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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 managing permissions on existing shares beyond the initial setup. However, you can accomplish multiple grants if temporarily taking the shares offline is not a concern. In such…

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 isn’t working in findstr for anything over 10 in a range like [1-15]. tasklist /NH | sort /R /+65 | findstr /N . | findstr “^[1-9]:” Here’s…

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 from multiple systems, a simple script can be deployed via GPO at User Logon to do the work. Otherwise, on a case-by-case basis, the passwords can be…

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 2019 systems promoted to a domain controller wherein the UAC admin approval mode is reset and does not contain a value (Enabled or Disabled). Windows cannot access…

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 (read: never) use it for searching the internet. Sometimes search gets “stuck”… because it’s crashing in the background. Here’s a method to improve performance and reliability of…

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 ::ffff:0:0/96 55 4 Confirm the precedence has changed with the following command: netsh interface ipv6 show prefixpolicies To make this permanent across reboots, issue the following command:…

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 +11/01/2022 The above command would recursively (/S) search the path (/P) C:\users\techish for all files modified after the date (/D) of November 1, 2022.