From the category archives:
I have been testing parts of our software lately (Alpha stuff that will be released in a few months). One problem I keep running into, is I collect up a large number of mapped drives that are unavailable: This is because the machine is powered off, or is a virtual machine that I deleted. I […]
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My friend Mike emailed me: “Hey Steve, I thought I might pass along another tool from Nirsoft. I just used it to solve a random crash issue I had with one of our remote servers. It would crash intermittently, and I could never get the staff to look at the machine before they cycled the […]
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This week I received a question from Scott: “Hi Steve, Management at my company wants to block AIM (AOL Messenger) on all computers. Because some of the machines are not joined to the domain I want a way to do this from a script. The port is 4099 TCP btw. Thanks!” I spoke with Scott, […]
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Got a question from Brett this week: “Hi Steve. I have a tough one for you. I want to determine from a VBScript if a program is using too much CPU time. Specifically, I want to know when the spooler service goes over 50% CPU utilization. All the scripts I see don’t seem to work […]
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Got a question from Nathan: “Steve, we have a file we need to download from a website once a week. Since I am the only one in the IT department, they have made it my job to get this file and put it on a public share every Friday. Is there any way I could […]
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In another life I worked at a bank. We had a bunch of terminal servers – all of them packed with users. Throughout the day I would get a call like this: “My teller program is stuck, can you help me?” This buggy teller app would freeze up and no matter how much they tried […]
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Once in a while you will come across a file that you can’t move or delete because it is always in use. A trick to get around this is to have Windows delete or move it on startup – before the system is running and the file is back in use again. How can you […]
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If you have ever copied a large number of files on Windows, you know how frustrating it can be. Sometimes a simple error can cancel a huge job. Sometimes you might start a copy before leaving the office…only to find out that 10 minutes into it, Windows asks you if you want to replace a […]
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Windows Server Core is a stripped down version of 2008. It has no explorer, and most GUI functionality is removed. A great solution when you don’t want any extra software running on a production server. Soo much is missing that it can get frustrating when you just want to make a few changes before you […]
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I got a question from Darren: “Steve, been using the free edition of Network Administrator. Nice tool, but it is missing something we need. I see you have the ability to shutdown and reboot systems, but what about logging off users?” Good question. I remember when I would do after hours upgrades – and one […]
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