Using Powershell to get installed Edge and Chrome extensions
I want to start off with acknowledging that I know, but don’t have the ability, to manage Google Chrome in an organizational setting through Google Cloud which produces…
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Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested operation.
Running an sfc /scannow on a Windows Server 2019 Standard server, at about 76% it failed with the following message. Windows Resource Protection could not perform the requested…
Slow Performance VMware Workstation 17.0.x – Windows 10 / Windows 11
Noticed horrible performance using VMware Workstation 17 on my system. I was running Hyper-V side-by-side, so I decided to nuke Hyper-V and the subsystems from that. Removed the…
Change Windows network share permissions from command line
Grant-SmbShareAccess -Name ShareName -AccountName Administrators -AccessRight Full -ForceGrant-SmbShareAccess -Name "Brother DW2710 series" -AccountName Everyone -AccessRight Change -Force It appears that there is no pre-existing command line tool for…
List top processes using memory from Windows commandline
This seems to do the trick for listing processes by memory usage. I'm most interested in the top 9 processes (I have to figure out why the regexp…
Delete saved passwords for Chrome and Edge from the command line
After implementing a Group Policy to prohibit saving of passwords in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, the previously saved passwords are still on the system. To remove these…
mmc – Windows cannot access the specified device, path, or file.
If you get the following error on a Windows Server (possibly desktop client), you can use the local group policy editor to resolve this. It commonly impacts Server…
Rename Windows Domain
The following procedure shows you how to rename an Active Directory domain.
Improving Performance and Reliability of Windows Search
I usually hit Winkey and start typing whatever it is I’m looking to start; be it a command prompt, Outlook, explorer, or other installed applications and I rarely…
Analyze RDP Disconnection Logs using PowerShell
The PowerShell script is designed to extract information about Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) local session manager events from the Windows event logs on a RDS host and save…
Prefer IPv4 over IPv6 on Windows
Use the following commands to change the preference on Windows to use IPv4 over IPv6. netsh interface ipv6 set prefix ::/96 60 3 netsh interface ipv6 set prefix…
Find files modified in Windows command line
The forfiles command exists to facilitate finding files in a given path and can be used to also find files modified by date. forfiles /P c:\users\techish /S /D…
Outlook 2021 – Minimize to System Tray
To minimize Outlook to the system tray when minimized, you can right-click on the Outlook icon on the taskbar and select Minimize to System Tray. On Windows 11,…
Schedule reboot from command line in Windows
The older at command no longer works for simple scheduling of tasks so now we must use schtasks. To configure a task to run one time, and reboot…
Check Windows Servers Activation Status
I needed a quick way to check activation status of Windows Servers in a domain. This is the solution I came up with using PowerShell to run the…