I’m not a huge fan of the new right-click context menu in Windows 11 because there are some utilities I use that I constantly need to select “Show More Options…” on. To revert the new style right-click context menu to the old style, a simple Registry modification can be made; here’s the command line. reg…
Read More Restore Windows 11 Right-Click Context MenuI’ve been plagued by the following error when copying small files to/from a NAS on my LAN using Windows 11 22H2. There doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason to this. It’s on a TeraStation Pro II NAS. If I copy large files, no issue. Sometimes I can compress the file on the NAS…
Read More Windows 11 – 0x80070026 Reached the end of the file.It can get a bit confusing. The below website summarizes the server releases. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/get-started/windows-server-release-info There are two servicing models for Windows server – a long term servicing channel and a semi annual channel. The Long Term Servicing Channel (LTSC) is like the old server releases of 2008, 2012 etc. They are major releases that are…
Read More Window Server 2019 – 1809, 1903, 1909 Servicing ChannelsClear all the Windows Event Logs, resetting reliability history, from the command line. Command Line Method for /F “tokens=*” %1 in (‘wevtutil.exe el’) do wevtutil.exe cl “%1” Batch Script Method @echo off for /F “tokens=*” %%E in (‘wevtutil.exe el’) do wevtutil.exe cl “%%E” Powershell Method wevtutil el | Foreach-Object {Write-Host “Clearing $_”; wevtutil cl “$_”}
Read More Clear Windows Event Log and Reliability History Command LineI’ve been tasked with resolving an issue that involves printing (my favorite /s). A console application used in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is not printing certain files when it should. Printing is handled by TextPad using the -p command line parameter and passed a filename. To reproduce the issue, I found the file that…
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One way to hide an application from Add/Remove programs is by settings a SystemComponent registry key for the application in the Uninstall path. For 32-bit applications, the Uninstall path can be found at: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall For 64-bit applications, the Uninstall path can be found at: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall Inside the Uninstall path, find the application you want to…
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