win7HomePremium] SP1 fails with 0x80070490 as KB2507938 is not fully present.
TL;DR: for English Windows 7 x64 you need [WayBack] https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/F/0AFB5316-3062-494A-AB78-7FB0D4461357/windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe
Note that the download file naming is very confusing as you will see only the above 6 files from the below list (which is English, but similar for other languages):
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