Windows Waitfor Command
I recently discovered a command I didn't know about (actually 2 commands). I never knew about waitfor command! Man, this would have been useful in some of my…
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Disable Address Bar in IE8
Working on some thinstations with XP/IE8 today and needed to implement removal of Address/NavBar and could not find it in the GPO. Came across someone who created the…
Office Configuration Analyzer Tool
In March, Microsoft released OffCAT which is the Office Configuration Analyzer Tool. With OffCAT, you can take the following actions to help you detect possible problems with your…
Editing and Testing Scripts in SciTE
http://blog.dotsmart.net/2007/12/19/editing-and-testing-scripts-in-scite/
Defrag SQL MDF and LDF on Server
I wrote this script to defrag all the found MDF and LDF files on a server that I've been testing on. It uses Sysinternal's Contig tool which is…
Microsoft Office Removal Tool
There are Microsoft FixIts available to remove Microsoft Office Suites available at the Microsoft Support KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/928218
How to add a Static Route in Windows
You can easily add a static route from the command line in Windows by entering the following. route add 10.0.0.0 mask 255.0.0.0 192.168.0.1 metric 2 To make this…
Memory Limits for Windows Releases
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366778(VS.85).aspx#physical_memory_limits_windows_server_2003
Windows Update error 8024402C
Got this error recently on a Windows 7 32bit system while trying to do updates. Previously, Automatic Updates were enabled and it ended up in a Installing 3…
Determine if Windows Update is Using WSUS
Is my computer being updated by a WSUS server? Here's a quick way to determine if your computer is using WSUS or not to provide Windows Updates to…
Session Circular Kernel Context Logger failed to start with the following error: 0xC0000035
Received this error in the event logs on a Windows 7 system. Seems to be of the non-event events from Microsoft. To resolve, rename setup.etl in %windir%\panther directory…
LDAP Filter to Exclude Disabled User Accounts
I have been working on a Perl script using NET::LDAP to query against and Active Directory system and update an email application and I needed to have it…
List Disk and Volume Information for Disks on Command Line with Diskpart
Here’s a one-liner to list disk and volume information for attached disks in Windows from the command line. Requires administrative permission since it uses Diskpart. @echo list disk…
Find File Duplicates with PowerShell
I've recently been tasked with finding duplicate files across multiple shares on a network. I've looked at a few different free options out there that can do this…
Find Computer's Serial Number via Command Line
Here are a few methods to retrieve the computer's serial number from the command line. Using WMIC wmic csproduct get IdentifyingNumber /format:list wmic bios get SerialNumber /format:list Using…