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 2018/12/07
If adding a Windows machine to a Samba domain fails and the below “solves” your issue, then you need to tighten the security on the Samba side:
- [WayBack] Old Nabble – Samba – General – Windows 7 RC
- [WayBack] Windows 7 can see Samba Shares but cannot see Samba Domain
- [WayBack] Adding a Windows 8.1 computer to a SAMBA domain – twm’s blog
- [WayBack] Note to self: If adding a Windows 8.1 computer to a SAMBA domain fails with the error “The specified domain either does not exist or could not be contac… – Thomas Mueller (dummzeuch) – Google+
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] ; Enable NT-Domain compatibility mode ; Default: ; [value not present] ; "DomainCompatibilityMode"=- "DomainCompatibilityMode"=dword:00000001 ; Disable required DNS name resolution ; Default: ; [value not present] ; "DNSNameResolutionRequired"=- "DNSNameResolutionRequired"=dword:00000000 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\Netlogon\Parameters] ; Disable requirement of signed communication ; My Samba (3.0.33) works with signed communication enabled, so no need to disable it. ; Default: ; "RequireSignOrSeal"=dword:00000001 ; Disable the usage of strong keys ; Default: ; "RequireStrongKey"=dword:00000001 "RequireStrongKey"=dword:00000000
–jeroen
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